I'd rather make costumes for them than model, personally. But it's my dream to become a costume designer, so yeaaaah~

Beautiful costume and she looks great but GODDAMN THOSE WINGS. WHY THE GHETTO BOA STRIP.

That'd be really cool! Not sure who I'd want to be sponsored by, though. Maybe if there was a video game I loved to play and the people who created it were going to have a booth at a con, it'd be cool to cosplay as one of the characters and hang around them for a bit, taking pictures or whatnot.

Getting invited to be a Final Fantasy mascot, now that would make me hnnnng. Especially if there were a bunch of the characters and we could all replay scenes at the booth and goof off together.

>>5694938
Too bad Squeenix is so anti-cosplay. It is rather ridiculous. For things like VGL (Video Games Live), they have to cut out Square things because of how uptight they are.

I would've touched up her makeup a bit but this is still really awesome. Good for her and anyone else who can get sponsored like that.

Someday when I am fat enough I'll cosplay Gaben. I'll get sponsored by valve and everything will be beautiful. Totally worth the weight.

>>5694954

They're such heartbreakers.

i'm disappointed with her pit cosplay.

the feathers on the wings look lovely, but the boa part at the top looks tacky.

and the toga looks really thin like it's made out of jersey.

bummer.

>>5694967
my hero

>>5694967
I'm sure you'll be payed a hefty sum.

Congrats, that is an amazing opportunity and I hope she takes this and runs with it!

>>5694982
Saw her at PAX, it looks like it was made from linen. The boa looked okay in person, but a bit tackier in photos.

I thought she was already a model for nintendo? But anyways, big congrats to her!

>>5696390
Yeah isn't this old news?
Although I suppose before she wasn't sponsored because she made the costume before she was hired to be a booth model.

Sponsored implies they paid her to make the costume. So I guess that's new.

She's turning 30 next November, the big 3-0.

That means within five years her wrinkles are gonna start coming in like mad.

Can't wait until Nintendo tells her they need someone younger, cause he's way too fucking old to be cosplaying a 15-year-old boy.

>>5696402
Her working with Nintendo is old news, but now she is getting paid for it and Nintendo has officially called her their Link and Pit. It is just nice to see her get an official statement from them.

>>5696414
Get a life, kiddo.

>>5696426
Says the saging anon on 4chan.

>>5696414
Even then, I'm sure they will still want her to make the costumes, even if they are modeled by someone else. Also who knows where she will be in 5 years? She gets married this year, she might have kids and start a family, changing her priorities.

>>5696414
I think that's plenty of time to continue enjoying her cosplaying...

I mean, you think she's got her LIFE dedicated to this?

>lets just pretend my image is your image mirrored

I am very envious of her exact situation and would love the same! Congrats to her! That is an awesome and amazing opportunity! Nintendo is my favorite company and I used to want nothing more than to work along side them!

>>5696437
It was cool when she was in her teens to mid twenties, but you can plainly see that she's getting older. Don't pay attention to her heavily shooped pics.

Like anon above said, making costumes with a different model is probably what they'll do.

Also, cosplaying and representing a major company like Nintendo aren't the same you fucking idiot.

>>5696472
She still looks baby faced to me in OP, and that is straight from Nintendo's FB. She still has a lot of time left before she starts looking old.

>>5696435
>gets married
She has a boyfriend?

>>5696496
>implying Nintendo doesn't know how to use photoshop

>>5696502
>implying Nintendo has time to sit and perfect photos in Photoshop while working a booth at PAX.

>>5696501

Look closely. You can see her engagement ring.

>>5696501
This is old news.

>>5696472
...but cosplaying to represent a company...

...is still cosplaying...

>>5696511
That photo is obviously edited.

Also, PL fangirl detected.

>>5696523
Wow... really? Like, seriously?

Also, exif data shows no alterations to the image. Troll detected.

is she marrying sai or someone else

>>5696541
You can see where they smoothed out her skin a bit. I don't think it was an over-the-line facial transformation though.

>>5696496
>>5696511
>>5696541

>ZOMGZERS PL-SAMA DOESN'T SHOOP HER PIX! WHAT NONSENSE!

PL's fangirls seriously need a reality check.

How did she get asked to do this? Does she get payed?

>>5696518
>>5696517
To who? I had no idea but I don't really follow PL.

>>5696573
lol I asked her that question on Formspring and she didn't reply.

She's a bit fame hungry if you ask me. I asked her where she bought her chainmail rings (or if she made them herself) on Formspring and she ignored that one too, so she obviously is trying her best to stay the best.

>>5696601
Why don't you do your own fucking research instead of being an entitled little cunt? Other cosplayers don't owe you shit.

