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The trauma of Cosplay - It's a dangerous world out there!

In the world of cosplaying and conventions, there are a few cosplayers who stand out from the crowd, and have become online celebrities due to their accurate depictions of video-game characters and their costumes. But is it really all just fun and games? For these "online celebrities" it can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Crazed fans often abuse, degrade and insult them simply because they are dressed as a character that they don't like.

Adella, a popular and well-known Final Fantasy cosplayer, notes some of the scary moments she's had while cosplaying ...

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It gets worse. "When I was at Anime Central, I think in 2004, maybe earlier... I was standing in the lobby of the hotel and talking to someone I had just met," she remembers. "And some girl ran up behind me and grabbed my braid and just yanked, as hard as she could. My head was jerked back and my neck had this awful pain wrench through it. I whirled around and screamed, 'don't touch me!' And she just goes 'I... I just hate Aeris...' and ran off. Like because she hates some fictitious character.. it's okay to physically assault someone dressed up like that character?"

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I know this isn't really specific to FFVII or anything, but I thought it was an interesting read anyways. Sounds like alot of people really hate Aerith



[color=#666666]This message was edited by Gothic Girl on Oct 18 2008.

You're not the only one..


Read it and.. it think someone need slap those little bastards.

As long as you dress up as superman or batman on halloween it's all good, beacause it's AmeriCAN

People who beat up others for having a different hobbies has WAY to much time on their hands.
I don't care if the neighbors has an orgy or are swingers or never has a thing to do. As long as they don't hurt anyone else, let them do to as they please!

I don't get why people get so hung up on things like these, AS IF anyone has the right to judge them or anyone else who think differnt on how they want to use THEIR time.

Seriously, people got to stop pointing out all the differences with everyone and start to look at the simulareties they have.

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Read it and.. it think someone need slap those little bastards.

I agree with you on that, though one could argue it perpetuates the violence >_> But so does doing nothing...

If I saw someone do something like that, I'd catch them, and say "how would you like it if I did (Whatever they did) to you?"

They would have no right to complain if I did it, since they did it themselves, to someone who certainly didn't deserve it...

Sure, if I saw a character I really liked, I'd gush about it to the person, but I wouldn't assault them, or anything >_>

If it was a cute character, I'd be temted to hug them, but you supress that sort of urge, since you know, it could be called sexual harrassment (or just plain harrassment) >_>

Like I said on the gamegrep article, it seems some people see the people cosplaying the character, as only having the same rights as said character, which is none (because they are uhhh, fictional beings that don't exist)....