Crystal the Cosplayer

History of my cosplays, WIP on my current cosplays, and potential lists of future conventions. Ohio cosplayer.

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ACen 2015 - this was in between Ohayocon and Colossalcon, I accidentally posted out of order oops.

Second convention ever out of state and it was ACen. Like Colossalcon, I’ve always wanted to go to ACen because I’ve heard so much about it and because my art sempai, @nailbats, goes every year. It was an amazing con and I got to take my little brother to it.

Friday when we went, my brother coplayed as the box ghost and I was Pokemon Trainer Blue. I know I have a few more pictures hiding somewhere, I’ll find them later. 

Saturday we spent half the day as Ember and the Box Ghost, the other half was Fem!Dipper(Me) and Male!Mabel. Let me tell you what, it was fun. We came across a group of Dippers who gave all the other Dippers numbers because there could only be one Dipper, one Tyrone, and the rest of us were copies. I was number 9.

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Matsuricon 2015

So once again, these are the only two pictures I have from this con at the moment. I’ll upload the others later.

Friday we cosplayed as Mabel(Ru) and Dipper(Me). Now heres the funny thing, we have cosplayed as Mabel and Dipper several times before this. But never at a con. Well, Ru cosplayed as Mabel a few cons back but that was before I got sucked into Gravity Falls. For Halloween we walked around Polaris as them, we went to a party as them, we took a ton of photoshoots as them in Ru’s backyard, we pretty much are Mabel and Dipper.

Saturday we cosplayed as Fem!Archie(Ru) and Fem!Maxie. Now out of all my years cosplaying, never have I had the guts to show my midriff. Now, to a lot of you thats pretty lame; pathetic even, but I’ve always grown up under the belief that I should be ashamed of myself if I showed that much skin. It was honestly a pretty big leap for me. Let me tell you what, it didn’t bother me at all. I loved it and it really did help my self-esteem. This con was a little rocky due to someone who needed to learn that cosplay does not equal consent, but other then that it was a great convention. Matsuricon will always be one of my favorite conventions.

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ColossalCon 2015

So either I goofed up and barely got any pictures from this con or I just haven’t gotten them all off my phone/tablet yet.

From what I remember:

Thursday we cosplayed Fluttershy(Ru) and Vinyl Scratch

Friday we cosplayed Tony(Me) and Paige(Ru)

Saturday we cosplayed Bipper(Me) and Giffany(Ru)

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Ohayocon 2015

So this Ohayocon happened right after I had a major event happen in my life. At this point I was living in Ru’s basement because my mother kicked me out. A few weeks after I moved into a new apartment with my older brother and a few weeks after that, one of our friends became our roommate. It was the first convention in a while that we went one day(at least I think we did? Might be wrong?) and it was an OK convention. There were a few things that went wrong among our group that had upset me, the staff that year had been really rude to us, no one knew or even cared about what was going on, and every panel we went to was either poorly organized, cancelled, or moved to a new time that no one knew about. All in all, we almost decided to never return.

I was (again)Ember, and Ru was Sam Manson.

What really made my day was a little after con someone pm’d me the above message. It made me cry. It was my proudest moment as a cosplayer.

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Matsuricon 2014

Another convention I know I attended. Another convention that I don’t have any photos of nor do I have any memory of who I cosplayed. 

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ColossalCon 2014

So our first colossalcon was a blast but let me tell you what, this one was a true turning point for @song-for-the-seasons and I. We ended cosplaying as Tony(me) and Paige(Ru) from Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared. We decided prior to the con to get into character for them. We never got out of character. Because of these two household gijinkas our friendship grew deeper and we learned things about ourselves that we never would have learn had we not dressed up as these guys. 

I was introduced to Tony a little bit before con. Ru had already planned to cosplay as Paige after seeing Modmad’s human forms for them. She introduced me to Tony and I fell in love with this stupid clock. Hands down, after Ember, Tony is one of my favorite characters to cosplay. He allows me to dig down and bring out the wilder, crazy side of myself.

Thursday I had cosplayed as Pink Pants Danny, a crazy tumblr faze that passed through the Danny Phantom Phandom. It was all because someone tried to print a picture of Danny and their printer started running out of ink leaving pink stripes in his paints. The Phandom pretty much exploded after that.

Of course, I brought back Ember. I had a pretty bad sunburn that I decided to cover up with body paint. Never again. Unless its just on the face for Tony, I told myself I was never going to wear that much body paint ever again.

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Akaicon 2014

This was my first convention out of state. My brother wanted to travel down to Nashville, TN for the weekend and I so happened to help him pick a date and hotel that was hosting a convention. This one was MUCH smaller then what I am used to and I was honesty pretty disappointed in it at first, but let me tell you what, the people who attended it made the convention well worth it. It literally had three or four rooms but there was a large enough crowd that my brother and I never got bored. In the end I left a really happy cosplayer.

