ACen!
As a good handful of you already know, I went to ACen for the weekend! It was a big trip, and I spent a loooot of money on it, but it was worth it, even if not everybody was able to come. ♥ I made lots of memories there and don't regret it one bit.
So our saga begins with Angela at the airport with one companion that goes by the name of Emily. We flew to the Chicago/O'Hare airport with hardly any problems (OH... AND I GOT BADTOUCHED BY SECURITY FOR HAVING EARRINGS IN MY POCKET...), but it was inconvenient how the connections part of the flight, where we stop at Salt Lake City and board another plane to Chicago, was handled. We barely made it! It was hop off and scramble on. Then we got to Illinois and took a shuttle to the Hyatt Regency hotel, which was niiiiice. Hopefully I (or Emily) can get pictures up.
So it was late afternoon by the time we arrived. We got into the hotel and went on a mad hunt for Bret. Emily took bottom floor, I took the next one up, and we separated for better coverage. Bret surprised me (idk if she found me first or I found her but dsjf) and I nearly exploded with joy (as Angelas do when they see friends from far away). Her arms must have grown tired waiting for us. Buuut then we fetched Emily (who was looking into her shiny new camera lens at the time, then focused on the two of us and nearly flipped out because SUDDENLY BRET WHOA SINCE WHEN) and found our hotel room. It was one of the most easily accessible, not even kidding. Just go up a stair from the help desks and it's there.
Bret spoiled us with ordering deep-dish pizza for dinner. It was like pie only the fruit is made of gooey delicious mozzarella and it's like. layers of goodness. It's SO WEIRD-LOOKING because the SAUCE IS ON TOP. And the CHEESE IS IN THE MIDDLE. We had sausage and pepperoni in there too yum yum. She made us to manual labor cutting buttons out first though. We didn't mind in the slightest! No, really, we didn't. Or uh... I didn't...?
Whit? Is this your "real pizza"? If so, I fail to see how this is real pizza. This is the fake pizza. My pizza was lasagna. Your argument is invalid.
BUT YEAH. That was Thursday night spent resting from our flight and touring the area and lazing around and cutting shapes and circles out, and last-minute cosplay fixups for me. THANKS FOR HANDLING MY BAGS WITH CARE, DELTA. Stuff got squished or mangled. Our neighbors were also full of noisy shehooligans and we commented on that many a time. Broseph assumed they had prostitutes and parties and we thought that was silly, of course not. (Pssst, next day Emily and I figured out who the person was: it was SOLID SNAKE!!! dgkjd he had a troupe of girls with him too so uhhhh Broseph has good sensors)
Theeen it was con time! Time to get up early and get ready! Bret and Broseph were setting up to go to the artist's alley, and I got my Pit cosplay on. IF ONLY we didn't have to be separated for so much of the time spent at the con, but sadly Emily and I are not artists and were not allowed behind the table. But we helped carry stuff there still (ohgod the walk to and from is horror. All the walking. All the... faces... out of windows KIDS IN WINDOWS) and then parted ways. ;^;/) We tried to stop by as often as possible (I MISSED THEM ALL THE TIME OKAY EVERY DAY)
I also notice something about me cosplaying Pit. Men/boys seem... oddly compelled to white knight me or talk to me or approach me. Maybe it's also the con environment that helps them, but for example, I was up eating an apple in the lobby area and wandering around before everyone else was ready, and I got people taking pictures of me EATING... AGAIN... and other poses but they had to excuse my dumb apple. I was done with my apple and had nothing but the core on me but I was looking for a trash bin but could only locate recycles for specific items. After some guy took my picture, I asked him if he knew where one was. "No," he said, and I told him about the recycles and how they were only ALL OVER THE PLACE but no trashes. Then he asked "Are you sick?" and I said "No?" and he yanked my apple out of my hands and crammed it in his mouth. O__o I cried, "You just ate my core!!" and then some other dude who took my picture was like, "That's the first time I heard that one today" and retelling the story to my friends also brings up another story Emily and I told about when we were watching a documentary on fetishes and how this guy liked being used as a human ashtray and would always go "yes mistress" and open his mouth so now this guy was a human receptacle for me I GUESS?
Buuut yeaaah then we explored the dealer's room while I was stopped for one million pictures and hugs on the way and saw so much cool stuff. Reality and the physics of Having Money prevented me from splurging on every bitty trinket I saw. I don't have many conventions to compare this to, but it was much bigger than Sakuracon's dealer's room. I also liked it much better because they combined artist's alley and the exhibition hall. So... independent artists were in the same general location as actual businesses selling merchandise and whatnot. At Sakuracon, they're usually on opposite ends from each other. It must be due to room size because hooooooly crap that place was huge. IIRC, the first thing I bought was a pixel magnet of Pit. Emily bought Ness, who she was cosplaying. They look awesome on our fridge! She decided to go back and change into her cosplay after a while. That's when we actually bought things.
