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GANIME - An anime convention in the Gatineau/Hull region of Ottawa. For those who don't know, basically it was a French anime convention so the majority of the events/panels/workshops/demos etc. were in French. It cost $40 for the weekend, and it was it's first year! Expensive for it's first year, but there was a reasonable ...reason for it >D
Anyway, me and five other of my friends stayed in the 'Four Points Hotel' which was attached to the convention centre 'Palais des Congres'. $25 each for Saturday night for a double room (Muaha. Sleeping arrangements were win >D)
SATURDAY
I woke up at 8am to do some last minute packing and get into cosplay. I cosplayed KHII Riku for the most part of Saturday and seeing as it was it's first year I didn't really want to wear anything 'new'.
So, after my friend and I got lost TRYING to find parking for the hotel we showed up at the con around 10am. We had a wee group consisting of myself as Riku, a Kairi, Sora, Roxas, Axel and a Dancer Nobody.
We started off the day by attending the Cosplay Auction that my Kairi and Dancer had signed up for. (Just in case, the Cosplay Auction at the con is where cosplayers were auctioned off to the con-goers and other fellow cosplayers. They were bid on and the money raised from all those who signed up goes to some charity or some other 'good will' thing)
My Dancer was bought for $20 by some guy.
My Kairi was bought for $120 by some Ichigo cosplayer.
After that, we sort of wandered about looking for things to do. I knew a lot of people at the con so I was conversing most the time. Anyway, it was a busy day for me and my friends who was Kairi and the Dancer. We hosted and were a part of a bunch of panels. I was a part of a demo on LARP, a panel on my friends' LARP group and the Yaoi Fanservice panel ( which was 18+ and THIS one has INTERESTING stories which I will get to later....)
I find that this con I attended more panels than I have in the four years I've been going to cons -don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing xD
I attended a Clamp panel hosted by my Kairi.
4chan panel hosted by my friends
Yaoi: Reality Check panel hosted by my Kairi and Dancer. This panel was basically the 'reality' of gay sex and how it really is in real life than how it is shown to us in yaoi manga and anime xD
Most of these panels were really close to eachother between 1 -5 so it was not until around 6pm where my friend and I had to come back to my place to get my bank card since I forgot it....and we had to rush since we had a panel to run/go to at 8!! (the 'Yaoi: Reality Check' panel)
Since I went home though, I decided to drop off my Riku costume and I changed into 'dance-wear Kanda'
Going back a bit...the demo we hosted (1pm) went really well! We had an awesome turn out as the generics of live-action role-play were explained and we had the audience participate to try out a Final Fantasy-style LARP. Here are some pictures and rounds...
(Intro fight. Seifer vs. Kenpachi)
(Round 1: Ichigo, Anti-Sora, and Misa-Misa vs. Daisy, Lavi and Allen -haa. I love how the Allen striped off her exorcist cloak xD)
(Round 2: Xigbar, 'Akatsuki' Shino, TYL Lambo vs. some OC, Yumichika, Genma)
The panel on my friends' LARP group (2pm) had a good turnout as well! My friend and I were 40 minutes late for it though...*coughs*
Between 3pm and 4pm I had spare time so I wandered about talking with people and explored the dealers room. AND OMG! I SAW A FRIGIN ALIEN COSPLAY! IT WAS AMAZING!!! I hugged it and petted it and loved iiittt and I kissed it and it kissed meeee~!! 'Twas awesome.
At 4pm there was the 4Chan panel hosted by my friends which was SO FUCKING AMAZING! I loved this panel. It was magical >D
<3 /b/
During the hour of my friends 'Clamp' panel (5pm) I was sitting in the masquerade room waiting for the masquerade to start. It was delayed by about an hour. I seriously thought I was actually going to watch a masquerade for the first time ever! But I am impatient and hate waiting....so I did not last long waiting and so I left...and I have yet to watch a masquerade! Though, a highlight of when I was waiting in the room was that a balloon found itself in the audience and for about 15 minutes the balloon was being bopped around between all the people in the room until someone POPPED IT! Which sucked, cause it was keeping all of us congoers entertained while we waited...also, the shouting of 'I lost the Game" occured a lot which roused everyone...
(Part of the masquerade audience...)
