Travel, cosplay and cons

[rallamajoop]

It occurs to me it's way past time I said something up here about my plans for the next month, given how crazy, epic and generally incompatible with a good eight hours sleep per night they're looking from this angle. The short version is that I am going to be leaving for a few days in Melbourne tomorrow, coming home then heading to Japan a week later, with the rollerskating national champs squeezed in the middle. Yeah, somehow all this seemed like a good idea. (I would blame this on a whole lot of wonderfully crazy friends who kept making awesome-sounding plans, and I'm bound to regret it somewhere in the middle, but hopefully not that much if it's half as much fun as it ought to be~)

Manifest (25-28 September)
I'm going to be at the ball on Thursday night and at the con on Friday and Saturday - missing Sunday as I have to rush home early because of that little skating comp I'm meant to be at. As usual for cons, my sister and I will be running a stall selling various odds and ends based on her artwork and some doujinshi produced by our manga club. We're going to be more limited on who we can ask to help us man the stall than at Waicon, so we're going to have to shut down during the cosplay comp and such, but (as of last discussion on the subject) she's hoping to have it open at least some of both days.

Japan (8-24 October)
The big event for us in Japan is the Tokyo Gameshow. No elaborate plans for this one, unless you consider cosplay elaborate by default. The stories I'm hearing about the queues for this thing are damn scary, but I am counting on this to be one awesome event to get to attend in person. You only have to take a quick look at how much new second-hand gaming info floods the web after the TGS every year to get an idea of how much there should be to see.

After the TGS, we've got a couple of weeks in Japan and plenty of plans on how to fill them, but most of them are bound to be far more interesting to share after the fact.

Cosplay plans (a.k.a. why I haven't been online so much lately):

Millia Rage (Guilty Gear) - For Manifest day 2 and TGS day 2
Minus a few touch ups, the main costume, gloves and boots are all done; wig still needs some styling (should be doing this tonight). The contacts I've got ordered may or may not arrive on time correction! They're down at the post office and I'll be able to pick them up this afternoon! But otherwise I'm really happy with how this one's turning out (excluding all that last minute wig stress >.>;)

Millia Rage (Ball dress version) - For the Manifest ball (and probably the Waicon ball+whatever else I can get away with wearing it to)
Shortly after I'd started translating the Night of Knives drama CDs (which I still haven't found time to clean up and post arrgghh ><) and had all these nifty mental images of Millia swanning around in a ball dress, velithya just had to go and ask me what my plans were for the Manifest ball. If that wasn't bad enough, then she had to offer to go with me as Sol if I pulled it off. By this point I was thoroughly sunk.

There's no official design for this one, of course, but in keeping with Millia-style it made sense to make it white with blue and black trim, and I managed to find a really nice dress pattern that was quite close to what I'd been imagining (high neck and open shoulders being the main features) to use as a good base. This is going to be a short-haired Millia costume, since her real (ie, non-kinju enhanced) hair actually isn't even shoulder length, and short wigs are a lot more comfortable to dance in and a hell of a lot less trouble to comb out afterwards.

Joshua (The World Ends With You) - TSG day 1
The easy one. Wig, shirt, jeans, shoes, orange phone (and a grey-painted nerf gun if I get time). Even easier since alyssea (<3<3) made or lent me most of the costume already. And it's damn nice to have a low stress costume for a change. Better yet, I get to take this one to Shibuya with the whole rest of the TWEWY cast! =D

So, between that and skating, I have a lot of time in costume and/or performing in front of judges ahead of me in the next few weeks. And a lot of time in front of cameras. My natural introvert tendencies are feeling so pastede-on right now. XD

Comments

[raging-tofu.livejournal.com]

swanning around in a ball dress... white with blue and black trim.... high neck and open shoulders being the main features... hair isn't even shoulder length...

Um... are you sure you're not talking about Ky? Y'know, maybe it's him during his transition phase before he came king (getting used to wearing dresses and growing out his hair...totally makes sense)

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Haha, since I'm going with a Sol cosplayer and we're both big slash fans, believe me when I say all possible jokes along those lines have already been made (and are bound to continue being made all through the evening). *g*

[raging-tofu.livejournal.com]

Hah XD
Well I hope you guys have a good time. =3

[velithya]

oh, we will ;)

[raging-tofu.livejournal.com]

get plenty of pictures! :O

also! friending you!