EMILY IS FAT AND WHORED EVERYTHING BECAUSE SHE'S FAT. Fat and bought all the pokekids. Fat with loli bows and even eating food. So fat with taking pictures; fatorama fat fat fatty fat. A sack of dormant fat when she's sleeping.
I don't tend to check out many panels during cons; I just like wandering around and admiring things like art and cosplays, as well as dressing up myself. So... a lot of what happened was us lollygagging. I didn't go to a single panel this time (which always makes me feel guilty or boring for some reason) but I had lots of fun doing this lollygagging activity. We... also went to McDonalds which was a whole THREE BLOCKS (but it was more like 6 blocks) for sustenance but it was a painfully long trek. IT'S... THE ONLY SOURCE OF AFFORDABLE FOOD EATING AROUND. Another reason why I like that Sakuracon is located smackdab in... well, Seattle. Easy to find a place for lunch. Ow, my feet. Oww, my soul... but the coffee drink was somehow really really good for once. SURPRISINGLY. I was a bit of a complainybutt because of how sore and headachy I got and I feel bad. But after eating and drinking I felt much better and we hiked back to the con for more dicking around.
YEAH... and we also got stopped on account of my wings and my weapon because ACen is forced to be a bunch of tightwads and regulate everyone's props. I was afraid they'd take my wings away but the guy said they weren't a problem at all. We got our props checked out and it turns out Emily's was more of a problem than anything. I guess props are controlled tightly because some genius decided one year to skate down a hotel ramp and break it. UH, OOPS. Totally didn't ruin it for the rest of us! And there was a character with protruding spikes that broke the wall one year. Pff.
We heard tales of Bret's confrontation with 'saurs and witnessed oodles and oodles of 'saurs which she generated for us from a plastic bag. We may have mocked her helplessness but it was all quite the hypocrite's game and Fate had the last laugh, for we too were drawn into the siren song of 3 giant boxes of pokekids. While Emily and I were trapped by the boxes of pokekids, Mal and her boyfriend Pat happened to spot us. Thank goodness for the fat wings sprouting from my back! They were dressed as Leon and Jack Krauser from RE4 and they looked freaking excellent. *p* THEN, we wandered the convention together. Much banter was exchanged over being called the title of your game, especially when directed at me. IT'S TRUE 50% of the people that try to get my attention yell, "HEY KID ICARUS." "HEY ICARUS." This all began when Pat intended to harass someone he knew by calling them by "Call of Duty" and became a running gag the entire con, mostly at my expense. D-DAMN....
We went outside to take pictures, mostly of Mal and Pat. I think they turned out well. Emily likes taking photos and that's why she bought a high quality $500 camera before going (crazy fat). The setting was nice, too, in my opinion. Theeeen we just horsed around and all that stuff and Pat used my bow for many purposes ("Ten points for Gryffindor!" he yells as he rides my bow like a broomstick dhjdsfdjskf) such as k-kayaking and chopping vegetables. MAN I JUST...Pat is too much. xD He does all the impressions and is very good at remembering lines. His Hank Hill is spot on and it is worth all the laughs. Also, he does Herbert from Family Guy. I'm not sure whether it's better than Alex's or not, but sfkjhjdf "You can come over for some mac and cheese if you'd like" "is it Easy Mac" "I hope so" "this is going down the crapshoot fast" "I'd like you in MY crapshoot"
Then they went out to Gibsons for an expensive but delicious meal and we parted ways. Uh. Basically I think we just went back to the hotel and followed Bret and Bro to McDonalds again lmao. All I had was a drink this time, though. The line was... horrifying. 8| It wound around the entire restaurant. ablablablabla we stood there for a long time and ordered, and they even forgot about making my drink for a while until I reminded them |D;;; So I stood around waiting with a headache and tired body but when we were sitting down to eat Emily and I got in another petty fight that I started by launching straws at her and it only escalated from there so eventually we were blowing bags at each other and I got so determined that I... accidentally spilled her hot cocoa all over her Ness shirt. IT WAS A BRAWWWWL except I felt soooo bad about destroying her shirt; I would cry if my cosplay got ruined. Luckily, though, it was easily fixable (and not mostly white like mine) and all she had to do was rinse it in the sink, let it dry, and iron it next morning. But as we were walking back ambulances and fire trucks were blaring and zooming straight for the con so I guess... fires and accidents happen a lot here?? I never notice it at Sakuracon ffffff it was pretty intense. Apparently it's because people don't remember to eat or drink and pass out in the rave because they're too high and exhausted to function any more AND because of dumb stunts people pull AND because the gaming room catches fire a lot.
