[ SECRET POST #2308 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2308 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This almost sounds like me!
Only that I only feel seond-hand embarrassment when I see the cosplayers moving (for example in videos) and live it's even worse.
Sometimes it goes so far that I start to blush and feel a bit of a panic they might come over to me and interact with me.

I don't have this problem when the people are not in character. I can admire their effort and the beautiful costumes, ideas, what have you. I don't think cosplay is more "embarrassing" than dressing up for carneval or halloween, but whenever I see someone acting like a character I know from a comic/show/etc. I just start feeling super uneasy.

I can't go to cons because of that. As soon as they come to close I just get so awkward, start to blush, start to sweat and I start looking for the next best way to run off.

I hope no cosplayer takes this personally now. I have no clue myself why I react like that, beause like OP I enjoy dressing up for Halloween or medieval fairs.

[silverau]

I don't know that many people who act in-character for most of cons or interact with random strangers in-character...

[(Anonymous)]

I hate being... put on the spot? I guess you could say? So I am like this, too. Like I love costuming because I make my own clothes, and I think it's amazing to see the work other people can do - turning something that is just ink or pixels into a real, functioning garment is amazing, and I admire anyone with that kind of skill or that kind of showmanship to wear someone else's work. But I don't want to talk to them if they are being 'in character'. This includes face characters at Disney and things like that, and the Rennies at our Faire. I just hate having to interact with 'fictional' characters... it makes me feel like I'm in Drama 101 sucking at improve again. I'm not clever like that and I get anxious and nervous and panicked. It works in reverse, too. The one time I did cosplay, I picked the worst series imaginable and was thoroughly triggered* by the amount of people pawing at me and yelling at me.

*in the actual, panic-attack resulting from childhood abuse sense