/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Not a convention and no one mistook who I was, but this past Halloween, I worked really hard to make this Morgana costume (from LoL -- she's my mid main) and went to a Halloween party centered around geek/nerd culture.

No one recognized who I was (closest I got was "OH, you're from... WoW, right?") at first glance even though it was really obvious. Which would have been fine -- sure, maybe nobody there played League.

Someone came up to me and asked what I was supposed to be. I said, "Morgana from League of Legends," and his immediate response was to scoff at me and say, "Do you even PLAY League of Legends?"

He later insinuated that I was just "some cosplay girl" trying to get attention by dressing up in a slutty costume, and it ruined my whole night because I just had to laugh it off and be like, "That's really dumb, who does that?" basically

Whole experience especially sucked because I was really, really nervous about wearing the costume, even though I made it specifically for Halloween and worked around the clock to finish it, BECAUSE I didn't want to seem like a "slutty cosplay girl." Almost didn't go to the party in the first place but was strongly encouraged to go, and my boyfriend said that no one would think that of me.

...granted that only a few people even actually dressed up at the event, and my costume was by far the most serious of all of them. ;-;