I get restless so after spending time in the hotel room I wanted to walk around with Emily some. At that point I didn't want to deal with Pit's sandalboot thingjigs any longer so I stripped down to nothing but the black tank and shorts and a pair of derpy sandals while still maintaining the appearance of Pit since I love dressing as him so much. Secretly I love walking around at night without much on like that, but keeping the hair and wings so that I'm still Pit. It was much more comfortable and chill, plus not so many people wanted to take my picture like that and it was kind of a welcome thing for me. But people are still able to recognize who I am. Anyway, a prom was going on at the same time which was pretty funny, since freaks + prom queens = hilarity. But there is a nice ballroom in the Hilton next door, which you can reach by trekking the catwalk that conjoins the hotels and the convention center. Emily and I liked the decor of this hotel as well; it was pretty sweet and there were places we thought would complement her Will cosplay nicely. We never got much chance to take the pictures since people were blocking those areas but we got some the next day. Unfortunately, I'm not accustomed to the complexities of cameras that aren't point-and-shoot, so I'm not as much of an expert photographer as Emily, and so she has to rely on my crapshit skills to produce pictures of her cosplay but I hope I did well enough. .__.
Night in the hotel was nice always and we giggled endlessly and chilled out. Fun times. I'm sure we have a lot of new unexplainable inside jokes now.
Then there was Saturday and it's the busiest day. Emily chose to cosplay Will at first and she didn't like it because she wanted to see things better, and her mask doesn't allow space for vivid vision. First things first this short Mario dude (we met him on Friday; he was a little eccentric but also quite hilarious but the PERFECT HEIGHT for Mario srsly) asked if I knew of the smash brothers photo shoot but I didn't, so... I managed to find it! It wasn't much fun tbh but all right, and we saw Mal and Pat there again and they were cosplaying Raikov and Volgin jdsfhjds. I wanted to jump on Pat's back and he let me, but I must be the champion of destroying cosplays because I accidentally made one of the stars on his shoulder pads fall off. 8'( Feels bad forever. It was easily fixed I think. I HOPE. But we got pictures. Not as many as we were hoping to get; it would have been nice to do a sort of SBG photoshoot but we never got around to it. Anyway, there was this odd Link cosplayer who... wanted to shoot a short clip of me doing something from an obscure nerdy thing and I... didn't quite get what he was looking for? So I tried my best and made a fool of myself moving around I'm sure, so I hope he's satisfied. Uggggh. But yeah, that's that. So we left the photoshoot and went back to the dealer's room.
OH AND this is unimportant but when I went out to buy my morning coffee I also got to meet an adorable and pretty Saria cosplay and we were too busy arguing over who was cuter uhuhuhu. *p* Her photographer friend was a butthead because every time someone came up to take our/her picture he went "I made that cosplay!!1!" and she'd always have to wave him off and say "Don't listen to him" and he even tried misleading a woman who was trying to find a place in the hotel pfff. But he straightened it out afterward.
Sssso we did a lot of shopping that day and I bought a few things, but Emily bought more. She's so fat. AND OMG on our way back to the hotel we saw FIRE EMBLEM CHARACTERS FROM THE CATWALK!!!! ndshfjkdslk someone actually ACTUALLY cosplayed Canas! I'm sad that Emily didn't get to meet him in person because she commanded me to run out to the photoshoot with her camera since she couldn't see them with her Will cosplay and she needed to get her Ness cosplay on. ;AAA; But I got pictures. She came out to see them eventually but all the FE dudes left early much to some of the other cosplayers' dismay. ;~; Only Tormod and Vika were left; Soren and Micaiah left with Canas. Sob. Oh Sarah I saw Ion from the catwalk too but he vanished even before I could get there. ;0;
One time we were going to go back to the hotel after we grew tired but found a restaurant hiding in the hotel that was pretty decent. There was a lot of space for congoers and we wondered why we hadn't gone before, but admittedly the prices were still pretty high. Emily ordered french fries and she was cosplaying Ness by now since her Will cosplay was a bit frustrating for her and Ness is much more comfortable; besides, she bought a new wig that enhanced her cosplay even more rather than just looking like Ash Ketchum with a Ness cosplay. She remained fat with her fries and we both had juice to drink, then we left and wandered around the outside area (Mario was being obnoxious outside the restaurant and kept pressing against the window and trying to get people's attention fjdskj OH MARIO...) but then. This is kind of adorable. Hold your breath.
Someone dressed as Alucard from Hellsing approached me out there and said, "Oh hey, Pit, my friend over there is a big fan of you but he's too shy to come over and talk to you himself, so I decided to bring you to him instead." fdsbhfdsjhj what. That's so cute. So I accept this and follow him to a bench, where this guy has his head buried in a book, and he's surrounded by his jeering friends. I'm not familiar with any Final Fantasy game, but I learned this guy was dressed as Genesis from Crisis Core. I come up and decide that this is the "friend" Alucard was talking about, and my assumption is correct because his friends start forcing him off the bench to meet me. I'm not shy, so I'm pretty friendly towards him and it turned into me trying to console him of his heated feelings! I gave him a hug and he hugged back tightly but nervously, then retreated back to his bench to hide behind his LOVELESS book again. So, not wanting him to miss out on the chance to talk to me or be around me, I sit down on the bench next to him and place an arm over his back. He's actually really, really adorable. All he could say was "I hate my friends, I hate you guys, you all suck..." and etc. I probably only managed to fluster him even more by comforting him but I-I couldn't resist; it was so much fun. I hung around doing that for a while before I decided to leave him be.