So yes, back to being rushed, we came back to the con around 7:45pm and we rushed to the 'Yaoi: Reality Check' panelroom. (Panelists should not be late....
(Some of us where on stage....there were more on the ground. Oh. I am the one on the far right, in the front, in the black outfit with a white belt)
So, panel at 8pm and at around 8:45 one of my friends and I left to go to the liquor store to buy more alcohol....BUT THE STORE WAS CLOSED! AND AT 5 O'CLOCK! WHAT THE HELL!! D<
So, to ease my sorrow I bought a hot fudge sundae at McDonalds ...
9:10-ish the six of us (the friends plus me who were staying in the hotel room) ordered pizza. At this point I started to play music REAL loud off my laptop. The wait for pizza was about 40 minutes, so I went back to the con to find some friends to bring back with me to our hotel room. We came back just before 10pm. Pizza was there and the Yaoi Fanservice panel was in an hour which meant I had to be QUICK. Quick as in I gotta drink real fast and pack it back. That hour was amazing. In just less than an hour I packed back a 40' of Vodka and a bottle of Sourpuss as we played charades which just got ridiculous as time went by since I was getting super drunk and I was getting plastered a lot faster than I should have since I hadn't really ate all day...
Now, this is where my memories are a blur and the only reason I know all the crap that happened from this point on was because of my friends and fellow cosplayers who told me what I did and what I said and so on since I am the type of drunk who doesn't remember a thing until I'm told than the memory of it hits me!
So, I get to the Yaoi Fanservice panel after wiping out epically on an escalator and hurt myself -I was still in my 'dance-wear' Kanda- and singing very loudly a random song I was making up as I hung off my friend who was Allen.
It was something along the lines of:
"IIIIIIII AM KAN-DUUUUH!
IIIIIIIII LOOOOVE TEH ALCOHOOOOOOOL
IIIIIIIII AM HY-PEEER AND AFFECTIONAAAAAATE,
BUT ONLY WHEN (ME) KAN-DUUUUUH DRIIIIIIINKS
*random beats and sounds*
KAN-DUUUUUH IS A DOUCHEBAAAAAG BUT,
KAN-DUUUH IS LOVIIIINNNNGGGG WHEN HE DRIIIIIINKS~!!!"
etc. *ahem*
The panel was hosted by my friends....and here, I will use point-from since everything is a puzzle and I only got bits and pieces of it...
(Note: This panel is 18+, and basically is a panel where people go up and 'compete' to do the best yaoi. Kissing, touching, humping, licking, walls, the floor, chairs, tables etc. are involved...18+ people. 'Live Yaoi'. Physical stuff here. None of that soft-core shounen-ai stuff)
OH YA!
There were 3 rules! No pictures, no taking off of the pants, and well, the third one I forget...oh well!
Therefore, no pictures of this panel for anyone.
SO!
- I was VERY loud and kept disrupting and interrupting
- I wouldn't stop laughing and being a freak while my friends were talking during the panel
- I took one of the panelists' drawing book and commented very loudly on all her drawings
- I 'hi-jacked' the panel - I basically crawled across the floor, reached up to the table, pulled myself up onto it and lyed across it in a 'sexy' way and said drunkingly "Haaay! I am Kan-duuuuh~!"
- I was making very descriptive narrations of the shit people did/I had people do in front of everyone.
- I got paired off with Light to do fanservice. Light/Kanda? Talk about crack...pssh. I started a vote with the people in the room of who would be seme in a Light/Kanda pairing... Kanda lost... shame.
- I passed out for a bit on the floor right in front of the table...
- Tried getting the security to do yaoi with a cosplayer
- Tried bribing the guys at the back of the room that they'd get to kiss sexy people if they did something.
- I got people together to do a 4-some. Vexen, Zexion, Light, and a School'boy'
Other things may have happened but those are the things I found out from more than just one person.
I was told by many that I made the panel interesting, interactive and frigin hilarious >D
I assume we got back to our hotel room around midnight since panels are generally only an hour long.
