This will be my 3rd trip to Dragon*Con and I’m finally deciding to commit to actual costumes and being that much of a Con-goer.
Now, I do not have the body to pull of the Princess Leia bikini or Caprica Six - and I’ve been trying hard to do something that’s more realistic for my body type - ab fab reubenesque goodness.
So naturally, I’ve had to do some out-of-the-box thinking - and I’m happy with the costumes I’ve come up with. Totally recognizable concept, but nothing so distinctive that the comparisons would be overly unrealistic.
So I ask you - if you were going to a Sci Fi Convention of any kind, and dispensing with whatever reservations you may have about adults wearing costumes in public, who would you go as? How well would it fit your body type?
I was just thinking yesterday that had I the money to make the costume, I’m built perfectly to be Gato or Robo from Chrono Trigger…I’d do Gato just because it’d be an excuse to sing.
At a comic convention, I’d do Bouncing Boy - toss up between the late era, just to avoid having to shave and original flavour for the more recognizable costume.
I could pull off a generic Starfleet officer today. I had a James T. Kirk costume when I was a kid for Halloween - my mom really worked hard on that - and loved it, but I’m too tall and don’t really look like Shatner (not that I ever really did, truth be told).
If I ever get around to going to a convention, I’m going to put together a Herschel Clay costume, from PS238. All it’d take would be coveralls, a ball cap, a beard, some PS238 patches, a toolbelt, and a big honkin’ wrench.
– The drum major from The Black Parade album by My Chemical Romance. If I ever see a plain skeleton shirt I have been planning to pick it up in preparation for this, but every one seems to have some sort of logo on it. Shakos seem hard to come by too but I haven’t looked hard for them
– Coraline from the movie. Yeah, I’m a 30 something male, but the individual items shouldn’t be that hard to come by vis a vis the Black Parade skeleton. I even have a suitably-sized dragonfly I could paint and put on my blue wig if/when I get it. (And if I ever find a school bus yellow mack I will also have to snatch it up too as that would probably make the most identifiable Coraline outfit.)
I’ve done Toadette before, which worked out well because it was a big Mario group and all the princesses were taken anyway. I’ve also done a Tonberry (the little green dudes in the brown cloaks from Final Fantasy that are all STABBITY ).
My motto is this: I will never be Fat Faye, the cousin of Man Faye. Man Faye, for those who do not know, is a fat hairy guy who dressed up as Faye Valentine, a skimpily-dressed woman from Cowboy Bebop, and subsequently got kicked out of several cons for his behavior.
