I had intended to cosplay Rinoa from the first time I played Final Fantasy VIII, because I fell in love with her white dance dress. But when Mamoru-san mentioned that he was thinking of cosplaying Squall, we made a promise to each other that when he did Squall, I'd do Rinoa, both in their usual outfits. I just didn't know he meant to do it within a year! So when he said he was thinking of wearing them to Otakon, my mind immediately turned to Athena-chan, since she had done such a crisp, clean job on my Meryl costume a year earlier.
