KATSUCON 2007!!11
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tenel_kaHUZZAH. THE KATSUCON REPORT OF 2007.
INCLUDES!: PICTURES! Bazillion foot tall boots! Jason in eyeliner! TeamTaco Takeo! Jet Set Radio costumes! Alter-ego half and half outfits! Awesome dance/rave shots! Bossy bitches and classy crackers! Who knows, your mom might even make an appearance! XD
STARRING ROOM743 751 Housekeeping? 739!
ERIN: "JUST BECAUSE I'M HOT~"
JAKE: "I'M FINE. I'M OKAY. I AM NOT DRUNK."
HEATHER: Effing shooooorrrt.
JASON: He is called, "Kodiak"~
RONNIE: Mister Bossy~ <3
BRANDON: Mister Classy~ <3
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
TEAM TAKEO: Josh, Damon & Jason -- oh, snap.
BETH: "IT'S CALLED LIVEJOURNAL."
DAVID: I am so jealous of these costume skills, srsly.
FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16th, 2007: I get home from work early, around 12 noon, and proceed to sew a Whole Damn Pair of booty shorts with swimsuit fabric (ANNOYING SDJKLJD) for my Rapid 99 costume. They pissed me off really hard and turned out super ghetto -- but I wasn't about to go to the con without them. After that, I finished packing and Jason got home around 3. He packed and Mom took us to the Metro station, where we hopped a ride to the Metro Center, switched from the blue line to the red and went to the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan stop. Jason got to the ride the Longest Escalator Ever (Well, not ever since the Wheaton stop's is longer, BUT STILL XD) and it was his second time riding the Metro (first being the day we went to the Natural History Museum).
(P.S. Metro! Give us our SILVER LINE, PLZZZ~ <3333)
We arrived at our stop and called Erin and Ronnie to ask where TF we were supposed to go. A few minutes later, Ronnie comes careening around the corner in the below freezing weather in a short-sleeved shirt and a scarf, "OMG COME ON YOU GUYS~" XD So we follow him around this little group of buildings to one of the other streets and that's when the hotel came into view and DAMN. It was hot. This hotel was just all kinds of wow. The Omni-Shoreham of many omg yays. I just want to put it out there that as much as I loved the Hyatt Crystal City to death for this con, this hotel, I believe, has trumped it. (THE BAR~ <3333) Anyways, hotel = love. Moving on.
Once we got inside, we found Erin and went to our room. Where we met Jake and chatted with him and Beth and then Team Takeo came up and it was all jolly good fun until we found out the registration line was a madhouse. So Jason and I meandered down there, with Erin leading the way and we stood in it for awhile. Ronnie and Erin came to check on us after a bit and we asked if they could go get a sammich for us. They were awesome enough to do so, so we gave them money and they ran off to the shop and came back and stood with us for a bit while we ate and waited some more. Finally, we got our badges and scribbled our names on them (Tenna and Jacen, hurrrr) -- then we went back to the room.
Now, Erin and Ronnie had bought drinky things the night before, so in the room there was passion fruit rum (Ronnie), coconut rum (Erin), tequila (Ronnie) and Bailey's (Erin). And it's hmmm, possibly about 6pm?
Erin mentions putting eyeliner on Jake and Jake is like, "Okay, but I have to drink because there is no way I'm going out like that in public."
Me and Erin and Ronnie: "...... have you seen the people downstairs?"
So Erin puts eyeliner on Jake and also puts a sporting pair of green goggles on his head. He actually looks pretty awesome. So we try to con Jason into doing it too. After lots of conning, and after Jason realizes he can start drinking too, Erin gets to put eyeliner on him as well. Ronnie accessorizes him with Erin's hat and then I am forced to try Pepsi and passion fruit rum. It was pretty good. There was other random drinking done by Ronnie and Beth and Jake and Jason but I don't remember what and how much. I know Beth and Ronnie didn't have too much, but Jason and Jake on the other hand. Hmmmm... XD
What I love about this shot of Jake, is that Erin is so tall in her massive white boots that I could not get both of them in the frame without turning the camera. Hence the reason Erin's head is cut off. XD
Now it's time for us to go downstairs and watch the Pirate vs. Ninja Dance-off, by Team Takeo. Erin is a judge for the pirates so we told her we would support her at the Dance-off. We watched for a bit, while Team Takeo Jason (known from here on out as TT-Jason!) DJed and Damon MCed and Josh refereeeeeed. Then Ronnie wandered off, came back and asked Jake and Jason if they wanted to go to the bar. Of course they said yes -- especially Jake who had brought a drink down to the dance with him. XD The three of them left and I helped out with new participants who had to sign up while Erin was judging. I also talked with TT-Jason and Damon and Josh about the dance-off, costumes and cheesy things in general.
