Nerds.... UNITE!

[Avarice-ness]

You should totally dress up like Chadarnook, all you need is a fog machine.



or I guess you could always steal someones clothes and say you're Gogo.

that is sexy, but I don't think my boobs are good enough for that

Hey you get your sprites from the same place I do!

BertBert when did you get boobs?

And sure Lev! I could just NOT DO THAT. Gogo would be kind of fun though, 'cause then I could post a picture of me in the FFVI "IS GOGO A MAN?!" threads and tell them I have proof he's a woman.

[StarChild]

I believe I am going to Sakura-con this year, I need to make sure that's the plan with a friend.

[Little Blue]

I'd love to go to a Star Trek convention one day, dressed in one of the grey uniforms from late DS9 and the latest films. Unfortunately, I dunno when the next one in the UK is... or where to get one of those uniforms

[Wolf Kanno]

I've attended Nan Desu Kon for a number of years and I enjoy cosplaying though I'm terrible at sewing. I plan to one day build a Captain Herlock costume completely on my own.

I usually get my kicks doing Cosplay Skits (basically going on stage in costume and acting like a drunken idio... I mean performing a short play...) This year I hope to do a MGS skit, complete with cardboard boxes and musical numbers...

Cons are pretty fun on their own, it helps if you have a plan. It's really fun if you can drag a small army of friends and start raising hell. Costume themes are great too, I have only done two (Ranma 1/2 and Cardcaptor Sakura themes) but you tend to get stopped everywhere for picutures and hugs. I want to do an FFVI theme. I'm debating about going as Kefka, Edgar, Locke, or Shadow. I can probably only pull these four off...

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I've been going to Sakura con. My University's anime club is doing a Bleach group, and my character is going to be a spoiler. It will be amusing.

Although the anime will probably have reached that point by then since the fillers have FINALLY ENDED.

I can't sew, but a friend of mine can so I comissioned a costume from her. I buy all the fabric and am paying her, of course, but it should be really cool. I'm going to probably get some help on the props but will do more work on those myself.

I like cons, they're fun. And generally expensive x_x. But they have a lot of cool stuff you can't get elsewhere.

[XxSephirothxX]

I went to Dragoncon in Atlanta last year. It was okay, but I think a lot of the people who cosplay are kind of...sad and creepy.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

I went to Dragoncon in Atlanta last year. It was okay, but I think a lot of the people who cosplay are kind of...sad and creepy.

Obviously you've not seen all of the hot girls that cosplay ^_^

[Flying Mullet]

I think a lot of the people who cosplay are kind of...sad and creepy.

[XxSephirothxX]

I went to Dragoncon in Atlanta last year. It was okay, but I think a lot of the people who cosplay are kind of...sad and creepy.

Obviously you've not seen all of the hot girls that cosplay ^_^

No, I have. And while I still find the entire process of cosplaying a bit unnerving, it's more the people who have absolutely no resemblance to the character they're trying to be that gets to me. For every hot, skimpily-clad girl at those cons there's at least one (probably more like 2 or 3) who is either obese or simply completely wrong for the character they're dressed up as. That's when it's sad and creepy.

[Avarice-ness]

I went to Dragoncon in Atlanta last year. It was okay, but I think a lot of the people who cosplay are kind of...sad and creepy.

Obviously you've not seen all of the hot girls that cosplay ^_^

No, I have. And while I still find the entire process of cosplaying a bit unnerving, it's more the people who have absolutely no resemblance to the character they're trying to be that gets to me. For every hot, skimpily-clad girl at those cons there's at least one (probably more like 2 or 3) who is either obese or simply completely wrong for the character they're dressed up as. That's when it's sad and creepy.

I almost lost all faith (and want to cosplay Rydia) because of two...rather large... girls cosplaying as rydia in a PLAIN GREEN SWIMSUIT, after I made sure I wasn't blind I realized I've kind of been turned off from wanting to be Rydia a bit (Hence Kefka's being number one~) 'cause they're kind of putting shame to her name, I could so pull it off but I don't want to have to make a costume to bring Rydia's name back up the FF cosplay scale. But there are people who are average that can pull a costume off well. To my memory, the best Yuna at A-kon the year I went was prolly alittle larger than most people, but she pulled the cosplay off very nicely.

Now when a larger girl wants to go as Felicia from Night/Darkstalkers we have a problem.

A good number of people don't cosplay as people they don't think they could pull off, so every cosplayer you see, deep in their mind they believe they're pulling the costume off well even if it doesn't seem like it.

And it seems that alot of already really pretty girls purposely dress scantally clad to 'show people that female gamers, anime fans, fantasy fans and so on aren't all geeky looking, fat and slobby' but there's always the line that could be crossed.

Like dressing up as Chadarnook. > >

[Flying Mullet]

So I have to ask; how good are your costumes?

[StarlightAngel]

I make mine from clothes I find in stores, so they obviously aren't the greatest. But it works.
Next time I'll probably commision the girl that 'Void's having make his.