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*stops working out*
Prrsha has unrealistic expectations.
Well, that's cool, Gospel. I guess it was assumed you meant female Mithra because a) we hardly ever see or hear anything about the males in-game, and b) cosplayers are generally more open and don't mind going extreme on their costumes. But I'm sure we're all interested to see the final result!
As far as acting vs. cosplay goes, I see nothing wrong with acting, and for the most part, nothing wrong with cosplay. People have hobbies, careers, etc... and everyone is interested in different things. That's what makes life so great... if everyone did the same thing, it would be really boring. I don't know of any professional cosplayers, but most seem to do it because they just like the idea of dressing like a character they identify with and/or idolize. Same as people wearing basketball jerseys or Air Jordan Nikes. Everyone knows you're not Michael Jordan, but you wear his clothes anyway.
Acting in general is more accepted because of the entertainment industry and its need to hire people to bring scripts to life. The only thing that bothers me about acting is the whole intimacy thing. If my girlfriend was an actress, I'd rather her not be in a role where she plays someone else's girlfriend, kissing them as if she was kissing me, and maybe going even further. I don't know how people who are involved with actors/actresses deal with that... just calling it "acting" doesn't seem good enough. Just like, recently there was a guy here in my studio people called an "artist" who had works on display in some museum... his works were made up of pictures of people with the "t-shirt" region cut out of the image, and then a t-shirt was drawn onto them with an attempted witticism at the picture's situation. I'm sorry, but that's not art. Just like forcing two people to be intimate to fulfill a scripted scene isn't really the kind of acting you want your significant other involved in... it's just uncomfortable and beyond the scope of the intended hobby/profession.
Back to the point though, I think that if you have problems with acting, being in theater isn't going to help, unless you're in theater to attempt to understand the things that trouble you about it.
I'm not too fond of ladders.
