The Will has just came back from Melbourne after going to the Madman National Cosplay Championships event. *nosebleeds into oceans*

And the apocalyptic diarrhea that follows an interstate trip is....

THE A.K WILL, GARLIC REPORT!!!! <3333

YEARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! *jumps into fire*

Brainrapingly long post alert.


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November 12th, Thursday
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The day started off with a Japanese final written exam. I turned up 15 minutes later than the rest of the class, and was the first one to be out of the classroom. *charges into a wall*

Then was the eventful train trip to the airport during which I told off an elderly man.

Which brings us to the earliest sidestory yet!


~~~~~~~~~~~ Sidestory 1 ~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~The Raging Will~~~~~~~~~~

Will is sitting in the train, with his luggage and giant weapon box in front of him.
Train stops. Man boards train.

Man: Move that thing over so I can sit down.

Will proceeds to move his luggage out of the way.
Without waiting for Will to finish moving luggage, man kicks Will's luggage out of his way and sits down.

Will: Excuse me *wanted to add fucktard to the end of this but refrained*! Do you mind?
Man: What do you MEAN "do you mind"? I want to sit down!
Will: Yes, and you asked me to move my luggage, which I was doing so that you could..*man interrupts*
Man: I'm 70 years old I deserve to sit down you stupid brat. Learn to respect your elders!

*Will snaps at this point*

Will: AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *literally I laughed like that* So your poor elderly legs put up with you for 70 years and have the strength to kick other people's luggage out of the way but fail to stand up for another 2 seconds while things are moved out of your way. Seriously grandpa, if you're conscientious enough about your old age that you feel the need to sit down on public transport, you should also consider the possibility of breaking your foot when you kick someone's luggage. Being 70 doesn't give you any excuse for rude and distasteful conduct in public, and it doesn't in any way give you a reason to be conceited to people younger than you. If anything it gives you the responsibility to practice something called common courtesy, which you obviously DON'T HAVE. Being old doesn't give you any more respect unless you carry yourself in a way that is worth how long you have been alive for. I don't give a toss how old you are, you WILL respect my belongings.

Man: How dare you talk to me like that! Get off this train! Go get yourself a fucking car!

Will: AHAHAHA! I will get off when I need to. Maybe you should go get yourself a bloody mother who will teach you some etiquette ....wait...no, what am I thinking, you've probably KICKED HER ASIDE TOO. BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Note: in between this dialogue, all surrounding passengers were telling the man off for me....buahahaha!
and Will managed to get through this whole rage without swearing even once.
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After that exciting train ride came a long wait for the flight, which was delayed by an hour because of stormy weather.

3 hours later, I arrived in Melbourne at 11:30pm.

I had missed the last train to Ballarat, a hole which is 2 hours away from Melbourne, where and live. *vomits whales*

Now, I have realized that, there was NO STAFF, NO OPEN TICKET BOOTH, and NO RESOURCEFUL HUMAN EXISTENCE around Southern Cross station!!!!!! NO ONE AT ALL! D: D: D:

There was a cleaner who didn't know what the word "Train" meant working at the train station....and there was a security guard who didn't know where the ticket machines were....*facepalm headpole*

So after long and unsubtle persuasion by me, Portal and Andrew decided to set off by car, at 11:50pm all the way from Ballarat to Melbourne to pick me up XDDDD


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November 13th, Friday
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1:50 am, I have settled down in a nearby 7 Eleven store, and have gone through 2 super bowl beef noodles, and 3 Maxi cup Slurpees.

The boys were still not here...
I got several messages from Portal that they first missed an exit, then they got screwed over by road works. LOL!

At the sacred time of 2:15am, and arrived at Southern Cross station to see me sitting outside Hungry Jacks with a half naked man behind me.

We were not acquainted in any way.

After we fitted in all my giant luggage into Andrew's car, the REAL adventure of the car trip began.

The sheer amount of "roadworks" that were going on in Melbourne at that time were suddenly brought to my awareness as soon as we attempted to get out of Melbourne. Nearly EVERY main road leading to a bridge out of Melbourne were blocked off by snow cones and road workers who were doing absolutely nothing, and we were led into detours that confused us to the depths of hell with its lack of signs and directions. *drives off a cliff*

After ending up in alleyways and factories and dead ends following the detour signs, Andrew snapped and decided to try the "go left at every turn" trick...which failed miserably as we arrived at the same road worker playing with his helmet....

The road rage and shenanigans continued for another 2 hours until we safely (kind of) arrived at the Ballarat house...and about 4:30am.

Sleepy time followed.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zz~~~

When we woke up the next day, it was 1pm in the afternoon.

We had a goal for the day: to have all the 3 of us finish all things costume related and be out of the house to catch the train to Melbourne at 8pm.

Before doing anything, we went out and around town, picking up the Dunks and the Han, sorting out real estate stuff, post office, last minute shopping, visiting Portal's school dorm to get things etc etc.

And thus the sweat shop began, I had a finishing touch to add to my Cloud Tsurugi. Rowan had things to glue together for his Desert Punk Helmet. and Andrew had to make new pants for Sesshoumaru.



Andrew is happy to see you




This leads us to another novel side story~

