10-year career – Dragon Con 2010 with Riddle

Celebrating my 10-year career! Souvenir from 2010: the 1st time I attended a convention! And not any convention: Dragon Con!

A long time ago, I started exchanging mails with a lovely girl who was dressing up as different characters. She was living in Atlanta. One day I was driving home, coming back from a photoshoot in Florida. (Yes, I traveled by drive a lot in my life and I explored the American East Coast more than once, driving from Quebec to Florida.) On my way back home, I was crossing  Georgia and decided to contact that girl I had been talking to online. Maybe we could meet in person? Riki and her husband Chris accepted to meet me and we became friends instantly!

 
Riki and Chris invited me to stay at their place and to attend Dragon Con, which was apparently a huge convention. I had barely discovered cosplay the year before with the release of the Mortal Kombat Frost pics. I had never attended a convention or comiccon and I didn’t know anything about it, except that some people were dressing up as characters to attend those events.

I made, especially for this convention, a first simple costume from an obscure Japanese anime. I don’t even remember the name of this character with the pink hair! lol I also made the more complicated costume of Seras Victoria from Hellsing, which I was watching at the time, and I thought it would be cool because she had short blond hair like me. (Have any of you ever noticed how the jacket sticks between my boobs like in the anime? This remains one of my great secret pattern drafting/sewing techniques.) And since I didn’t have more time to make other #costumes, I brought the first version of my latex Hornet costume from Heroes of the North. I had started playing as an actress in the live action webseries earlier that year.

And here I am with the incredible Riddle, attending my very first convention… and I loved it! Riki introduced me to other cosplayers, comic book artists, she explained me everything I had to know about cosplay and conventions.  And it was the beginning of an adventure!