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Old 02-29-2004, 08:32 PM   #27 (permalink)
Xenomorph
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Cosplay is becoming a bigger and bigger part of the sci-fi/fantasy nerd culture. It used to be an exclusively anime thing. It's spread basically all across the gaming, roleplaying, anime-watching, fantasy-reading crowd, at least at conventions.

Some people make comically poor costumes to get a laugh. Some exhibitionistic women go for the omnipresent half-naked characters. The historical fiction and wargaming types come with uniforms and military paraphernalia. Computer gamers show up as Protoss zealots and Counterstrike avatars. The people who are really into cinema (anime or otherwise) come as their favorite characters. People who are really into certain fantasy mythoi come as generic orcs or vampire hunters or whatever.

I do it once a year, at the best convention I go to. So far, I've been a generic Soviet soldier, a Leet-Krew Counterstrike terrorist, and a Matrix agent. Next year, myself and a few others from my gaming group are going as ninjas with guitars ala "www.realultimatepower.net".

I think it's a lot of fun. It creates a sort of instant familiarity with the people who do it that can make an already fun social situation even better.

It's somewhat customary at the convention I cosplay at to address the cosplayers in-character (and, of course, for them to respond as such) which I find hilariously entertaining.

It certainly takes effort to do a costume correctly, though.
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