What You’ll Need
Long Yellow Wool Jacket
Pink Slim-Fit Pants
Light Purple Wig
Black Baseball Bat
Plastic Kunai Knives
Fake Blood
Silver Link Chain Necklace
Dangling Silver Earring
Black Crocodile Leather Belt with Silver Plate Buckle
Leather Tanker Boots with Straps
The Trickster’s default outfit stands out in Dead by Daylight because it borrows more from stage performance than traditional slasher horror. Ji-Woon Hak dresses like a high-production K-pop idol who wandered straight into a murder spree, pairing vivid neon colors with heavy weapon props and gruesome bloodwork.
Putting the costume together comes down to balancing sharp tailoring with deliberate messiness. The core pieces are bold and modern, but weathering and personal styling turn them into a killer’s stage gear.
The Yellow Coat and Pink Trousers
The vivid yellow coat defines the character’s silhouette. In the game, Ji-Woon wears a tailored, ankle-skimming duster left entirely unbuttoned over a bare chest. The Long Yellow Wool Jacket gives you the right length and volume right out of the box. Because wool coats have substantial weight, you will want to keep the lapels pressed flat so the open front stays clean as you move.
For the lower half, the Pink Slim-Fit Pants match his saturated stage aesthetic. Ji-Woon wears his trousers fitted through the thigh and calf, tucked neatly into his boots. A Black Crocodile Leather Belt with Silver Plate Buckle secures the waist, sitting high enough to anchor the trousers when the coat swings open.
Jewelry and Stage Makeup
Because the coat stays open, chest detailing matters. The Silver Link Chain Necklace sits against bare skin, mirroring his idol jewelry. Pair it with a Dangling Silver Earring in one ear to get that asymmetrical stage look. If you prefer not to walk around fully shirtless, a skin-tone compression top or an open mesh shirt can serve as a comfortable barrier without breaking the silhouette.
Stage makeup pulls the face together. Ji-Woon has defined, slightly smudged black eyeliner, tinted lip stain, and a sharp manic expression. Keep the contour clean along the jawline so the idol polish contrasts sharply with the blood splatter you add later.
Styling the Lilac Hair
Ji-Woon’s hair is a dusty lavender with an undercut and choppy, parted texture. The Light Purple Wig works well as a base, but it will need direct heat styling to match his in-game cut.
Start by trimming the bangs so they fall across the forehead in separated, piecy sections rather than a solid fringe. Use a flat iron on low heat to curl the tips inward and backward, then set the volume at the crown with texturizing paste or hairspray. The sides should sit relatively flat to suggest the tighter clipper cut beneath the top layers.
Footwear
The Leather Tanker Boots with Straps handle the lower silhouette. Their wrap-around buckle straps mirror the heavy utilitarian footwear Ji-Woon wears to balance out his lightweight stage clothing. Fasten the straps firmly over the bottoms of the pink pants to prevent the fabric from bunching up around the ankles.
Weapons and Prop Construction
The Trickster’s primary melee weapon is a modified baseball bat fitted with a curved blade along its strike zone. Starting with the Black Baseball Bat gives you a sturdy, correctly colored foundation. You can build the blade extension using high-density EVA foam cut to shape, beveling the edge with a rotary tool before sealing it with primer and metallic acrylic paint. Adhere the foam blade directly to the barrel with contact cement so it stays secure during handling.
His secondary weapons are throwing blades carried between the fingers. The Plastic Kunai Knives offer a safe, convention-legal base. Weather them with dark metallic dry-brushing on the edges so they lose that injection-molded shine.
Weathering and Blood Application
The contrast between spotless high fashion and violence makes this costume work. Use the Fake Blood strategically rather than soaking the fabric completely.
Flick blood across the bottom hem of the coat, the forearm sleeves, and around your collarbones and hands. Use an old toothbrush or a stiff bristle brush to create fine directional spray, mimicking high-velocity splatter from his bat swings. Testing the application on scrap fabric first helps you control droplet size before touching the yellow coat.
