Warning: LONG ENTRY IS LONG.
I managed to twist :devMadameHumpfrey:’s arm last minute, so she ended up coming with me. I didn’t really want to be alone because without someone there I can get a little bipolar in my interactions with others…
She even gave me an excuse to visit the Phoenix Wright photo shoot on Friday since she cosplayed as Adrian Andrews from the second game. She was the only Adrian there, and there weren’t a lot of side characters there either. Pretty well off, eh?
On Friday I cosplayed as Muffy. BAD IDEA. Muffy has killer heels, and my feet were hurting by the first hour. By the end of the day, I wasn’t limping; that’s only because I couldn’t favor either foot. I so looked like a Silent Hill nurse by the end of the day! I guess you could call it hobbling. Luckily, Xena had flat shoes, so we would periodically trade off.
In the newspaper on the day of the convention it said that over 9000 (yes, I did shout “It’s over 9000!”
had pre-registered, and it certainly showed: the pre-registration line was two hours long.
It was huuu~uuuge! We should’ve left at 6AM instead of 10PM. My fellow pre-registered group-members passed the time by making fake bruises on their faces (since they weren’t cosplaying that day, they didn’t worry about how they looked). Charlie, who was a white mage, kept getting attacked by a guy with a Tonberry plushie. They almost had a truce, but then Charlie said no, so Selena sold him to the guy for $1.31. (Yes, I don’t understand it either.)
Sadly, the regular line was FOUR HOURS LONG. And Xena, who had spontaneously signed up, had to suffer through it all! Sometimes it didn’t move for fifteen minutes. Since I got out a whole two hours before her, I hung around the Artist’s Alley on the sky bridge and the end of the registration line. The registration line is where I ended up meeting a Lithuania (~
Hisoka-kun) and a Russia from the Hetalia series! It turns out the cosplayers were fans of Harvest Moon and ended up recognizing me! <3 <3 We took pictures of each-other and discussed the sheer length of the line before I left to allow the extension of the registration line into place.
At around 2:30, ~
Madame-Humpfrey finally got out of line, so we headed down to the Phoenix Wright photo shoot then. We were there for a good half-hour before the two of us got bored (only one Edgeworth … ): ). Then off we went to the 4th floor lobby! Did you know that no one is allowed to sit on the staircase? Apparently it’s a fire hazard. People kept getting told to get off the staircase, which sucked for the ones in really heavy costumes… or heels.
We went to the Dealer’s Room, which was just as expensive and fun as it always is. There were some amazing deals that I didn’t take advantage of as I was saving my money till Saturday. I actually spent NOTHING on Friday because Melissa brought about thirty tacos for lunch. Xena, however, bought a T-shirt that said "I Believe in Miles Edgeworth" in the style of the "I Believe in Harvey Dent". The person who was running that shop was cosplaying as Britain (or UK) from Hetalia, so you can say we both got something from that shop.
I spent the night over at Xena’s house. She has two cats, a dog and a bunny!
We slept with the door open, and I had one cat (who’s named Miles and acts a lot like him) in bed with me ALL NIGHT LONG.
ARGH ARGH ARGH CUTE! But he was a heat vacuum in a cold bed, which kind of sucked… I mean, at least Butter’s warm…
On Saturday I was at a community service thing because Xena’s mom had promised that she and Xena would be there. We were packaging potatoes into ten-pound bags to be sent to food banks. We must have bagged more than two thousand pounds of potatoes…
We made it in for the second half of the cosplay skits, and the winner was hilarious! The skit was called “Sora the Explorer” and it was a crossover parody of, yes, Dora the Explorer! Sora had to go:
•“through the forest” (rescuing Naruto, who had his hand stuck in a tree; Naruto was subsequently got shot by Sniper the Box [Snake in a box]),
•“around the school” (guessing which twin was which from the series Ouran High School Host Club; after Sora guessed correctly, there was some very slashy, angsty twin-cest, which was hastily blocked from view), and then
•“to the castle on the mountain” (which turned out to be Silent Hill) in order to save Kairi.
We also saw the return of “But I’m a man!” Sheik and a surprise bonus performance by the Anime Hunters, a traveling cosplay skit group. Some of those suckers who left early… :3 Bet they wished they stayed through the performance of the aging Japanese voice actor’s performance of the Yu Yu Hakusho theme songs.
We decided to wander around a bit and we ended up finding an impromptu Hetalia photo shoot. I hugged EVERYONE there. Since I was wearing my blue double-breasted suit, they thought I was Austria for a second, but I told them no and made them sad. Awww… but then another Austria walked up and they were happy again. (I hugged him too.) The same Lithuania and Russia as the one I saw Friday were there, but at first they didn’t recognize me—but as soon as they knew, they called me “Muffy-sama”. It made me so happy…
During our boredom/downtime period, we sat at the top of the 6th floor escalator at a café table and doodled. I managed to catch a France (again Hetalia) that way. I also called after a character from Phoenix Wright, whose name was Diego Armando, and said “Go, Diego, go!” I think I wasn’t the first person to do that, because I got a really nasty look from him.
We were going to buy food at Subway, but they had a really long line and the cosplay chess was going to start soon… but when we ran upstairs to get in line we discovered the line STRETCHED ACROSS THE ENTIRE BUILDING. We got in line and stayed in line. In the end, chess started an entire hour late because they had to get everyone in… but some how it ended on time.
They must have just skipped to the duke ‘em out brawl between the two kings when it got late. The best piece on the Captain Falcon king’s side was the Koffing (a person in a light purple wig and a purple shirt, “smoking” a cigarette) which evolved into Weezing part way through (a smaller person dressed similarly lept onto his shoulders, also “smoking” a cigarette), while the best piece on the Kamina king’s side was a tie between the No Face (who got almost all the obligatory chanting) and the Chii (who kept trying to pet EVERYONE, including Captain Falcon.) In the end, Captain Falcon and Kamina grew to respect each other’s manliness and walked off friends. Bleargh. I liked it better last year when Jesus burst in and beat the ever-living crap out of Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth.
This is about the time I found out that the dealer room had closed an hour and a half ago. Determined to blow my cash on something, I went around and bought all the interesting Hetalia fanart I found… and spent maybe ten bucks…
I got a commission of America (What, a country? Yup, Hetalia again.) from ~
Salice-is-an-idiot. I think I might have rushed her a tad, but America still looked adorable, even if he did seem wobbly around the edges. The artist thought I was Light Yagami because of my hair and the fact I was carrying my sketchbook (the black one), but when I told her the truth, she went, “Oh! Your sketchbook? Let me see, let me see!” So I let her look through it. It ended up that not only she but the three surrounding artists flipped through my sketchbook. All of the agreed that I had a great deal of character and quite the sense of humor. I could hear them laughing and saw them pointing at the pictures the moment they opened my sketchbook, and I’m pretty sure that’s overall a good thing.
I met the same Lithuania and Russia when I went downstairs to be picked up. What can I say? I met them three times without stalking them specifically, so it had to be fate. We exchanged DeviantART accounts and promised to talk on line. This is about the time they realized I was a minor, and at the same time I realized they weren’t. But they still called me “-sama”, and I still called them “-kun” and “-san”.
Help My Buddy, Blade!
Zest
, whose blue fox avatar you may recognize from my previous artwork, is having to fight DeviantART over his pixel pieces. In defiance of DeviantART, he has reposted one of his largest pieces: THE POKEMON PLANET FLASH MAP. He re-did the entire map BY PIXEL, and I think that plus his past effort in this (I remember when it only included the four main-game regions) he deserves a round of applause and a fave.
Bewildered
