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So I am finally back home in NY, I'm super behind on LJ and have not yes watched 18 though I do know the big spoiler >>;; ~~Someone shared it at Otakon and it was so the suck ~.~~~ I hope everyone understands why I've not been commenting on their LJs and I will do my best to go back through things once I've watched 18 tomorrow.

First, super happy belated birthday to

cc_lemon *hugs* Sorry, I couldn't do this earlier, our hotel didn't have internet ;;_;;

Anyway for those who didn't know, I was not only going to Otakon, but had plans to cosplay! I'd not cosplayed since uhhh 2003 when I was Ryoma at Katsucon. I make a horrible Ryoma because I tend to smile a lot. lol and it didn't help at the time no one knew what Tenipuri was and we had these ultra ghetto costumes I had made with fabric paint since the official jerseys had either just been released or had not been released yet. o_O;; or wait did I cosplay at the last ShoujoCon over the summer in 2003, I can't remember? But suffice it to say, it had been a long time.

sumeragiskank and I had originally just planned to be two YuGiOh characters cause the costumes were mostly easy to get together but then, we fell in love with GinoSuza. >>; So Kim was going to be the shortest Gino ever and I was going to be the happiest Suzaku ever. But between Dollectable and me just being incompetent I didn't order a costume from China leaving me with around a week plus to get a Suzaku costume together. Kim doubted I could do it, but thanks to my sewing skills I DID

In sewing my costume I learned that 1) my sewing machine is awesome! 2) sewing doll clothes is way easier since this costume was frickin huge!!! 3) fleece is both easy and hard to work with and 4) learning to use a dictaphone has improved my pedal control XD;;

Otakon was lots of fun and lots of people took my picture, people I did not even know! To me that is the main reason to cosplay, to have people recognize you and take your picture XD;; I also got lots of hugs in my Suzaku costume cause it was soft and fuzzy. I also discovered that Otakon has the best Artist Alley of any con I have ever been to in the US and I commissioned tons of piccies to be shared in a future post once the final picture has arrived here. I also bought the husband a ton of Death Note as he loved volumes 1+2 and it's been killing me not to share spoilers.

I got to meet

inarikitsunebi, who kindly let me stay in the room she reserved and who I owe money to ~~and loves GinoSuza like me!~~ and

minachiko who makes an amazing Suzaku, much better than me! I also got to meet Tara and spend time with

graycat21 and Beth! *waves*

Hands down the highlight of Otakon which sadly I did not think to record as I would be the queen of hits on Youtube was I saw a very very good Willy Wonka from the Johnny Depp movie cosplayer. Several fangirls went up to him, and then there was a sudden loud cry and 20-30 fangirls (most in costume) surrounded him shouting "Candy!!!" The Willy look seriously horrified for a few moments as the fangirls continued to shout "Candy!!!" until he finally forced a smile and danced a bit with his fans. I should mention that at least one of the fans was dressed as Sasuke XD;;;

First, just so everyone has some idea of what I was going for...

This is Bakura Ryou from YuGiOh

This is Suzaku in the cat suit from episode 09

And now for the fun cosplay pictures! I missed getting a lot of the earlier ones since I was actually in them and it took me a while to pass my camera off to Katie >>;

I might re-do the ears next time >>;

With my Gino <3 <3 <3 Notice the rat tails <3

Gino and Lloyd, Suzaku's two bippy semes

The two Lloyds cleaning the Lancelot cosplayer! <3 <3 <3 I so loved the rainbow feather duster!

Zero trying to kidnap Tianzi

Complete with spoiler sharer Xingke >.<

The totally hardcore Lelouch who was later an equally hard core Kaiba You never realize how similar Lelouch and Kaiba are until the same person is cosplaying them

Sakura has stolen the Zero Mask! She was so freaked out by us lol

Suzakus!

Gino molesting a Suzaku

Several Suzakus :D OMG there were male Suzakus and Lelouchs! o_O;; Though I think

minachiko made the best Suzaku there *so jealous*

Suzaku and Tianzi

Gino with 2 Suzakus XD;

3 Suzakus for the Knight of the 3 lol

Suzaku vs. Zero!

Admire my sunburn lol

crappy lighting but Kim's good friend Soltian as Lloyd and her other friend whose name slips my mind as Cecile and one of the male Suzakus.

Britannians beating Zero XD;;

Kim and I then hurried back to the room to change (getting off that make up around my eye was awful!) to go to the YuGiOh shoot

One of the surprisingly most popular characters to Cosplay as XD;

Hardcore Kaiba who had a suitcase full of CARDS and was the earlier Lelouch who so totally did not seem to remember I was the Suzaku from earlier <<; BTW for those curious, the pants==Old Navy, the t-shirt==Uniqlo, and the button down==JC Pennys go me!

And now for some Bandit Keith fanservice!

2 Bakuras! :D BTW Kim made our Millennium Ring from Sculpey, is she not awesome???

Several Bakuras of varying types. There were actually quite a few of us who missed the pictures

Apollo and his rock star rival! I love their signs XD;; A bunch of the other Phoenix Wright ones had signs as well but I sadly didn't get a picture of them. ;;_;;

Someone from Bleach who is an old man and was being cosplayed by an older man, go older people cosplaying too!

A Tsubasa group with poor lighting, I thought the Syaoran and Sakura were particularly good though I am not sure which ones they are since Tsubasa has so many >>;