Today's blog post will be brought to you by Austria:
Okay, I'm just kidding.
BUT I DID MEET THE VOICE BEHIND THIS LOVELY CHARACTER AND OH MY GOD GOD GODHSIYNGKBAFKG
*DISTANT SCREAMING IN THE BACKGROUND*
I MET CHUCK HUBER AND HE TOOK A PHOTO OF MY COSPLAY.
I dressed as Austria and so, we went to his panel i-
REWIND.
Okay, me, time to take this slowly, in order, like your English teacher taught you.
Okay, okay. *deeeeep breaths*
So, we went over at Tylah's, dragging my stuff everywhere was a bit of a hassle but we went over. I had potato wedges and potato pie for dinner. My German friends would be proud.
Then I was awake at ungodly times because Tylah was snoring like a fucking dropbear scream and I just couldn't sleep. Eventually I pretended that I was snuggled up with Austria and Helena and drifted off.
Then in the morning we had bacon sandwiches for breakfast, after breakfast I rushed to get dressed as Austria, at this point I was feeling so nervous and so upset and scared that Chuck would think I was a total retard, also the fact that I had misread the list and he wasn't going to come.
But Tylah did my make-up and my hair, the curl was the hardest part and we used hair putty which was white and sticky, lets not hold back on the sexual jokes.. because I giggled at the fact that it was probably
(Austria's white sticky stuff,) just hair gel.
Then we went in the car and we got there.
BACK TO THE STORY.
I DRESSED AS AUSTRIA-
Self, please, lower case, proper grammar. Thank you.
I dressed as Austria and so, we went to his panel in the morning, about 11:05am which is when we got our tickets and got into the panel, there was little seats taken but Chuck noticed me walk in and he put on his Austria voice, then you just see me quietly fangirling inside. My stomach had butterflies and he let me sit up with him.
I almost cried.
I asked him "What's his favourite part of Hetalia?" to which he answered:
"I think I just like how we write it, I like how we tried to squeeze in as many jokes as we could. Like for Britain, that had to have teeth and food jokes. But I just loved the way we wrote it. Everything was so fun there."
Mind the little conversation we had, which had my heart almost jumping out of my chest.
Something along the lines of
Him: *Austria voice* I zhink Austria is ze best country in Hetalia!
Me: *stuttering* Well-I..I-I..
Him: *Austria voice* Don't du agree?
Me: *still stuttering* Well, of course, s-since I'm here as *end stuttering* Austria, I decided to throw something together because I was unsure what to go as, I was going to come as Australia but then I realized you were going so I was like "Hey! I know that guy." And well here I am.
Him: *Austria voice* Well zat is just grand! Vhat's your question?
*end lil conversation*
So he kept looking at me every time he answered a question and I sat there, all nerdy and happy that I was seeing him. He never really spoke in his normal voice. Always in his Austria voice which I-OBVIOUSLY-loved. I found out he was a principle too at one point and I thought that was really cool.
So we went out of the panel and he came with us, this woman was leading him to the autographs stall. I walked with wide eyes as I heard him behind me and I sort of softly squeaked. I darted my eyes back to him every now and then when I could, without him noticing, but he was heading the same place we were. The autograph booth..... WE WERE GOING TO GET THE MAN THAT IS WALKING BEHIND ME AUTOGRAPH AND I FELT LIKE CRYING.
So we lined up, the line wasn't overly big, there was about two people in front of us and I stood patiently, the only real time that his eyes were off me was when he was signing or made eye-contact with other fans. I don't understand why he was always looking at me but I tried to keep my eyes off him.
LoveAtFirstSight.OkayImKiddingHesLike43.WhichIsntThatOldToBeHonest.
So, I paid for a little fanart with Austria on it and Chuck said hello, he looked at me and grinned, wider than I had seen him grin. I was the happiest I had been for ages and considering my mood, it made me really happy. He held the fanart up and took a picture of me AND the fanart. I'M ON HIS PHONE. IN MY COSPLAY. SOMEONE HELP ME. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME. I FUCKING LOVE IT.
He signed it for me, gave it bACK THEN CAME OUT OF HIS BOOTH TO GIVE ME A HUG. I WAS TREMBLING AND I WAS SO SURE I WAS ABOUT TO CRY. HE GAVE ME A REALLY LONG HUG AND I HUGGED HIM BACK, REALLY TIGHTLY. HE TOLD ME MY COSPLAY WAS AWESOME AND IT LITERALLY BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES THAT I HAD TO QUICKLY BLINK AWAY BECAUSE I HAD AUSTRIA'S MAKE-UP ON.
All in all, meeting Chuck in the autograph booths made my heart pound against my chest and I was so happy, I still am, just thinking about it. He was about 5-7cms taller than I was and just. *deep sigh* I loved him, he was awesome and I really really would love to meet him again.
So then me and Tylah walked around, took some pictures. (You can see all the cosplay pictures I took down the bottom, I will label the characters.) Then we went over to Michael and Lindsey from Rooster Teeth. The line was a bit big and so we didn't bother.
Skip a lot of picture taking, a lot of playing Austria's character and a lot of buying fandom stuff which is now happily sitting in my room. Lets skip to my Chuck Huber horror.
