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Time for another con recap!
This last weekend was Persacon, which is the first convention that
and I ever attended together. It popped our con-cherry and introduced us to the bright and colorful sand distorted world of pocky and skirts that is conventions. We go every year in celebration of our convention anniversary; I think this was the 6th time? Something like that… Anyways, Persacon is a local convention here in Alabama and lots of our friends from here and out of state attend it.
This year was pretty similar to last year in that we were in loud, obnoxious, hung with friends, and nearly got thrown out of a few places because new were in cosplay, but this time we also had an art table to babysit.
I took Thursday off so we'd have plenty of time to get ready for the weekend. That meant sleeping in and then lots of cleaning xD;;…
and I rushed to get everything picked up and finished just around the time that
showed up with her friend,
. We'd never met
(we knew her through AWA the year before) so we weren't sure what to expect. The two got settled and it quickly became evident that he and I would get along.
That day also happened to be our friend Redd's bday, so we piled into the car and headed over to his mother-in-law's house where we met the rest of our buddies for card games, presents, Portal 2 (LOL SO FUNNY), and dinner x3 We got to watch Redd nearly piss himself when he got his Transformers book from Diana (his wife); it was the same book she wanted to get for him at the comic shop that had the Duel Terminal those few weeks back, but she wasn't able to afford it. I told her to hunt it down on Amazon and it looked like she must have found a good price because there the book was! I am glad Redd had a good bday—he deserves it!
The rest of the night, once we'd managed to get home by plowing through the severe thunderstorm, was spent getting everything ready for the convention. We crashed early so we'd have time to be up early for the con to grab a table.
Friday morning came and I threw on my Yugi outfit. We decided that
needed to wear Judai because he's fabulous and happy enough to do it properly, and boy he was just about perfect. He fit into my outfit just fine xD at least the jacket and wig.
wore her Yami Marik and
was Bakura. We finally got to the con around…9:30, I think; it had opened at 9.
Now, the last couple of years we'd had the con at a really nice hotel about 20 minutes from our house. This year the con was at a closer hotel but we had no idea what to expect. One word: nightmare. Holy crap, this place was inadequately small. Not only that, but it had no open space, no air flow, and the Artist Alley tables that had been so nice and open the years before were now tiny tables in a narrow hallway where you could only sit one chair between each table. …Talk about frustration.
We set up the table and did our best to sit down. There were only the 4 of us and at least 1 person had to stay at the table at any given time; this meant that of course 2 people stuck around…which meant all 4 of us did. It made hanging out difficult. Not to mention the lack of airflow was suffocating everyone… And to top it all off, my stalker showed up. I won't go into it. I have a stalker (or…something). Then another special person dropped by…because apparently we weren't annoyed enough, we now had a crazy-busy table in a hallway hardly wide enough for 2 people to walk through at any given time.
Well, eventually we left and got to stuff our faces. I can't remember everything but we all ended up back at the house where our friend
came to spend the weekend with us, and then
finally showed up. We spent the rest of the night derping and laughing, because that's what our group does best, and then crashed.
Saturday came and I crawled into Atem.
went as her almost-finished Erutis (Demon Diary) cosplay and looked adorable, of course. We got to the con and set the table up again; that day we tried clearing the table out a little and gave ourselves some extra room. We took 2 shifts, leaving myself and
mostly alone to babysit the table while everyone else ran around.
Now, if you know me at all, you'd be familiar at the rather strange attribute I have in regards to my interaction to other people's 'energy'. I say 'energy' because it's the best way to describe it. By that I mean what sort of character they give off—their personality, enthusiasm, mood, etc… My energy reflects those around me; if someone's hyper, I am hyper; if they're sad, I'm sad…etc etc. That being said,
is the same way, and when you put two hyperactive people together with this attribute…the world sort of explodes. We need chill people to balance us out, but we were left alone and isolated because of the table and the lingering of people the rest of the group didn't want to interact with. So…as the day went on…we just got worse. Feeding off of one another's energy, it expanded to the point where we KNEW we were obnoxious. But it was sort of impossible to fix. Neither of us are capable of shutting ourselves down without help, but our 'help' refused to come anywhere near us >_>;;…so
and I were pretty loud and annoying to our chill friends as a result. We knew that that was the case but that there was nothing we could do until we were separated or we crashed (which finally happened later that night). Until then, we were just hyper and insane.
said we were just like the Host Club twins…and…seriously…that's probably the best description of us ever xD;;…
We did the traditional McDonald's run, where we played Duel Monsters a bit and
had his first Duel. We publically embarrassed ourselves and I nearly got run over by a drive-thru car LOL;; but it was tons of fun.
At the end of the day, we ended up at the Target on the 'prissy' side of town, where we trolled just by being there in cosplay. We were almost thrown out for no reason other than for 'talking loudly' .
got his furry-tail checked out…that was pretty funny, actually.
Sunday I went as Yugi again and
once again was my Judai and I loved him to death x3 After trading some cards and derping around and avoiding stalkers, we ended up at a park where our friend
took photos of us
! We were glad we go to do it this time since we missed the chance during Hamacon.
I /think/ that's the right order for everything… :T…. Hard to remember. Cons always get smushed together in one wad of awesomesauce xD
and
left Monday and I already miss them :< but we'll see them again at AWA.
My next adventure starts tomorrow morning…very early tomorrow morning. I have a flight to Baltimore at 7am to meet up with
and
and then eventually head over to my hotel once
and
arrive so we can check in and get everyone where they need to be.
Otakon promises to be a first for me. I will get to hang out with all of these amazing people up until now I've only been able to torment online, and this will be the largest convention I've ever attended. I think one of the things I look forward to the most is finally getting to meet
DDD we've been buddies for many years now and I cannot wait to attack her x3. Sadly,
isn't able to attend due to financial reasons, but it might be for the best. She might go crazy with all those hyper people! I am gonna scope everything out and let her know what she might be expecting should we get to attend Youmacon.
I get back from Ota next Monday night, and that weekend we will have a bday party with all my friends. I can't believe I am gonna be 25 next Monday =w=….old Akarui is old… But after that I am going to finish my Sazandora/Hydreigon gijinka cosplay for AWA and maybe try to get my T-Town Roxas finished, too.
Working on a picture in celebration of my soon-to-be 125k hits O:! Thanks again, everyone, for your love and support~! I don't consider myself a very good artist, but I am super glad that there are people out there that enjoy my derp x3
Tons to do tonight /o/ I've got lots to pack and such!
TTYL
DDD
<3 Akarui