Xellos Day 2.
May. 24th, 2009 11:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenToday was kind of a day of panel fail all around. But it's not time to talk about that yet.
Xellos final evolution(-r):
I guess it doesn't look that different from yesterday's, but I made little changes that I think worked better. (Oh, and I guess it's not final final, because I ended up tucking the turtleneck in, which makes the sash part stand out more and the flap parts look longer. Ah well, guess you'll have to find a picture of me in someone else's gallery to see that...)
I have to say that Xellos is a really good cosplay choice. His outfit is relatively manageable in terms of moving around, being able to go to the bathroom, etc. And underneath the cloak, he basically wears normal clothes, so you don't need to strip to be able to go somewhere for dinner after the con. And he has a bag, so you can carry stuff with you and not need to put it down every time someone asks to take a picture. (And black is almost an acceptable choice for the bag color, so you don't have to make or buy something special, either.)
I would definitely want to wear the costume again, whenever my hair being shoulder-length coincides with my attending a convention. But someday I will do Yankumi, too. Even more obscure, yay!
We did find Filia, and as I suspected she had no mace, but we still got a nice action shot:
And I sang at open-mic karaoke, as I've always wanted to! I thought I should represent for my series more, so I did "Plenty of grit", the Slayers Revolution OP. Unfortunately, the guy did not announce my song (though they did for most other people), so people were probably still clueless as to who I was and what I was singing. But I made at least one fangirl happy: as I walked onto the stage, she jumped up and shouted, "Yay Slayers!" and then as the song started, her eyes widened and she gave a little gasp and just looked so excited. ^_^v That was worth all the practicing last night and editing the track (to cut out that ridiculously long bridge) and burning it and printing out the lyrics and everything.
Tomorrow I will be free of having to worry about stepping on my cloak, or adjusting my tea cozy, or not whacking someone with my staff. It's a short day anyway, so I don't think it's worth the time I spend struggling with the sash. It really is one of those things... the parts I spent so much time on beforehand are more manageable, once I figured out how to do them (though I just realized tonight looking at my reference pictures that I've been overlapping the tea cozy backwards, d'oh!), and the parts that were so simple to prepare (cutting three pairs of different rectangles of fabric) were a pain. We also went through an entire can of purple hair spray figuring out how to apply it best. Today's application was much more even, efficient, and better-looking, in my opinion, though it apparently doesn't show up as well in pictures. It was a nice dusky purple tint, the way I think it's supposed to be.
Anyhow, I feel a little bad about this girl who was dressed as Kurapika that I ran into twice, who told me she kept wanting to take my picture but never had her camera. Now she'll never have the chance... at least not for a year or more. ^^;; But what can I do. There will be a Mudkip hat with my name on it tomorrow, and that will be the extent of my "cosplay". They herd I liek them. :]
[Actually, I like Wooper better, but in general I like them both, and the hats were cute and relatively cheap.]
Getting back to cosplay... Bonus pic!
XD
Featuring the little Nohohon-zoku stuffed toy I got from the dealer's room. They have really expanded the Hidamari no Tami merchandise line. I now need to find the teru teru bouzu version, and possibly the large size plushies, when I go to Japan. This on top of the commemorative version made out of cornstarch.
The sad thing is, the people who didn't know Slayers probably thought it was an integral part of the costume.
Speaking of people who didn't know Slayers... I started to worry that all I was doing was the "himitsu" pose, so I tried to mix it up a little, and mostly I did different poses for people I suspected did not know Slayers and so would not appreciate the "himitsu" pose anyway. Like the guy who asked me, "Can I take a picture of your . . . costume?" and then afterwards asked me about what series it was from and what the character's name was.
Oh, another amusing encounter: I was getting a drink of water and these two people were approaching the fountain next to me. The girl was like, "...get a drink of water. And next to Xellos, how cool is that?" As I finished, she started feeling around the bowl, trying to figure out how to activate it (it had a proximity detector). I turned back to tell her that, and the guy she was with was like, "Ohhh, I thought it was your magic!" ^o^
Xellos final evolution(-r):
I guess it doesn't look that different from yesterday's, but I made little changes that I think worked better. (Oh, and I guess it's not final final, because I ended up tucking the turtleneck in, which makes the sash part stand out more and the flap parts look longer. Ah well, guess you'll have to find a picture of me in someone else's gallery to see that...)
