Okay, I’ve been to a few expos in my years of cosplay experience and…this has to be the worst that has happened to me so far. I was cosplaying Akita Neru Matryoshka, one of my friends was cosplaying Luka Matryoshka (I’ll call her Ali) and another cosplayed Miku Matryoshka (I’ll call her Oli). We were enjoying half way of the expo, socialising to people when this late 20 year old man came up to us…I didn’t know this at the time, but he was apparently cosplaying Kaito (I’ll call him Ian)…but I couldn’t tell, Ian only wore a wig and casual clothes. First Ian asked us for hugs which we all did. It was okay at first because he was only asking us for our facebooks, most people did. Then when we started to move on but Ian started tagging along with us, asking me if that was okay so I said sure..unsure of what to say.

As Ali and Oli talked to other cosplayers I was stuck with him. He kept talking to me and suddenly pulled me into a more romantic hug than just a hug and he kept saying “oh, you’re so cute” and gazed at me hungrily. I was nervously laughing and trying to pull away but Ian didn’t budge. He then said “can I have a kiss on the cheek?” I admit I was scared at this point because I suffer anxiety so I did, thinking that’s all he would want and would let me go…I was so wrong. 

“Do you have a boyfriend?” I didn’t, so I said I don’t have one and before I could tell him to let me go Ian kissed me. ON THE LIPS. He was trying to snog me. But I wasn’t letting him. I was tense and struggled to get him off of me. He was in his late 20’s and I was only 14! He kept pulling away for air and go back to snog me, I just wanted to throw up in his mouth.

Eventually I pushed him away from me and went to Oli and Ali whilst he was talking to other cosplayers. I told them what happened and they were horrified, we started to make a run to hide behind a caravan but Ian saw us, and made his way to us.

Ali and Oli grabbed my hands and we ran to a tall male Ciel cosplayer. We told him the situation and pointed to Ian and the Ciel said to us “don’t worry, I won’t let him get you guys” and glared at Ian who turned the other way.

When we got home from that day, surprisingly Ian didn’t ruin my day, it was a fun expo day but when I checked on facebook he sent me a message saying “hi, I’m the man with the blue wig :)” so then Ali sent him a message back saying I was her girlfriend and she would have battered him if she saw what Ian did. He apologised and left me alone.

The moral of this story? Stick close to your friends, because if they turn their back for a moment, you could be snogged by a weeaboo =A=