/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>"Will you join our ____ group? We really need a ______."
>"Well, I don't really know the series and it looks like I'm basically cosplaying Villager A, but I love group cosplay! I'm in!"
>Finish cosplay
>"Whoops, sorry, everyone dropped out and we're not doing it anymore!"
>Cosplays Villager A, so generic no one knows who I am without the main characters around

Unless it was for a masquerade group, this happened for every group I've joined except for maybe two. It's gotten to the point where I only join groups where I love the series and I'm a character who is clearly recognizable without a group (which I should have been doing the entire time).

I understand that sometimes costumes just don't work out and sometimes you just don't have the time/money/energy to complete costumes, but could you at least inform me when you decide to call it off? Not a few days before?