Fan Expo 2012

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OMFG FX was sooo awesome! I'm glad that I went!

:star:Thursday:star:

I had to go to work, so I had been up since 4:30am. I was picked up by Foreverflame and Nekoyasha23 at work and loaded my stuff into the car and we headed for the Oshawa GO station.

It took us 20+ minutes to find a parking space! But we eventually got one as Foreverflame stalked a woman to her car and got the space! Once we had the spot (Nekoyasha23 and I went to go get our tickets, her and Flame to Union, and me to Clarkson) we got our stuff and headed for the train!

It was an amusing ride. I kinda freaked when we got to Union as I wasn't sure if I had to switch trains to go to Clarkson. Nope, I had to just stay sitting there and go out to Mississauga!

CosplayCanada met me at the station on the platform. Funnily enough, I didn't even realize it was him until he grabbed my suitcase and went "HELLO!" Made me laugh xD His mom drove us over to Value Village as I had forgotten my shoes for my Thursday cosplay, and he needed pants for the next day. But he also got City of Ashes and City of Glass, which are part of a series that we both love.

When we got to his apartment, we went to change into our cosplays. I was Grell Sutcliff from Black Butler in a pale blue ballgown, and he was Slenderman from the legend, and the game Slender. I had the pleasure of making the head cover for him out of swimsuit lining. So if you saw a Slenderman cosplayer walking around with a Grell, yeah, that was us!

We met up with my friend Jaga after finishing up his head cover - he had to be wearing it for me to finish it! And we had a photoshoot with everage. The shoot was partially for myself and Jaga as we were Grell and Ciel, but also for CosplayCanada as he's in the background of EVERY photo as a creeper. But that's Slendy for you XD So awesome!

It wasn't long after the shoot that CosplayCanada and I went to go and meet J. Michael Tatum (the voice of Sebastian Michaelis in Kuroshitsuji). So, when I went up to meet him, I said "I missed you at Otakuthon, you got sick!" he said "Oh I know, and I regret that."
"There was something I wanted to do when you were supposed to be there..."
"And what's that?"
"SEBASCHAN!!!!"
"Oh hello Grell. How are you this evening?" He loved my Japanese Grell voice! He signed my copy of Black Butler volume 4 manga!!! GAH I WAS SO HAPPY!!!! CosplayCanada got a photo of me doing that to him xD

I had the pleasure of meeting the Toronto Joker and Toronto Harley thanks to CosplayCanada He seemed very happy that Joker was my favourite villain from Batman. I'm more a Marvel girl, but I can't resist Batman...

After the Dealer's closed, we went back to wear Jaga and everage were. I got to meet Ninja With a Soul Patch too! He was pretty tired though. Still cool.

After a while I went and did a shoot for Jaga and CosplayCanada. Jaga had switched to Miku, so I wanted light up photos. And I did a shoot for Slenderman. Gah the creepiness of some of these photos! What the hell have I done by helping a creeper come to life?? XD

When CosplayCanada and I got to Islington Station though, after leaving Jaga and the con, when we got off the train we had something kinda funny happen. Now, picture this. A girl bound flat wearing a ballgown with full crinoline skirt underneath with long red hair gets off with a guy in a suit. Someone said "Congratulations!" to us. Took us a moment, but then we looked at each other and went "Oh GOD!". The person thought we were just married. NOOO!!! I love him, but like a brother!

Thursday Night into Friday Morning

Talk about little sleep! We got back to CosplayCanada's apartment around 1:30 or so. We went straight to work after having some food (and coffee) on getting his Gilderoy Lockhart wig rinsed out - and him shaving his beard a bit for Bardroy. We also finished up our audio for our skit and got some our motions and timing. And I cut and styled Gildery into Bardroy for him.

We put Thunderbirds on at around 5am - classic cheese anyone? - and I fell asleep halfway through. Dead tired. Apparently when he looked over at me and saw I was asleep, he leaned his head back and fell asleep himself.


:star:Friday::star:

OMG so little sleep.... today was another day of Kuroshitsuji for me! And I had BARDO!! BARD!!! GAH! CosplayCanada was my Bardroy. Though according to him, it's more "You're my Grell" to me.

CosplayCanada and I took the GO to Union as it was Friday, and we'd be heading down during rush hour. He laughed though when I came up the stairs in his and his mom's apartment. Why? Because he had Grell in his home, and he loves Grell. All the feels.

We did the Kuroshitsuji photoshoot on the Empire Sandy, a 1943 tall ship that was used in WWII! everage came and did photos for us, and Alexzander showed too as Alois!

If you haven't already seen, I did a picture of me and Bardroy. Sitting in Bard's lap, and I'm giving him a kiss :heart:
A Kiss for Bardo by Midnight-Dance-Angel

All the feels for Bard x Grell now! My new fave crack pairing!

After the shoot was over we went back to the con and had more awesomeness! We met a Claude and he hung out with us all day! Then he changed to tutor Sebaschan :heart: Grell had a happy. Would have loved to have had a William though... But whenever Sebby had me, :devcospaycanada: went "My Grell!" I had to make sure to give him some Grell love~:heart:

We split at one point to go and get autographs. CosplayCanada and I went to get Allison Keith-Shipp. I had her sign my copy of Neon Genesis Evangelio volume 4. She voiced Misato Katsuragi. I didn't get a picture with her though since my camera's battery died while I was in line.

