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Post by greenzaku on May 13, 2009 18:02:23 GMT 10
 I will be cosplaying as Sniper from Team Fortress 2. However although I love the character, for the moment I'm terrified of doing it in July or at any events in Australia for the simple reason that (look at my avatar)...I'm Chinese. Sniper is Australian. I would be cosplaying as an Aussie, in front of Aussies, in Australia. He is also the only Australian in the game. I haven't been in this country long enough to know if this is going to be racially offensive to Australians and I don't want to step on any toes   So my plans for now are to wait tortuously long until I go back Singapore in October and join the TF2 team there. Some friends think it would be a hilarious/cute idea for me to do it at an event here, but I don't know the cultural context for hilarious/cute in australia (would people be laughing about me, or AT me?) nor what are considered appropriate standards of behaviour (aside from obeying event rules) in this scenario. I do not intend to compete in this cosplay in australia, but I think the Singapore team will. |
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Post by Battosai on May 13, 2009 18:07:21 GMT 10
No one would care about you being Chinese and it shouldn't offend anyone, heck I'd like to see you do it.
You should be fine.
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Post by afterlight on May 13, 2009 18:09:36 GMT 10
man if you assembled some ppl to do a tf2 team it would be cool but just a sniper by himself would be kinda lame i dont think if you cosplayed an aussie it would matter particularly much i mean aren't all us pasty white guys mostly cosplaying asians??
but hell do what you want to if you put effort into it and make it look good screw what everyone else thinks plus that sniper is like a characterization of an aussie made by an american developer i dont know if anyone like that actually exists....
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Post by greenzaku on May 13, 2009 18:20:20 GMT 10
I am certain that at the Melbourne event there would HAVE to be other TF2 cosplayers...there were some at AVCon and that was a smaller event (I wasn't there but saw the photos). So team, or no team, I would be fairly safe. I probably won't dare do it in the Ballarat event because one, its made out of mostly scrounged and modified (rather than self-made) items; and two, like what you said, its a bit lame to do it alone and I have my doubts that the Ballarat event will be large enough to have a good chance of getting other TF2 characters joining.
BTW, its different with caucasians doing asian characters. Asian characters are much more common than non-Asian characters at anime events, plus we are not in Asia. Rather, if I did Sniper it would be like...'your team sux, you've got a country of 20 million Aussies, half of them male, and you couldn't find an Aussie to do this?'
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Post by RAVE420 on May 13, 2009 18:56:47 GMT 10
You should do it for our cosplay comp for a practice and get your confidence up for doing it somewhere else :-)
I love that game btw, very cool.
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Post by afterlight on May 13, 2009 19:04:24 GMT 10
i doubt any sentiments like that would come from the cosplay community and again its a crazy overblown characterture done by an americans veiw of a stereotypical australian
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Post by p0rtalman on May 13, 2009 19:04:39 GMT 10
haha, trust me, no-one would be offended or even care if your not of Australian decent. It would be pretty funny actually. Especially if you put on a big stereotypical Aussie accent! ;D
If anyone was to care about you not being white and cosplaying an Aussie character, should really get some perspective and/or be kneecapped.
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Post by RAVE420 on May 13, 2009 19:07:12 GMT 10
i doubt any sentiments like that would come from the cosplay community and again its a crazy overblown characterture done by an americans veiw of a stereotypical australian you don't find it funny dunkleton? i think its pretty hilarious how americans have stupid ideas about australians... |
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Post by p0rtalman on May 13, 2009 19:22:34 GMT 10
Drop bears? ;D
Especially funny if you meet one and play to the stereotype, then see how long it takes them to figure out your just playing them.
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Post by greenzaku on May 13, 2009 19:31:16 GMT 10
Well, in a way I guess he could have been worse. At least he's not using a boomerang and wearing a hat with dangly corks on strings XD And I have seen people here dressed somewhat similarly to him, but then again...what would I know?  Steve Irwin sounded a bit like him to me...being a dumb Asian who can't tell the difference. What do you guys and girls find about him that is *not* Australian? When looking at the characters on TF2, asians find themselves 'cuing in' on their accents to differentiate their country of origin rather than their appearance . That said though, even I could tell the Medic sounded rather odd for a German. heh....just as a thought, if I printed the words 'Made in China' somewhere on the cosplay for the lulz... |
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Post by afterlight on May 13, 2009 19:31:50 GMT 10
who said i didnt find it funny im pretty sure that no aussie is actually that aussie which is great
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Post by borgieman on May 13, 2009 19:50:20 GMT 10
It would be a good idea for us to do a TF2 group here.
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Post by RAVE420 on May 13, 2009 20:32:08 GMT 10
Well, I'm just gunna put it out there and say that kids who live on farms do not ride Kangaroos...
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Post by p0rtalman on May 13, 2009 21:27:23 GMT 10
Not that they don't try... ;D
A TF2 group would be pretty cool for eGames/Idef if people are interested in that. Plus last year it was free entry for cosplayers.
Me and dunks will be going to it in ODST armour.
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Post by greenzaku on May 13, 2009 21:34:59 GMT 10
When and where is eGames/Idef?
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