Dressed to be myself

"You realize taking off your tunic isn’t going to fool anyone, right?”

“It isn’t intended to,” Thrawn said. “Take off your tunic and put on this one.”

I swear.

I thought to use this Eli and Thrawn exchange in a totally different context.

But as I said many times, my captions have a life of their own, and they shift and change while I'm sitting here and writing them.

Yesterday night, I had the total blessing to met absolutely beautiful people, in and out, -kind, witty, attentive, smart, funny- just because we share the love for a tall blue alien that has a thing for the word "perhaps."

Discussing what leads people to cosplay, I realized that more than the need to be "someone else", there is the will to show part of what we actually *are* already.

"Taking off your tunic isn't going to fool anyone."

"It isn't intended to."

In a sense, we show what our inner self looks like, or what we feel that it's potentially us, even if we are not there yet.

And if it's true that for experienced cosplayers as @widgetocosplay @holden.aces @amycapcosplay and @masterente the craftsmanship component of the process is a crucial part of the ultimate satisfaction -and they are absolutely brilliant in it-- or links our memories to people and events that we love (our moms, our grandmas, our childhood Halloweens), it's also true that there are "fictional" characters that we simply feel so close and dear and *us* that portraying them is natural, just a way to show ourselves, or a part of it.

A part that other humans in the fandom recognize, acknowledge, accept, and love.

"It isn't intended to."

[I took the photo of my bag with these Eli and Thrawn pins yesterday morning, and they were simply too cute for not sharing them here too. The pins are made by @fantasypinstress on a design of @junkofzeart]