I didn't manage to finish everything in my costume before this cosplay event, but even with what I managed to do, I'm generally satisfied.
I had fears that the security might not let me through because of the telescopic baton: the knife was dull (I ground off the cutting edge with a grinder), but the baton was in working order. I don't want to spoil a good thing that has already helped me out a couple of times.
As a result, I decided to pull one trick. I packed my things in a certain way by tying metal parts - helve and chain for attaching my fabric cloth that depicted a swarm of insects - to a backpack with cockroaches.
The backpack was divided into two compartments, one external one, which contained cockroaches, and another internal compartment, closer to the back, for personal items. And that’s where I put the telescopic baton, as well as my other things, including a tin container with food.
Thus, I had a plan consisting of several steps and when the metal detector at the entrance triggered, I went to execute them one by one.
Firstly, I arrived almost at the very beginning of the performances, and the security knew that they were about to start, which created certain time boundaries for me and them.
Of course, they could have resisted and searched more thoroughly, but in front of them was a person who looked like a cosplayer and a participant in the show, who was loaded with a bunch of equipment, and did not look threatening (of course I thought through my civil image and behavior).
People usually tend to think stereotypically, and if your appearance and behaviors generally match their idea of a certain group of people and if this group is perceived by them as not posing a threat, then they will easily attribute you to it, without really thinking about some discrepancy in details.
I needed them to perceive me as a harmless, slightly weird cosplayer (which in general is true, but it wouldn't hurt to strengthen this impression so that it reduces the chances of a more complete search and the discovery of a baton, because they definitely wouldn't let me through with a baton).
And my plan worked.
The guards looked at me condescendingly when the metal detector beeped, looked at each other, and in a bored tone they asked me to show what was in my backpack.
(to be continued a little later)
this is fucking great because it is literally exactly what taylor hebert would do if she went to a cosplay convention
even the way op types and describes everything is insanely taylorlike its driving me crazy
NO LITERALLY. someone else in the tags thought it was copy-pasted modified taylor dialogue for a second.
^ this is literally the type of monologue taylor hebert will go on in her head its fucking insane. taylor heberts psychological behavioral predictions to get her baton into the cosplay convention. its unreal. every character rp blog on worm wishes they had a fraction of ops entirely unintentional power
