Presumably they have been living among us, unknown, for some time, but on Friday and Saturday the cosplayers emerged, blinking and scuttling, into public life over the weekend at the IGN Convention, the first gaming and pop-culture event to be held in the capital.
There was a man with no skin, a member of Daft Punk, Ash Ketchum, the cast of Adventure Time, Steampunk Assassins (perhaps drawn by a demonstration booth featuring Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, the latest game in the Ubisoft series, which this time will see Assassins and Templars do battle in Victorian-era London), plus various subgenres, sects and fusions of Steampunk, Goth and emo.
The superheroes queued and jostled to catch a glimpse of Jack Gleeson, otherwise known as evil king Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones, who was greeted with screams from fans when he arrived. The organisers penned him in at the summit of a big, fenced-off stage, designed to control, as best as possible, his exposure to the swarm of overenthusiastic fans.
King Joffrey, First of his Name, King of the Andals and the First Men – Gleeson declined to talk to the media, given that he says he has now retired from acting. Does Jon Snow live and willwe ever find out the truth about his parents? If Gleeson is still in contact with his former castmates and knows those answers, he wasn’t telling – and we must wait another six months to find out, when season six of the HBO drama begins.
The VIP ticket package – which cost Dh500 – included your choice of two autographs from the celebrities in attendance. So that would be Gleeson and voice actor David Fennoy, then.
Original article by Adam Bouyamourn
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