Well now that I feel like a human being again (amazing what sleep, food, more sleep, and a shower will do for you) it's time to recap the amazingness that was MetroCon 2013!
FridayUp balls early at like 4AM to get to the airport. Quick flight to LGA, longer flight to TPA and I was there and ready for fun! Called up
ten-wa-tokku-desu and we met at the Starbucks because heated bean water yessss. Sat around drinking coffees and catching up a little, then snagged a cab to our snazzy hotel room.
I was wearing my Grifball shirt, and the guy that checked me in knew what it was. 8D So we headed up to the hotel room, exchanged presents (I got her a Rainbow Dash tumbler glass, she got me a Gundam 00 coffee mug and half of a paopu fruit charm~). Sora got dolled up in her Anastasia costume while I went as I was for day one.
Booked booty across the street to the convention, registered, got my Masquerade ticket, then hit the floor. Stop one was the dealer's room, where we gawked at things and stuff. Pretty soon realized we were starving and also that
Lockea and her crew had gotten into town, so we went to Publix for lunch and then back to our hotel to let them into the other room we'd booked. From there we headed back to the con and mostly just wandered, taking pictures of Sora in her awesome costume with the awesome backgrounding that the fancy-ass convention center offered. I met up with Weary!!!! We hugged it out but she was in line to register so we ended up splitting up.
Sora had to go back to the hotel for something, and I had purchased some really awesome prints from
Hihoshi because shut up and take my money, so she took those back to the room for me while I did some more wandering. Friday's kinda a blur, sorry. But the prints I got were awesome! Last runs on her console set, a humanized xbox360, wii, and PS2 as well as a Minecraft poster. c: Must find room for them on my walls!
After a bit it was my turn to go back to the hotel, so that I could change into my Masquerade dress, and I dropped off a bunch of stuff there while I was at it. Went back to the con and hit up the Parle ask the cast panel... My question look like twenty minutes to answer because
SirFlamboyantWreck had to show video for like everyone's answer xDD (that's what happens when I ask what everyone's favorite production was, I guess...). After the panel I got to say hi to
chimocho like I told her I would... and hopefully I didn't freak her out too much? Ahaha. So I left her alone after a could minutes of chatting and ran into.... RWBY COSPLAYERS!!! Yang and Weiss were there, and we talked about RWBY a bit (mostly giggling at the fact that Weiss was so looking forward to her costume right up until watching Thursday's episode and realizing that everyone was going to call her a bitch). Oh yeah, haha, and at one point I looked over my shoulder and
sora1992 was there, so I made a joke about swooning in sight of a famous person.
Alright, alright, moving on. I headed out of there and met up with everyone at the Masquerade, had a ton of fun dancing. The storyline this year was really, really dark, which is saying something since two years ago it took place
in hell and wasn't this horrifying. Then again, you can't expect rainbows and sunshine when Ladd Russo is your main villain...
After that it was back to the hotel room, showers, and bed. And then it was time for Saturday!!
SaturdayWoke up early and Sora had disappeared on me! After about 5 seconds of worrying, I decided that she was kind of maybe a grown-up and would take care of herself, so I got ready (I'm such a caring friend...). At 8 I texted her to see where she was and her phone rang in the room so that option was pointless. A bit after that she came back though, so all was well. She'd woken up early and gone for a walk.
Sora and I were dressed as Claire Redfield and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil, and we looked BADASS!! Though unfortunately, we were unarmed. Hopefully we could intimidate the zombies out of attacking?
So we went next door and took coffee orders from everyone and then ran across the street to Starbucks for coffees. Everyone was almost ready by the time we got back, so we finished up and then headed into the con. The first thing on our agenda was the Human Chess match, which started at noon, so we spent about half an hour exploring the artist's alley... and spending more money. Thank god for my huge paycheck from last week! I got a little zipper bag thingy with Black Mage and White Mage on it that said "I'd Like To Final Your Fantasy" and Lockea got the same one because yessss. Those came from the folks at
GeekSpirations and you can see the bag I got
here. After that Jenn took a trip back to the hotel room and brought purchases back for us, while Sora and I got in line for the chess match.
The match was pretty good this year, though I didn't feel quite as invested in it as in the past because I didn't recognize as many of the characters... Thogh Finn from Adventure time and the guy from Avatar were both pretty funny! It was a pretty good show, over all, definitely enjoyable.
We got lunch after the match, went back to the hotel room to eat and then Sora and I tried to do a photoshoot but Tampa is just waaaaay too sunny and cheerful for Resident Evil so almost none of those pics will be posted until Sora has time to go through and 'shop them. We did than and then we went back into the con for a bit of walking... I lost track of my group, but met up with Weary again and helped her work on her Saix wig. c: After much wig working her and I headed into the con, looked around artist's alley, then ran into some people who happened to be hosting the panels we were going to! She was heading to the KH one and I was going to the Resident Evil one next door, so yay~!
The RE panel was pretty fun, lots of making fun of Leon's driving abilities and such. Didn't get a chance to ask Chris if he had an account on RT, though, bah.
After panels and stuff Weary and I went back to the hotel, grabbed Sora, and got changed for the rave. Sora and I got our Raver Sora and Raver Riku costumes out again, and my old Riku wig got its last hurrah because seriously that thing is dead as dicks. But we had a fun time jumping around at the rave and dancing together and stuff! 8D
Finally went back to the hotel room and stayed up stupidly late talking about dragon dildos and having sex with statues because that is the kind of things we do, like real grown-ups and stuff.
SundaySaturday night, Sora had gone to get her friend
forgot10rose, who was our Roxas. So Sunday morning we pimped it up in KH outfits with Sora, Roxas, Kairi, and me as Riku, reunited at long last!
We hit the dealer's room and I spent even more money on awesome t-shirts (including an Aperture Laboratories shirt, whee~!) before heading to Parle's Meet the Survivors panel, which was a TON of fun! I can't even begin to start explaining it but dear god I laughed harder than I have in quite a while.
After that was lunch again, but we hurried back from Publix because it looked like it was gonna storm... met up with Weary and hung out with her again for a while, then said sad goodbyes to most everyone. Sora and Roxas dropped me off at the airport, some misadventures happened, and then...
My flight got delayed due to weather and I missed my flight home and I had to spend the night in LGA. @_@ But after multiple times of sleeping sitting up in a corner I got on my standby flight and made it home.
So now I'm finally home and MetroCon is over and that's a sadface if I ever saw one. I can't wait until next year!
Big Thanks!ten-wa-tokku-desu and
Lockea for being the best buddies ever! I love you guys, even if Lockea elbows me in the throat when I try to be nice.
Lockea's crew it was nice to meet you all and I'm hoping we can dork it up again sometime!
forgot10rose so great to see you again! Don't be a stranger, okay?
Weary you're made of awesome and I had so much fun with you! 8D I hope we get to get together for a con again in the future!
chimocho thanks for not being weirded out by me! You're a real sweetie... Sorry I didn't know where to get pizza lol.
Everyone at Parle Productions... you guys are the reason I started going to MetroCon five years ago (holy crap!!!) and I'll continue to rearrange my life to go down there and see you again. You lot are awesome, and I hope you keep it up for a good long while!
The staff, security, and volunteers at MetroCon, you made the entire weekend totally awesome just like always. Bigger and better every year, guys!
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