Heliacidal, who I had a photoshoot with, went and got my battery charged for me by a volunteer! Hurray! So I was able to do her photoshoot for her! She was cosplaying General Beatrix from Final Fantasy IX, so I was pretty damn happy about this as FFIX is my favourite. I'll post photos over on Midnight-Dare-Angel from the shoot.

To be honest I kind forget what all happened after that, besides being glared at by a woman because I was scared of her dog. Sorry, I'm scared of dogs. What of it?

Friday Night to Saturday Morning

More sleepless nights. Why did we do this to ourselves CosplayCanada? Why?

We stayed up late having some coffee and practicing for our skit for the masquerade. All those hours of practice. We liked how it was going. We even sat and watched part of the G.I. Joe movie from the 1980s. Had to stop though to work on stuff and yeah....

:star:Saturday::star:

BLAH TWO HOURS OF SLEEP!!!!!!!

But, day of Kingdom Hearts and the Masquerade!

I wore my new version of Roxas, known as Neo-Organization XIII. It's a re-design of the Organization coat. No chains, no sleeves, a bigger hood, and a small Nobody symbol embroidered on the back at the bottom. I also made the Twilight Town pants. Can we say Twilight Town Roxas for 2013? I had CosplayCanada with me for a while as Xemnas, and then he changed out, and then back into the cosplay. Gah why do I know such awesome people?

We spent a lot of time in autograph lines @_@ But met Wendee Lee (the Queen of Tales) :D

Green Room and Masquerade

Green room was fun and got to meet some awesome people and see old friends. Loved the relaxed atmosphere! And lots of space for CosplayCanada and I to practice more.

But then, when we were to start our skit... it was downhill the moment our audio started. They started playing the audio while the MC was speaking, so at the start of the performance we hear a shout of "Xemnas!". And CosplayCanada and I stood there for two seconds going "wtf?". So we had to improvise our whole performance!! The end was delayed so badly. This change ruined what we had spent hours and hours and hours practicing. It ended up with a very different ending.

It was supposed to be this:

Xemnas walks on, and after 9 seconds, Roxas runs on, and at 11 seconds, "XEMNAS!". Xemnas was to release his ethereal blades, and we'd circle each other. Then, when we'd made a full circle, he was to come at me and I'd swing at him twice. Then he'd attack and I'd block. I'd attack and he'd block, shove my keyblade away, and stab me in the stomach with the one saber. When he'd withdraw I'd collapse, and he'd come back and lift my head with the one saber and say "Foolish Roxas" and walk away. I'd hobble off stage.

Did it happen? No. Our skit was fail! Were we pissed? You bet! We went to Dawn and talked to her about it and explained what happened with how their audio crew they were supposed to get got cancelled on them and how they had amateurs doing it.

Needless to say, we didn't win anything... maybe next year....

:star:Sunday::star:

Final day of Fan Expo. I wore Shade-ler from The Lorax. Very comfortable.

Today was about getting my wig for cosplaying Xemnas, and meeting Colleen Clinkenbeard (Riza Hawkeye in FullMetal Alchemist). I also got to see Vic Mignogna again! He remembered me from Montréal Comic Con!!! The moment I said my name he had this big huge grin on his face and he said "I remember you Gabrielle!" and asked me how I was. OMG ALL THE VIC FEELS!
But now since CosplayCanada and I told him that I was considering cosplaying him, I now have to make a Vic Mignogna cosplay. How the heck do you cosplay a voice actor? That should be interesting.

Luckily CosplayCanada stayed with me all day to help me carry my stuff. And he helped me fix up my makeup!

He took me to Steam Whistle where I got to try this beer. OMG I LOVE IT! I'm making sure to get it the next year too! All the years! So delicious, and normally I don't like beer. Normally can't stand it whatsoever. Nope, this one was different.

CosplayCanada even took photos of me looking like I was drunk xD Ah, now I can say I created Drunk-ler XD

Before I left with Foreverflame and Nekoyasha23, I got to see Jaga. And her fiance Filipe! He finally made it up to Canada! And he'll be here for three years! WHOOO!

But my con season is over for the year. But I still have four cosplay events during the remainder of the year. Next convention you ask? EMC - Emiko's Mini Convention in Kitchener / Waterloo. Going with CosplayCanada ^^


Awesome people I got to see:
:iconcosplaycanada::iconforeverflame::iconnekoyasha23::iconeverage:, Filipe, Ninja With a Soul Patch, Jaga, Julian, Toronto Joker, Toronto Spiderman, Toronto Batman, Toronto Harley Quinn, Vic Mignogna, J. Michael Tatum, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Wendee Lee, Allison Keith-Shipp, John Rhys-Davies, Christopher Lloyd... and so many more!

Spoils of the con:
51 Buttons by the same artist I bought from at ConBravo!
Xemnas wig
Steampunk stuff for my sister
Autographs from Tatum, Vic, Colleen, and Allison
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NailoSyanodel's avatar
Big weekend!
I'm glad you had a great time, seemed like lots of fun! =D
(You're so lucky you got to meet Vic again, and he remembered you!)