Some of you may remember my old cosplay thread. It's in a terrible state, with most of the pictures no longer working. I decided, since I've done a lot more in terms of cosplay since the last time I was on Arlong Park that, even if I haven't cosplayed One Piece in ages, I should share what I have been doing.
Some of you may want to invert your eyes as I am chubby and have been wearing spandex more than someone my size should. As far as why I cosplay and where the title of the thread comes from I figured I'd explain in an effort to give more background on myself and my hobbies. I've been going to conventions of various types (mostly Anime and Comic Book conventions) since I was 11, when I was first introduced to the idea of cosplay. Upon returning home I immediately started plotting my first costume–Squall Leonhart, from my lifelong favorite videogame, Final Fantasy VIII.
Now I'm 23 and I've been cosplaying ever since. My reasons for doing so are slightly different from most peoples, as some of you may know I value nothing more in this world than a good story. After spending many years studying theatre, acting in general, and psychology as a means to further my understanding of humanity and as such create more believable characters on my own. Several years ago I decided to take this to the next level, splice in my love for silly voices and impersonations, and bring it in to my cosplaying.
So these days a large portion of the research I put in to my costumes is a psychological analysis of the character and the things that make them tick as well as developing my own personal interpretation of the character-- that is to say deciding the voice, mannerisms, and body language I'll use as the character. I'm not a talented seamstress, admittedly I can't sew at all, but I have gained some notoriety in my local circles for committing myself to not only dressing as the character but for acting as them the entire time I'm in costume, very rarely breaking my persona.
People seem to like my Joker and Gaston for that in particular, it's a fun time for me at the very least. Hence why I named this thread as I did.
All that aside I'm going to start posting cosplay stuff.
John Constantine
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The Joker (Inspired by Batman the Animate series as well as the comics)
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Batman
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Thor (modern comics version)
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Whitebeard
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Gaston
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Squall Leonhart
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Timeskip Sanji
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Snow Villiers (FF13 version)
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I'll be adding more later, but for now heres some of my various costumes