Torii-con was about two weeks ago, and we had an amazing yet miserable time. Let me explain haha. The night before, we were rushing to get Darkar completed, so Logan stayed the night, and we decided to sleep in our basement workshop...None of us really slept that night, so at about 5:30, we got up and made breakfast, we were packed and out the door by 7. We made it to Vermillion at about 9 and the con didn't start until 10. Ami and I were partially in our cosplays to save time, and Logan and Dylan still needed to change, so we decided to hurry up and find the convention center, which was easier said than done. We were lost for around 45 minutes, but finally made it. Dylan rushed to the ladies room to get changed into his costume (he was too shy to put on a skirt in the mens), while I tried to cram Logan into his outfit the best I could. Ami couldn't really move much because she was afraid of making a slight run in her outfit we'd found the night before any worse. So I was working like a mad woman. It was while trying to get his cod piece on that we found our first problem...he made it too small (never leave these things entirely to Logan....) then his shins were too heavy and kept falling off, so we used some red ducttape to hold it all together and got signed up for the cosplay contest. Then I started on transforming Dylan into a lady, only to find he left his hand made shoes at home. So we sent a text to my dad and told him to bring the shoes and some ducttape. He said he'd be there at about noon. So, we headed up to the con area and started mingling and loafing around. Then Logan said his outfit was too heavy and he wanted to take it off...so he removed all of it but the under clothes and wandered around like that, however there was no rest for him, everyone wanted him to put it on for a picture, so it was off again and right back on again over and over, haha! We hung around and did some trivia, bought stuff and played video games. While we were eating lunch dad called and said he was there, so we met him out front and got the stuff...Eventually, it was about a half hour til our judging time slot, so we tried to cram Logan back into his outfit, which was falling apart worse still. So we taped it all together, and were convinced it looked crappy, but the judges were good friends of ours we'd met at Nebraskon a couple years back. They'd seen it when we first brought it in and said the Ducttape wouldn't count against us. After that, we got through the judging no problem and moved back to where we'd been loafing around to wait for the contest at 7. By then, Ami's custom shoes were digging into her feet and I had a blister forming on my left ankle. So we took our shoes off and sort of just read manga and waited while the boys went and entered some gaming tournaments. 7 rolled around and although 3/4ths of us were in slight pain, we ran on stage and gave it our best, then sat down to await the awards ceremony. After first and second place were awarded, and we won nothing each judge gave out an award for their favorite. The first judge gave hers to a marvelous cosplayer from a series I didn't recognize (her outfit was to die for though!!), and the second said, there was no way he could pick just one costume from our group, so he gave it to us all. We were ecstatic, and took a bow with our little trophy! Afterwards we all got changed into street clothes, and sang karaoke until the con was over. Then we all limped to the car exhausted but happy lol!
PICTURE TIME!
Here we have Ami as Tecna, Logan's Darkar, and my Musa
And here we have Logan's Darkar as a full body pic!
This picture shows off Dylan's cosplay along with the rest of us girls!
And Finally here's our Trophy!
Now that the cosplay talk is over for this post, I've been working on my Jack Spicer pattern some more! Not much to say though aside from the fact his arm is almost done. I'll keep at it and have more progress soon.
~Until Next Time
