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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. > >