~~~~~~~~Side story 2~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~This is Destiny~~~~~~~

At the beginning of the day, was worried over the contact lenses that he was supposed to receive in the mail for his Spike cosplay. He had decided to cosplay spike instead of any armoured character because of the hellish weather.

During the day we went to the post office to check, but no luck.
And so, and I convinced him to finish his desert punk helmet and go as Desert Punk for the weekend. (now this is a killer heat costume)

*In the afternoon*

Rowan: fuuuuwah~! *satisfied with his completed costume*
Andrew: you know what would be really funny? If those lenses are in the mail box now! *goes outside to check mailbox*

....

....

....

Andrew comes back into the house with lenses in a package.

Rowan: FUCK!

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8pm came along before we knew it.
I was finished and packed, ready to go, and whoring myself on DA and facebook, waiting for departure. Portal was ready also, on another laptop procrastinating.

Andrew on the other hand, had not started sewing his pants together LOL but reassures the rest of the house that the pants will take no longer than 10 minutes, and that Friday trains run until 11pm!

With the new spare time, I decided to head into the bathroom with my scissors, and cut my hair because it was getting too long to fit into my wigs, and for the hot weather.

And I made a bet with the house that I would be finished before Andrew finishes his pants.

During the hair cutting, I turned around to talk to one of the boys about something, which I forgot what...and something colourful happened



It kept gushing for AGES, it was very epic. and of course, like previous injury incidents, the first thing I thought about was getting a DSLR on site.

....

10pm. I had finished cutting my hair. I had wrapped the finger up. Cloud wig also got a bit of extra attention.

Andrew was not ready XDDDDDDD *rofl's into the ocean*

At that time, Rowan suddenly realized something....

.....

.....drumrolls.....

.....dun dun dun....


....that we haven't made the slides for our Panel yet!

*head desk through a wall*

Panel slides were then smacked together by altering our Manifest panel, googling and DA searching all useful pictures as well as some sexy pictures of and XDDDDD

After that, I joked that it would be funny if there were no more trains...so Rowan went online and checked....I was right XD

Now that we had to drive ANYWAY, we decided to take our sweet time and leave whenever we are ready without any further rush.

At 12am, we were ready to leave.
Thus, the 3 stooges boys set off onto another road trip to Melbourne City.

We arrived @ Urban Central Backpackers at about 2am.


Sleep time was inserted here.


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November 14th, Saturday. THE CON DAY
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Finally, after a splurge of useless information, we are at the CON DAY!

We caught a tram to the venue as per instructions from the hostel people.

We arrived, and failed to see the venue anywhere...we were at a lakeside park, the hotel venue was no where to be seen.

Later we found out that we were all the way on the wrong side of a GINORMOUS lake, which we attempted to walk around....and failed with heatstroke, and called a cab in the end. *smacks head. *jumps out of a lake*


Finally at the convention, I was surprised to see how little amount of people there were. There was no queue, and no freaks lurking outside like you normal cons.

There was a very nice glass table for me to put Y-kun, my weapon box.
I did a quick sword assembly there, and that table became our headquarters.

Then as I walked around I met up with and saw , *drowns in the smex*

With Yumi Kagura <33


Hey Giorgia, I really love your costume <3


The very professional K, Sly and Aly.



Everyone looked amazing in their costumes~

First I went to witness the last bit of K and Aly's delicious TRAP panel <3333 which was as beautiful and deceiving as always XD

After that panel, it was 45 minutes of bumming around with friends,

harassing the coffee stall to let me make coffee...



and practicing the lolzful skit with , who brought the most EPIC items for the skit.





Come panel time, I presented the Props and Armour making panel on the main stage with

We made Aly stand up and show her sexay boday at the end~ huhuhu

There were quite alot of audience to my surprise and the panel was really well received, and I got alot of compliments for the panel afterward...which was also surprising because everyone was so quiet during the panel that I thought they must be really unimpressed apparently I was wrong

So a big thank you to everyone who came and saw the panel. And I hope that you found it useful in some way or another.


