Dear gosh, I'm exhausted.

So, as I said Thursday, I was at a convention.  Dang it was really fun.

Lemmie tell you about it.

I went as KHstuck Rose, the design by LoonyTwin.  I think it came out well, though my keyblade was way too heavy to bring.  So, I brought the Necronomicon with me instead.

We left the house at around six to pick my friend up and we headed off to the con.

We spent a LOT of time just hanging out and talking with the cosplayers.  We found two AMAZING TARDIS cosplayers.  One had a smaller dress with what seemed to be a corset, and the inside of the TARDIS at the top.  She also had a hood with it.  GOSH it was amazing.  Then the other had a really cool ball dress, and a top at that flashed blue.
Of course I got pictures of them.  I grabbed a picture of the second TARDIS with a DALEK cosplayer.  Her dress was awesome, too.

My friend (who was Red Riding Hood) and I went back and forth from outside to the inside of the hotel.  I found the Karkat I nearly licked last year there!  She was there as Homestuck, from Fandomstuck.

We went into the artist part of the vendor room and found the Ghostbuster's table.  Of course, I got a picture of my friend with them.  While there, I saw a group of THREE Jack Frosts.  One was normal, two were dark.  I approached the dark one and said that he looked ill, and should get that checked, and then he went off on a tangent on Fearlings, and how he was the Fearling prince. 
So I said: "Let me tell you about Heartless." And explained what they were in the most GRUESOME detail, and they stopped and hugged me, saying how wonderful I was. 

I got a picture of the three of them, they were cool.

So, there was this post apocalyptic costuming group there.  And I found their table.  It was a group based around GENERAL post apocalyptic media, but it was entirely dedicated to Fallout.  They had a Power Armor Helmet on the stand, a Mini Nuke (WHICH WAS HOLDING THE LADY'S COFFEE I KID YOU NOT), bottle caps, awesome rifles and pistols, and just--
Okay, I'll stop.  That's getting out of hand.

I ran into some Supernatural cosplayers when my friend and I went to the Homestuck panel.  They were pretty fun to talk to. 

The Homestuck panel was amazing.  It was hilarious (JOHN AND DAVE GOT ON THE STAGE LATE WITH STARBUCKS)  Lil Cal seriously rapped the rules, and threatened to eat any cellphones that were left on.  When they opened it for questions, no one raised their hands!  So, I raised mine.
Calliope and Lil Cal were running it, so Callie called on me to ask.  So, I stood up, and - per my normal headcanon for weird AUs like KHstuck - I asked to know just what the heck were those gray things on the stage.  I said they were reminiscent of zombies, and Karkat asked what a zombie was.  So, I replied they were once people who died, and were reanimated.  The have skin almost dripping off of their bones, and they try to infect others to be like them.  He seemed offended, and tried to ignore me.  Kanaya answered the question as to they were trolls, and I said the only trolls I knew where the large, ugly brutes that lived under bridges and smelled worse than old, rotting gym socks.  Karkat looked as if he was going to KILL ME I'M--
I nearly cried from laughing at the panel.  I'm not joking.  It was hilarious, I loved it.  The Meenah was beautiful, I wish I could've found out who she was online.
However, after the panel I spent a lot of my time trying to find three cosplayers.  All of them had passed through the tent or by it, so I couldn't grab their pictures then (cause it was during the panel).   A Sora cosplayer walked by a couple times.
But these two Tunnel Snakes cosplayers walked through the tent.
And I spent a LONG time trying to find them.  And yes, I did get the picture of the Tunnel Snakes.  And even when I ASKED THEM for the picture, they were in character.  IT WAS SERIOUSLY BUTCH.  They were AWESOME.  Even had the accent down!  Xera, I mentioned you, and they said they were always looking for new Tunnel Snakes.
One cool thing about them was their Pipboys.  They had rigged their iPhones to be Pipboys.  I only found them cause I heard Enclave music playing!  And apparently, they were using them to find each other!  Awesome.
Yeah, I did get a picture of the Sora.  Which was cool.  His keyblade was really neat!  Sure, it was made of what seemed like foam and duct tape, but it was actually proportionate.  And thick.  And we both expressed our disdain for the keyblades most other people use, and how disproportionate they were.

I grabbed photos of Madoka, Fire Lord Ozai, my friend with a really cool Alice (as in, Alice in Wonderland), Luka from Tailor Ahop on Enbizaka, Meiko from Evil Food Eater Conchita, Noctis, Stella, Desmond, Ezio........Dead Pool.  Bunch of Homestucks...Oh!  And there were these Mom and Dad cosplayers walking together.  They were so CUTE!