>>5696414
Maybe more like 10 years. Idk, she takes pretty good care of her skin and apparently shields the sunlight like a madwoman to stay pale. Maybe if she were the type that went tanning every summer her wrinkles would appear sooner.

Also, depends on genes. Some people in their 50's look like they're 30.

>>5696601
Seriously? Do you know how many messages she gets a day? Do you really think you are worth the time to respond to a question she probably gets asked a million times? Is it really that hard to type in "chain mail rings" into Google?

No wonder you are full of fail. You have no common sense.

lolz another PL drama thread, same as every week.

>>5696665
Only because whiners and bitches can't stay away from it. This thread was about how to aspire into being sponsored by your favorite company and congratulating a fellow cosplayer for achieving it.

But bitches gotta ruin everything. This is why we can't have nice things.

Are there any other cosplayers besides Nigri, Precious and PL, that have been hired to cosplay?

>>5696689
Assuming you're OP, stop making threads praising PL. Because no one wants to listen to the same bullshit argument between her haters and fangirls every time we log in.

Go fap to your precious Link cosplayer somewhere else.

>>5696689
Lol all this board is made up of is whiners and bitches at this point (and trololololols). /cgl/ can't have nice things, that's like a rule!

>>5696707
What about Jackie?

Oh wait...I guess she and PL weren't technically "hired" back then

>>5696689
>But bitches gotta ruin everything. This is why we can't have nice things.
>cglinanutshell.png

>>5696709
Not OP, but how about you stop posting in threads that you don't like? There is a hide button you know. Oh, that is right, you can't contain yourself. You have too much bitch spilling out of your gullet.

>>5696689
newfag detected

>>5696727
You butthurt?

If you've even been on /cgl/ more than 3 days you'd know that's what this entire board is about.

>>5696689
A good chunk of the board is super Jelly of her and they will start a huge shitstorm every time we have a semi positive thread about her. It gets really bad when it's about her cosplaying a Woman.

Honestly I don't have a strong opinion about her.

>>5696736
It is pathetic that you use that as some sort of excuse for this board to be the way it is. And no, I'm not a newfag, I was here when /cgl/ first became a board and wasn't blue. I can tell you as a matter of fact this is not what this board is "all about". I'm just an anon tired of hearing all these cunts cry and bitch about other cosplayers because of their own pathetic self-esteem issues.

This board needs more nice threads.

I like her fine, although I still maintain that I've yet to see a perfect Link cosplay.

I don't understand why /cgl/ hates her so much. She seems to keep to herself.

>>5696750

>This board needs more nice threads.

Boring. If you really want nice threads, don't come on 4chan. Simple as that.

>>5696755
How about you go somewhere else? Or just hide the threads you find "boring". Oh wait. You won't. You have to keep bitching.

>>5696754
Jealousy, mostly. I hate to admit it but I'm kind of jealous of her too. I actually have a really good Link cosplay but I'm no where near getting hired by Nintendo.

I guess it's just fun pissing her fangirls off as well.

>>5696750
We need more straight up Cosplay Image Dump threads. The few that we have are usually pretty nice and drama-free but they have become very scarce.

>>5696750
>This board needs more nice threads.

>/cgl/
>nice

>>5696761

>too many bitches
>/cgl/

lol just get out.

>>5696768
Like I said, just an excuse to justify being a bitch.

>>5696761

Make me.

>>5696778
And make me. Doesn't change the fact you're a bitch.

>>5696786

That I am. What are you going to do about it?

>>5696791
Just tell it to you. Girls are bitches for a reason, and typically it is because something bad happened to them or they feel extremely inferior to other people. Are you insecure? Or did you get molested as a child? Or both? Family problems? Daddy issues? Neglect? You need help and running to a board to let out steam to justify your behavior isn't cool. How about just stop being a bitch and you might be happier.

ITT: Bitches mad at other bitches for being bitches

>>5696807
welcome to the internet.

>>5696807
That or it's just fun messing with sensitive pussies like you.

>>5696831
Which would prove to be a deeper psychological problem you are dealing with.

Am I the only one that just doesn't give a shit about PL?

I don't fucking care what her accomplishments are. And it's not because I'm just another jelly anon, I actually don't care.

>>5696845
Same here.

I think she's okay but there are WAY more impressive cosplayers out there.

>>5696842

You're the one being overly sensitive and crying about meanies on the internet. You're just asking to be trolled.

>>5696765
Aww, anon.

I guess it's hard for me to understand as such a cosplay noob, but it must be hard to go without recognition.

If it helps at all, like I said, I do think that PL's Link is overrated. No I haven't seen anything better yet, but it's not perfect or anything.