We went back to the room for dinners, and Bret and Bro are crazy and ordered MORE PIZZA (hey mang it's good stuff) and hung around giggling and drawing the ugliest cats and sharing stories from our childhood while Bret worked on more commissions and stuff and then Emily and I chose to walk around YET AGAIN. It was night by now, and some individuals were noticeably high and dumb because of the rave. I like the name of the rave though; Soap Bubble! But it was really weird for me. I got out of the hotel and someone approached me. "Genesis is looking for you," he said. He was still thinking about me after 3 hours? "He wants to see you again." And this kept happening. Someone would tell me about how Genesis wanted to see me and that he had a huge crush and missed me and hoped he would get to see me again and fffffffffffff. Our travels took us to the game room eventually. We hadn't been there before, and inside was a dark room with little to no light and we were curious. However, they stopped Emily and said she couldn't come in on account of her backpack. They wouldn't hold it for her, either, and she didn't want to go all the way back just to leave a part of her cosplay behind. %D So, since I was still curious, I told Emily I'd go in and report what was going on in there. So I went in alone and found it was a room full of people playing vidja games, which was all very tempting and I wanted to join in. The moment I passed by the Brawl tv (fate!), someone found me. It was Genesis. We talked for a bit and he wanted to know my real name, and I told him. I got his real name, too. This was so he could find me on facebook so he wouldn't lose me. I admitted he was cute and he went back into fluster mode and sgjdffjk he got even cuter but. but I had to leave or else Emily would be waiting for a long time. So, I left.
Ahhh, and there was this guy playing on piano in a mini stage near a restaurant area of the bottom part of the lobby. He was playing the Eight Melodies song from Mother and we flipped, then ran over and stood by. The guy playing glimpsed and smiled while continuing to play because he saw that he made a Ness very happy. We sang the lyrics like the nerds we are and waited until the song was over. I saw his binder, but I can't remember what his group name was called, but I felt like I'd heard it before. EDIT: Oh, I was informed that they are the Spoony Bards.
Haha, also, there was this moment where Emily and I were chilling on some stools. Two guys came up to take our picture and then one prompted us with a question. "Hey. Which is better. Crunchy or creamy peanut butter?" We replied in unison, only we had differing opinions. They were having an argument, apparently, over which was better. I sided with the guy who said creamy. So we had a riveting debate over which was "better", then couldn't come to an agreement. So we polled people! We asked two more dudes and they had differing opinions too, which only intensified our fight. Eventually, they left with the exclamation, "That's it, we'll settle this with some Brawl!"
Guy who sided with Emily: "I'm Ness!"
Guy who sided with me: "I call Pit!"
elrkjgieruterter fffffff. I wish we could have seen the outcome, but Emily was still not allowed inside. :*(
Aaaaand yeah, lots of amazing cosplays, so many people, it was a lot of fun and I met new people. Mal and Pat hung out in our room for a bit Saturday night and omg I got a piggyback ride on Pat!!! 8DDDD HE PICKED ME UP AND LET ME RIDE HIM ACROSS THE LOBBY! \o/ He yelled at me for going "phew" when we took a quick break with him and criticized that I shouldn't have the right to do that because I wasn't the one exerting myself, but I told him I could so because it was too much fun for my body to handle. Then he carried me back. WH-WHEEEE. He is my pink Chocobro. I love Mal and Pat a lot. ;A; And I miss them. I also miss Bret and Broseph more than I can say.
I really didn't want to have to leave, but sooooob /;A;/ It was hard to say goodbye. And I had a gross pita in the airport for lunch and it was blecky and looked like someone pooped the ingredients out on it and now I have a stomach flu and the chicken tasted like the grill itself and ew yucky groooossssss. It took FOREVER to finally get home but we did and then I fell asleep.
I bought a crocheted navi keychain that jingles hee heeeeeee ♥ Aaaand a squishy Kirby dsfjdsfj he came in a gashapon capsule and everything. I bought that Pit magnet and a Doduo keychain, and a pretty yellow and white feather barrette. Emily and I also bought cheap steal-of-a-deal pins of Hikaru and Kaoru from Ouran Host Club huhu. Since we're terrible siblings and all. Eeeee and I got a bracelet made of all the Johto badges. *3* It's purty.
