First off, how was everyone’s Halloween? Hope you guys had a good time, cause I sure as hell didn't! XD
Charlie and I re-used our Hunk and Ada Wong cosplays for Halloween, and I swear, never wearing Hunk in the pitch dark again. I managed to walk into more than one bin, subsequent to being violently and murderously attacked by tree branches.
So when we (Charlie, Friend Stephen and myself) made it to wherever we were going, it was apparently a house party, but of course I couldn't tell since the moment I walked in, my gas mask fogged up to holy hell and had to be led through a sea of drunken wowing people.
(On a side note, I forgot to mention that after braving the entire expo weekend unscathed, Hunk's red lenses managed to fall out IN THE BAG which meant a trip to Tesco's to buy some glue of which we all got ID'ed and then promptly insulted by the girl working there. *takes breath*)
SO.
House parties...what’s the definition? When an adolescent hosts a gathering of similarly aged adolescents to drunkenly converse, accompanied closely by food and drink. Well we got the adolescent part right. Shame about the 0% food and drink. Needless to say we didn't stay long.
Went back to Stephens flat, and was then thrown out because he was too tired. Like he couldn't have let us wait until Charlie’s mum picked us up (Note by this time its 1:45 AM and fucking freezing outside)
So we were evicted, actually managed to find Charlie's mum, and I was comatosed.

Could have had a better night inside playing videogames and drinking with my woman!.

MOVING ON TO THE REAL REASON OF THIS JOURNAL.

London MCM Expo! Was...less spectacular than I was hoping for.
Don't get me wrong, seeing everyone again was absolutely amazing and by far the best part of expo as a whole. But I simply didn't get the same buzz from expo this year, of which there were many reasons for, but I’ll start at the start.

On the Thursday before Expo weekend, Charlie, Darran and I quite literally stayed up all night to finish our cosplays which consisted of an unfinished Prince of Persia and Sword, A -really- unfinished and disgustingly complicated Elika, and one Allen Walker sword that was so heavy it could have left a crater in the concrete if dropped.
we made a deadline of 5AM to finish cosplays as much as possible and pack our bags at the same time. Bless Charlie's mum who stayed up until about 3:30 to help us as much as she possibly could, we couldn't have done it without her.
So before we ordered Darran home to pack his bag and catch a couple hours sleep before driving, 5am came, and Darran arrived with a suitcase big enough to house 1000 mudkips that took up the ENTIRE boot.
So we unpacked his suitcase, re packed it into something smaller, squeezed our cases in to his tiny ford fiesta, managed to get his beast of a sword in too which made the car suspension lower millimetres from the ground with its weight, and headed up to our friend Keir's who was driving down to London in his awesomely efficient diesel car.
2 hours late, we got to Keir's, ate porridge, I sat in a daze of disbelief that my body hadn't shut down yet from tiredness.
Off we went! The drive took longer than expected, and we spent a fortune at the pit-stops on energy drinks and food. We also bought a furry haggis at the Scotland border for our friend from Belgium whom we were meeting at expo and called it 'OM, NOMNOMNOM' It even had a squeaker and was reluctant to part with it.
So we left at about 8am, perhaps 9, and arrived in London at our hotels at 7pm. Keir was amazing the entire way down and hardly needed to stop.

Saturday then came! And I forgot my phone with all it's contacts to find people ><
In the morning I cosplayed my OC Arica, and quite possibly the most comfy cosplay I have ever worn.
Charlie was furiously finishing Elika before the afternoon and the masquerade. We were quite litterally queuing for the masquerade while sewing shin guards onto the Prince and finishing Elika, and then proceeded to argue about what we were going to do onstage during the entry that was on before us.
The highlights of Saturday?
Bumping into (ISAAC’S BUM-LOVING CORTANA) and
Seeing our friend from Belgium again >w<
And of course THE HALO WARTGOG <3333

The downside of Saturday? No one liked the Prince and Elika despite how much we stressed over them. Saturday was just stress after stress over everything else. And I was too shy to say hello to or ><;;;;
Got back to the hotel and I fell asleep. Bah.

SUNDAY.
I thought was going to be a disaster. Not to go into too much detail, but I made the mistake of inviting someone to join my friends and I at expo a few months back, this was before he started to very openly threaten Charlie because he believed I ’belonged’ to him in some sense. I asked some friends what I should do, because I’d never stood someone up before like that and felt really guilty, but by the power of Kit’s hair and everyone’s advice I decided not to meet him.
And he stood outside our hotel for at least 3 hours. Thankfully I was cosplaying Hunk that day and was able to successfully walk past him more than once unnoticed (By god, he was so tall and big it looked like he could break me in two O_O)

I kept my gas mask on most of the day just in case >< And by god thank you so much for your advice on the matter <333

SO! Despite that, Sunday rolled on better than I thought, Charlie and I were Hunk and Ada Wong from Resident Evil that day, Charlie was plain sexy and I felt so badass with my gas mask and gun XD
We found and too >W< Love you guysssss!
I got my hoodie and straighteners back finally, and omg, watched Ruepaw (more than once 8D) up on lego rock singing- You’ve got one hell of a voice! O_O
I followed behind and played drums as Hunk-dhat was fun owo.
We missed the masquerade, but regardless Sunday was much better despite some crap ^___^
In the evening, Darran, Keir, Charlie and I went to the pub, met up with some friends and had a drink till the wee hours of the morning ^^

Monday we went to Camden market. I spent too much (as you do) and then we got back on the road at about 5pm, didn’t arrive back to Scotland till 3am and yea..! That’s it XD
Expo was semi ok, not as good as last year, probably because all Charlie and I did was stress and argue coupled with everything else.
Anywho, see you in May!
And I’ll post *NEW* cosplay updates soon ;D tata

-Phi