I guess at least one person understands.
Anyway, there are two conventions that I am going to next year. There's Queen City Kamikaze (QCK) in March and Anime Boston (AB) in April. I have plenty of time to work on and change my cosplays but as of today here's my list:
QCK - fem!Cecil (Cecilia) from Welcome to Night Vale:
Now, I would put a picture here to show you what Cecil or Cecilia looks like but there's one problem with that. No one knows what Cecil actually looks like. I mean we know what his voice actor looks like but that's not Cecil. In fact the only description of Cecil we've gottn is that he is "not tall or short, not thin or fat." Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast so it's all audio and the writers really seem to like to leave a lot of stuff up to fan interpretation. So pretty much everyone has their own vision of what Cecil and all the other Night Vale characters look. Taking fan interpretation one step further, I decided that I want to cosplay Cecil's female version, Cecilia.
I am really excited for this one since I think I only need to buy a purple long sleeved button-up shirt and gray or back vest. I plan on wearing the shirt and vest with a black pencil skirt, galaxy print leggings, and purple converse. I decided that I will use my actual hair for Cecilia. I haven't seen any strawberry blond Cecil or Cecilia interpretations but I guess that just makes the costume more unique.
AB - Shima Renzou from Blue Exorcist:
Shima's probably one of my favorite characters from Blue Exorcist so I'm definitely excited. I already found a really nice wig for him but I still have to look around for his school uniform jacket and his headphones. His shirt, pants and shoes should't cause too much difficulty, but his staff on the other hand will. I'm not sure whether I should just give in and order the staff on ebay or try to make it. I have made something similar to it before but it was much smaller and way less elaborate. I need to think on him a lot more but I have plenty of time to do that.
AB - Trip from DMMD:
Or his younger self (the red head):
My cosplay buddy plans on cosplaying Virus (the one with the glasses) with me and neither of us are certain which version we want to cosplay. If we cosplay as older Trip and Virus, people will recognize us quickly and we won't get mistaken for other characters. But if we cosplay younger Trip and Virus, we won't have to spend as much on their costumes. It's a hard decision and I think we're probably leaning more towards the younger versions, but we still have time left to figure out what we're going to do.
Alternate - Asahi Azumane from Haikyuu!!
Asahi reminds me a lot of myself because we're both tall and scary-looking when we're really just small on the inside and are unsure of how to talk to people. I'm getting his uniform as a Christmas present so if it so happens that my cosplay buddy and I decide to drop a character from our list, Asahi will most definitely fill that spot. All I would need to buy is a knee pad and maybe some sneakers (mine are getting worn out anyway). I really like him and if I don't get to cosplay him at QCK or AB, I'll definitely cosplay him at next year's Another Anime Convention.
-Rene