Josh with TT-Jason in the background DJing.
Damon~! "GET OVER HERE~"
Then! "WHERE IS YOUR MANBOY?" TT-Jason asked.
"He and Ronnie and Jake went to the bar."
"UH-OH~!" TT-Jason cackles and goes back to DJing.
Somewhere in all of this, I saw an absolutely darling pair of Organization XIII dears and I went over to ask for a picture (Demyx's sitar was INSANE <3) -- as we rounded the corner into the photo area, two of their friends were fixing their costumes and one made the comment, "SORRY YOU CAUGHT US IN THE MIDDLE OF GETTING DRESSED~" to which all five of us made some kind of comment about "ORGY." We all cackled madly, loving the fact that pretty much 95% of ORGXIII fans share this "THEY TOTALLY HAVE ORGY-FUN ALL THE TIME~" bond. I love. <3
Meanwhile, at the long staircase beside the dance-off area, Beth is doing a photoshoot in her fire priestess outfit, so once she comes down with the photographer and they start taking more pictures, I fumble to get my camera out, acting like, "OMG I LUV U I TOTALLY NEED PIX OF U~!!!11" And she started laughing, so the guy probably got a shot of her looking silly and that's totally my bad.
HERE IS THE PICTURE I SNAPPED OMG.
So after awhile, I'm sitting up on the ledge behind TT-Jason and all of the sudden Jason throws his arms around me and is like, "OMG JAKE IS SO DRUNK~!" I'm like wtf. And I turn around and Ronnie is looking and acting exactly the same as before, Jason is being a tad louder and more talkative than normal and Jake is swerving as he's walking. Erin and I kind of look at each other like, "HAHA OMGWTFBBQ." And the whole time we're standing there for the rest of the dance-off, Jake is like, "I'M OKAY. I'M GOOD. I'M STRAIGHT. I'M FINE." He is basically falling asleep standing up.
Erin laughing at Jake, who in the second picture of him this recap, HE IS DRINKING. XD
The eyeliner makes me squee. Too bad I am the one who looks like I've been drinking. MUAH~
I love this picture of Ronnie. <333
At one point, Jason was standing behind TT-Jason at the DJ table at one point and TT-Jason kind of waved his hand in a back off manner -- which he was doing to annoying bitches who would hover the whole night -- but when he turned around and realized it was Jason, he was like, "OMG IT'S YOU, I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS YOU! YOU CAN HOVER ALL YOU WANT, C'MERE." It was one of those silly little con moments that stand out for some reason. O_O There's always a lot of those when I go to cons.
The PvN dance-off ended (pirates won the first night XD) and we began to wander aimlessly. Ronnie told us that Brandon was coming that night! Now, Erin had met him once and Jake and Jason and I had never met him before, but we had always heard about him. Now, I don't even know how to begin to describe Brandon so I will just sum him up in one word, awesome. We went back up to the room and he arrived -- we were all properly introduced and he gave Erin and I boxes of Godiva chocolate, since he works at the Godiva shop. We professed our love to him and while he and Ronnie went down to get him a badge, Jake, Jason, Erin and I went to go see Team Takeo at their room.
We chatted with them about future costumes and cosplay.com and crap like that, then told them we'd see them at the dance and shoved off to head down there. We got down there and saw them again and we got in line for the dance right behind them. So we yapped and so on. Josh was in his Spiderman outfit, so all the bitches were hitting on him. There was this one totally blatent girl who looked like a 14-year-old hocake -- she was like, "HI." [ pause and giggle and whisper to her friend ] "ARE YOU SINGLE?" .... ARE YOU SERIOUS? wtf. The best was when Erin was like, "Josh, maybe you should start wearing your ring on the outside of your outfit."
We got into the dance and even Jason was dancing (!!!!) and I got some cool pictures.
After a bit, Erin, Jason and I brought still wobbly Jake back up to the room and Jason and I went to sleep while Erin went back to the dance with Ronnie and Brandon. And there goes day one!