And a few pokekids too. Caterpie is especially special I think. It used to belong to a Japanese kid named Daichi. So I named him Daichi. It's written in messy childish hiragana on the inside of the Caterpie. I will cherish this forgotten childhood Caterpie. ;3;
SUCH A LONG WASTE OF EFFORT EXPLAINING MY WEEKEND. I-I hope someone actually bothers to read it orz
So our saga begins with Angela at the airport with one companion that goes by the name of Emily. We flew to the Chicago/O'Hare airport with hardly any problems (OH... AND I GOT BADTOUCHED BY SECURITY FOR HAVING EARRINGS IN MY POCKET...), but it was inconvenient how the connections part of the flight, where we stop at Salt Lake City and board another plane to Chicago, was handled. We barely made it! It was hop off and scramble on. Then we got to Illinois and took a shuttle to the Hyatt Regency hotel, which was niiiiice. Hopefully I (or Emily) can get pictures up.
So it was late afternoon by the time we arrived. We got into the hotel and went on a mad hunt for Bret. Emily took bottom floor, I took the next one up, and we separated for better coverage. Bret surprised me (idk if she found me first or I found her but dsjf) and I nearly exploded with joy (as Angelas do when they see friends from far away). Her arms must have grown tired waiting for us. Buuut then we fetched Emily (who was looking into her shiny new camera lens at the time, then focused on the two of us and nearly flipped out because SUDDENLY BRET WHOA SINCE WHEN) and found our hotel room. It was one of the most easily accessible, not even kidding. Just go up a stair from the help desks and it's there.
Bret spoiled us with ordering deep-dish pizza for dinner. It was like pie only the fruit is made of gooey delicious mozzarella and it's like. layers of goodness. It's SO WEIRD-LOOKING because the SAUCE IS ON TOP. And the CHEESE IS IN THE MIDDLE. We had sausage and pepperoni in there too yum yum. She made us to manual labor cutting buttons out first though. We didn't mind in the slightest! No, really, we didn't. Or uh... I didn't...?
Whit? Is this your "real pizza"? If so, I fail to see how this is real pizza. This is the fake pizza. My pizza was lasagna. Your argument is invalid.
BUT YEAH. That was Thursday night spent resting from our flight and touring the area and lazing around and cutting shapes and circles out, and last-minute cosplay fixups for me. THANKS FOR HANDLING MY BAGS WITH CARE, DELTA. Stuff got squished or mangled. Our neighbors were also full of noisy shehooligans and we commented on that many a time. Broseph assumed they had prostitutes and parties and we thought that was silly, of course not. (Pssst, next day Emily and I figured out who the person was: it was SOLID SNAKE!!! dgkjd he had a troupe of girls with him too so uhhhh Broseph has good sensors)
Theeen it was con time! Time to get up early and get ready! Bret and Broseph were setting up to go to the artist's alley, and I got my Pit cosplay on. IF ONLY we didn't have to be separated for so much of the time spent at the con, but sadly Emily and I are not artists and were not allowed behind the table. But we helped carry stuff there still (ohgod the walk to and from is horror. All the walking. All the... faces... out of windows KIDS IN WINDOWS) and then parted ways. ;^;/) We tried to stop by as often as possible (I MISSED THEM ALL THE TIME OKAY EVERY DAY)
I also notice something about me cosplaying Pit. Men/boys seem... oddly compelled to white knight me or talk to me or approach me. Maybe it's also the con environment that helps them, but for example, I was up eating an apple in the lobby area and wandering around before everyone else was ready, and I got people taking pictures of me EATING... AGAIN... and other poses but they had to excuse my dumb apple. I was done with my apple and had nothing but the core on me but I was looking for a trash bin but could only locate recycles for specific items. After some guy took my picture, I asked him if he knew where one was. "No," he said, and I told him about the recycles and how they were only ALL OVER THE PLACE but no trashes. Then he asked "Are you sick?" and I said "No?" and he yanked my apple out of my hands and crammed it in his mouth. O__o I cried, "You just ate my core!!" and then some other dude who took my picture was like, "That's the first time I heard that one today" and retelling the story to my friends also brings up another story Emily and I told about when we were watching a documentary on fetishes and how this guy liked being used as a human ashtray and would always go "yes mistress" and open his mouth so now this guy was a human receptacle for me I GUESS?
Buuut yeaaah then we explored the dealer's room while I was stopped for one million pictures and hugs on the way and saw so much cool stuff. Reality and the physics of Having Money prevented me from splurging on every bitty trinket I saw. I don't have many conventions to compare this to, but it was much bigger than Sakuracon's dealer's room. I also liked it much better because they combined artist's alley and the exhibition hall. So... independent artists were in the same general location as actual businesses selling merchandise and whatnot. At Sakuracon, they're usually on opposite ends from each other. It must be due to room size because hooooooly crap that place was huge. IIRC, the first thing I bought was a pixel magnet of Pit. Emily bought Ness, who she was cosplaying. They look awesome on our fridge! She decided to go back and change into her cosplay after a while. That's when we actually bought things.