>>5696854
Nope. I'm saying a few nice things on this board isn't bad. You're the one forcing your negative attitude here and then having the gall to tell me to leave.

>>5696870
It's fine I guess. Though it would be nice to be a favorite of Nintendo's, get paid and all that good shit I'd rather not log into /cgl/ to find a shitstorm written about me.

Being a "famous" cosplayer is a Win-Lose scenario.

It's good for her I guess

She takes too much freedom when making costumes, though. One of her Links didn't look like the original at all, and it seems she did so just to add bling bling

>>5696929
Agreed! And once a famous cosplayer is caught posting in /cgl/, everyone assumes all pictures of them here are a self-post.

You couldn't even use /cgl/ anymore. ))':

I'm perfectly content being a so-so cosplayer. I just do it to dress up, not submit myself to pointless drama.

>>5696871
/cgl/ needs more people like you.

Well congrats to her! I met her at Kumoricon MANY moons ago and she was really sweet! Got me aspirin for my headache when we were in line for the cosplay contest. People are so negative . . .

>>5696709
>every time we log in
>log in
>to 4chan
what are you even

How lucky. I'm happy for her while at the same time I'm extremely jealous.

I wish I was sponsored by Microsoft but my Halo costumes isn't professional level.

I've done some work for marvel. it was cool. hope to do more.

It would be my dream to be in her situation, but with Capcom. I know a lot of people don't like them as of late, but goddamn, they make some of my favorite games. I would be able to die a complete person if I was getting paid to cosplay Viewtiful Joe or someone from Resident Evil or MegaMan.

I guess the only way to pursue this would be to perfect every little thing about my VJ cosplay, and just hang around the Capcom booth at a big gaming event until they (lol totally don't) offer me the opportunity. Luckily my timing will be right before they announce a new VJ game (hah, yeah right) and they'll consider it the work of fate that they now have their official Joe.

And that's how it plays out in my head.

>>5694982
>>5696414
jealous lards detected

>>5698671
You should cosplay from megaman legends three.

>>5698692
But the plan is to get them to adopt me as their own little mascot, not for them to scrap me. . . Doing anything MML3 would guarantee that they never touch me with a ten foot pole!

I'm very happy for her, and to top it off it's Mother fucking Nintendo of all places. I know this is old news but it's still pretty cool.

Who knows later on the TZP crew will take it over from her. TZP got a new Link for their cosplay!

>there aren't boys cute enough (who are also into cosplay) to be Pit

Feels bad man.

>>5699230
TZP? That's a joke. Please don't bring Adellas shit into this thread.

>>5699230

I doubt that, since PL is already endorsed by Japan as the official Link and her OoT Link blows Adellas out of the water.

Congrats to her. Lucky bitch. All of my jealousy!

I don't know who that is, but I like the costume. I wish her congratulation.

>https://www.facebook.com/Skullknight1O1 new Link for TZP

Lune looks better as Link

>>5699518
They booth look bad.

>>5699518
Is that Adella's new BF?

I think she looks nice.
Never really been to /cgl/ that often. You guys are some crazy bitches.

I want to know how she did her wing harness and supported that EL tape.

When I got a picture with her she wasn't nice at all. Kind of disappointing, I really look up to her.

Isn't PL dating a Female to Male trans?

>>5700317
This happens a lot, people getting upset because of a five minute experience. Don't let it get you down, she was probably standing there all day getting pictures and sometimes you can't be rainbows every single time. She's still a cool cat.

>>5700436
It was Friday afternoon. If she was already tired of people taking her pictures she shouldn't be hired for that kind of thing. Just my opinion.

>>baww they didn't kiss my ass when I got a photo of them!!! they should owe me something because I have them on a pedestal in my brain!!

>>5700593
Your opinion is ignorant and obnoxious. Congratulations!

>>5700360
>>Isn't PL dating a Female to Male trans?

Yep.

>>5700651
gross, why would anyone do that?

>>5700651
Doesn't that make her a lesbian?
Sai still has a vagina afaik.

>>5700651
wat
source?

>>5700686
Look at her facebook. See who she is dating? Sai? Used to be a girl. A Yaoi boi at that.

Wow. Well I guess I am not surprised she has lesbian tendencies.

>>5700670
No, because her partner identifies as male.
Who cares anyway, are you 12 or something?

>>5700627
When did I say I expected her to kiss my ass? I'm saying she seemed annoyed when I asked for a picture (which is her job to get photos taken).

>>5700788
"Identifies as male" doesn't change the fact that PL is eating pussy.

>>5700806
PL's actually the dominant one that gates eaten out. They've discussed this already.

>>5700824
>They've discussed this already.

Lol where?

