So . . . I got back from Metrocon a few days ago. I've just been too lazy to post anything. (What else is new? x.x) But I actually had a reason this time, Jenny's moving back to Jacksonville with her mom, and she's leaving like Saturday, so we're in a rush to get all her stuff separated from mine and packed up and shit.

Anyway, despite having a load of troubles in the beginning, we finally got there friday in just enough time for the masquerade ball. I was dressed in a black blazer, tie and pants, and a red dress shirt, with my fedora to top it off. It was supposed to be "Formal Duo". Well, I thought it was cool. Anyway, the Ball was a lot of fun. The "story" to it was that Princess Garnet from FFIX was in disguise at the ball, hiding from Steiner, and she was supposed to be choosing a Prince by the end of the night. Every now and then you'd hear Steiner walking through the crowd yelling "Princess!" Or he'd see her and run after her, but lose her again. One time she grabbed me and hid behind me, and I faked Steiner off so he'd lose her in the crowd again. ^^
The whole time I was mainly "in character" as Duo, so it was really cool when one thing happened . . . there was a small group of girls in big floofy dresses, and one of them backed into me as I tried to slip past her, almost knocking me over. I landed on both feet and reached down to catch her in my arms before she fell. I caught her just like all the men do in those movies where they swing the women back and kiss them and blah blah . . . only I caught her like that purely by accident, to stop her from falling, and I swung her back up on her feet while her friends were freaking out. XD I felt special.

Oh yeah. I forgot to mention. The first cosplayer that I laid my eyes on at this con was a really awesome Axel. He didn't even have a wig, his hair was spiked just right, and dyed red, and everything. XD And I thought, Oh, that's awesome! It's Axel! I gotta get a pictu-- and it was then that I realized, I'd forgotten my camera at the hotel. T.T So I got absolutely NO pictures of the ball. T.T I'll just have to depend on Mabs for those. But, I almost made up for it, I got a record 415+ pictures of Saturday and Sunday alone. x.x (Don't worry, I did get several pictures of Axel, even posing with some other awesome KH2 people.)

Saturday I saw the Anime Human Chess Match. Awesome awesome awesome! I missed the one last year, so I have nothing to compare it to, but as far as I'm concerned, it was awesome. The fight scenes were pulled off wonderfully (and this coming from a 10 year karate student), and there were a lot of great surprises. I could go on for hours about that, especially since I saw the second showing sunday with the alternate ending, but I'll save you from that. ^.~


Lots of great stuff happened, and, as I said, I took over 400 pictures, so that'll be fun to go through. x.x But to me, the highlights of the con were the ball and the chess match.
It'll take me a while to get those pictures up and running, but I'll give you guys some previews if you want. Also, Maboroshi's having some trouble with his site so it'll be a week or two before his pictures are up, and AnimeBelle always takes a few weeks before she gets hers up, but I'll let everyone know when things start showing up.