EMILY IS FAT AND WHORED EVERYTHING BECAUSE SHE'S FAT. Fat and bought all the pokekids. Fat with loli bows and even eating food. So fat with taking pictures; fatorama fat fat fatty fat. A sack of dormant fat when she's sleeping.
I don't tend to check out many panels during cons; I just like wandering around and admiring things like art and cosplays, as well as dressing up myself. So... a lot of what happened was us lollygagging. I didn't go to a single panel this time (which always makes me feel guilty or boring for some reason) but I had lots of fun doing this lollygagging activity. We... also went to McDonalds which was a whole THREE BLOCKS (but it was more like 6 blocks) for sustenance but it was a painfully long trek. IT'S... THE ONLY SOURCE OF AFFORDABLE FOOD EATING AROUND. Another reason why I like that Sakuracon is located smackdab in... well, Seattle. Easy to find a place for lunch. Ow, my feet. Oww, my soul... but the coffee drink was somehow really really good for once. SURPRISINGLY. I was a bit of a complainybutt because of how sore and headachy I got and I feel bad. But after eating and drinking I felt much better and we hiked back to the con for more dicking around.
YEAH... and we also got stopped on account of my wings and my weapon because ACen is forced to be a bunch of tightwads and regulate everyone's props. I was afraid they'd take my wings away but the guy said they weren't a problem at all. We got our props checked out and it turns out Emily's was more of a problem than anything. I guess props are controlled tightly because some genius decided one year to skate down a hotel ramp and break it. UH, OOPS. Totally didn't ruin it for the rest of us! And there was a character with protruding spikes that broke the wall one year. Pff.
We heard tales of Bret's confrontation with 'saurs and witnessed oodles and oodles of 'saurs which she generated for us from a plastic bag. We may have mocked her helplessness but it was all quite the hypocrite's game and Fate had the last laugh, for we too were drawn into the siren song of 3 giant boxes of pokekids. While Emily and I were trapped by the boxes of pokekids, Mal and her boyfriend Pat happened to spot us. Thank goodness for the fat wings sprouting from my back! They were dressed as Leon and Jack Krauser from RE4 and they looked freaking excellent. *p* THEN, we wandered the convention together. Much banter was exchanged over being called the title of your game, especially when directed at me. IT'S TRUE 50% of the people that try to get my attention yell, "HEY KID ICARUS." "HEY ICARUS." This all began when Pat intended to harass someone he knew by calling them by "Call of Duty" and became a running gag the entire con, mostly at my expense. D-DAMN....
We went outside to take pictures, mostly of Mal and Pat. I think they turned out well. Emily likes taking photos and that's why she bought a high quality $500 camera before going (crazy fat). The setting was nice, too, in my opinion. Theeeen we just horsed around and all that stuff and Pat used my bow for many purposes ("Ten points for Gryffindor!" he yells as he rides my bow like a broomstick dhjdsfdjskf) such as k-kayaking and chopping vegetables. MAN I JUST...Pat is too much. xD He does all the impressions and is very good at remembering lines. His Hank Hill is spot on and it is worth all the laughs. Also, he does Herbert from Family Guy. I'm not sure whether it's better than Alex's or not, but sfkjhjdf "You can come over for some mac and cheese if you'd like" "is it Easy Mac" "I hope so" "this is going down the crapshoot fast" "I'd like you in MY crapshoot"
Then they went out to Gibsons for an expensive but delicious meal and we parted ways. Uh. Basically I think we just went back to the hotel and followed Bret and Bro to McDonalds again lmao. All I had was a drink this time, though. The line was... horrifying. 8| It wound around the entire restaurant. ablablablabla we stood there for a long time and ordered, and they even forgot about making my drink for a while until I reminded them |D;;; So I stood around waiting with a headache and tired body but when we were sitting down to eat Emily and I got in another petty fight that I started by launching straws at her and it only escalated from there so eventually we were blowing bags at each other and I got so determined that I... accidentally spilled her hot cocoa all over her Ness shirt. IT WAS A BRAWWWWL except I felt soooo bad about destroying her shirt; I would cry if my cosplay got ruined. Luckily, though, it was easily fixable (and not mostly white like mine) and all she had to do was rinse it in the sink, let it dry, and iron it next morning. But as we were walking back ambulances and fire trucks were blaring and zooming straight for the con so I guess... fires and accidents happen a lot here?? I never notice it at Sakuracon ffffff it was pretty intense. Apparently it's because people don't remember to eat or drink and pass out in the rave because they're too high and exhausted to function any more AND because of dumb stunts people pull AND because the gaming room catches fire a lot.
