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As I was saying yesterday, I have plans to go to Afest. I HAD four costumes laid out- Kairi from kingdom hearts (in a red version and a pink version), Riku (also from KH) and 'Corset Girl'- that has been my badge name for five years (up until I recently lost my account information.) Now, with the job-less, homeless-ness problem, i have two costumes; Kairi of the pink and Corset girl of the duct tape.
Here is the problem.
I have a disease, according to my twin. I am infected with "The Fatness".
Honestly, people. Really.So, automatically, I'm not allowed to cosplay Kairi or Riku, or anything other than a frumpy-drunk-chick-in-a-bar-who-is-fat-but-denies-it-and-she-is-side-character-that-is-used-for-random-murder-scene-lets-call-her-Brunhilda.
SERIOUSLY.
I are not fat!
But that's not the point.
It's ridiculous to restrict cosplay to same-size-of-character-only people. Hullo, numbnuts. No one, except for NO ONE is shaped like this;
(the busty be-corsetted brunette, not the blonde with psycho-druggie-eyes)
(Credit to Vampire Hunter D, by Hideyuki Kikuchi, drawn by Saiko Takaki)
Reminds me of the genie in Aladdin-
"MIGHTY COSMIC TITS!- Itty-bitty waistline."
And back to the subject at hand-
I understand that there are hardcore fans of every anime who believe that no character will ever look right except for the one they choose to cosplay because they will always be the closest.
THE CLOSEST. Doesn't mean exact, doesn't mean "Holy Fritoes, Batman, you must have just walked off the pages of the book!"
NO.
So there will never be a 'Perfect' Sephiroth, Tifa, Goku or Mario. Princess Peach will never come to life and be ready to be rescued, you Bowser-costumed pervs.
There will never be a need to have a 'real master sword', keyblade or Silver tray ready to serve the Phantomhive clan. So just stop.
There is no need to belittile the size-eighteen female in the Tifa costume who spent years getting her hair to grow that long, several hundred dollars to hand-make that leather costume and make it movie-accurate, who "has the right tits but is too fat" for the part. (hullo, I'd like to see NATURAL DDD boobs on a size five body frame. yuhno)
(Tifa)
It get ridiculous. The most radical I've heard was someone ordering an african-american Cloud to pick a costume to match him better.
Like Barett. (Not hatin' on Barett, he's badass. It's just his bad-assery kinda scares me. A lot.)
Cloud
Barett.
Now, see that big shiney? That's a gun. It's attached to his arm. Does he look happy? No. So there is my reasoning.
Anywho.
It's rude! The Cloud had made everything completely screen-accurate (and I know this because I heart that movie with the undying passion of a thousand fangirls) except for, oh wait, HIS SKIN. God forbid he have to deal with GENETICS.
But then, I guess some genetics make some people ASSHOLES. RAWR.
So. In short, (or long,) the "Fatness" isn't a disease or a disability. Please, someone, tell me that they cosplayed a "fat" Tifa! In the hoochie skirt and wifebeater!!!!!
