My first Anime Con

This weekend was my first Anime con (Ohayocon), and what a rush it was!  Original plans I had a year ago of being in Artist's Alley never came to pass since school took up my art efforts, so I became a standard attendee.  I learned so much about fans, I was amazed.

I cosplayed as both Larxene and Roxas (switching off with my sister) and found crossplaying can be a lot of fun (though for KH the great majority of characters is male anyway, so female is a little harder to do).

Random OOC-ness that I found on the net makes more sense.  Cosplayers usually (USUALLY) know it's OOC rather than not undertanding characters.  

Fanservicing I still don't condone, but I found myself tempted to do (on stage! XO) for one reason: attention.  People do it for attention.  Possibly not because they themselves want it.  A vicious cycle perhaps?

Just because a person is cosplaying a cool and under-appreciated character does not in any way, shape or form make them a cool person.  Or mean they actually understand the character either.  -.-

And as for Avatar the Last Airbender (rather than Kingdom Hearts): sitting in a room crammed with other Avatar fans and getting a full spectrum of ship types and people...  The Avatar fandom is saner.  Even they agree the shipping is out of hand, and they're somewhat more likely to follow canon, it seems.  Then again, Avatar is brave enough to establish canon.  *Cough cough*

A special shout-out to and to images.cosplay.com/gallery.php…, who let me hang out with them.  You guys were a blast, and thank you so much!  

In other news, I bought a Trading Arts and it was Cloud, to my delight, I got to get some shopping done for someone who's hard to shop for, I have my first KH poster, and I got to buy and drink a potion.  ...Not something I'd buy to drink, even if it were the price of a normal softdrink rather than the crazy amount I spent to try it.  What you do for an experience.  And I have no regret for spending that much on a soda that tasted like Sprite mixed with a few Fruit Roll-Ups.  (Okay first sip, not so much on the last.)

Oh, and Final Fantasy Unlimited?  Kaze is my fave character, hands down.  But as a game, this would be terrible.  As a series it's best for laughs and the random references.  I crack up every time the victory music plays.

And it's time I'm off to bed.  School starts tomorrow (which will be rough since I had the best weekend in months, more fun than the holidays, and the best geekout session since an "unbirthday party" with some of my internship pals at the beginning of December).

But hey...  There's an Anime con during Spring break hosted by a friend I've known for a few years...  And my sis and I are invited to help run a Disney-related panel.  Perhaps I can get finances together for that.  So expensive... But after this weekend?

Perhaps starting a new journey may not be so hard.  Or maybe (with this con) it's already begun.