I get restless so after spending time in the hotel room I wanted to walk around with Emily some. At that point I didn't want to deal with Pit's sandalboot thingjigs any longer so I stripped down to nothing but the black tank and shorts and a pair of derpy sandals while still maintaining the appearance of Pit since I love dressing as him so much. Secretly I love walking around at night without much on like that, but keeping the hair and wings so that I'm still Pit. It was much more comfortable and chill, plus not so many people wanted to take my picture like that and it was kind of a welcome thing for me. But people are still able to recognize who I am. Anyway, a prom was going on at the same time which was pretty funny, since freaks + prom queens = hilarity. But there is a nice ballroom in the Hilton next door, which you can reach by trekking the catwalk that conjoins the hotels and the convention center. Emily and I liked the decor of this hotel as well; it was pretty sweet and there were places we thought would complement her Will cosplay nicely. We never got much chance to take the pictures since people were blocking those areas but we got some the next day. Unfortunately, I'm not accustomed to the complexities of cameras that aren't point-and-shoot, so I'm not as much of an expert photographer as Emily, and so she has to rely on my crapshit skills to produce pictures of her cosplay but I hope I did well enough. .__.
Night in the hotel was nice always and we giggled endlessly and chilled out. Fun times. I'm sure we have a lot of new unexplainable inside jokes now.
Then there was Saturday and it's the busiest day. Emily chose to cosplay Will at first and she didn't like it because she wanted to see things better, and her mask doesn't allow space for vivid vision. First things first this short Mario dude (we met him on Friday; he was a little eccentric but also quite hilarious but the PERFECT HEIGHT for Mario srsly) asked if I knew of the smash brothers photo shoot but I didn't, so... I managed to find it! It wasn't much fun tbh but all right, and we saw Mal and Pat there again and they were cosplaying Raikov and Volgin jdsfhjds. I wanted to jump on Pat's back and he let me, but I must be the champion of destroying cosplays because I accidentally made one of the stars on his shoulder pads fall off. 8'( Feels bad forever. It was easily fixed I think. I HOPE. But we got pictures. Not as many as we were hoping to get; it would have been nice to do a sort of SBG photoshoot but we never got around to it. Anyway, there was this odd Link cosplayer who... wanted to shoot a short clip of me doing something from an obscure nerdy thing and I... didn't quite get what he was looking for? So I tried my best and made a fool of myself moving around I'm sure, so I hope he's satisfied. Uggggh. But yeah, that's that. So we left the photoshoot and went back to the dealer's room.
OH AND this is unimportant but when I went out to buy my morning coffee I also got to meet an adorable and pretty Saria cosplay and we were too busy arguing over who was cuter uhuhuhu. *p* Her photographer friend was a butthead because every time someone came up to take our/her picture he went "I made that cosplay!!1!" and she'd always have to wave him off and say "Don't listen to him" and he even tried misleading a woman who was trying to find a place in the hotel pfff. But he straightened it out afterward.
Sssso we did a lot of shopping that day and I bought a few things, but Emily bought more. She's so fat. AND OMG on our way back to the hotel we saw FIRE EMBLEM CHARACTERS FROM THE CATWALK!!!! ndshfjkdslk someone actually ACTUALLY cosplayed Canas! I'm sad that Emily didn't get to meet him in person because she commanded me to run out to the photoshoot with her camera since she couldn't see them with her Will cosplay and she needed to get her Ness cosplay on. ;AAA; But I got pictures. She came out to see them eventually but all the FE dudes left early much to some of the other cosplayers' dismay. ;~; Only Tormod and Vika were left; Soren and Micaiah left with Canas. Sob. Oh Sarah I saw Ion from the catwalk too but he vanished even before I could get there. ;0;
One time we were going to go back to the hotel after we grew tired but found a restaurant hiding in the hotel that was pretty decent. There was a lot of space for congoers and we wondered why we hadn't gone before, but admittedly the prices were still pretty high. Emily ordered french fries and she was cosplaying Ness by now since her Will cosplay was a bit frustrating for her and Ness is much more comfortable; besides, she bought a new wig that enhanced her cosplay even more rather than just looking like Ash Ketchum with a Ness cosplay. She remained fat with her fries and we both had juice to drink, then we left and wandered around the outside area (Mario was being obnoxious outside the restaurant and kept pressing against the window and trying to get people's attention fjdskj OH MARIO...) but then. This is kind of adorable. Hold your breath.
Someone dressed as Alucard from Hellsing approached me out there and said, "Oh hey, Pit, my friend over there is a big fan of you but he's too shy to come over and talk to you himself, so I decided to bring you to him instead." fdsbhfdsjhj what. That's so cute. So I accept this and follow him to a bench, where this guy has his head buried in a book, and he's surrounded by his jeering friends. I'm not familiar with any Final Fantasy game, but I learned this guy was dressed as Genesis from Crisis Core. I come up and decide that this is the "friend" Alucard was talking about, and my assumption is correct because his friends start forcing him off the bench to meet me. I'm not shy, so I'm pretty friendly towards him and it turned into me trying to console him of his heated feelings! I gave him a hug and he hugged back tightly but nervously, then retreated back to his bench to hide behind his LOVELESS book again. So, not wanting him to miss out on the chance to talk to me or be around me, I sit down on the bench next to him and place an arm over his back. He's actually really, really adorable. All he could say was "I hate my friends, I hate you guys, you all suck..." and etc. I probably only managed to fluster him even more by comforting him but I-I couldn't resist; it was so much fun. I hung around doing that for a while before I decided to leave him be.
