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Okay, so. I’m sorry for any grammatical errors or spelling mistake. First off, I’m a scrawny girl with glasses so my glasses kill 90% of my cosplay (this is important).
Now then, My first convention. I had my cosplays panned out, I wanted to do something simple no wigs, no over high ass costumes from ebay or cosplay sites since it was my first time there. The first day went swell, I was in my Peter costume (Red coat, pants, boots and a toy gun =D) and had the orchastra play from my ipod (so people got the costume).
Everything went well, I went to the artist ally and got a cool Hetalia print, Dealers room and got a plush for my mom (It was of Sebastian, her favorite Character from Kuroshitsuji), even took some pictures with people who were as wolves for the ‘Peter and the Wolf’ reference. Everything was fine until, lunch rolled around.
I was at Dairy Queen enjoying a burger when this greasy unkept girl in some cosplay (She claimed to be Miku as a wolf or something? I don’t know she wore a short skirt, white blouse that also didn’t fit, messy green wig and a wolf tail and ears). so Miku, she comes up to me and asks if she could sit by me, being the nice girl I was I said yes. (Sadly). so she sat down and things were silent, everything went well until she asked “What Anime are you from?”
Harmless Question, yes, so I said ‘I’m not from an Anime, I’m from a musical peice called Peter and the Wolf’ and Miku she looked like she was about to flip, so she asked me why I would dress like non-anime in an ANINME convention.
Now; for those of you who hasn’t seen the Disney version or the 2006 version, yes, I consider it anime. It’s been animated that’s sort of what anime is right? Animation? I told her about it and she smacked off my glasses and yelled,
“BAKA, DISNEY IS NOT ANIME! WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT! HOW CAN A MUSICAL BE ANIME? UNLESS IT’S FROM JAPAN IT DOESN’T COUNT!” something like that, I was too busy stumbling around trying to find my glasses before someone stepped on them. I could care less about some anime from Japan, so I turned to her and I said “Please shut up, and start helping me find my glasses” Did she? Hell no. She said (and I’m not kidding)
“You’re asking a WOLF! To help you? I would you eat you now boy!” Now I had two things to worry about; My glasses were somewhere on the floor and there’s a screaming miku wolf thing at me, for being mean and abusing her or some shit.
My Salvation came when the workers asked her to leave and two other cosplayers dragged her kicking and screaming out of the dairy queen.
My glasses were recovered and I spent the day pretending it didn’t happen. Well, I still had to explain to my mom why there was a slap mark on my face.
Point being; Even if someone isn’t a character from a JAPANESE anime, doesn’t mean they could’ve just dressed in a simple costume to have a good time. No need for violence people.
So let me start this story out with a bit of background.
I make mascot suits and fursuits as a hobby, and oftentimes will go to a local anime convention to host panels on construction of these costumes and just to hang around the people. My best friend and roommate likes to go with me, since he is a larger fan of Japanese pop culture than I am.
Now, my roommate is autistic. Fairly high functioning; he can hold his own in a conversation and knows how to communicate when he is upset. But he is incredibly sensitive to light, sound and touch, so much so that he wears sunglasses and earplugs at all times when we go to and hardly ever accepts hugs.
He loves it though. Absolutely loves it. And we take precautions every time we go to a con. I’m with him at all times, we get a hotel room at the con so he can escape if he needs to, and he wears a fairly large badge over his conbadge saying that he needs to be asked before he was touched.
This boy is like a brother to me. I’ve taken care of him since he was young, and I’m kind of protective of him.
Anyways, for his birthday, I surprised him with his very own partial fursuit, that was based on the character ‘Kovu’ from his favorite lion king movie. He was ecstatic and couldn’t wait to wear it at the next con we went to.
Now, I’m assuming most of you have never worn a fursuit before, but let me try and describe the experience. Your head is pretty much encased in foam. Vision is poor, you can’t hear much, and the use of your hands depends completely on the paws you’re wearing. It’s also really hot.
Despite all this, my roommate loved the outfit. He didn’t need to wear sunglasses or earplugs with it on, and he got to pretend to be a lion cub.
The next con we go to is a fairly small one in our area. He wore the suit, took a few pictures and even gave a little girl a hug. He was having a good time, and I was too.
However, I turned my back on him for a second to give someone my information and some chick comes out of nowhere and jumps on him, screaming “SORA-KUUUUUNNNN”
I myself have never played Kingdom Hearts, and only found out afterwards that at one point, the character turns into a lion that sort of vaguely resembles my roommate’s suit. An easy mistake to make, I guess, but I was surprised.
Anyways, I turn around to find this girl, maybe around the age of 15, in a black trench coat like thing and a red wig jumping on my roommate from behind with her hands around his neck. There is no way he could have seen this girl, and he was probably just as surprised by this girl as I was. But he panics.
He starts screaming, and I have to literally pull this girl off of him and pin my roommate into a corner. I get the fursuit head off, and am forced to pin a squalling, crying teenage boy to the ground for about a half hour, because I couldn’t get him up to the hotel room in time. During this time, the girl keeps hanging around, yelling at me for ‘hurting Sora-kun’.
When I get my roommate calmed down enough to let him go, A con staff comes up to me with the head for the costume. Apparently, the girl decided it was okay to ‘borrow’ the head of his costume. I’m just glad one of the con staff noticed it in time. She got banned from the con for try to steal the head.
I haven’t seen her again and neither has my roommate. He’s still nervous about wearing the costume in public now, which is really sad since I know he loved it.While this is also a weeb story, it’s also a warning to con attendees. PLEASE don’t jump on people, especially from behind; it can have bad effects