The thing about having a collection of unique looking outfits is that, one is always looking for an opportunity to use them. After all, if you leave them in the cupboard too long, they get moldy... what with the weather here... And what's more, halloween only comes by once a year and that really sucks.... :P
So naturally, being in Asia, I decided some time ago, especially after making my current outfit, to find a place to use them. I decided to attend cosplay events because they are fun and I have Wolfy to accompany me... Moreover, he genuinely seems to enjoy them.
Personally I find it more appealing to attend a historical reenactment event or something like SCA, but there isn't any here and I don't want to travel to Australia frequently, sooooooo.... cosplay is the best thing we have.
Besides, I realised after going for medieval swordfighting classes, that there isn't really a chance for me (or any of my fellow students unfortunately), to use any of the gear that we have... or to use our skills in this country.... haiz.... well... at this point, I think that no matter how strange sparring tournaments at SCA might look with fully armoured guys (most of them don't seem to have been trained in medieval fighting styles) going at each other with rattan canes, it is still better than being fully armoured with REAL swords and nowhere to go use them.
Anyways.... for the benefit of Wolfy, here are the pics of Wolfy and me and our green-clad "otaku-for-a-day" friend B (all hail the otakus... without whom we won't have all those wonderful photos of the cosplay events) at the Anime Festival Asia 2010 (AFAX)... I've pixelated our faces for the most part because we're too famous in certain industries and among some societal groups.
Wolfy's outfit is the monk character from the Korean MMORPG Ragnarok Online. And well... I'm Ezio from Assassin's Creed 2.
At this point I have to admit I really really wanna make certain.... comments about some of the pictures, but I guess I'll have to restrain myself lest someone comes up to me at the later date, backhands me with a limp glove and sayz, "Ah challen' joo to a duuuueeeellll.."
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| Are we vain? Yep. |
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| I am pretty impressed by "white mage"'s costume. 100% self made and we can spot that staff a mile away. |
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| I really really never thought I would meet Isis-P (whom we got to know from the local holistic scene) at AFAX. But on second thought, it should be no big surprise. |
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| Guy in the black mask was a friendly dude who offered "Ezio" some strawberry Pocky. |
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| Amazingly someone actually wanted to take a pic of Wolfy's pet plushie wolf. |
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| Wolfy... and friends. |
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| Now I gotta say this... John on the right really really does have bear some resemblance to Bruce Lee. It's no surprise he is also a follower of Jeet Kun Do. |
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| I don't really like masked riders or power rangers or any characters of the fully armoured and covered genre... But their costumes sure stand out. |
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| Wolfy was so happy he finally found some characters from Ragnarok Online. The irony is that he got even MORE assassins. |
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| Actually met a sport fencer who was using his foil as a prop. |
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| To my right (left side of pic) is a self-styled "master of weapons" and practitioner of Sambo. Weapon enthusiasts and martial artists, feel free to quiz him about it if you do see him at other similar events. |
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| That is one very Jack... Jack Sparrow. And an all round nice guy. |
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| A tribute to Otakus :D |
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