Figured I might openly discuss it sometime.
Yeah, I was a girl dressing up as a guy. Call it crossdressing, cosplay, whatever, I fucking loved it and I will do it again, trust me.
Dressing up for the premiere of Watchmen, my first open cosplay attempt, was amazing.
Other then the fact that the mask was the Suffocating Mask of Doom.
I got used to having trouble breathing, but I could barely see anything so it didn't matter if I had my glasses on or off (I took them off until the movie started). I couldn't barely hear, either.
And that caused me to do a lot of stupid things.
The moment I walked in, though, was amazing.
I couldn't see shit, but I felt hundreds of people watching me.
I could hear murmurs, and although I already felt pretty damned badass in my costume, this only increased the awesomeness.
I heard someone screaming 'RORSCHACH!' and someone else saying 'awesome costume'! And I nodded my head a little, seeing as I couldn't speak in fear of having a girly voice Unfortunately, seeing as all of my senses were dulled, I didn't know just how excited I had made my audience. My sister later said that everyone was watching me and talking, and I got billions of comments, only one of which I heard. If I would have known how much attention I got, I would have taken a goddamned bow.
Someone took a picture of me, too. I still don't know what happened to that picture or where it went, lol.
Anyways. Before I got to the theater, there was something that I had wanted to do.
I wanted to link arms with a girl, whether it was my sister or one of her friends, and walk down the aisle and around the theater like a motherfucking pimping Rorschach badass. And you know what? I GOT MY CHANCE!
Me and my sister just got back from the bathroom, where I learned to lift my mask up to get a drink (XDDD YES I TRIED TO TAKE A DRINK BEFORE REALIZING WHAT WAS WRONG!)
and I got her to link arms with me to 'guide me up the stairs'. Otherwise she probably wouldn't have done it.
That was one of the proudest moments of my life, hands down. I felt so fucking awesome, in a trenchcoat, black gloves, black shoes, purple pants, a fucking Rorschach mask and wearing a fucking Fedora, and with a hot babe (I know it was my sister, I'm not being creepy, just trying to make it sound cool...you know? XD NEVERMIND!)holding my arm.
I was about to scream "MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!" right in the middle of the theater, but that would be completely out of character.
Anyways, onto the stupidity.
The movie was over, and I was wondering down to the middle part of the theater, you know, where there's that little break where the stairs end. I was acting all badass, leaning against the rail. Bad idea. My sister and her friends went in the opposite direction that I started walking in, and suddenly I realized my mistake and walked towards them. Then I tripped over a stair. Real great way to be a badass.
I also tripped outside of the movie theater, it was so dark and I couldn't see anything.
So, I did learn something from this whole awesome/humiliating experience:
If you're going to cosplay Rorschach, do it in a place with a lot of light.
It doesn't matter if you have great eyesight or shitty eyesight like me, the mask makes everything blurry as hell.