>>5700824
lol so only one person in the relationship gets oral sex? that kind of sucks.

Is Sai Japanese? I've never seen he/she/it before.

>>5700717
link to her fb?

Where does it say she is dating Sai? Also, Sai is intersex, not trans. I remember seeing someone leak that information here long ago from his private journal or something.

>>5701169
This. He was diagnosed with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. Basically born with too much testosterone in his system as a fetus. WebMD it or whatever. To those crying vagina, this would also mean he has an enlarged clitoris to look like a small/micro penis. In the end, someone's medical status really isn't our business.

>>5700797 she seemed annoyed

I saw her Saturday and she was holding the same pose for more than 7 minutes while people swarmed her for photos, and she still had a smile on her face. Also her handler did all the talking for her since I assume PL wasn't allowed to talk since they also denied interviews with Pit.

I came back to her many times to show my friends the costume and not once did she seem annoyed. What exactly did you do?

>>5701211
If the medical issue is not our business then why are you writing up a paragraph about it?
I don't know anything about either of these people but wow anon, youre low.

>BAAAH SHE DIDN'T TALK TO ME WITH RAINBOWS COMING OUT OF HER MOUTH AND NOW I THINK SHE'S THE WORST PERSON ON THE PLANET.

Seriously anon? I'm also curious to know what she did.

>>5701224
To correct the people who are trying to compare a legitimate medical condition to the likes of Aki, who is just a crazy yaoi fangirl. I was hoping to end the discussion with that and not really delve deeper into the issue.

I actually knew Sai when she was still a she. She wanted to be a famous singer in Japan despite being white. She was really naive and just wanted to be a boi. I remember her mentioning that she wanted to use the men's room in Japan too. She used to journal about stuff like that all the time.

Looks like she found the perfect excuse to be manry.

Isn't Sai a lot younger than PT though?

Wow, this thread sure is full of BS haters

Man, I remember being 1 of maybe 2 people on this entire board that spread PL hate around. Back when everyone talked about how sexy and fuckable she was, even as a female.

Now that half of /cgl/ has jumped on the same hate brigade it's just not fun anymore.

>>5702572
Actually, the majority of /cgl/ loves PL. There's still only 2 or 3 haters. You can tell because the hate is phrased the exact same way every time.

I still don't understand the hate.

>>5702572
I don't hate her at all, I am just not wowed by her anymore.
/cgl/ seems to have so many PL whiteknights that whenever someone is doing anything but kissing the ground she walks on we're "haters"

PL being sponsored by Nintendo is nothing new, but I sure hate her even more now just because of that. That is a job I wish I had. I wish I knew how to make better costumes.

Saging for nothing.

>>5702589
She has whiteknights because there really is no reason to outright hate her. People don't have to like her but to spread made up shit around just because they have a personal beef with her is rather silly.

Out of the many years I've been on /cgl/ I have never seen or heard her do anything that would make her a bitch or to have so much hate from the same few number of people.

>>5702409
>implying a legit medical issue is an excuse

You obviously didn't know him well at all.

I've never seen so much BS in my life. /cgl/ is desperate tonight.

>>5702589
this is what pisses me off. no one is kissing the ground she walks on.

all it takes is one person saying "i like pikminlink's costumes" and you get a bunch of people saying HURRR WHITEKNIGHT WHITEKNIGHT HER COSTUMES ARE SHIT GO KISS HER ASS SOME MORE BLOOBLOO

if someone said something like "she looks a little old to be pit" or something like that, i would probably agree. pit does kind of look like a preteen boy, and pikminlink isn't getting any younger. but she puts a shit-ton of effort into her costumes, and ive never seen her do anything that looked halfassed or terrible.

on top of that, she seems pretty amiable. she hasn't really done or said anything drama-worthy, as far as i know.

so i don't see why this same handful of people gets so worked up over her. it really doesn't make any sense.

>>5702409
>despite being white.

LOL someone is a poser and making up shit cause that is rather far off the mark.

>>5702579
I think there's more than that. New people cycle through /cgl/ all the time from what I understand

And I've also noticed that the amount of new Link cosplayers is increasing rapidly, which means more jelly underrated Links to hate PL.

I honestly don't blame them for being jealous. It's not PL's fault at all, but everyone still seems to be in the mindset that she is literally the ONLY good Link cosplayer, even though that's not true at all. So all of the other Links (especially the new ones) are pretty much overshadowed and unnoticed.

I really don't think PL deserves to be hated on. Her fangirls do.

>>5702603
Except thats all people are saying. Saying she's too old, they don't like her costume and that she shoops which is pretty standard /cgl/ fare and people like
>>5702595
are calling it "hate". Hate is a strong word. It doesn't seem like hate to me.

