Do you cosplay in character?

[kiropterain1]

Glacirus

Unless my friends ask me to stop, or it's an uncontrollable reaction, I'm 100% in character. For my upcoming Mukuro Rokudo cosplay, I'm even practicing to get down the "kufufufu" laugh just right.

it's part of my whole obsession with EVERY minute detail with my own costumes.

dude same here.  

[Tsunji]

Should I give up?
To be honest, I find it quite hard to be in character 100%.
Me and my friends don't usually cosplay characters from the same series, so it's a little difficult to act the character out.
Another thing is that my friends are hilarious.
We keep on talking and laughing that sometimes I forget I'm cosplaying.
I do imitate the voice and try to be in character as much as possible for photos, skits and shoots. I research everything about him or her and try to incorporate the character's personality on mine.

3nodding
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?

 

[sakurayoshema]

I only learn and watch the basic of the character. so when ever someone comes up I'll be like "hey! blah blah blah what ever my character needs to say here" and then try to smile. AHHHnd then..they just ask me for a picture. v__v not much conversation  

[Maruul]

I find it easier to be in character when the character is similar to myself, if that makes any sense. sweatdrop
Like, when I cosplayed Ryan and Mike from Ray (not at the same time) I was pretty bad, because I'm too shy to be Ryan but too nice to be Mike... But I can do a great Kantarou from Tactics, because I'm already a lot like him, so I just have to be a bit more outgoing than usual.
I DO think it's important to be in character, and it bugs me when people aren't. The only exception is when they're out of character on purpose for the sake of comedy.  

[LovelyLadyAurora]

I really had to be in character for 2 days as Ace Goodheart/Ken the Eagle for an art project. I admit that I kind of cheated when I stepped out of character when I wasn't at school but during our final which was just come as the person you pretending to be or so, I REALLY had to be in character, yelling 'It's Galaxtor!' and coming to the rescue of another classmate.  

[kiropterain1]

Chrysanthemum Valentine

Should I give up?
To be honest, I find it quite hard to be in character 100%.
Me and my friends don't usually cosplay characters from the same series, so it's a little difficult to act the character out.
Another thing is that my friends are hilarious.
We keep on talking and laughing that sometimes I forget I'm cosplaying.
I do imitate the voice and try to be in character as much as possible for photos, skits and shoots. I research everything about him or her and try to incorporate the character's personality on mine.

3nodding
Or should I just keep chasing pavements?

i think you should keep staying in charicter,its more fun?  

[Josephine Jo]

Haven't done it so far and I probably never will, at least not 100% for serious when not performing on stage.

I find it obnoxious when people try to act in character, specifically because 9/10 people who do so are horrible at it. You know, the general type of yaoi fangirls (which takes up the majority of my cons) or people who just... can't act.

Then there's this recurring person who goes as The Joker over and over again and just about everyone is sick of him.

So I'll just avoid the urge to headdesk for myself and my friends and act like myself.  

[Jennisora]

Most of the time I am in character. Sometimes I get a little TOO into it, though! Especially when I was cosplaying as Haruhi Fujioka. I kept bashing Hikaru for all the mean things he does to me.  

[Aetherfall]

It's really fun to get into character. When I cosplayed as Sasori, my friend interviewed me while we were eating at Applebee's, wanting to get my opinion on what a ninja would order there. blaugh  

[Riot 121]

I'm kinda half in character, half out. My personality and the character's personality usually kinda just go together. I usually cosplay the ones that are a little ditzy or get mad when teased, which is me anyways. I did follow my friend around calling her "Taicho" all day when we were Renji and Byakuya, though. I still call her that to this day, just for fun.  

[Raya Kioma]

Well.. I've never really cosplayed before so I can't really say.

But the character I'm cosplaying this year and I have very similar personalities, so it wouldn't be very hard to be in character.
XD  

[SakuraRico]

I normally try to be in character when with friend, for photos, the parade and the cosplay contest evaluation, but I know I need to draw a line at times.

Next week I'mma do Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter, not much to do there other than try to do silly fighting poses for pics, for the evaluation though, I'mma be the fighting game fail, I hope I don't hurt my neck doing his super taunt XD

Next day I'm doing the perverted Doctor from Nighshift Nurses along with my girlfriend as Kodama, so being from a hentai, we need to NOT be 100% in character XD I'mma try to give off a perverted aura for the pictures, and we're working on preparing the act for the contest evaluation and another much shorter one for the parade. We need to keep it PG 13 XD  

[SakuraRico]

Copy/pasted from the "Being TOO in character" thread, just in case <.< XD

Quote:

I was cosplaying a Dr. Ryuji Hirasaka from Nightshift Nurses at Kaisen this last saturday. I lived the part of my character when this Miku Hatsune girl passed out from heat stroke, and I was the one who responded.

Her friend is fanning her while she is on the "bleachers" of the colloseum. I'm drinking a gatorade, when I walk up to them and ask them if everything if alright. She just tells me "She fainted". I dropped everything I had and ran to get the security team and the organizers, since the medical team had already left.

I had taken First Aid classes with the best professor I could find. I actually remembered some of the things to do in case of heat stroke, and I started yelling out orders to everyone. "Bring the cold packs from the snack bar!!!" " Bring a gatorade" "find ice for some water!" " Cut the power to the stage and plug in the fan!!!" "Bring the cooler lids and fan her!!!" " Cold Packs to her neck, armpits and crotch area (That last one I asked her female friend to do)" , and so on.

I was with them until the paramedics took her into the ambulance, where they took care of the girl. The people responsible for her, two 18 year old girls, I told them steps to follow and what to do and so on. Everybody thought I was a real doctor O_O

Looking back on it, it was fun actually, the organizers even told me "Never thought you'd play the part of a doctor, you butcher!" (I studied culinary arts...)

Interesting times....

 

[l krysta l]

You could say its a 50-50 thing. Its great to see a cosplayer represent the character they are dressed up as, but of course they should also be themselves and enjoy what they are doing. C:  

[master_of_hiban]

I'm going to be doing my first cosplay in October and I would really like to be able to stay in character. I've done my homework as far as behavior, so we'll see how it goes!