I go and buy a ticket to take a photo-
PAUSE.
Spoiler: I do get the photo.
PLAY.
I go and buy a ticket to take a photo with Chuck Huber and I line up, I ask the girls when I need to be there by over at the ticket booth, I look at the ticket and it says 1:45! BUT THEY SOLD ME THE TICKET AT 2:04?!?!
Me at that point:
I'M NOT GOING TO SIT BY AND PAY 30$ FOR A FUCKING PHOTO AND NOT GET IT.
So, skip a lot of panic and Tylah rubbing it into my face that we missed the fucking photo. They told me to come back at 3:50. So me and Tylah were left with about two hours. So we watched wrestling, WITH THIS AWESOME DUDE.
CRAZY TRAIN.
Crazy Train is awesome and I've seen him at least 3-4 times. He had a surprising Spanish accent, which was quite refreshing because I hadn't heard a proper Spanish accent for a while. So, then me and Tylah went around and I had to decide what and when I was going to spend my money. Tylah got a bucket of chips that me and her shared and that was my lunch.
Then we sat down at the front of the photo booths. We had about 20-30 minutes and I wanted to line up as soon as we could because there was just no way in HELL I was going to miss that fucking photo. So me and Tylah chatted for a while, my feet were killing me anyway and before the photo, I ducked off to the bathroom to fix up my cosplay, I gave Tylah the token so I wouldn't lose it when I was in the bathroom and she fuckING JOKED WITH ME ABOUT LOSING IT.
THEN YOU SEE ME GOING
I WAS FREAKING OUT AND CLUTCHING MY HAIR, TOTALLY RUINING MY COSPLAY WHILE I FREAKED OUT OVER IT.
So she was joking and I had to go to the bathroom again, this time I took my ticket with me and put it in my pocket, fixed up my cosplay and lined up when they called the Star Trek photos, which is what Chuck was in. I just wanted Chuck so it was sorta a big confusion about where I stood. Skip the waiting in line and the confusion.
One of the volunteers went to find out what was happening with the photo, I said I didn't mind going last and so I returned talking to Tylah and this really nice girl that was standing in with me.
THEN THIS GUY YELLS "ONLY Chuck Huber first please!"
Which was only me. And everyone moved aside to let me through. Trust me, waiting to meet your celebrity and have everyone move aside because of it was one of the best feelings I have ever had.
I gave my bag to Tylah, and walked in, where I see the rest of the Star Trek guys in the corner just going like:
And Chuck standing there like:
So I give him another hug, at this point I'm almost getting that sick nervous feeling, then he grabs me, hugs me and turns to the camera, he gave me a warm hug, even after the photo. I don't understand why he seemed so excited but he was, and I'm not even lying because Chuck just made me feel so welcome and I loved him heaps. He gave me another hug and I started to sniffle, I thanked him over and over and then I waved him goodbye, he gave me another hug and let me go out.
I got this little slip of paper that told me to come back at 4:30 to get the photo, so me and Tylah watch more of the wrestling before we wander over to see what this League of Legends thing is all about.
We looked at the Rooster Teeth line and it was still too long so we watched more wrestling before going back to get the photo at about 4:20, I saw the photo, gave them my ticket and walked off, extremely happy at the photo.
We wandered around, brought more stuff and saw more great things.
We ran into a cosplayer who asked me (in my character, this)
Random cosplayer: Austria, look, Germany's sausages! Do you want some?
Me: Ach, nein. Aber.. I zhink Italy vould love zat.
I loved that part.
Not now, Prussia,
unfortunately.
We had a look at the line for taking a photo with Michael and Lindsey and there was about 10 people lining up, so me and Tylah nabbed places in the line and waited for about 5 minutes. We watched people take photos and have Michael sign things. I didn't have anything I wanted him to sign so I just asked him to take a photo. So I did and Lindsey jumped in too. It was so surreal seeing them in real life rather behind a computer screen.
So we walked around a bit more, and our feet were killing us, especially mine since the Austria boots that I was wearing were slightly raised, so we pushed ourselves into a corner but we got told to move then we went back over the to boxing ring, I took a picture of something I had seen, caught my eye as soon as we got in.
So now I have the picture that I love to bits.
SupaNova was awesome, though I'm really tired and I'm actually about to head to bed as soon as I use my last Austria gif, add all the cosplay pictures and everything.
Okay, cosplay pictures. Bed. Austria gif... wait that's not the right order, you get the idea though.
Castiel. (Supernatural)
Breaks my heart.

Elizabeth and Booker. (Bioshock: Infinite)

Jawa. (StarWars)

Jack Sparrow and random Darth Vader kid. (Pirates of the Caribbean/StarWars)

Loki. (Marvel Comics/Movie)

Deadpool. (Marvel Comics/Video Games)

Don't know who he is, looked awesome. Took a picture. (Some anime)

Effie. (The Hunger Games. Catching Fire Dress)

Louie the fly and Mortein Bug-Spray can.. (Popular bug-spray in Australia)

Big Daddy. (Bioshock)
Me and Tylah.
Austria would face-palm.
Thanks Austria.
Love you, you adorable piece of lil country.
*patpat*
Willow, signing out.