Sigh. So most things have stayed the same - thank god - but my lineup for Anime Boston has changed a bit as of a small argument my cosplay buddy and I had.
The argument was over our planned cosplay group for Saturday which is the day we spend at least 10 hours at the convention. We had originally planned to go as Clear and Usagi that day as we both really liked the cosplays and were really well received at Another Anime Convention last October.
But recently I have had some mixed feelings. Sure the cosplays are great and I do love how many compliments we received but I realized that 4/13, the great Homestuck holiday, is the week after Anime Boston. So of course I wanted to switch gears and do our Kurloz and Mituna cosplays on Saturday instead of Clear and Usagi. Kurloz and Mituna were just as well received as Clear and Usagi so I thought that it wouldn't be hard to change our original plan.
But I was wrong. It turns out that my cosplay buddy really didn't like their Mituna cosplay. They said that it just wasn't good enough. I kept trying to get them to change their mind about it but they wouldn't budge. It was starting to look like our group was going to have separate.
Finally we reached a compromise. I told them that I would help remake their Mituna cosplay so that they would feel better about it and reached a compromise about Saturday. From 8:00 AM-2:00 PM we would cosplay Clear and Usagi. Then we would go back to the hotel, and change into Kurloz and Mituna and then go back to the convention for another 5 hours. We found that this plan works really well (in theory) as we don't have to wake up at 6:00 AM to start painting ourselves gray. Instead we can wake up at a leisurely 7:00 AM and worry about the gray make-up later.
I can't wait for Anime Boston but we still have a lot of work to do before then!
-René
