Cosplay Corner: Maya & Kat of Puku Cosplay Productions

This marks a joyous occasion, this is BNP’s first cosplay duo to be interviewed! Kat and Maya are cosplayers whom I encountered on tumblr which led me to looking at Their Facebook page. They are cosplayers with such great passion who design and make their own pieces to wear. They also  have the neatest takes with their genderbent cosplay. Enjoy! Black Nerd Problems: Maya, Kat please tell us a little about yourselves. Also your origin stories: how did you two meet up and create Puku Productions? Kat: We’re a pair of nerds from North Texas, which is where we go to most of our cons and meet-ups. We met a few years ago, actually through school. We’re both going into our senior year of high school and we met the first day of freshman orientation. I think we finally clicked when we found out we followed the same group of cosplayers and were into a lot of the same shows and movies. I’d been cosplaying for about a year prior to this, and decided to try and convert Maya to my crafting ways. That spring we got together with a group of friends and did our first cosplay group [Fem!Avengers] and Maya’s first cosplay [Fem!Nick Fury]. A few months after that, we decided to continue to cosplay together and the rest of it is history. Maya: Kat and I met at a Target the week before Freshman year started and hit it off from there. I’m a nerd with an affinity for armour and elaborate makeup, although I am yet to reach any level of mastery in either of those mediums. I remember being beyond excit…