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 17th, 2007:
I woke up at about 8:40 am and couldn't go back to sleep. Which we all kind of did. Brandon and Ronnie had slept on the floor and were already ready to face the day by the time I dragged my ass out of bed (HOW DO YOU GET UP SO EARLY RONNIE WTF). Erin put her Mew (Jet Set Radio) costume on and Jake and Jason went to go get breakfast at the McDonald's down the street. I put on my Mary/Maria costume and couldn't get the wig on my damn head cause I had no wig cap -- I could only find the blue one I had for Zexion, which I did not bring, since the wig was blonde and not blue. Ronnie and Brandon said they were going to head to the dealer room -- and they would check if they had wig caps. Once they got down there, they called back and said there were wig caps, so Erin and I went down there, me in my Mary/Maria costume sans wig. XD
Once we got down there, she led me back to the Cosworx booth and on the way I saw the Voodoo Baby booth, which I instantly squealed at. I bought a Dracula Voodoo Baby for mom and an Albert Einstein one for Dad. It was his birthday last Friday and he always says not to get him shit, but that was too good to pass up. So after that I bought a wig cap and we went back to the room, where I finally put my damn wig on -- with Erin's help. And of course, it still looked funny cause I have Too Much Damn Hair. I'm sure if we spent more time and used more bobby pins it would've turned out better, but whatever. XD I need to make/fix a better wig anyways.
Jason and Jake stayed in the room and watched tv/played Warcraft/slept while Erin and I meandered downstairs. When we got to the lobby, a guy started talking to her about how he didn't have his Garam (Jet Set Radio) costume with him the one time there was going to be a bunch of JSR cosplayers there. And then a girl approached me about my Mary/Maria costume and we gushed over Silent Hill a little bit and I loved her to death.
After that, Erin and I wandered and went to one of the little photo areas to take pictures. We ended up wandering to the area where the PvN dance-off was, and we took some more.
MEW~!
It took her forever to walk down the stairs in those things. XD
I love the crazy colors in this shot.
WHO R WHO, HUH UH.
Duh duh. Emo and ho, all together as one! James is so lucky!
Here is me fixing the tissue in my shoe, since it was a little too big. Erin took a picture for some reason while I was doing this and it was so stupid, I had to share. XD
Emo lighting one!
Emo lighting two! We learned something in photo class! I swear~!
This was the point where we realized we take horrible costume shots and decided we need to take good ones at some point -- here was Erin's impression of what our costume shots usually end up looking like. I love this picture.
LOVE. XD
So we took some okay ones and then wandered some more, since that's our favorite thing to do at cons is wander. Erin decided she was hungry, so we went upstairs to our favorite sammich shop -- after I get money from the ATM to pay her for the room. XD
Then we're walking in the sammich shop and I hear, "MARIA~!" So I turn around and there is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
trav and when I turn around and he sees the whole costume, he's like :O! It was funny. We talked for a minute or two, he snapped a picture, then went upstairs to change into his P-head costume!
Erin and I sat in the hall while she ate her food and once she was done, we bounded to the lobby to find P-head and lo and behold, there he was! I rushed over there totally wanting to glompPH trav, which probably wouldn't have been a smart thing to do, so I waved to let him know I was there and then he went into his bag to get his camera -- I wish I had gotten a picture of that. It was awesome. HERE'S PYRAMID HEAD, DIGGING IN HIS BAG! HE HAS VALENTINE'S FOR YOU~! I told him I would give him the pictures I got, and Erin snapped some shots of us being silly.
During this whole thing, some chick was like, "OMG CAN I GET A PICTURE OF HIM GET OUT OF THE WAY LEOPARD PRINT GIRL~" while him and I were standing there getting pictures taken together and I just looked at her and was like, "HOLD ON." I refrained from adding any sort of name to the back of that.
Bitch, if you don't know where Pyramid Head originally came from and who Maria is, you can suck it, you Silent Hill virgin. Only seeing the movie doesn't count. [/rant]
But then much to my happy, there was an adorable Xigbar, who was like, "HEY MARIIAAAAA~ CAN I GET A PICTURE PLZ." And we giggled and he took a picture and he was so damn cute.
Sotrav and I got to snap a couple shots together and I promised him I would fork 'em over -- SO HERE THEY ARE. XD
It was too bad Jason was up in the room cause if we had James down there too, it would've been classic. Erin and I went back up to the room so I could change into Rapid 99, since the photoshoot was at 4. When we got to the room, Jason and I got some shots in the hotel room hallway, which was the perfect setting. We were debating on going down to the third floor and finding room 312, but we held back from being total nerds -- as much as it hurt. XD AND HERE ARE SOME:
Eeeee! James! Let's go to Silent Hill! *coughhackcoughdie*
Liek hay Jamez, meet you at Heaven's Night in five. Y/N?
I... I have no fucking idea where this shit came from. AT ALL. XD
After that, I changed and Erin helped me with my hair once more. It sucked cause I wanted to wash my hair so I could make it all puffy and crazy for the pigtails, but I didn't have time, so it was all flat and nasty looking after being in that damn wig all day. So I definitely need to do this costume again -- or at least take better pictures. XD Jason's hair wouldn't come out right for Clutch, with the amount of time we had to get ready, so he just went with it down -- which again means we'll have to take better pictures of these costumes one day. Possibly with actual 'blades. XD Here are some shots of the costume and the Jet Grind/Set Radio group.