I have to say that Xellos is a really good cosplay choice. His outfit is relatively manageable in terms of moving around, being able to go to the bathroom, etc. And underneath the cloak, he basically wears normal clothes, so you don't need to strip to be able to go somewhere for dinner after the con. And he has a bag, so you can carry stuff with you and not need to put it down every time someone asks to take a picture. (And black is almost an acceptable choice for the bag color, so you don't have to make or buy something special, either.)
I would definitely want to wear the costume again, whenever my hair being shoulder-length coincides with my attending a convention. But someday I will do Yankumi, too. Even more obscure, yay!
We did find Filia, and as I suspected she had no mace, but we still got a nice action shot:
And I sang at open-mic karaoke, as I've always wanted to! I thought I should represent for my series more, so I did "Plenty of grit", the Slayers Revolution OP. Unfortunately, the guy did not announce my song (though they did for most other people), so people were probably still clueless as to who I was and what I was singing. But I made at least one fangirl happy: as I walked onto the stage, she jumped up and shouted, "Yay Slayers!" and then as the song started, her eyes widened and she gave a little gasp and just looked so excited. ^_^v That was worth all the practicing last night and editing the track (to cut out that ridiculously long bridge) and burning it and printing out the lyrics and everything.
Tomorrow I will be free of having to worry about stepping on my cloak, or adjusting my tea cozy, or not whacking someone with my staff. It's a short day anyway, so I don't think it's worth the time I spend struggling with the sash. It really is one of those things... the parts I spent so much time on beforehand are more manageable, once I figured out how to do them (though I just realized tonight looking at my reference pictures that I've been overlapping the tea cozy backwards, d'oh!), and the parts that were so simple to prepare (cutting three pairs of different rectangles of fabric) were a pain. We also went through an entire can of purple hair spray figuring out how to apply it best. Today's application was much more even, efficient, and better-looking, in my opinion, though it apparently doesn't show up as well in pictures. It was a nice dusky purple tint, the way I think it's supposed to be.
Anyhow, I feel a little bad about this girl who was dressed as Kurapika that I ran into twice, who told me she kept wanting to take my picture but never had her camera. Now she'll never have the chance... at least not for a year or more. ^^;; But what can I do. There will be a Mudkip hat with my name on it tomorrow, and that will be the extent of my "cosplay". They herd I liek them. :]
[Actually, I like Wooper better, but in general I like them both, and the hats were cute and relatively cheap.]
Getting back to cosplay... Bonus pic!
XD
Featuring the little Nohohon-zoku stuffed toy I got from the dealer's room. They have really expanded the Hidamari no Tami merchandise line. I now need to find the teru teru bouzu version, and possibly the large size plushies, when I go to Japan. This on top of the commemorative version made out of cornstarch.
The sad thing is, the people who didn't know Slayers probably thought it was an integral part of the costume.
Speaking of people who didn't know Slayers... I started to worry that all I was doing was the "himitsu" pose, so I tried to mix it up a little, and mostly I did different poses for people I suspected did not know Slayers and so would not appreciate the "himitsu" pose anyway. Like the guy who asked me, "Can I take a picture of your . . . costume?" and then afterwards asked me about what series it was from and what the character's name was.
Oh, another amusing encounter: I was getting a drink of water and these two people were approaching the fountain next to me. The girl was like, "...get a drink of water. And next to Xellos, how cool is that?" As I finished, she started feeling around the bowl, trying to figure out how to activate it (it had a proximity detector). I turned back to tell her that, and the guy she was with was like, "Ohhh, I thought it was your magic!" ^o^
PICS SATISFIED.
Date: 2009-05-25 07:51 pm (UTC)"Sore wa... himitsu?"
Re: PICS SATISFIED.
Date: 2009-05-26 01:11 am (UTC)Re: PICS SATISFIED.
Date: 2009-05-26 06:30 am (UTC)Also, did you see a guy wearing a huge fruit hat? Because holy shit there is an amazing(ly horrifying?) story behind it.
Re: PICS SATISFIED.
Date: 2009-05-26 06:48 am (UTC)I don't think I saw him. I saw someone dressed as a banana... that's about as close as I can think of.
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Date: 2009-05-25 10:15 pm (UTC)