Kiana Davis isn’t sure if her obsession with cosplay is healthy — but it sure is fun. The teenager from Hilo wore orange wings on her back and feathers around her neck Saturday at HawaiiCon, a three-day event that took up several ballrooms at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel and featured appearances from TV stars, scientists and comic book creators. The convention, the first of its kind on the Big Island, featured dozens of events and workshops on the themes of science, science fiction and fantasy. Central to it all, of course, was dress-up, or costume play. Decked out as their favorite characters from comic books, video games or TV shows, cosplayers sauntered around in ornate, sometimes bizarre costumes that, in many cases, showed off hours of painstaking handiwork.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 19:34:17 +0000
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