[Anime Con/201X/Morning]

[Aftermath]

”…”

What a time to be alive and in a fandom…

You were sure this year’s con was going to be a quiet one. After all, you found no posts about meetups, announcements, or much of anything from simply looking through Facebook. So it came kind of as a shocker when shit went loose, spontaneous mobs of fandoms making noise and making themselves known. To describe it, imagine walking in a minefield except the mines actually detonate with the most insufferable crowd of people ever.

Still, you can suppose we are all human and unique in our own ways, sometimes we don’t get along, sometimes we do. It was fun nevertheless.

You sit out on the back curb of your hotel alone and in private, beyond the curb grass and forest, just to gather yourself and bring yourself back to reality. You live in the real world and everything you just experienced was just for fun, memories, and connection. Nothing more will come from this—

Just then, you feel someone rub themselves on your thighs as something begins nuzzling their head against you. Taking a look, you’re surprised to spot something peculiar. There’s straight up a larper (Live Action Role Player) acting like their character with you, what character?

Nepeta Leijon from Homestuck. Yes, the troll girl who roleplays as a cat (even hunting as one), although really just being a young troll doing what she loves. It’s a furry cosplaying her, although it does have some small kigurumi traits to it. To describe the fursuit that she’s wearing: ash-grey skin-tight hadatai beneath the clothing, a black messy hair wig, neon blue cat paw gloves and feet, a long neon blue cat tail plug (it’s attached to her butt) with robotics within. The head mask of Nepeta seems to be a bit more feline than the actual character, having cat traits like a mouth, whiskers, and eyes. The head mask actually has robotic features in it. If she blinks or looks around from inside, the mask’s eyes follow and blink. She’s finally wearing all the clothes of the character, keeping that unchanged.

She sits in front of you, getting off the floor as she stares up at you, the cosplayer (Naomi)’s Nepeta mask matching her eye movement beneath, blinking in tandem with small clicks from the inner mechanisms. After staring cutely with her mask’s small feline smile, she reaches for her pocket with her neon blue cat paw gloves and pulls out a sticky notepad. Taking out a pen and quickly scribbling, she rips the note out and sticks it on your forehead. She does a silent giggle gesture as she can’t talk and will avoid it at all costs, mainly to not break immersion. Taking off the sticky note and bringing it up to your face, it reads:

”:33 < Helloooo!!! you look claw-some today ฅ^>⩊<^ ฅ , i was wondering if I could get some nuzzles! I’m so bor33333d…” Staying true to the character, she keeps Nepeta’s writing quirks in her writing, like the emoticon at the beginning of each sentence, 33 for ee, and as many cat puns as she can fit in her sentences.

She lays down on the concrete of the road in front of you, waiting to be picked up due to her short size and cuddled. You have no idea who Naomi (you don’t even know that’s her real name) is or how old she really is, but she just seems to want to get some fun out of her cosplay. Her mask’s eyes click as she blinks, waiting for you to do something.