Come normal cosplay comp time~

and I entered as a group, named Fattypatatou, as Advent Children Aeris and Cloud.

And performed, excuse the narcissism, the BEST SKIT EVARGH.
Here is what it looked like.

Fattypatarou


Did someone say fanservice


Henshin!



"Sephiroth will LOVE you"


Hmmm......



You will understand what is going on if you have played classic FFVII. And if not........fanservice....i guess :s



I haven't found a video of this yet...so if you were in the audience and took a video, or you find the video online somewhere, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!! because I WANT IT!!! *chokes on a crab*

The normal comp was filled with both beautiful costumes and underwhelming costumes to say the least. *slaps self*

Congrats to Andrew for taking out Best Male~, Jess and Tess for taking out best group <333, Giorgia for taking out Runner up Female!!!



.....and then it was time.

the MAIN EVENT, MADMAN NATIONALS GRAND FINALS!!!!



First on stage was Jenita. Cosplaying the most unexpected character, the Laputa Robot, with a skit that cracked my sides open.

Then, came QUEEN SIERA~ in an absolutely beautiful Princess Tutu costume, with a graceful ballet skit.

Then came Robyn, in an amazing and daring Kos-Mos outfit. Mowing down the audience with her dynamic performance.

Fourth up was TWINNY MIN!!!!!! <333333 Performing a sexy spoiler skit as R2 Suzaku. Every piece of costume on stage was made with stunning detail~ and I was resisting shouting out GO TWINNY during the skit very very hard.

Last but certainly not least.....was Sydney.....NORTHERN SUBURB'S VERY OWN: CHRISTIE, in a stunningly beautiful and detailed Alice dress and a heart breaking skit.



Everyone did a such an epic job and the result were:

5th place: Jenita robot.
4th place: Robyn robot.

3rd place: TWINNYZAKU R2!!!!!!
2nd place: QUEEN TUTU!!!!!
1st place: CHRISTIE ALICE IN SMEXAYLAND!!!!

WOOOOOOOOT!!!!! *sea of happy*

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After lots of epic hugs and tears and happy rainbows, we all went our separate ways to get ready for the after party @ Korean BBQ and bowling bar place~


Now, Korean BBQ was too epic and full of unwordable rofl that I can only document it in the form of photo spam:


With the twinny


With the queen



With Christie and Bryan


The Toyota chicks



At the bowling bar place, we experienced kinky drinks that went by really tres fashion names like... "Love....Kills.....SLOWWWWLY"....

K Tres Fashion


witnessed the most RIGGED game of air hickey between Aly and Siera...

witnessed Sly, the dancing King.



and the happening of this:

~~~~~~Side story 3~~~~~~~~
~~~~~The Ice Maidens~~~~~~

Will is sitting on a table enjoying his drink with Aly K and Siera on the seats.

Will has finished his drink...the bar man had given him a heap of ice...
Aly started to complain how hot she was...

Will grabs a chunk of ice...and basket ball shoots it at Aly...and it slotted cleanly into Aly's cleavage.

Aly screams and instead of taking revenge on Will, grabs a bunch of ice and stuffs it down Siera's boob.

War broke out and everntually all the girls were in an ice fight....after about 10 minutes...

Siera screamed as someone put another handful of ice down her back, "Who STARTED THIS!!!! ARGH!!!!!"

Aly stops in her tracks....and points at Will...."...HIM! IT'S ALL HIS FAULT"

Will was then suddenly tackled from behind by an unknown organism, and was fed ice from every opening of his clothing, until someone sober came and broke the chaos up.
~~~~~~~end~~~~~~~


By the end of the night, was completely wasted, and I had failed to accomplish my goal of getting completely smashed.... D:


On the way back to the hostel, Andrew and I unsubtly planned to tell incriminating stories to Rowan the next morning....which the drunk Rowan took seriously and we laughed at the wails of "NooOOOoOOOooOOOooooOOOOOOooO!!!!!!!"

Content of these stories are kept confidential.


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November 15th, Sunday, the aftermath
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We checked out of the hostel, got our stuff and headed back to Ballarat. This day consisted of a quiet drive home, followed by a day of cleaning up and bumming around.