Of course I cosplayed Ember again x3

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Matsuricon 2013

So I pretty much became obsessed with cosplaying as Ember because I loved her so much. I’m honestly not quite sure who I cosplayed this convention I know I cosplayed as Ember and Ciel and we ran into a pretty awesome Lizzy who hung out with us all weekend. I have a feeling some of my Ohayocon 2014 pictures got mixed up in here 8/

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ColossalCon 2013

This was our first ColossalCon ever. @song-for-the-seasons and I dreamed about going for years but never imagined that we’d ever get the chance to. We went three days for this convention because we had to be back home Saturday night.

Thursday we went as Eevee(Ruby) and Fem!Edward Elric(Me)

Friday we went as ???(Ru, help I don’t remember xD) and Ember(Me)

Ember had been a last minute, throw together cosplay that I feel in love with afterwards because she was such a big hit. The guitar had been made completely out of cardboard, paint, tons of hot glue, paint, a blood sacrifice, wire for the ‘strings,’ and wood for the neck. I had a hole carved in the middle for a speaker. Since Ember only had one song(well, two, but no one really remembers the second one) I had it playing on repeat. It was a blast but now Ru can’t listen to Embers song without screaming at me to change the music.

Saturday we cosplayed Discord(Ru) and Pokemon Trainer Crystal(Me)

Discord was a huge hit, everyone loved him and I can’t wait for Ru to cosplay him again.

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Ohayocon 2013

So this year we went all three days. Friday we cosplayed as Zombie Hunter Vocaloids - I was Hatsume Miku. I remember that no one recognized us. I was a little annoyed, lol, but there wasn’t much I could do. 

Saturday our group did Hunger Games. I cosplayed as Primrose. Now out of all my years cosplaying this will forever be my least favorite cosplay. This was around the time that I started to realize that I’m an attention whore. Really, I am. I always wanted to be THE main character of our group, and usually I was. My other (former) friend wanted all of us to do Hunger Games and she wanted to cosplay as Katniss. Now I really wanted to cosplay as Katniss too but let her do it because it was her idea. No one else in Hunger Games really interested me so I originally wanted to do my own cosplay and not be part of the group. She wouldn’t have it. She begged and begged me until I finally said I would cosplay Prim for her. I ended up making up my own outfit for her because I didn’t want to spend money on a cosplay that I wasn’t going to enjoy.

After this convention I promised myself that I would never allow someone to pressure me into a cosplay. Every cosplay after this con is one that I truly enjoyed and loved.

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Convention #7 - Matsuricon 2012

This one here was a con full of Soul Eaters. It was fun. First convention making a huge prop. It was a pain to carry around, let me tell you what. It also came close to breaking the prop size rules. Here I cosplayed as Maka Alburn and Rayne cosplayed the formal version of fem!Soul. Its thanks to this convention and cosplay that I started learning more about posing for photos.

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Convention #6 - MatsuriCon 2011

Here I was cosplaying Claire Redfield and Rayne was cosplaying as Jill Valentine. @song-for-the-seasons was cosplaying as a Chocobo! My second cosplay was Hilary from Beyblade. Nobody recognized me but I didn’t care, I just wanted to make her jacket. I was, and still am, proud of it. It was my first cosplay piece that I completely sewed together myself. Sadly I didn’t get a photo of my cosplay but I did get a picture of Rayne wearing it over her formal dress x3

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Convention #5 - Ohayocon 2011

Here Rayne and I cosplayed as Espeon(Me) and Umbreon. Once again, another cosplay I’m adding to my list to redo. My camera got dropped during the con and messed it up pretty badly. This is the first con, if memory serves correctly, that Rayne and I went two days with two different cosplays. Sadly I’m not sure what my second cosplay was. I think it might have been my first time cosplaying Claire Redfield but I don’t seem to have any pictures of her.

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Convention #4 - Matsuricon 2010

Once again, stolen from Rayne’s cosplay album.

Rayne, why did you let me go to a convention in that disgusting looking Kairi cosplay, lol. I was my first time actually sewing my own cosplay together and the end result was that pink trash bag. Gosh, I one day hope to remake that cosplay just to see how far I’ve come.

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Convention #3 - Anime Punch 2010

These pictures I actually stole from my best friend because mine seem to have disappeared. Found mine! We stopped going to AP after this convention because we found out the head of the con is a pedophile.

The boys with Rayne and I at the top are my four brothers x3

We found @song-for-the-seasons at the con later on x3 she cosplayed as Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog! I cosplayed as Silver the Hedgehog.

I cosplayed as Silver the Hedgehog and Rayne did Jill Valentine.

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Convention #2 - Matsuricon 2009

Here I went with @song-for-the-seasons(Ruby) and Mach! My second con, their first! We stayed for a total of two hours because we were still new and didn't understand how panels worked xD This was also right before Matsuri moved to a bigger convention center, which to this day I still love and attend faithfully! I was a Team Magma member for this one, Ruby was Pokemon trainer Sapphire/May, and Mach was Pokemon trainer Dawn/Platinum. My older brother cosplayed as Roy Mustang.