Eeeeeee!!

Dude! First day of the con. I went in more-or-less plainclothes, which meant cool grey & black with the occasional use of the black cloak. Committed a cardinal sin of cons and forgot my camera, oh well, will have it tomorrow!

Y'know what else will happen tomorrow? I WILL BE NAMI.

Dyed my hair and painted my toenails tonight, and then put it all on. I AM Nami. It IS awesome. Plus art studio director of awesome lent me her hiking stick, which IS the quarterstaff. So the entire look is COMPLEET.

Also, also! One Piece kept coming up at the con. It's the anime everyone wants and nobody has. XD. Only two cosplayers and I only saw one of them, a halfhearted Luffy (c'mon man straw sandals are not that hard) but people were asking for it at the doujin booth, at the plushie booths, at the artists' alley- and getting negative answers, and I struck up conversations with them afterwards, and this totally happened more than once.

I met a girl this way who does weekly translations for her forums, who adores One Piece and Ashita no Nadja, who likes to play FF8 and Kingdom Hearts. If she weren't significantly shorter and wearing a huge pfoofy tutu complete with bright pink feathered wig, I would have thought I had stumbled into MIRROR DIMENSION.

...she said there was a Sanji around. Carrying a Zoro plushie in a frying pan. And that he said he'd be there tomorrow. X3.

EEEEEEEEEE I love cons.