It seems like the PL fans get more worked up over people not liking her than the people who don't like her.

She's not sponsored by Nintendo, she never was. She just tags along trying to make herself feel important. She's 35, old washed up, has no life.

Quit trying to make her sound special. She's not. Nintendo doesn't give two shits about her.

>>5702610
Don't they pay her? I'd count that as Nintendo giving at least 1 shit.

>>5702609 It seems like the PL fans get more worked up over people not liking her than the people who don't like her.

Then you haven't seen the haters screaming with full force. They get ugly.

>>5702610
Nintendo paid for her to go, put her in a fancy hotel, and even gave her a bodyguard. They even hired her to be Link for Zelda's 25th Anniversary Skyward Sword launch event.

Also, pic related. This was at the 25th Anniversary Symphony event. NO ONE got to see Koji Kondo and Eiji Aounuma. No one. And yet she was able to have a private meeting with them?

I'd say Nintendo cares a great deal about PikminLink.

Protip: She isn't 35 either.

>>5702619 NO ONE got to see Koji Kondo and Eiji Aounuma. No one

Bullshit.
They were in the Meet and Greet. EVERYONE saw and met them.
Quit making her out to be a speshul snowflake. You're only boosting her already inflated ego.

>>5702610
>She's not sponsored by Nintendo, she never was. She just tags along trying to make herself feel important. She's 35, old washed up, has no life.

>citation needed

She is payed by Nintendo to make costumes, and portray characters to promote their products.

I have an idea, how about instead of trying to downplay someone's hard work, you take that wasted energy and improve your skill to out do her at her own game.

Who has no life now?

>>5702623
Nope, they weren't. The only people at the LA Meet and Greet was the producers of the symphony and the conductor.

Try again.

>>5702615
I must have not. What do they do/say? PL seems pretty drama free as others have stated.

>>5702612
>>5702619
>>5702624

You idiots realize you're replying to a troll, right?

Anyway, by getting overly defensive you're only proving that the haters are right.

>>5702627
Perfect example right here
>>5702610
>>5702623

>>5702629
Maybe I've been on /cgl/ for too long but those don't seem so bad .. like I said, seem standard for around these parts.

>>5702624
What, you're her new precious little whiteknight now? God, you idiots will believe anything this bitch says.

>>5702632
>hatersgonnahate.jpg

>PL paid by Nintendo

I say someone in this thread try and out do her skills, make a better Zora Armor or whatever that thing was called.

Anyone up for the challenge?

>>5702639
i think i've seen other people outdo her zora armor.
i still haven't seen anyone that i thought outdid her tp link costume though.

>>5702639

but im gonna fail gaiz

>>5702644
Did she do the Zora armor yet? I thought it was just the Magic Armor.

>>5702639
Already has.

>>5702639
Also Superior.

>>5702652
...no. Just...no.

>>5702632

Well duh, us professional cosplayers have to stick together.

>>5702644
>>5702639

She made Magic Armor, not Zora Armor but on the Crunchyroll live show she said she was going to make Zora armor.

>>5702657
Pffff.... no. That is so not proportional it isn't even funny. It also has no depth or texture to it.

>>5702652
those proportions look way off.

pikminlink is good at being dudes, but when it comes to female characters, not as good...
Is she gay?

>>5702652

Her ears are sticking out at a 90 degree angle and are way too long for TP Link.

The cloth parts are wrinkled, sloppily sewn and the designs are inaccurate. They're supposed to be more of a dark magenta color and she chosse RED?

Her wig looks like the Halloween store version of OOT Link.

She extended the greaves up to her mid thighs when it's actually supposed to be knee high.

Her armor is sloppy, has rough edges, and looks like she rolled it in tar after painting it with a screwdriver.

I'm sorry but that's one of the worst Link cosplays I've ever seen.

>>5702675 pikminlink is good at being dudes, but when it comes to female characters, not as good...

I thought this myself, but I also wonder if it's because for the past 5 years we were used to seeing her as Link and Squall and other guys then later finding out she's really a girl.

I wonder if it would be the opposite if she started as girl characters first, because now I see Link cosplaying as characters.

>>5702686
Interesting.

I looked up PT's shower drama video on YouTube and somehow managed to find this in the process:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlUqbkS-UpI&feature=g-upl&context=G2cb1888AUAAAAAAAAAA

They chose underrated cosplays. All of them are good, could probably be better but still good.

I can't believe how old she is. Wow, an aspie made an aspie weeb dream come true, am I supposed to be impressed?

>>5702713
I'm best friends with one of the Ordon Links in that video. Creepy...

>>5702686
No, she just doesn't look very feminine in general.