We went back to the room for dinners, and Bret and Bro are crazy and ordered MORE PIZZA (hey mang it's good stuff) and hung around giggling and drawing the ugliest cats and sharing stories from our childhood while Bret worked on more commissions and stuff and then Emily and I chose to walk around YET AGAIN. It was night by now, and some individuals were noticeably high and dumb because of the rave. I like the name of the rave though; Soap Bubble! But it was really weird for me. I got out of the hotel and someone approached me. "Genesis is looking for you," he said. He was still thinking about me after 3 hours? "He wants to see you again." And this kept happening. Someone would tell me about how Genesis wanted to see me and that he had a huge crush and missed me and hoped he would get to see me again and fffffffffffff. Our travels took us to the game room eventually. We hadn't been there before, and inside was a dark room with little to no light and we were curious. However, they stopped Emily and said she couldn't come in on account of her backpack. They wouldn't hold it for her, either, and she didn't want to go all the way back just to leave a part of her cosplay behind. %D So, since I was still curious, I told Emily I'd go in and report what was going on in there. So I went in alone and found it was a room full of people playing vidja games, which was all very tempting and I wanted to join in. The moment I passed by the Brawl tv (fate!), someone found me. It was Genesis. We talked for a bit and he wanted to know my real name, and I told him. I got his real name, too. This was so he could find me on facebook so he wouldn't lose me. I admitted he was cute and he went back into fluster mode and sgjdffjk he got even cuter but. but I had to leave or else Emily would be waiting for a long time. So, I left.
Ahhh, and there was this guy playing on piano in a mini stage near a restaurant area of the bottom part of the lobby. He was playing the Eight Melodies song from Mother and we flipped, then ran over and stood by. The guy playing glimpsed and smiled while continuing to play because he saw that he made a Ness very happy. We sang the lyrics like the nerds we are and waited until the song was over. I saw his binder, but I can't remember what his group name was called, but I felt like I'd heard it before. EDIT: Oh, I was informed that they are the Spoony Bards.
Haha, also, there was this moment where Emily and I were chilling on some stools. Two guys came up to take our picture and then one prompted us with a question. "Hey. Which is better. Crunchy or creamy peanut butter?" We replied in unison, only we had differing opinions. They were having an argument, apparently, over which was better. I sided with the guy who said creamy. So we had a riveting debate over which was "better", then couldn't come to an agreement. So we polled people! We asked two more dudes and they had differing opinions too, which only intensified our fight. Eventually, they left with the exclamation, "That's it, we'll settle this with some Brawl!"
Guy who sided with Emily: "I'm Ness!"
Guy who sided with me: "I call Pit!"
elrkjgieruterter fffffff. I wish we could have seen the outcome, but Emily was still not allowed inside. :*(
Aaaaand yeah, lots of amazing cosplays, so many people, it was a lot of fun and I met new people. Mal and Pat hung out in our room for a bit Saturday night and omg I got a piggyback ride on Pat!!! 8DDDD HE PICKED ME UP AND LET ME RIDE HIM ACROSS THE LOBBY! \o/ He yelled at me for going "phew" when we took a quick break with him and criticized that I shouldn't have the right to do that because I wasn't the one exerting myself, but I told him I could so because it was too much fun for my body to handle. Then he carried me back. WH-WHEEEE. He is my pink Chocobro. I love Mal and Pat a lot. ;A; And I miss them. I also miss Bret and Broseph more than I can say.
I really didn't want to have to leave, but sooooob /;A;/ It was hard to say goodbye. And I had a gross pita in the airport for lunch and it was blecky and looked like someone pooped the ingredients out on it and now I have a stomach flu and the chicken tasted like the grill itself and ew yucky groooossssss. It took FOREVER to finally get home but we did and then I fell asleep.
I bought a crocheted navi keychain that jingles hee heeeeeee ♥ Aaaand a squishy Kirby dsfjdsfj he came in a gashapon capsule and everything. I bought that Pit magnet and a Doduo keychain, and a pretty yellow and white feather barrette. Emily and I also bought cheap steal-of-a-deal pins of Hikaru and Kaoru from Ouran Host Club huhu. Since we're terrible siblings and all. Eeeee and I got a bracelet made of all the Johto badges. *3* It's purty.
And a few pokekids too. Caterpie is especially special I think. It used to belong to a Japanese kid named Daichi. So I named him Daichi. It's written in messy childish hiragana on the inside of the Caterpie. I will cherish this forgotten childhood Caterpie. ;3;
SUCH A LONG WASTE OF EFFORT EXPLAINING MY WEEKEND. I-I hope someone actually bothers to read it orz