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With­out any ado what­so­ever, here is the hot cos­player of the month for Novem­ber 2009:

1. What is your name, and where do you hail from?
My name’s Karen, and right now I hail from the Florida pan­han­dle. Though, I’m orig­i­nally from Wis­con­sin, and I’ve moved around quite a bit.

2. Tell us a lit­tle about your­self. Do you have any inter­est­ing hob­bies out­side of cos­play?
Well, right now I work as a por­trait pho­tog­ra­pher, though I went to col­lege for graphic design. That being said, I like design­ing things, and I dab­ble in pho­tog­ra­phy some­what! XD I’m also a big dork who draws animu in her spare time — fan art and orig­i­nal char­ac­ters. I can also bake up a mean batch of black & white cook­ies.

3. How long have you been cos­play­ing?
Since 2004, so this was my 5th year cos­play­ing and going to con­ven­tions.

4. What ini­tially drew you to cos­play?
When I first started get­ting into anime, the char­ac­ter designs really stood out to me — they were very aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing, and so darn COOL-looking. I really loved the inter­est­ing out­fits and the odd hairstyles/colors.

5. What was the first char­ac­ter that you cos­played?
My FIRST first was Sailor Nep­tune, back for Hal­loween in the 8th grade — my mom made it for me, and I didn’t even know what cos­play really was back then. The first cos­tume I actu­ally made was Suzuka from Out­law Star, though I only wore it for a back­yard photoshoot.

6. What is your favorite thing about cos­play?
I love get­ting to be my favorite char­ac­ters! It’s really reward­ing to cos­play char­ac­ters you like and iden­tify with. Also, since I’m nor­mally very quiet and reserved, wear­ing the cos­tumes out at con­ven­tions, and get­ting pic­tures taken, and meet­ing other cos­play­ers kinda brings me out of my shell a bit.

7. What is your least favorite thing?
The drama, and the occa­sional creep-o or “awk­ward tur­tle” you can encounter.

8. What was your most enjoy­able cos­play expe­ri­ence?
Group and pair­ing cos­plays are always good for fun times! I don’t know if I can pick a favorite, but a really good expe­ri­ence was per­form­ing a Code Geass skit with my two best friends at Anime North ’09. I’m not really a skit-person, but I had an idea and ran with it. I planned out the dia­logue and songs used, Momo (our Lelouch) helped me with the sound edit­ing, and Matt (our Suzaku) chore­o­graphed it, since he’s all theater-y and knows how that stuff works. In the end, we got a really great response from the audi­ence, and even won an award!

9. And your least?
I’ve never really had any TERRIBLE cos­play expe­ri­ences, though Mega­con ’09 was pretty stress­ful because one of my best friends got really sick and had to be rushed to the hos­pi­tal, and I was really wor­ried for most of the con.

10. What is the last event at which you cos­played, and what did you cos­play?
My last con­ven­tion was Anime Week­end Atlanta, and I cos­played as Tabitha from Zero no Tsukaima, Euphemia from Code Geass, and Mit­suru from Per­sona 3.

11. What is the next event at which you plan to cos­play?
It’ll be Mega­con 2010, in Orlando.

12 What do you have in the works for upcom­ing con­ven­tions or events?
So far, I’m plan­ning on Ciel from Kuroshit­suji (Black But­ler), Minori from Toradora, and Anemone from Eureka Seven for Mega­con. I also have a few dif­fer­ent ver­sions of C.C. from Code Geass (and pos­si­bly a new Euphemia) planned, pos­si­bly a Saoran/Sakura duo with Matt (my cos­play part­ner in crime), as well as a Gur­ren Lagann duo cos­play. We have way too many ideas right now, really. XD

Thank you so much for answer­ing our questions. =)

Here is one final part­ing shot of her amaz­ing cos­play.