EMO WALL SHOT OF DOOM. All the cool kids do this shot. XP
OMG MORE THAN TWO JSRF COSPLAYERS AT A TIME, THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END. Heee!
So after that, the shorts were bugging the ever-loving hell out of me and I went and changed. I took a shower and washed my hair and changed into normal clothes (FINALLY, NORMAL SHOES <333) -- and I threw on my Rapid 99 jacket and Ronnie and Brandon and Jason and I went to the dealer's room again. Ronnie had showed us a shirt he got from Min-Win earlier -- he had made them and was selling them. Ronnie had gotten the King of Spades. They were hot and Jason and I wanted to each get one. So we found the booth again and I got the Queen of Hearts and Jason got the King of Clubs. Min-Win was like, "OMG," to Ronnie, "DID YOU BRING THEM BACK HERE?" And Ronnie said yeah -- and Min-Win was so happy he gave Ronnie a hug, then he gave us a hug and them he was like, "YOU TOO~" and gave Brandon a hug too. It was so cute. XD Back up to the room!
BUT FIRST~ A FABULOUS PICTURE OF BRANDON AND RONNIE. XD
Jake wasn't feeling too hot, so he kind of napped in the room and we figured it was food time! We told Jake we'd bring him something back and wandered over to the cute little diner place across the street. It was pretty damn nice and the food was good. We brought Jake back a grilled chicken caesar salad -- we figured he couldn't eat anything too hefty with the way he was feeling. A few minutes after this -- it was BAR TIME!!11
Down to the bar/lounge we go! We saw Josh outside the bar, in the lobby, waiting for a pizza to be delivered so we talked to him for a bit and then went into the bar for the Worst Service in the World. We waited for a server for at least 15 minutes. Ronnie had gone up to the bar to ask after about ten and the guy was like, "Oh! You can go sit down! You guys have table service." So he came back and we sat and waited. Finally, a waitress comes over and a couple of us order drinks. I got a Cape Cod. Mmmm. Cape Cod. There were also little bowls of this trail mix with wasabi peas in them. I was eating around the peas and drinking and we were all talking about dumb crap and laughing and blah blah blah. If I got into everything that happened at the bar, this recap would be ten times longer than it already is. XD But it was a very funny time -- and getting/paying the checks took FOREVER. It's like we didn't exist or something. If I recall correctly, she got no tip from any of us because of it. :P
Taken in the bar when we were waiting for our damn checks.
After we got out of there, we saw Beth and David in their Earth Priestess/Ice Priestess costumes, respectively. And we talked to them for a bit. I got a hot picture of them with Erin where she is acting emo and then the most incredible shot ever -- which was totally random, David hanging on Brandon's leg. It was amazing. MUAH~
We then went down to the PvN dance-off area, where the second night's competition had just ended (the ninjas won this time, yay ninjas! too bad it was just a bunch of narutards. I guess they're ninjas, if they have to be :p) -- and TT-Jason was still DJing, so of course, Ronnie and Brandon start dancing in the open empty area. Cause there's room, and music. XD We admired the DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE tape, instantly singing the Electric Six song and then stood around for a bit. I shot a picture of Damon in his Combo costume too~! ( He missed the JSR photoshoot :( )
DANGAH, DANGAH, HIGH VOLTAGE. WHEN WE TOUCH, WHEN WE KISS~ [/sings]
HEEE! COMBO~ <3
The boys posing, AGAIN. <3
Then while Jake, Erin, Ronnie and Brandon helped them take all their equipment down, Jason and I went upstairs to change for the dance. We put on our shirts and once everyone got back and we all went downstairs to the dance. We got into the dance and Jason and I realized we were tired and 'meh feeeeeet wtf' so we went back up to the room and went to sleep. Of course, Jason watched Rome first since it was on TV and I played my DS (ROOOOOCKET SLIIIIIME~~~) for a bit. XD
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 18th, 2007: Not much happened this day. XD I got another Voodoo Baby, one for myself. He was called Frankieheart and I love him. Then we all piled in the car and went to Silver Diner, ate brunch and went home to naaaaaaaaap. <33
AND THAT IS THAT. XD
Now to start planning for Dragon*Con. There's been talk of Batman villains with Team Takeo, and we're still totally doing Men in Tights. And of course, Jason and I are gonna have to do a Jacen & Tenel Ka costume. (Hot little Allana-matching jumpsuit number from Tempest? Back to the NJO Strike Team bloodied outfit? NO IDEA YET. XD)
