You may be forgiven for ____ that someone doing cosplay is just getting ____ up for the day - but it’s so much more ____ that.Cosplay, for those who aren’t familiar with it, involves dressing up as a character, often from video games or comics. But there’s a key difference to your standard dress-up in the word itself: you also actually play that character. Lauren Orsini, an author and fan ____ expert, explained that “cosplayers don't simply ____ up as a character, they take efforts to become that character”. This can be through poses, ____ phrases, and even interactions with other cosplayers. The end ____ is “an immersive experience, like the character is really there”. It also inspires a huge sense of ____ for some people. We spoke to some ____ at the EGX convention in London to see what it meant to them. The word cosplay is a Japanese ____, but the activity itself actually comes from America, Lauren explained. “In 1939, Myrtle R. Jones made sci-fi costumes for herself and her ____ Forrest J. Ackerman to ____ at the very first WorldCon in New York City. They wore clothes ____ by the 1936 sci-fi feature Things to Come, and appeared to be time-travelers to the event. ____ then, more and more fans have been dressing up and acting the part at ____ gatherings. “This became more and more ____ in America and then, in 1984, magazine writer Nobuyuki Takahashi observed the trend while at Los Angeles's World Science Fiction Convention. He was ____ for a word to describe it to his Japanese ____. He settled on cosplay, written in katakana as コスプレ, a portmanteau of the English words 'costume' and 'play' in order to describe the mix of dressing up and ____ the part.” Cosplay isn’t just something people do as a ____ - it can for some also be a very ____ career path. Lauren says that pro cosplayers will spend “weeks or months” making costumes completely by hand. To be a professional cosplayer, you can be hired for events, develop your own line of materials and outfits, or ____ people how to make their own props. However, it’s not easy. Lauren says the key is that you ____ have to hustle and get their cosplay in front of the right employers, because as you might expect, a LOT of people would like to do this for a living!”

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