[velithya]

Definitely :3

(ps. you might be interested in the contents of this tag that contain pictures ;P Nothing posted of the finished costume yet, but the ball is tomorrow night so there will be lots of photos of me and Ky Millia up after that! :3)

I actually wrote a fic about Tony Stark being turned into a kitten, if you're, uh, interested *cough* It's the second fic on this post. ;3

[sansele.livejournal.com]

I have a spare cap pistol if you need a gun for Joshua. :3

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Oh? That might be useful, though since pinneagig's going as Sho, we were hoping to get two in the same design. Also preferably something that looks more like the ones from the game/not too realistic. Right now the plan is to buy a couple of these (http://www.phiredup.com/files/admin/nerf.jpg) and paint them grey.

Come to think of it, if you're cosplaying Uzuki, you should really have one too.

[http://users.livejournal.com/drayke_/]

The NERF Maverick is pretty easily accessible - I know you can get it from Toyworld in both Freo and Claremont, Target Freo and I think Mikey was saying that he used to get them from Myer in the city, but I don't think they stock them anymore..

If you're stuck, I can very easily get you a couple :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/drayke_/]

Wow, what an appropriate usericon for that post.. gg default

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Haha, very appropriate!

I'd heard you could get them from Toys R Us in the city, that was the first place I was going to try. Hopefully I won't wind up stuck, but thanks for the offer!

[http://users.livejournal.com/drayke_/]

pssssssssst, there is no Toys R Us in the city anymore!
It hasn't been there in a few years..

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Huh. Guess I haven't really had much reason to pay attention. Well, according to the Internet, there's still one in Cannington, or failing that there's always the Freo places you mentioned.

[sansele.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Mine is quite small (you can see it during Manifest), two for two dollars from IGA. XD

Uzuki has a gun? *cannot remember*

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Cool. What are your cosplay plans for Manifest, btw?

Yup. You only see her pull it out once or twice, but she's got one. There's character art with it here (http://www.spriters-resource.com/squenix/other/iaww/mugsmajor2.gif) if you're interested.

[sansele.livejournal.com]

Day 1
- Reborn (Katekyo Hitman Reborn!)
Day 2
- Ranka Lee - Default dress (Macross Frontier)
- Firi (Lamento)
Day 3
- Esther Blanchett - AX uniform (Trinity Blood)
Monday hopefully
- Nunnally Lamperouge - Mermaid dress (Code Geass R2)

Ahhh thank you! :3 *saves* That's so awesome!

[cielrose.livejournal.com]

Oh I have the orange phone at mine still! I will try to remember to give it to you before Japan but a poke wouldn't go astray! xD

I need a Joshua icon...

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Will do! But right now, that's on my considerable list of 'things that can be left until after Manifest'. ^^;

[velithya]

I am a bit AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH about re-styling my Sol wig :wibbles: Now that the gloves came out awesome I'm really worried about what I'll do if I can't get the spikes to stand up ^^;

MELBOURNE IS COLD PACK LONG SHIRTS

you're flying back saturday night as well? what time/what airline?

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Do you have a can of 'Black Death' hairspray and a hairdryer? I am just about in love with what you can do with that stuff. Can also offer to spam you with reference pics if it'll help.

NOTED.

Sunday morning, actually. Ten o'clock, so fairly civilised.

[velithya]

I have the black and red hairspray can, I'm not sure what it's called? Gchan has a hairdryer.

I'm not sure whether I should wash out the wig one spike at a time so I know where the spikes are meant to go, or just wash out the whole thing and hope I get them back in the right place. *worries*

:nods:

AND WINDY, I FORGOT WINDY.

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Ours is black and orange, and is called 'Silhouette', if that sounds right? There may be others like it though.

I'd guess you're probably better just washing it all out at once - one spike at a time sounds too fiddly to be worth the trouble. But of course I can't actually see the wig or anything so useful.

Have just checked the Melbourne weather report, sounds like it's getting warmer for the rest of the week, if that helps.

[velithya]

It's the skyscraper stuff that Min used to use, I think? Uh, idk, I don't think it's called Silhouette though.

Yeah, I was thinking it might be easier to just submerge and hope. If all else fails there are like 8 other cosplayers in the house who might be able to help me :/

It was mostly sunny today (but still windy) so hopefully that is the case! Or I am going to freeze with my bare arms! :O