HI I AM KIND OF TIRED. D:
INCLUDES!: PICTURES! Bazillion foot tall boots! Jason in eyeliner! Team
STARRING ROOM
ERIN: "JUST BECAUSE I'M HOT~" JAKE: "I'M FINE. I'M OKAY. I AM NOT DRUNK." HEATHER: Effing shooooorrrt. JASON: He is called, "Kodiak"~ RONNIE: Mister Bossy~ <3 BRANDON: Mister Classy~ <3WITH SPECIAL GUESTS:
TEAM TAKEO: Josh, Damon & Jason -- oh, snap. BETH: "IT'S CALLED LIVEJOURNAL." DAVID: I am so jealous of these costume skills, srsly.FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16th, 2007: I get home from work early, around 12 noon, and proceed to sew a Whole Damn Pair of booty shorts with swimsuit fabric (ANNOYING SDJKLJD) for my Rapid 99 costume. They pissed me off really hard and turned out super ghetto -- but I wasn't about to go to the con without them. After that, I finished packing and Jason got home around 3. He packed and Mom took us to the Metro station, where we hopped a ride to the Metro Center, switched from the blue line to the red and went to the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan stop. Jason got to the ride the Longest Escalator Ever (Well, not ever since the Wheaton stop's is longer, BUT STILL XD) and it was his second time riding the Metro (first being the day we went to the Natural History Museum).
(P.S. Metro! Give us our SILVER LINE, PLZZZ~ <3333)
We arrived at our stop and called Erin and Ronnie to ask where TF we were supposed to go. A few minutes later, Ronnie comes careening around the corner in the below freezing weather in a short-sleeved shirt and a scarf, "OMG COME ON YOU GUYS~" XD So we follow him around this little group of buildings to one of the other streets and that's when the hotel came into view and DAMN. It was hot. This hotel was just all kinds of wow. The Omni-Shoreham of many omg yays. I just want to put it out there that as much as I loved the Hyatt Crystal City to death for this con, this hotel, I believe, has trumped it. (THE BAR~ <3333) Anyways, hotel = love. Moving on.
Once we got inside, we found Erin and went to our room. Where we met Jake and chatted with him and Beth and then Team Takeo came up and it was all jolly good fun until we found out the registration line was a madhouse. So Jason and I meandered down there, with Erin leading the way and we stood in it for awhile. Ronnie and Erin came to check on us after a bit and we asked if they could go get a sammich for us. They were awesome enough to do so, so we gave them money and they ran off to the shop and came back and stood with us for a bit while we ate and waited some more. Finally, we got our badges and scribbled our names on them (Tenna and Jacen, hurrrr) -- then we went back to the room.
Now, Erin and Ronnie had bought drinky things the night before, so in the room there was passion fruit rum (Ronnie), coconut rum (Erin), tequila (Ronnie) and Bailey's (Erin). And it's hmmm, possibly about 6pm?
Erin mentions putting eyeliner on Jake and Jake is like, "Okay, but I have to drink because there is no way I'm going out like that in public."
Me and Erin and Ronnie: "...... have you seen the people downstairs?"
So Erin puts eyeliner on Jake and also puts a sporting pair of green goggles on his head. He actually looks pretty awesome. So we try to con Jason into doing it too. After lots of conning, and after Jason realizes he can start drinking too, Erin gets to put eyeliner on him as well. Ronnie accessorizes him with Erin's hat and then I am forced to try Pepsi and passion fruit rum. It was pretty good. There was other random drinking done by Ronnie and Beth and Jake and Jason but I don't remember what and how much. I know Beth and Ronnie didn't have too much, but Jason and Jake on the other hand. Hmmmm... XD
What I love about this shot of Jake, is that Erin is so tall in her massive white boots that I could not get both of them in the frame without turning the camera. Hence the reason Erin's head is cut off. XD
Now it's time for us to go downstairs and watch the Pirate vs. Ninja Dance-off, by Team Takeo. Erin is a judge for the pirates so we told her we would support her at the Dance-off. We watched for a bit, while Team Takeo Jason (known from here on out as TT-Jason!) DJed and Damon MCed and Josh refereeeeeed. Then Ronnie wandered off, came back and asked Jake and Jason if they wanted to go to the bar. Of course they said yes -- especially Jake who had brought a drink down to the dance with him. XD The three of them left and I helped out with new participants who had to sign up while Erin was judging. I also talked with TT-Jason and Damon and Josh about the dance-off, costumes and cheesy things in general.
Josh with TT-Jason in the background DJing.