~~~~~~~Side story 4~~~~~~~~
~~~~Synchronised Eating~~~~

At 2pm, Rowan began to suggest food.
Andrew and I nodded at the idea, and continued facebook and DA whore sessions...

at 3pm, Will suggested food.
Andrew and Rowan nodded at the idea and continued on their online conversations, Rowan puts in a DVD of Cowboy Bebop.

At 4pm, Andrew suggests food.
Will is hooked on Cowboy Bebop and flicks to the next episode.
Rowan is watching Bebop with Will.

At 5pm, all three stooges simultaneously suggested food.
It was the middle of a Bebop episode....Will suggests to go buy food as soon the the episode ends.

Episode ends...boys finally went out to order massive amounts of pizza and pasta

~~~~~~~~~End~~~~~~~~~

The rest of this night was spent watching Bebop and eating.

Cowboy bebop proved too uneventful for Andrew who fell asleep in the most tres freaky position ever, with his eyes OPEN...




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November 16th, Monday, Photoshoot
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Yet another lazy day for the three stooges.
Andrew the anti-sleep stooge woke up at 9am, Rowan the fibre-stooge slept until a visitor Tom came knocking.
Will, the Garlic Stooge slept through all events until he woke up.

Originally a photoshoot was planned for the three stooges on this day, but all three decided to laze around some more instead whilst subtly cleaning up every few hours.

An uneventful day was filled with internet, WCS research and task splitting, impulsive costume decisions, topped up with a night of Cowboy Bebop, which we finished during the night.

hmmm....I liked the series....although I did find some places sudden and underdeveloped. A genuinely amusing series.


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November 17th, Tuesday, The Final Day
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It's here guys! the last day of the trip......FINALLY!
And it is the most hilarious day yet.

After some brief and highly impulsive planning the day before, I decided to spend the morning with , photoshooting FFVII AC at 's awesome workplace. BUWAHAHAH, and then spend the afternoon with and friends~

So, I woke up at 4:45am, to catch a train back to Melbourne City at 5:30am. *dies in a fire*

Andrew and Portalsmex kindly woke up with me to see me off at the station. <333333

Arriving at Southern Cross at 7:00am, K was running a bit late, so I went and got dressed into Cloud and put smexy make up on in the guys toilets, copping numerous wtf looks from people and a few random nudges in the elbow from middle aged men. they smudged my make up so many fucking times....


The morning was smexily composed of an amazing photoshoot at Aly's work building...




Thanks sooo much to K-chansmexpantskoalaunclemuffin for some AMAZING shots of Cloud at Shinra.

Then I took some shots for KK as epic Reno~ <3333
I hope you liked those shots

After taking Reno shots, the two of us hurried and packed up to go to Central for Cloud x Reno Purikura. At that very instant, we recieved an urgent call.

It was from .

A man has just parked a motorbike illegally in front of the building and left it there.

Hearing this news, we snatched at the chance to get photos of motorcycle Cloud and bolted towards the other side of the building where the bike was.

Aly watched from the reception counter as two freaks ran towards the bike, took pictures unsubtly and left in a suspicious dash.

Blurry Sneak preview of the shots:




Then, came purikura time....

I think these are quite self explanatory




After purikura, KK has to leave for work before coming back to meet us up in the afternoon before my bus~

Now....due Giorgia and Lex being at work, Luka not feeling too well , and Siera just not picking up her phone , I had alone times with Alypants for lunchhhhh~ <3333

Now...when I am around aly...there are at least one of these....

~~~~~~Sidestory 5!!!~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~Elevator Blues~~~~~

ALy and Will are waiting for an elevator to get out of the purikura building...
They have been talking for about 20 minutes now....

Will: why isn't the elevator stopping at our floor? It's moving around....

.......then Will sees that they hadn't pushed the elevator button .......

~~~~~~end~~~~~~~


Double sidetory combo!

~~~~~~~Side story 6~~~~~~~~~
~~~~Elevator Blues 2~~~~~~~~

Aly and Will finally got an elevator.

They were taken to the 3rd floor.

Aly: what? where the hell is this?
Will: Why did it go up?

People came in and pushed the groud floor button.....