Maybe she'll spend that Nintendo money on getting her dying dad some proper healthcare rather than dicking it all on cosplay and conventions.

>>5702713
Malindachan and LIS aren't underrated. This person is obviously a cosplay noob.

>>5702730
She looked pretty feminine out of costume to me.

>>5702738
opinions

>>5702713
Those are okay. Not being a whiteknight and all, but I honestly have not seen another Link cosplayer who put as much attention to fine details as PikminLink does. Something about hers just pulls it all together and makes it look real. Her fitting is always perfect, she makes sure the colors are nearly (if not) exact, she puts everything to proper scale to her body size, custom sculpts each version of Link's ears to be fully accurate to the game, and she adds this sense of wear to her outfits as if Link has been out on an adventure in them. I simply don't see that whole package with any other Link cosplayers. They tend to have some of the aspects, but never all of them.

>>5702733 rather than dicking it all on cosplay and conventions.

She barely makes new costumes or goes to cons unless they're local and last I checked, she doesn't buy badges.

>>5702727

What is this babies first troll post BS? Step your game up.

It might be best to troll cosplayers that have actual drama.

>>5702730
>>5702741
Opinions

Does PL have any real dirt, drama?

>>5702742
Even if they're not perfect they're still worthy I think. Especially the girl at the beginning, and obviously Malindachan (minus her face).

You can pick out a few flaws in PL's cosplays as well but I really don't waste my time thinking about it. I'm easily impressed.

>>5702746

Even if she does, you won't hear about it too often. Her whiteknights are some of the worst and act like the sun shines out of her ass and will make any and every excuse for her.

>>5702752 Even if she does, you won't hear about it too often

Then there is nothing on her.

>>5702752
I think she seems like a decent human being. Everyone has flaws, hers are mostly drowned out by how fucking quiet she is. She's been cosplaying since 1998 and still cant start a conversation on her own

>>5702746
Nope. The only drama that I know of that involved her was how TPZ chick was claiming her Zelda costume was completely made by her and would shut up PikminLink when she would try to point out that she made and designed a large portion of the Zelda costume. PL ended up getting frustrated and cut ties after TPZ started talking crap behind her back, then refused to give back the elf ears that PL made and let her borrow for a con.

But even still, that isn't really drama that PL started or stirred up, she was simply a victim of a dramawhore.

>>5702758
Is Jackie a bitch? She always seemed friendly to me.

>>5702757 She's been cosplaying since 1998 and still cant start a conversation on her own

I've known her for 2 years now and she's pretty chatty. How does someone even start conversations with random strangers? I know I wouldn't.

>>5702759
I would say her bitchiness is a by-product of her power-hungry nature. She tailcoated, back stabbed, and desperately ladder climbed before the ladder was finally pushed out from under her. She ended up quitting cosplay and is trying to become some famous actress now.

>>5702759
She claimed to make 200 costumes in one year, when she only had 3.

She seemed to be able to start a conversation fine when she ate dinner with some friends and I at PAX this weekend.

>>5702662
>>professional cosplayer

>>5702764 famous actress now.

No wonder she was good at playing everyone's friend only to backstab a lot of us in SoCal when she broke up with her BF.

She's a pretty good actress, I must say. She was extremely fake.

>>5702783
>>made

oh yeah, now I'm thoroughly convinced you're fucking drunk, high, or possibly both at same time.

>>5702791
Or I'm bored at work browsing /cgl/ on my phone.

Why are you so uptight?

>>5702800
You said Professional cosplayer...yeah, that's like saying professional stamp collector...or professional toy collector, all of which are hobbies that costs a person a lot of money with very little in return. But we fucking do it anyways, and you know why? because we love doing it, despite the financial consequences. We love the creative freedom without having to worry about some company tagged on our cosplay, figuratively or not. What you call 'professional cosplay' is nothing more than being booth babe with added responsibility. I suppose correct term would be 'Costume modeling commissioner (for purpose of advertisement)'. Hell, you can call yourself CMC for short. BUT As soon as your hobby becomes a job, then it's no longer a hobby. I know, I've been QA Tester few times before. When my hobby of playing game becomes 'testing' game, it stops being fun and gets serious. When cosplay stops being fun, then it stops being cosplay. If some company offered me sponsorship for any of my cosplay, I think I'd reject them. Because that means I have to keep cosplaying in the name of said company, and I refuse to have my goddamn hobby restricted in any way. There will be times when I don't want to cosplay period, and that'll be breach of contract. No thanks. Also, who the hell are you to call yourself 'professional'? You think cosplay is some kind of sports? Ever blown your knees while sewing fabrics? The most I got is xacto knife through my thigh, and I walked that shit off. The point is, it's supposed to be a silly-ass hobby. 'Professional' and 'Cosplay' shouldn't mix.