Damon~! "GET OVER HERE~"
Then! "WHERE IS YOUR MANBOY?" TT-Jason asked.
"He and Ronnie and Jake went to the bar."
"UH-OH~!" TT-Jason cackles and goes back to DJing.
Somewhere in all of this, I saw an absolutely darling pair of Organization XIII dears and I went over to ask for a picture (Demyx's sitar was INSANE <3) -- as we rounded the corner into the photo area, two of their friends were fixing their costumes and one made the comment, "SORRY YOU CAUGHT US IN THE MIDDLE OF GETTING DRESSED~" to which all five of us made some kind of comment about "ORGY." We all cackled madly, loving the fact that pretty much 95% of ORGXIII fans share this "THEY TOTALLY HAVE ORGY-FUN ALL THE TIME~" bond. I love. <3
Meanwhile, at the long staircase beside the dance-off area, Beth is doing a photoshoot in her fire priestess outfit, so once she comes down with the photographer and they start taking more pictures, I fumble to get my camera out, acting like, "OMG I LUV U I TOTALLY NEED PIX OF U~!!!11" And she started laughing, so the guy probably got a shot of her looking silly and that's totally my bad.
HERE IS THE PICTURE I SNAPPED OMG.
So after awhile, I'm sitting up on the ledge behind TT-Jason and all of the sudden Jason throws his arms around me and is like, "OMG JAKE IS SO DRUNK~!" I'm like wtf. And I turn around and Ronnie is looking and acting exactly the same as before, Jason is being a tad louder and more talkative than normal and Jake is swerving as he's walking. Erin and I kind of look at each other like, "HAHA OMGWTFBBQ." And the whole time we're standing there for the rest of the dance-off, Jake is like, "I'M OKAY. I'M GOOD. I'M STRAIGHT. I'M FINE." He is basically falling asleep standing up.
Erin laughing at Jake, who in the second picture of him this recap, HE IS DRINKING. XD
The eyeliner makes me squee. Too bad I am the one who looks like I've been drinking. MUAH~
I love this picture of Ronnie. <333
At one point, Jason was standing behind TT-Jason at the DJ table at one point and TT-Jason kind of waved his hand in a back off manner -- which he was doing to annoying bitches who would hover the whole night -- but when he turned around and realized it was Jason, he was like, "OMG IT'S YOU, I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS YOU! YOU CAN HOVER ALL YOU WANT, C'MERE." It was one of those silly little con moments that stand out for some reason. O_O There's always a lot of those when I go to cons.
The PvN dance-off ended (pirates won the first night XD) and we began to wander aimlessly. Ronnie told us that Brandon was coming that night! Now, Erin had met him once and Jake and Jason and I had never met him before, but we had always heard about him. Now, I don't even know how to begin to describe Brandon so I will just sum him up in one word, awesome. We went back up to the room and he arrived -- we were all properly introduced and he gave Erin and I boxes of Godiva chocolate, since he works at the Godiva shop. We professed our love to him and while he and Ronnie went down to get him a badge, Jake, Jason, Erin and I went to go see Team Takeo at their room.
We chatted with them about future costumes and cosplay.com and crap like that, then told them we'd see them at the dance and shoved off to head down there. We got down there and saw them again and we got in line for the dance right behind them. So we yapped and so on. Josh was in his Spiderman outfit, so all the bitches were hitting on him. There was this one totally blatent girl who looked like a 14-year-old hocake -- she was like, "HI." [ pause and giggle and whisper to her friend ] "ARE YOU SINGLE?" .... ARE YOU SERIOUS? wtf. The best was when Erin was like, "Josh, maybe you should start wearing your ring on the outside of your outfit."
We got into the dance and even Jason was dancing (!!!!) and I got some cool pictures.
After a bit, Erin, Jason and I brought still wobbly Jake back up to the room and Jason and I went to sleep while Erin went back to the dance with Ronnie and Brandon. And there goes day one!
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 17th, 2007:
I woke up at about 8:40 am and couldn't go back to sleep. Which we all kind of did. Brandon and Ronnie had slept on the floor and were already ready to face the day by the time I dragged my ass out of bed (HOW DO YOU GET UP SO EARLY RONNIE WTF). Erin put her Mew (Jet Set Radio) costume on and Jake and Jason went to go get breakfast at the McDonald's down the street. I put on my Mary/Maria costume and couldn't get the wig on my damn head cause I had no wig cap -- I could only find the blue one I had for Zexion, which I did not bring, since the wig was blonde and not blue. Ronnie and Brandon said they were going to head to the dealer room -- and they would check if they had wig caps. Once they got down there, they called back and said there were wig caps, so Erin and I went down there, me in my Mary/Maria costume sans wig. XD
Once we got down there, she led me back to the Cosworx booth and on the way I saw the Voodoo Baby booth, which I instantly squealed at. I bought a Dracula Voodoo Baby for mom and an Albert Einstein one for Dad. It was his birthday last Friday and he always says not to get him shit, but that was too good to pass up. So after that I bought a wig cap and we went back to the room, where I finally put my damn wig on -- with Erin's help. And of course, it still looked funny cause I have Too Much Damn Hair. I'm sure if we spent more time and used more bobby pins it would've turned out better, but whatever. XD I need to make/fix a better wig anyways.