The photoshoot was at five, and it was really fun.  They did it based on category, and I got in a few times cause I was: A) a Homestuck cosplayer (everyone joined in for that one), B) a Beta kid (Rose), C) a God Tier (I'm not sure I ever want to work with orange ever again), and obviously D)I was a Rose.
I got some pretty good pictures of the photoshoot ouo

I hung out with the Gamzee from the panel outside, and they were SERIOUSLY GAMZEE, THEY ACTED JUST LIKE HIM.
But the best thing ever happened.
I was hanging out, facing the door to the convention, and I actually screamed.  There were two Daft Punk cosplayers that looked just like them.  Of coure I got a picture it was too good to pass up.

Okay, fangirling aside, I met a Kyuubey with my friend.  I pushed her to sign his contract, and she DID.  We both DID.  I told her the consequences, and she said she didn't care, and that it'd be fun.  (I also signed the Death Note, per some guy's request.  Yet I signed it "Slayer of Heartless."

I also went to this thing called Anime Unscripted, which was basically improv.  And it was hilarious.  One subject was Narcolepsy and spontaneous combustion.  It was way too fun.

I ran into the Jacks a couple of times.  Once when I was inside, I threatened to burn the Jack that had hugged me earlier.  He hid behind the normal Jack, telling me to burn him.
Then just before we left, I saw him again, but he was in a normal Jack cosplay.  He approached me and said he was "better," and I of course said that was good, and told him exactly what to look for to avoid being hurt by Heartless.  He stopped, laughed, and said I was beautiful for how I was acting out the KHstuck.

Now I'm just going to jump all over the time frame.

They had a gaming room there.  They had a Wii, a PS3, and two Xboxes (one with Kinec), as you'd expect, right?  Well, they also had a PS2, a GameCube, a Super Nintendo, an Atari, a Mrs. Pacman machine, a DDR machine, and a couple of consoles I did not recognize.
A freaking Atari, though.

I played DDR and Dance Central.  And just trying to play DC made me swear to never get an Xbox cause the Kinect is terrible.  But, I was surprised it had Technologic and Around the World on there.  So I played Gangnam Style, and Technologic with someone (they chose Gangnam Style, I chose Technologic).  The names of the dance moves are terrible.

While at the vendors, I got two pins: One that said "The special Hell," and "Winchester: Weapon of Choice."  Wonder what they could be for? 
I also got this snake ring and wore it around all day, I love it.  And I got a keychain based around Aqua's wayfinder.  And then two hair pins - a Heartless symbol, and a shadow.  Also grabbed one of the freebies, an art print of Grimdark Rose.

My friend went to a Doctor Who panel about cosplay, and she seemed to have really fun. 

But someone gathered a bunch of Homestucks to head over to the nearby mall to ride on the carousel there.  YES THERE WAS A CAROUSEL IN THE MALL, LIKE A FULL SIZED ONE.

I got in one of the tea cup rides with a Roxy (WHO'S SKYPE I GOT SHE WAS SO COOL), and we both ended up spinning that round so freaking fast she said she felt like she was going to barf.
She was with a really nice Damara, and we were talking about her poor Japanese.  She approached someone at around 4 in the afternoon and said: "Ohayou."  I'm just.  No.  It's "konbanwa," not "ohayou."  Konbanwa is essentially good afternoon.  Ohayou is slang (shortened version of "ohayou gozaimasu") for good morning.  So we were really just talking about Japanese language on the way back.
The farmer's market was going on in the mall at that time, and someone had a goat kid for sale and it was so cute believe me I made sure to take a picture.  We were all faun-ing over it.  Sorry, that was bad.

My little sisters were adorable as Green Link, and Blue Link from Four Swords.  I caught them fighting with each other - Blue trying to blow Green up with a bomb.  They kept going after people and trying to kill them, it was so cute!

Honestly, it was loads of fun, and I can't wait to go back next year.  I convinced my friend to go back, too. 

The convention was totally worth the blisters on my feet, and the rash I got from walking around with shorts that were really too short on a hot day.

I donno, maybe I'll be Aqua next time?  I was considering going as my Lone Wanderer, too.  Maybe I'll stay more than one day next time.
I do want to work on a KHstuck Roxy, though.

All and all, it was fun.

~Shioko