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Into Character
Mar. 7th, 2012 11:33 amI’m helping my Little Brother put together a Link (Legend of Zelda) costume cuz he’s going to Anime Boston and is all excited to dress up. With my considerable (if I do say so myself) skills with cardboard and duct tape we made a sword and shield, and also sewed a pretty decent green tunic and hat. He put the stuff on with a blond wig I got him a while ago (for a Kingdom Hearts costume he did for Halloween) and he looked awesome! I haven’t done costume stuff in a long time, I’d forgotten how satisfying it is to put all the pieces together and see the transformation into Character. My little brother is into Cosplay! Kickass. And he’s saying how he loves K-Pop and he showed me his favorite videos on YouTube of these Asian boybands - super androgynous in makeup and costumes and full-on anime hair (like you do) and he’s all “This is the coolest stuff EVER!”. That’s my boy.
He has his Sony PSP or Nintendo DS or whatever tuned to internet radio on some K-pop/J-pop station and Boa “Duvet” comes on and I kinda freak out “Ohmigod I love this song, I’ve had it forever, it’s from that show Lain!” and it feels definitely weird to hear it in my Little Brother’s house. The stuff I do with him I keep separate from my real life (for obvious reasons, real life including Adult Content like it does) and all of a sudden in Big Brother life I hear this song that I’ve loved for twelve years, a song deeply tied to some of the most profoundly important and occasionally excruciatingly painful experiences and relationships of my life. It’s a powerfully odd feeling - not bad, but odd. People and lives and loves long ago, some continue to this day, some changed in good ways, some bad, and here we all are. It’s a life.
He has his Sony PSP or Nintendo DS or whatever tuned to internet radio on some K-pop/J-pop station and Boa “Duvet” comes on and I kinda freak out “Ohmigod I love this song, I’ve had it forever, it’s from that show Lain!” and it feels definitely weird to hear it in my Little Brother’s house. The stuff I do with him I keep separate from my real life (for obvious reasons, real life including Adult Content like it does) and all of a sudden in Big Brother life I hear this song that I’ve loved for twelve years, a song deeply tied to some of the most profoundly important and occasionally excruciatingly painful experiences and relationships of my life. It’s a powerfully odd feeling - not bad, but odd. People and lives and loves long ago, some continue to this day, some changed in good ways, some bad, and here we all are. It’s a life.