Jason and Jake stayed in the room and watched tv/played Warcraft/slept while Erin and I meandered downstairs. When we got to the lobby, a guy started talking to her about how he didn't have his Garam (Jet Set Radio) costume with him the one time there was going to be a bunch of JSR cosplayers there. And then a girl approached me about my Mary/Maria costume and we gushed over Silent Hill a little bit and I loved her to death.
After that, Erin and I wandered and went to one of the little photo areas to take pictures. We ended up wandering to the area where the PvN dance-off was, and we took some more.
MEW~!
It took her forever to walk down the stairs in those things. XD
I love the crazy colors in this shot.
WHO R WHO, HUH UH.
Duh duh. Emo and ho, all together as one! James is so lucky!
Here is me fixing the tissue in my shoe, since it was a little too big. Erin took a picture for some reason while I was doing this and it was so stupid, I had to share. XD
Emo lighting one!
Emo lighting two! We learned something in photo class! I swear~!
This was the point where we realized we take horrible costume shots and decided we need to take good ones at some point -- here was Erin's impression of what our costume shots usually end up looking like. I love this picture.
LOVE. XD
So we took some okay ones and then wandered some more, since that's our favorite thing to do at cons is wander. Erin decided she was hungry, so we went upstairs to our favorite sammich shop -- after I get money from the ATM to pay her for the room. XD
Then we're walking in the sammich shop and I hear, "MARIA~!" So I turn around and there is
trav and when I turn around and he sees the whole costume, he's like :O! It was funny. We talked for a minute or two, he snapped a picture, then went upstairs to change into his P-head costume!Erin and I sat in the hall while she ate her food and once she was done, we bounded to the lobby to find P-head and lo and behold, there he was! I rushed over there totally wanting to glomp
trav, which probably wouldn't have been a smart thing to do, so I waved to let him know I was there and then he went into his bag to get his camera -- I wish I had gotten a picture of that. It was awesome. HERE'S PYRAMID HEAD, DIGGING IN HIS BAG! HE HAS VALENTINE'S FOR YOU~! I told him I would give him the pictures I got, and Erin snapped some shots of us being silly. During this whole thing, some chick was like, "OMG CAN I GET A PICTURE OF HIM GET OUT OF THE WAY LEOPARD PRINT GIRL~" while him and I were standing there getting pictures taken together and I just looked at her and was like, "HOLD ON." I refrained from adding any sort of name to the back of that.
Bitch, if you don't know where Pyramid Head originally came from and who Maria is, you can suck it, you Silent Hill virgin. Only seeing the movie doesn't count. [/rant]
But then much to my happy, there was an adorable Xigbar, who was like, "HEY MARIIAAAAA~ CAN I GET A PICTURE PLZ." And we giggled and he took a picture and he was so damn cute.
So
trav and I got to snap a couple shots together and I promised him I would fork 'em over -- SO HERE THEY ARE. XD It was too bad Jason was up in the room cause if we had James down there too, it would've been classic. Erin and I went back up to the room so I could change into Rapid 99, since the photoshoot was at 4. When we got to the room, Jason and I got some shots in the hotel room hallway, which was the perfect setting. We were debating on going down to the third floor and finding room 312, but we held back from being total nerds -- as much as it hurt. XD AND HERE ARE SOME:
Eeeee! James! Let's go to Silent Hill! *coughhackcoughdie*
Liek hay Jamez, meet you at Heaven's Night in five. Y/N?
I... I have no fucking idea where this shit came from. AT ALL. XD
After that, I changed and Erin helped me with my hair once more. It sucked cause I wanted to wash my hair so I could make it all puffy and crazy for the pigtails, but I didn't have time, so it was all flat and nasty looking after being in that damn wig all day. So I definitely need to do this costume again -- or at least take better pictures. XD Jason's hair wouldn't come out right for Clutch, with the amount of time we had to get ready, so he just went with it down -- which again means we'll have to take better pictures of these costumes one day. Possibly with actual 'blades. XD Here are some shots of the costume and the Jet Grind/Set Radio group.