On the way back to our hotel room, I was running through the hallways like Speedy Gonzales and saw a door -and thinking it was a door that pushed I completely threw myself into it. I was very wrong. I bounced right off and hit the ground. My friends heard the bang in the hallway parallel to the one I was in...dunno if that is a good thing or not XD
We get to our room, and the only thing I find out from the time we got back till the time I realized that my friend was sent up to THE Zuuko's room was that I really needed to pee but my friend was showering. However, I REALLY needed to go, so I banged on the door and my friend finally let me in but my mind had different plans for me. Instead, I crawled into the shower, in my costume still and my friend freaked out wrapping the shower curtain around himself and yelling at me to get out! But I refused to saying something like "You're gay... I'm partly gay...it doesn't matter..." and I reached out trying to hug him. We had a heart-to-heart as I was leaning over the tub, getting soaked from the shower. I eventually got out, jumping the closet person who freaked out since I was soaking wet. I pulled off my wig and striped off my costume. This is all I found out that happened until that is I found out my friend was up in ... Zuuko's hotel room. Alone. With him. NOT COOL. IT SOBERED ME UP COMPLETELY!
KANDA/RIKU WAS NOT HAPPY! My friend was still in her Kairi costume, and after a lot of arguments and persistance, I was finally let out of the hotel room in my drunken state TO GO SAVE KAIRI FROM THE ZUUKO! However, I am shameless, I was pretty much in bra and panties, running through the hotel hallways at 1am screaming out "KAIRI!!!". I finally get to the room she was in on the second floor, banging on the door and she opens it and SHE was in HER bra and panties and my mind REELED! I was thinking 'OH NO! I WAS TOO LATE!' but she looked up at me with big eyes and a huge smile on her face and I looked down at her and said very loudly "KAIRI! I'VE COME TO SAVE YOU!!!" I grabbed her and being the greatest friend that I am, we pretended we were girlfriends so Zuuko wouldn't molest her >D
I doubt it was believable. Oh well. Zuuko was playing the Deathnote movie on his laptop. I also learned that I have the 'skill' to suck out belly piercing's? Now THAT is strange o.O
After sometime being in Zuuko's room with Kairi and my friend who came up with me to save her and to 'chaperone' to make sure that nothing happened we finally left and came back to our room. My friend who was Kairi and I were both in our bra and panties,screaming and talking very loudly, and giggling like mad and being ridiculous as we stumbled back to our room. We may have scarred those group of people in the hallway who saw us....oh well. We were forced to go to bed and sleep when we got back to our room....
SUNDAY
Kay. I make this one short. I wrote too much for Saturday. So, on Sunday my friends and I did a D.Gray Man group.
I was Reever: Lulz....Licking Timmu...
I had a Cloud Nyne, Lau Shimin, Allen, Lenalee, Lavi and 'Manalee'.
We got to the con around....10am again.
We met up with a Jasdero and Debitto as well on Sunday so we merged together!
Jasdero's antennae thing actually lit up! IT WAS AWESOME! You can kind of see it.
Anyway, we started off Sunday going to the Anime Name That Tune. We decided to go up!
What better way to humiliate yourself when you know you can't name songs :P
We sort of gave up after awhile, so Lau Shimin and I just laughed quietly with eachother from random shit we did.
I made Bella faces and burped into the microphone, mwuahahaha...
Sunday was really lame and VERY slow. I went to the Masquerade Awards Ceremony for awhile than had to amuse myself with my friends for a few hours before the D. Gray Man Panel that was at 3pm. Nothing much happened. I ate. I wandered. I spoke with people. 3pm slowly came around as we all went to the DGM Panel. Which was amazing by the way!!
It was run by these lovely ladies... Lavi, Allen and LaLa
There was also a Reno with them, but I can't find a picture of her .__.
After the panel we did a mini DGM photoshoot...mini 'cause there were not a lot of DGM cosplayers that day xD
Group Shot:
(My Lau Shimin and Cloud)
(Ganging up on Jasdevi 'cause they were the only baddies >D)
Anyway, Sunday was lame except for the DGM panel and Anime Name That Tune xD
By 5pm we had to leave the hotel parking lot and we changed at the side of the street. Mostly my friend though (Kairi/Lau Shimin)
When we got back we played Truth or Dare with a large group of people.
We went to the Closing Ceremonies at 7pm and left the con by 8pm.
So yes...that was my 2-days at GAnime!! xD