TLDR: Don't call yourself 'Professional Cosplayer' as if you're looking down on all of us.

>>5702847
That was....beautiful

>>5702847
>took my post seriously
>took post with silly dog image seriously

Seriously?

I applaud your steadfast dedication to replying to troll posts even more than I do, but I feel that your energy is misguided.

You see, while all aspects of my wife and I's costumes and travel are paid for, we still do this for fun.

I guess that's as professional as cosplay gets, and I'm content with that.

I would like to be sponsored by Konami, Namco or SquareEnix. My favorite videogames are from those companies!

>>5694954
They're only against chinks cosplaying their characters (well, not all of them since they paid Saya to model FF characters). If you are white they get all hnnng with your cosplay.

>>5702847
Professional cosplayers always get hate threads. It doesn't matter if it is PL, Yaya, Precious, Jnig. They are very few. They achieved success and a FEW people on cgl can't stand it. It does not matter if they succeeded because they are talented, beautiful, dedicated or lucky. Some people will Never accept the fact that they made it. Personally I am glad when I see someone who has tried hard becomes successful. It gives me hope for myself. So don't hate others, just improve yourself.

PL’s haters consist only of the following:

>Overshadowed Link Cosplayers

>Trolls

Over the past six years or so I’ve listened to a dozen or more cosplayers talk shit about PL, even if it was only one small comment about her being overrated or average tier. The main thing is that literally ALL of those people had cosplayed Link at some point, and even though they didn’t admit to it, they obviously were feeling a bit overshadowed, and possibly jealous too.

As for the trolls, several anons have mentioned in this thread that they only hate on PL to ensue lulz.

Clearly it’s working too.

The one thing I don’t get about the Link cosplayers who were complaining about PL is that over 1/2 of them ripped off the Belizilla/Janos style, yet they hate on PL who actually tried her best to make her Link costumes as accurate as possible. If you rip off somebody else’s interpreted design rather than making yours accurate, and then complain about PL for getting famous then you’re not making any sense.

So, you can't be a professional artist since drawing is no longer your hobby?

>>5702857
that was a troll post? Holy shit, I think I've seen better trolling out of /b/ on Sunday morning. Hell, if you called yourself 'God's Gift to Cosplay like Vic Mignana and Anime Convention', I might've chuckled.

(also, the dog picture didn't do shit to me, so you fail there)

Also, your sponsor company's dumb as fuck. If I was CEO of company and I hear someone in my company sponsoring some random cosplayer to make ANY cosplays they want, out of my company's bank account, I think I'd fire that motherfucker immediately. Cosplayers are the most convenient walking advertisements ever, walking around in company's intellectual property without getting paid. At the same time, we're walking copyright infringement. The only reason none of us are getting sued is because we'll never see any profit from our cosplay (not counting masquerade awards). If you're being sponsored for the company's IP, then that's fine since it's in their jurisdiction. But say they sponsor you for making a character from B Company. That means they paid you to create knock-off representation of B Company's IP and if they're trigger-happy type of people, then there could be C&D hammer falling your way (see: Hasbro and 3rd party companies)

>>5702892
>>5702892
>Gets mad
>tries to act not mad

Nice backpedaling, don't get hurt now.

Also, I don't think you have any idea what you are talking about. But carry on looking like an idiot if it makes you feel better. I would just focus on improving my skills if I were you. Maybe in a few years you might catch up.

>>5702892
Uh.. bro..
I think you're taking an obvious joke post to seriously. It's nearly 4am, and even I can tell he was joking.

>>5702885
Except PL has a couple designs that are not too accurate, mostly detailed stuff like armors

Besides that I agree

/cgl/'s amount of jelly is overflowing

>>5702892
(well shit, how the fuck did I wander into Hasbro territory in my thesis? 3:45? Guess I could use some sleep right bout now)

>>5702892, cosplayer gets paid to wear costumes for company and gets paid to create what they want. That's terrible, they should be sued to prove my point.
Just because you will never be that successful, does not mean you should trash people who are.

>>5702905

Yeah not everything she does is accurate. It's pretty hard to get something as weird and detailed as the Magic Armor 100% right anyway, especially since it's extremely hard to find a good ref pic of that, and in the game the details are mostly blurred due to weird GCN graphics.

I applaud her for going at it and succeeding, then again, I applaud anyone who does the Magic Armor. That is so beyond my skill level, even after years and years of cosplaying.

>>5702885
Truest words in this thread.

Now that I think of it, I was talking to someone on dA a couple weeks ago who was saying that PL is overrated and given too much credit, and they had some Link cosplays in their gallery.

