/cos/ - Cosplay / Conventions

The best Mado I ever saw at a con was one who wore cat ears and cat stockings (you might have seen the kind that are all the rage now that basically are hose that are clear on the thigh but black on the lower leg and have cat faces at the top). The reason why she was the best though is she never stopped for pictures or to talk, she always kept walking no matter how you tried to get her attention, and always looked down.

Pic related its the exact hose.

>>1589
>The reason why she was the best though is she never stopped for pictures or to talk, she always kept walking no matter how you tried to get her attention, and always looked down.
Yeah, for me it seems that not many people understand that cosplaying involves getting into character, not just wearing the clothes.
It always puts me off when I see cosplayers posing in cliched ways and expecting it to be okay when it's completely off character

>>1591
yeah, the dissonance between character and cosplayer expectations can be frustrating in both directions.

When I wore Madotsuki at comiccon a few years back, I overheard a few guys walking away from me and complaining that I had my eyes open. Something along the lines of "The REAL Mado would have her eyes closed!"
I'm not sure if they meant in photos, which is reasonable, or that I had them open while I was walking around, which would be ridiculous.
I had forgotten that I probably should have eyes closed during photos, so after hearing that comment, I kept my eyes closed whenever someone asked for a photo for the rest of the day. And guess what? Literally everyone said "Oh, I'm sorry, your eyes were closed, let me take it again."

Another time was when I cosplayed Stocking Anarchy at the anime club's Halloween party. There was a costume contest where we were supposed to walk out like it was a runway. I thought it would be funny to instead just keep going until I reached the snack table at the back of the room and grab some cupcakes. The real Stocking wouldn't give a crap about posing, she would just want to grab some sweets!
yeah…nobody got it. The club president was shouting "No, little one, you're going the wrong way! You're supposed to walk over here!"


Sometimes staying in character can confuse people…

>>1592
>I had forgotten that I probably should have eyes closed during photos, so after hearing that comment, I kept my eyes closed whenever someone asked for a photo for the rest of the day. And guess what? Literally everyone said "Oh, I'm sorry, your eyes were closed, let me take it again."
Sounds like they didn't really know who Mado is.

>yeah…nobody got it. The club president was shouting "No, little one, you're going the wrong way! You're supposed to walk over here!"
>Sometimes staying in character can confuse people…
More like they're fucking ignorant of how the character behaves, which reinforces what I said. People believe cosplaying is wearing clothes and posing, which it fucking isn't, so they skip all the personality traits because "OH LOOK I JUST GOT THE CLOTHES SO ITS OKAY TO POSE AS A SLUT EVEN IF THIS CHARACTER IS INTROVERT LOL". If I see a Rei doing a fucking duckface, I will want to hit her hard in the face, no matter how well done the clothes are. That isn't cosplaying, that's bullshit closer to modeling with certain clothes than anything at all.

Honestly, I enjoy the teigeki shows a fucking lot even when the characters aren't well represented by their 3D counterparts (Real actors are smaller/bigger than the 2D versions, for example) because they manage to convey their character's personalities perfectly.

>>1591
>>1592

not necessarily
in like a masquerade or contest yes but like, if you're just walking around the con it's kind of… awkward
the only people who have tried to speak to me IC have been… bad vibes
i'm absolutely down if it's the right kind of situation or if they just make in-character jokes (all the piss jokes as hana. aaaaall of them) but otherwise i'm there to see people and get wrecked and shamelessly dress like a tard for a few days

also booger that stocking story is so freaking cute oh my god okay done

>>1602
oh man good point, cosplayers acting in character for characters that are mean or obnoxious is really annoying. The whole WACKY DEADPOOL COSPLAYER thing at conventions got old so fast.
There was a slenderman at that comiccon (it was 2012 so that was a relevant thing back then) that maintained a really cool balance between acting and having fun. he moved really slow and stiff and never talked, but someone with a boombox started a spontaneous dance party. Slenderman was just kind of standing in the middle of it awkwardly (both funny and in character) during Gangnam style (AGAIN, it was 2012)
I went up to him and said COME ON, SLENDERMAN, YOU CAN DANCE! ITS EASY! and I danced next to him, and he just watched for a while, and then started doing the dance veeeerrrryyy sloooowwwlly. For the rest of the songs, he did awkward slow stiff versions of all of the dances. Minimal amount of movement. Tint tiny dance.
a little bit like this but slower: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmIByrcwAQ
slow stiff awkward slenderman dancing to caramelldansen was very interesting to watch.
Like yeah, dancing is very far out of Slenderman's character. But he never spoke or made a sound, and he moved like the character. While still being silly and having fun!

this might have been him but I'm not sure, there was like 3 slendermen that year