"When did this happen? Did they come up with this kind of totem themselves?"
Roland was dumbfounded. The people of another world had started cosplaying without inviting him, the creator-or importer-to join in at all.
Throwing a party without inviting me? That's just going too far!
Cosplay, also shortened to COS, generally meant using costumes, accessories, props, and makeup to portray characters from anime and games.
This culture had a long history, dating back to ritual dances in primitive times, and was rooted in humanity's innate instincts for imitation and performance.
Humans acquired speech and writing and mastered the ability to "tell stories." Most stories were fictional. Even if their original roots lay in objective reality, once processed through writing or speech, they became a kind of psychological reality.
Stories were therefore intimately connected with linguistics.
Myths, religion, dance, theater...
They were essentially branches extending from the same cultural root.
One thing Roland particularly admired about those people of the Lainer Kingdom was that the cosplayers on Blue Star in his previous life, or the ancients before them, had all relied on simple, unadorned costumes without special effects.
These people, on the other hand, went all in on authenticity. They added magic and some hardcore tricks, then went wild!
Wasn't this another way of using the imaginary to achieve the real and change reality?
"To be precise, this matter is related to my Romance of Seris...
"But this should be a spontaneous act of imitation and roleplaying...
"I am closely following developments in the Lainer Kingdom..."
Roland composed an awkwardly evasive reply.
In short, this author takes no responsibility for his fans' behavior!
Surely using magic power to portray Xingtian didn't require a special warning saying, "Do not attempt this unless you are a professional," did it?
The Corlens Family,