>>5702657
TP Link doesn't carry the mirror shield at any point in that game. Something tells me this dude doesn't know much about the games.

piminminlink's link is not accurate because she does not have a penis like link does.

also, she doesn't go into random people's homes smash up all of the pots. It's like she hasn't even played the games before.

>>5703109
We don't even know if Link really does have a penis.

>>5694880
What is that blue thing she is wearing under the toga?

Someone hasn't unlocked the secret minigame

>>5702857
Now I see why you say every time you post here you regret it.

TODD IS TOTALLY A PROFESSIONAL COSPLAYER GUYS. THE MOST PROFESSIONAL. BOW DOWN TO HIM.

Idiots.

>>5703753
fuck you ai honey.

>>5703765
Not if I fuck you first, anon.

I don't care about some washed up aspie dyke. Also, this thread is proof of how annoying PL whiteknights are and how easy they are to troll.

I can't be arsed to read the whole thread to see if this has already come up, but... does it strike anyone else as weird that Nintendo picked a crossplayer? It's a fantastic achievement for her, obviously, and she definitely looks the part, but I can't help but be surprised that a company with such a young audience would do it. Are they not worried about kids going 'Mum, why is Pit a girl?'

>>5703753

...he is?

>>5702847
It was pretty obvious that the 'professional cosplayer' thing was sarcastic. just saiyan.

Pikminlink is the motherfucking official cosplayer for Nintendo? Damn bitch! You go girl!

I can predict her next costumes now, its whatever Nintendo will be releasing.

>>5703844
It's because she is endorsed by Nintendo of Japan. They make all the final calls on everything. NoJ loves PL.
Also regarding Pit, the creator approved of her. He tweeted about it. Japan is just more open to things like this.

>>5703753
As i feel you can answer properly i sincerely ask you, what makes the diference between a professional cosplayer and a non professional cosplayer? if vernedead can answer aswell it will be great.
excuse my engrish and don't take me by a troll. thanks a lot

>>5703844
I guess Nintendo only cares about the overall look, which she does a good job at regardless.

>>5703832
This. I'm pretty indifferent about PL. I think her costumes are cool but that's about it.
The amount of fangirl rage in this thread is kind of disturbing y'all.

inb4 someone calls me a hater.

>>5703844
Nintendo has always used girls to represent Link, even in Japan for commercials. I think it makes more sense to use a girl playing a young boy character than a post-pubescent man. It also would be much more difficult to put a 12 year old boy in such costumes and have them perform a job.

Also, Japan isn't as hung up over gender as America is.

>>5703883
I don't see any fan girl rage and I just finished up reading the whole thread.

>>5703885
>>5703865
>>5703874
Fair enough then, good on them for being so open-minded about it.

>>5703893
You didn't see that every time someone says something remotely negative people jump to PL's defense and call them jelly or haters and yell NUH UHH YOU'RE WRONG.

That and the long winded put downs directed at the other Link cosplayers in this thread.

>>5702847
>BUT As soon as your hobby becomes a job, then it's no longer a hobby.

That seems like a pretty sweeping generalization. Propmaking has been at least a part time job of mine for three years, and I've been doing this full time for about 9 months now. I still enjoy personal projects that I work on without a paying client, despite it being essentially identical work.

Pic related; finished this up while I was waiting on some client feedback and payments, and it was just something I made because I liked the helmet in the game.

No doubt QA can suck the fun out of gaming, but your experience isn't globally applicable to all hobbies that become a source of income.

Honestly a lot of this hate didn't start coming out of the wood works until after it was revealed PL was a girl. Before that everyone wanted to get in PL's tunic, so to speak.

>>5703915
Nope, just haters twisting words is all I see.

>>5702847
>BUT As soon as your hobby becomes a job, then it's no longer a hobby.
But my hobby pretty much is my job. I play dressup for a living on tv shows and films. Granted 9 times out of 10 it won't be a ninja or a pirate but principals the same.

>>5703920

Dat Nord Helm

>>5702847
>>5703920
>>5704009

Yeah, seriously. There's two modes I get into. I'm a photographer by profession, but it is still my hobby. There's a different feeling when I'm shooting the things I want to shoot and what I have to shoot. 9/10 photography jobs are boring as shit.

This argument started as a way the man could keep putting us down and force everyone to work shit jobs that they hate. DON'T DO YOUR HOBBY AS A JOB! YOU'LL HATE YOUR HOBBY!

I'm happy for PL, I really am. That must be a thrill to be sponsored by her favorite company.

I'm happy for her, it's always great to see a repectable cosplayer that's been in the hobby for so long doing something they love & get recognized for it.