Yeah... I could go on a five page ramble about my weekend, but... I'll try to avoid that, for the safety of others...

There was a convention going on that I had gone to last year (ranted about it last year, too, if you remember at all), and of course I went to it this weekend, though I cosplayed this year too... As Toshiro again. ^^

Of course there were video games, anime movies, the usual that everybody does, but there's also boffer fighting... foam sword fighting. If you hadn't read mine last year, the rules are, if you get hit in the arm, you 'lose' that arm, if you get hit in the leg, you have to go down on your knees, getting hit on any two limbs is death, and getting hit on the torso is death. Head shots and neck shots don't count, and then you just wing it with the games that they play. This... is what I did most of the time. XD I had to take off the wig in most cases, due to the fact that it was in danger of getting ruined, and it was very... very... warm in there... lol. The costume saved me and killed me at the same time... I was overheating a good portion of the time in three layers of clothing, but the other people's swords got caught up in them many times over, and those shots don't count against you... lol. Everybody was trying to hit my legs, but all they ended up doing is making my costume flap...lol. (Though someone did catch on them hard enough to cause a four inch rip on the bottom... I wasn't happy...) So that saved me a lot against the really good players...Being stocking foot wasn't fun though... (I have bad impact in my feet... when my foot hits the floor, I feel it really badly in my knees and hips... lol) I slid around a lot when I hit the wooden part of the floor, and when I got my leg chopped off and had to drop to my knees, I landed square on a nerve, where the carpet and wood met where they had a little metal lining... Ouch. It was worth it, though... I won that fight. XD I didn't end up entering the boffer fighting contest, which was probably a good idea, since they guy people ended up calling the Jedi (a guy who makes his own light sabers (they're really nice), and like... won an award for choreographing sword fights... lol) won... And he didn't even duel weild, he just used one sword. It was nice, though... He ended up teaching basics of sword fighting choreography to the general public... (he had to keep swinging his swords around practically acrobatically to keep everybody's attention), so we learned the first 9 basic steps. XD Along with that, I also got some pointers on actually boffer fighting... The 'experts' gave me tips on how to hold things, how to take on people with spears, and how to take on certain people, and I basically got taught something by almsot everybody in the room. o_o... I'm just that special. I was actually able to take on some relatively decent people by the end of the weekend. lol. Yeah... good times, even though I was stiff and dying by the third day, and I have a nice number of bruises... everywhere... ... TOTALLY WORTH IT.

The cosplay contest was... ... interesting. I ended up being found my a Matsumoto (for those of you who don't read bleach, I am Toshiro, a captain, and Matsumoto is my leutenant.), and I got dragged into their cosplay contest... Along with a Shunsui (another male captain). The interesting thing was, their title was "Female Shinigami Association Meeting" ... With me, crossplaying as a small male captain, and Shunsui Kyoraku... I didn't really know how it was going to work out.
I found out how...
They ended up saying that they had some people missing, so Matsumoto had an idea... Ran off stage, dragged me on (I got some cheers. ^^), and goes on like that... Nanao (another female Leutenant) says... that wasn't what I was thinking... So Matsumoto ran off and grabbed another person ( who wasn't from bleach). Everyone acted confused, then Shunsui came on with a bottle...staggering, saying "I found the Sake~!" lol. The meeting ended.... Here's how the whole thing went.
Nanao: Let the Female Shinigame Association Meeting begin! ... ... Who are you?
(Person whose name I forgot): I'm (Name here).
Nanao: What are you doing here?
(Person whose name I forgot): I dunno. I'm just here.
Nanao: ... O...kay... Anyways. ... .. I think We're missing some people.
Matsumoto: .... Oh! I have an idea!! -Runs off stage and drags Me, Hitsugaya, on) Taichou! ((Traslates to Captain, I beleive))
Hitsugaya: ... What am /I/ doing here?
Matsumoto: We needed more people Taichou! -tackle hugs-
Hitsugaya: Sh-shouldn't you be finishing your paperwork?
Matsumoto: Taichou...
Hitsugaya: -shakes head-
Nanao: ... That wasn't exactly what I meant...
Matsumoto: ... Oh! I have another idea! -drags on other character- Look what I found! Look what I found! ... What... did I find? -awkward silence- Are you a boy or a girl?
Oliver (muffle muffle): I'm a girl...
Nanao: ... Are you dead?
Oliver: -sees drunken Shunsui with swords- Y-yes!
Shunsui: I found the Sake!
Matsumoto: Sake!!
Nanao: I /told/ you you were supposed to be finishing your paperwork...
Hitsugaya: You should be finishing /your/ paperwork!
Shunsui and Matsumoto: ... Crap! -both take off running-
Nanao and Hitsugaya: -run after them-

And then I was supposed to shout MATSUMOTO!! and Nanao was supposed to smack Shunsui over the head with her fan, but I was too focused on trying not to slip off of the stage and trip over people, and Nanao was too busy... tripping... ... But itwas fun. Except for the getting glomped part... For those of you who haven't read Bleach or anything, Hitsugaya is short, and Matsumoto is... .. well endowed... And when she hugs him, he is at perfect height to be smothered by her endowment. I was supposed to turn my head to the side, but she didn't give me a chance to, and for a full five seconds, I was not just flailing like an idiot for no reason, I was flailing like an idiot... for air. Seriously, I had no idea those things could be used as weapons, and dude... those things can smother somebody to death. A lot of the guys in the audience were jealous... and I was traumatized. -shudders- Honestly, getting your face lodged in there is not as pleasent as most people would think it would be.

Haha... that wasn't the only traumatizing thing though...We were one of the last cosplay groups, so we only got to watch about five more afterwards... and one of them... I wouldn't have minded missing... A guy was cosplaying Itachi from Naruto, with the long cloke that covered everything, right? Normal? Right? Ahahaha... Uhm... no. He's on stage, and all of a sudden he rips that off, and reveals a very... disturbingly short... maid outfit. ... ... .. ....... -SHUDDERS- That was... so... wrong... I'm not going to go any further. He won one of the awards. -strage gagging noises-

-ahem- .... Anyways... I could keep going, but talking about two things was enough to fill up more than a journal's worth of rambling, so I'll shut up. I had a ton of fun... can't wait until the next con.