MetroCon 2012~!

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Time to try and write this all up while my cat meows at me. Lol!

Friday
Got into Orlando airport at about 9:30 in the morning and got picked up by Lockea and Jolie. We got into our hotel and then got ready for the convention!

Lockea was her originally deisgned Queen of the Night Sky, a huge black and blue, sparkly ballgown that lit up. It was amazing! And Jolie wore Lockea's Princess Kairi outfit. I was feeling lazy, and didn't cosplay.

After everyone got their badges and stuff, we mostly hung out in the halls, ran to Publix for some lunch, before going to Festival of the Hunt. Very, very fun, and I won the Sephiroth card! (Which I later gave to Lockea, and then she traded to someone else for the Aerith card xD). From there we caught the tail end of the Parle Productions Q&A panel, and then Lockea and Jolie got in line for the Fantasy Masquerade, while I went and took pictures of people and mostly wandered around. The hotel had a free shuttle to and from the convention center, but unfortunately it stopped running at 10PM, with a last call pick-up at 10:30. However, Lockea agreed to come get me in her car after the Parle Productions After Dark panel, so I got to go to that.

Once Lockea picked me up we went to McDonalds, and then back to the hotel for showers and sleep.

A pretty fun day, with some definitely fun panels! I really liked Festival of the Hunt, it was Final Fantasy trivia, and we had a lot of fun with it. There was a lot of focus on VII, which is the hosting group's next planned costume, but that was okay with me - and they included all the other games pretty well.

Saturday
ten-wa-tokku-desu got in really early in the morning, so we all got dressed and went to the convention pretty early on. I was RE3 Jill Valentine (sadly without weapons and such, because fake guns + real airport security = me going to jail), and man, that was a smart costume choice. It's hella hot in Florida, so a tube top and miniskirt were wicked comfy all day. Lockea was White Mage, Jolie was Gir, and Sora was punk!America.

First we all went to Starbucks, and then we hit the dealer's room and went looking around. I helped Jolie get a Miku wig (I am, apparently, a wig expert xD), and I also bought myself some really cute hair decs. At noon we headed upstairs to Cosplay Chess, and it was super fun. The only part we all agreed wasn't so great was the sudden Harlock/Lightning romance; it seemed to really come out of no where. And as much as my inner fangirl cries against it, there seemed to be much more hinting of a Zack/Lightning romance - just actions that the two took relative to each other, that were missing between Harlock and Lightning.

We all had a lot of fun, though, and there was much cheering for fights, as well as many lols had (Guile and Trowa's nutstomp battle comes to mind). Spent most of the car ride to the airport discussing the chess match, and we basically planned next year's. xD Now to e-mail the staff and demand that they do it!

Right, so after chess Lockea and I went to another Parle Q&A panel, since I had a question I wanted to ask them. And after that everyone kind of split off to do their own thing. I went and grabbed some lunch at Publix, and everyone else was either back at the hotel room or else in their own panels. At 4 I went to the Resident Evil photoshoot, and a very nice Rebecca Chambers let me borrow her gun for a couple of shots, since I was unarmed. Thanks, Rebecca! :heart:

We took pictures outside, and it was a lot of fun. The freaking merchants were hilarious, and had some really great ideas for pictures (beating up Leon for not having enough cash comes to mind). Once we wrapped that up, everyone went their separate ways, and I met up with my friends again. Lockea and Sora were going to Orlando to this club they're both members of, and invited me to go along, but I opted to decline. They went to the Fantasy Masquerade abridged, since Sora wanted to see the show, while I mostly did some wandering and made epic plans for RE1 Jill costume.

At around 9 we all went back to the hotel and Lockea and Sora took off for Orlando, while Jolie and her boyfriend went out. I thought about going to the rave, but having to cab back would be annoying, so I took a shower and just chilled in the hotel room. From what I'm hearing the rave wasn't that great this year, so good decision on my part. Got a good night's sleep and was ready for Sunday!

Sunday
I cosplayed Riku, Sora was Sora, Lockea wore her QotNS dress again, and Jolie was a casual Kairi.

Up early again, checked out of the hotel, found some parking, and went to Starbucks for our coffee. I'd discussed doing a KH Days photoshoot with Elken-Destiny on DA, and by some magical chance we ran into her as soon as we got in the doors to the convention center. 8D So we took off to do a photoshoot, recreating some scenes from the game and such. Then we kidnapped a Roxas and a second Sora (Killjoy-Twins might be them?) and did some more pictures - lots of clock tower scenes. I'll have all of those posted sometime today (gotta get the connector for the camera).

For most of the day I hung out with Xion and Sora. We went to the dealer's room and found out that Lockea passed out giving blood, which was frightening, and I found a S.T.A.R.S. patch for my Jill costume. I also found FFIV and KH ReCoded, and threw away massive amounts of money on them lol. But now I have two new games to play! 8D Goodbye, productivity!

We all met up at around 3 and decided to leave, and after some lost cellphone misadventures, we said a sad goodbye to Sora at the Tampa airport, and I said a hurried goodbye to everyone at Orlando, only to rush in to my delayed flight. Finally got home at about 10:15, took a shower, and went to bed for the next 12 hours.

Over all I had a great time, and I definitely want to go back again next year! Thank god for tax return money lol. The next con on the list is Anime Syracuse, so I'll see everyone then!

Special Thanks
Lockea - for driving us all places, while we drove her all sorts of crazy!
ten-wa-tokku-desu - for booking the hotel, and generally putting up with my "TAKE PICTURES OF US" demands on Sunday. xD
Elken-Destiny - for not being scared off by Sora and my random conversations on Sunday during the photoshoot, and also for being awesome and doing the photoshoot with me!
Killjoy-Twins - for letting themselves get kidnapped by us Sunday morning and participating in the photoshoot.
Jolie - for stroking my ego with the "she's a wig expert!" comments all weekend. xDD
Everyone! - for a wonderful and unforgettable MetroCon! I'm so glad I could come down this year and be a part of it. It just wouldn't have felt right, to have a summer without MetroCon.

Important Notice: Finding Pictures
All of my pictures from MetroCon are uploaded here: s162.photobucket.com/albums/t2… If you see yourself in one and would like it taken down, or would like a copy of it at original quality, just drop me a message! ^^
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It was so much fun! xD