Aly and Will: ..............*jumps off a cliff*


~~~~~~~~~~~End ~~~~~~~~~~~


After the elevator adventures, was the trip to Azakaya Chuji, or something like that.....we caught to tram to a stop near Urban central and walked to the restaurant.

At the restaurant we witnessed unsubtle upselling techniques by the Japanese waitress who asked if we wanted to ordered more after we made the first order.
Aly also got the ordering pen snatched off her by the scary waitress lady when she started to draw on her tissue XDDDD BUWAHAHAHA!!!!!

We had epic sukiyaki and spring onions time. Aly told me all about "vile vegetables"~ LOL

The two of us were joined by Andrew at the restaurant....who i gave wrong instructions to and so didn't make it in time for food mooching....*slits wrists*


Then we went to Galactic Circus, a ginormous games Arcade in Crown Casino....and there....Aly introduced Andrew and I to the most hilarious and ADDICTIVE game.....OF ALL TIME....

PARA PARA PARADISE.....

K had been telling me all morning about it and Aly's addiction to it...and NOW I FINALLY UNDERSTAND....

It's pretty much DDR, but with your arms...so to put it simply....it was the perfect game for someone who spasflails as much as I do.
It is sooo......Skye... and you look like an absolute douchewhore while playing it....

Alypara


Andrewpara


WILLPARA


at the end of the day....

I had become the Para Para King, taking out the top, 1st ranking score, 3rd, 8th, 9th and 10th rank score on Normal Freestyle Mode. LOL!!!

And then occupied the 4th Rank on normal Free Nonstop mode LOL!!!!!!!




note: CRAB is also me.


I have officially left my mark in Melbourne.


At about 5:30pm, we met back up with K outside the airbus terminal, chilled out for an hour or so before I caught the bus out of the city for my flight....

I was very sad to say bye to people again T.T

and now all I can think about is Para Para......*flings arms about*

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Epic Shoutouts time:

Drew - Thanks so much for inviting me to present a panel at such a nice event ^^ I has a lot of fun doing it ^^And it was great seeing you again! Lots of epic love <3333

:iconp0rtalsmex: ~ Thanks for everything over the weekend! Thanks for helping me out with the panel too! You owe me touching fee for groping me when you were drunk. When there are Wills, There are Ways.

~ Thanks so much for having me over this weekend, and driving to and from Melbourne multiple times!!~ furry ball will much looked forward too <3

~ Fattyparou FTW. I LOVED that skit we smacked together. It was seriously the best thing I have EVER done with anyone on stage I had so much fun <3 see you again soon for fatty times <3 LOVE YOU HEAPS <333333

~ You two sexay girl <3 it was so nice seeing you over the weekend~ Thanks for bringing my wig and we shall meet again in WaiCon <333333 lots of love <33333

~ yayyy kagura~ it was awesome seeing you! we must shoot Gintama together some time
: you two are like one entity of overhelmining love and smex. It was absolutely awesome seeing you again and spending times with you two~ Thanks you KK for the amazing photos on Tuesday <3 and Thanks you Alypants for Para Para times! Will will see you again when he flies to Melbourne again soon! And lots of WaiCon love awaits! Lots of love to both of youuu <3333333333

~ Twinny you were soooo hawt in Suzaku! Congratulation on the prize! So much love to you! I can't wait to see you in Waicon and some time in the furute move to Melbourne with youuu! Love you long time~ <33333

~ Siera was the first person at dinner to pro-actively say Willllll and hug me....and I nearly forgot who she was.....I promise I know who you are out of costume now. Congratulations on a lovely finals costume and a well deserved prize <3 Lots of love ^^ see you next time in Melb~

and ~ Giorgia: I had lots of fun playing with your wholesome chesticles. Congratulations on the prize. Lex: I was so sad you weren't at the con D: but it was really nice to see you afterward <33333
Lots of overflowing love to you both <3 <3 <3

~ OHHHH LUKAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~ OHHHH LUKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *breathes heavily* Let me have your babies. That is all <3 Lots of love from Will the will.

~ It was great seeing you again You looked amazing <3 and I really still think you should have went clubbing in that sexy outfit XD looking forward to seeing you again XD

~ Ikinokoritai~ Ikinokoritai~ MADA IKITETAKUNARU~!!!!!! You go girl! Congratulations on the MASSIVE win. It was nice to see you in Melbourne. Weird how we see so little and it's not in Sydney despite being less than 15 minutes away from each other We must shoot Noct Noct Lightning at the awesome station escalators some time Lots of congrats and love~

Slyyyyyy: Congratulations on a successful event! It was very exciting! It was great to see you again and witness your god of dance! See you again some time <3333

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Last but not least
Farewell Y-kun

Most of you probably know Y-kun. He is my interstate giant box for weapons.



This latest trip to Melbourne was the final journey of Y-kun due to the wear and tear that he has been through.

History of Y-kun:
He was born on January 25th, 2009, in preparation for Wai-con Perth. (Waicon....Y-kun...get it? lol)

He has been signed by my closest friends from around Australia. And now the signed surface of Y-kun sleeps peacefully under my bed.

R.I.P. Y-kun. Thanks you for your hard work ^^ We Will not forget you

And that concludes another issue of the Garlic Con Report.
I hope your eyes are still alive >.<


New deviations will be up shortly.

That's about it for now ^^

Lots of Love~
A.K. Will~