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Day 3: Masquerade Day

We arrived at the Con at 11am, one hour before the mandatory meeting. Fortunately, we didn't have to stop too much on the way there. After the meeting, we had 2 hours to kill before going backstage. We returned to the East Hall, relaxed and ate our "dinner". There were some awesome cosplayers there, including a Gundam cosplayer from Japan and this awesome group from a series I've never seen before. I think I have pictures of them.

While there, I had the help of Mario and... Frank I think, help me sit down. I am not kidding you. It is a CHALLENGE to sit down in that costume! Rosso's armor doesn't bend very well, and neither does her leather leggings. Never the less, I finally got down. My feet were aching after the 2 previous days of walking and blisters. I was waiting for Mario's buddy to come back with Sushie from Ralph's when a photographer came by and asked for photos. He said, "I realize you must be tired, but would you mind if I just take some of you sitting down?" That worked find for me, so I posed and he thanked me and went on his way.

Turns out? XDD He was EurobeatKing!!! The most renowned photographer on Cosplay.com! What a nice guy. He later contacted me on cosplay.com, congratulating me on the Masquerade and now we talk on AIM. I'm trying to get him to come to SabotenCon. Wish me luck. lol

Backstage was pretty simple. We got there, signed in, waited, practiced our skit, met other participants and hung out until it started. The cool parts? The beautiful Kuroshisuji group sat right infront of us. They were really nice and we talked quite a bit. The other cool part? It was more like epic part. LORD MASAMUNE WAS THERE!!!! 8DDD I saw him making circles around the participant seating practicing a script, which turned out to be the intros for the skits/walk-ons. BUT HE WAS THERE. I haven't seen him since AX'06 when i first met him!

Sadly, I never got a chance to actually introduce myself. TToTT I had my chance, but instead we practiced our skit.

The entire day, I only got one dirty look from a guy, who was actually a member of the press. *rolls eyes* Pervert. I flipped him off. I changed out as soon as we were let out of the backstage. To my surprise we met the Chun Lee cosplayer (it was a guy! XD ) and he was awesome. Then we went home. And Slept. *sigh*

Day 4: FF Gathering

We slept in a bit, but not much cuz our inner clocks were stupid and woke us up around 8am. XP It was easier to get into my Rosso cosplay this time, cuz all my armor was already sewed on. We had breakfast and left. The parking garage was epic. That's where we took all the photos i have uploaded right now. They said it was being remodeled.

FF Gathering was pretty big. We met outside the West Entrance Hall and... omg... Pretty Cloud was there again! Who is Pretty Cloud? well, that's what we called him all weekend. Sorry, ~Strifehart, you make an awesome cloud, but this guy was just gorgeous... And japanese. Really Japanese. lol He was probably the highlight for a lot of people's anime expo. He was awesome. I meant, wig, clothes, and the SWORD. The only problem I had with his cosplay was his turtleneck, sweater thing. It was black instead of blue. Cloud's vest is supposed to be really dark, faded blue. He was really nice though. He interacted with everyone.

Sorry... fangirling over.

Besides Kaname (Pretty Cloud), the highlight for that day was doing a minishoot with a Chaos Vincent Valentine cosplayer and an awesome Moogle Yuffie cosplayer. Those pictures should be coming soon. They were awesome.

The entire weekend I had tried to find , but I never found his table in artist' alley. Finally, I spotted him taking pictures at the gathering. But you know what??? I kept getting mauled by photographers before I could get to him and say hi. D: I don't know if you guys remember, but one of my designs won his contest for Dead Fantasy III. He owes me a free DVD. >.> lol Alas, I missed my chance to meet him in person, even if i did "see" him.

I changed out once the gathering was over. We got food and hung out long after the Con was officially over. Those memories are the least jumbled ones. I learned a new game called "you got ninja'd" and got to make friends with Chun Lee from the Masquerade. Lastly, we went home, got pizza, slept, and the next day was overpriced Sushie, packing and heading home.

SPEAKING OF WHICH.

8D I met a guy on the Greyhound home. Guess what!!! Apparently he was a soldier that gets killed in both Transformers 1 and 2! XD How awesome is that? I need to contact him on myspace before I forget. I'm dying to look through the opening of that movie and see if I can find him. lol!

So there ends Anime Expo 2009. Very hectic, very exhausting, very fun convention. I met a lot of old friends, made a lot of new ones. I miss you all already. I can't wait for San Diego ComiCon now. >:3