Fortnite fan and Olympian Alysa Liu wants her own skin in the game

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Published Feb 23, 2026, 12:31 PM EST

Alysa Liu needs a Fortnite cosmetic, complete with a back bling for both of her gold medals

Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu is interviewed Image: NBC

The Olympics are over, so we can finally focus on important things like Fortnite once again. After all, if gold medalist Alysa Liu has her eyes on the prize, we should too. Celebrating her two gold medals at the Winter Games, Team USA figure skating breakout Alysa Liu made it clear she's waiting for Epic Games to give her a call.

Speaking to USA Today, Liu proclaimed, "I would love Fortnite to do a skin on me! I would buy it!" Clearly, she has to realize that with the power she wields, this is more or less guaranteed to happen now, right? If we had to guess, there's probably a team at Epic Games scrambling to make this skin available as soon as possible.

In the meantime, Liu was also asked if she'd rather master Fortnite or win another gold medal. "That's no fun. If you're the best Fortnite player, you just win all the games," she noted. "That's kind of boring." While that gives a lot of insight into her dedication to constant improvement, it also speaks to the bittersweet nature of getting good at Fortnite. Once the challenge is gone, what's the point? More importantly, once you've unlocked everything in the Battle Pass, what's the draw to keep you playing?

If (when) Liu is added to Fortnite, she will join a long list of celebrities immortalized in the game, joining the likes of LeBron James, Neymar Júnior, Marcos Reyes, and fellow two-time medalist Chloe Kim. And given Kim's cosmetics bundle didn't include a gold medal back bling, now's the time for Epic Games to rectify that by giving Liu one of her own. Don't stop there, though. Give us a skin in the gold outfit she wore during her routine, but also include an edited style of super chill Alysa, bundled up in a big white coat and basking in her two gold medals, as shown in the video above.

Between Liu, her Magic: The Gathering superfan teammate, the Olympian who almost couldn't use Minions music for his routine, and the incredible gala performance from South Korea set to music from KPop Demon Hunters, figure skating at the Winter Olympics has been strongly influenced by modern pop culture of all kinds. Now pop culture needs to return that love in kind. Epic, give her a skin in Fortnite. And while we're at it, someone at Wizards of the Coast needs to put Amber Glenn on an MTG card.

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