EMO WALL SHOT OF DOOM. All the cool kids do this shot. XP
OMG MORE THAN TWO JSRF COSPLAYERS AT A TIME, THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END. Heee!
So after that, the shorts were bugging the ever-loving hell out of me and I went and changed. I took a shower and washed my hair and changed into normal clothes (FINALLY, NORMAL SHOES <333) -- and I threw on my Rapid 99 jacket and Ronnie and Brandon and Jason and I went to the dealer's room again. Ronnie had showed us a shirt he got from Min-Win earlier -- he had made them and was selling them. Ronnie had gotten the King of Spades. They were hot and Jason and I wanted to each get one. So we found the booth again and I got the Queen of Hearts and Jason got the King of Clubs. Min-Win was like, "OMG," to Ronnie, "DID YOU BRING THEM BACK HERE?" And Ronnie said yeah -- and Min-Win was so happy he gave Ronnie a hug, then he gave us a hug and them he was like, "YOU TOO~" and gave Brandon a hug too. It was so cute. XD Back up to the room!
BUT FIRST~ A FABULOUS PICTURE OF BRANDON AND RONNIE. XD
Jake wasn't feeling too hot, so he kind of napped in the room and we figured it was food time! We told Jake we'd bring him something back and wandered over to the cute little diner place across the street. It was pretty damn nice and the food was good. We brought Jake back a grilled chicken caesar salad -- we figured he couldn't eat anything too hefty with the way he was feeling. A few minutes after this -- it was BAR TIME!!11
Down to the bar/lounge we go! We saw Josh outside the bar, in the lobby, waiting for a pizza to be delivered so we talked to him for a bit and then went into the bar for the Worst Service in the World. We waited for a server for at least 15 minutes. Ronnie had gone up to the bar to ask after about ten and the guy was like, "Oh! You can go sit down! You guys have table service." So he came back and we sat and waited. Finally, a waitress comes over and a couple of us order drinks. I got a Cape Cod. Mmmm. Cape Cod. There were also little bowls of this trail mix with wasabi peas in them. I was eating around the peas and drinking and we were all talking about dumb crap and laughing and blah blah blah. If I got into everything that happened at the bar, this recap would be ten times longer than it already is. XD But it was a very funny time -- and getting/paying the checks took FOREVER. It's like we didn't exist or something. If I recall correctly, she got no tip from any of us because of it. :P
Taken in the bar when we were waiting for our damn checks.
After we got out of there, we saw Beth and David in their Earth Priestess/Ice Priestess costumes, respectively. And we talked to them for a bit. I got a hot picture of them with Erin where she is acting emo and then the most incredible shot ever -- which was totally random, David hanging on Brandon's leg. It was amazing. MUAH~
We then went down to the PvN dance-off area, where the second night's competition had just ended (the ninjas won this time, yay ninjas! too bad it was just a bunch of narutards. I guess they're ninjas, if they have to be :p) -- and TT-Jason was still DJing, so of course, Ronnie and Brandon start dancing in the open empty area. Cause there's room, and music. XD We admired the DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE tape, instantly singing the Electric Six song and then stood around for a bit. I shot a picture of Damon in his Combo costume too~! ( He missed the JSR photoshoot :( )
DANGAH, DANGAH, HIGH VOLTAGE. WHEN WE TOUCH, WHEN WE KISS~ [/sings]
HEEE! COMBO~ <3
The boys posing, AGAIN. <3
Then while Jake, Erin, Ronnie and Brandon helped them take all their equipment down, Jason and I went upstairs to change for the dance. We put on our shirts and once everyone got back and we all went downstairs to the dance. We got into the dance and Jason and I realized we were tired and 'meh feeeeeet wtf' so we went back up to the room and went to sleep. Of course, Jason watched Rome first since it was on TV and I played my DS (ROOOOOCKET SLIIIIIME~~~) for a bit. XD
SUNDAY. FEBRUARY 18th, 2007: Not much happened this day. XD I got another Voodoo Baby, one for myself. He was called Frankieheart and I love him. Then we all piled in the car and went to Silver Diner, ate brunch and went home to naaaaaaaaap. <33
AND THAT IS THAT. XD
Now to start planning for Dragon*Con. There's been talk of Batman villains with Team Takeo, and we're still totally doing Men in Tights. And of course, Jason and I are gonna have to do a Jacen & Tenel Ka costume. (Hot little Allana-matching jumpsuit number from Tempest? Back to the NJO Strike Team bloodied outfit? NO IDEA YET. XD)
HI I AM KIND OF TIRED. D:
