Hello and welcome to the Genericon post you’ve all been waiting for!! This might have to be split up between two posts simply because of all the happenings, we’ll find out.
This year’s convention was full of many emotions. Happy, sad, angry, a rainbow of emotions one feels at these events. I met with old friends, and even made a few new friends. In my last post (well, piggyback on a post), you saw that on Sunday, the final day of the convention, was just that, a rainbow of emotions. However this covers the first day of the convention.
After the four of us girls waking up at 6am to get dressed and ready, we left for the convention at 10:30am. Arriving at 10:47, we sat in line for a whole hour, receiving our badges at 11:47. After waiting in the frigid cold for an hour, we were overjoyed to finally be in the place we called home, Genericon. The one thing we look forward to every March. It was uniform to us, and the day we don’t go to Genericon, just may as well be the day we’re dying of the plague (but even then, we’d still try and show our faces to the place we began our cosplay journey.) Whenever times get tough and we fall into the dumps, we close our eyes and think of the joy our senpais (先輩, or upperclassman, senior employee or other older person) and kohais (後輩 the junior or lower person) will bring us. We just count down the days to that first weekend in March that we travel to religiously and lovingly.
This convention is something my friends and I hold dear to us all, and is really honestly the one time I get to meet up with my friends from “faraway lands” as I say. It’s always refreshing to meet up with your friends you haven’t seen in a full year, and visit artists’ tables that you haven’t seen since the last convention. Even friends from school attended, and it’s really the only time we have to hang out with our busy schedules. Friends who graduated, friends I don’t get to see in the mornings, friends I don’t have classes with, and friends I only get to see at the convention.
Day two started with a panel “Ouran Host Club Commoner Day” where Shaylee got to participate in one of their “commoner games” of Red Light Green Light. We then visited my favorite artist (and that was already covered in a different post), and then I ran into a couple friends from Sage, too!! It was pretty cool seeing them there. I took so many pictures (more than Tumblr will let me post at once😓). We visited mainly wandered around until 2:00 when the final and main event happened: The Cosplay Deathmatch! “The thrill of battle; the sting of defeat; the heady taste of victory. In this event, two characters enter the ring, but only one will leave it alive. Your cheers will propel your favored champion to victory, and consign the loser to an agonizing defeat. Once a winner is declared by you, the audience, they will be given the strength to defeat their foe to sate your thirst for violence.”
My friend Christina actually won this year as Moira from Overwatch, and funny thing is, they won a year or so ago as Christopher Robin! (I can’t find my picture of that though)
Overall, it was an eventful convention and I wish to be able to go every single year, and I’m already planning my cosplay lineup for next year! Thanks Genericon 2018!
