Ikasucon 2013 has passed and I've been able to showcase my Beelzemon cosplay,
winning a judge's award at the Ikasucon Masquerade. There were quite a few
mishaps at Ikasucon right before the pre-judging that caused me to break into
tears. Two of the fingertips to the gauntlets popped off then a shoulder piece
came off as well – on top of that I was sweating to beat hell from having to
book it down there from our hotel room only to find the judging was running a
little behind. MY SWEAT WAS IN VAIN! Some very kind cosplayers let Taka and me
go ahead of them so I could get out of my costume more quickly, but when we got
in there I began to cry even harder and told the judges about how poopy I felt
about everything. They were so nice and let me leave to get a new judging time
and come back later when everything was put back together and I was calm. After
about an hour of cooling off and fixing myself and my costume up, we scurried
back and I felt extremely better about it all – it felt even better to have won
something in the end through all my frustrations and tears!
the beginnings of the helmet - looks like a basket lol
just derping around with the tape while working on the helmet UoU
The Friday and Sunday of Ikasucon, I was Ion Fortuna from
Trinity Blood – the Iblis Desert outfit. I didn't use a wig, though I will if I
ever reprise it. I was originally not going to make Ion's outfit at all until I
found out there was a Seth Knightlord cosplayer going who was told that I would
be Ion. I didn't want to disappoint her and I'm so thankful I didn't because
she looked beautiful and we are now friends because of it.
I'm extremely proud of this costume as it's my first
Trinity Blood costume – I've been wanting to create different outfits from this
series for a long time and, despite wanting to tweak this outfit and add/fix
some small details, I can say I'm thoroughly pleased with myself! I've received
wonderful compliments as well which just inspires me to continue to work harder
and learn even more.
Cosplayer Nation was there and my friends and I were
stopped by them for photos a few times and Emily, my friend cosplaying Seth,
was even featured in a video! I happened to be there by chance when she was and
had some video time with her haha. Taka and I went to one of the Cosplayer
Nation panels right before the masquerade – we had wanted to give an interview
since it had been offered to the panel goers, but we ran out of time (~UoU)~
On the subject of panels, Taka and I hosted a jrock panel the Friday night with
what I feel was great success! A bit of mayhem happened – the presentation
malfunctioned a bit, her laptop died and we forgot her charger (a friend ran up
to the room to retrieve it), and we were set right next to a karaoke panel
where they were, for lack of anything nice to say, loud. Through all this, the
panel goers stayed with us, seemed to have fun and a few even befriended us! We
learned that we should definitely have an 18+ panel simply because language is
a hard thing to control – most people who go to a convention, no matter how
young, use “bad words” but it's still something you have to watch when you're
at a panel that isn't 18 and over. All in all, the panel inspired me to come up
with more ideas for different panels and that's something I'm surprising myself
with as it's not something I ever saw myself getting into.
There's so much more that went on, so many people that I've met and had a great time with. I'm more than excited for next year's Ikasucon even though it's so far away! At least there are upcoming events to keep my preoccupied lol
See Ya Later Space Cowboy
Hachi
