13 Cosplayers At London Comic Con Tell Us What Their Character Means To Them

    We meet the people behind the masks at London Comic Con 2014, over the weekend of 24-26 October.

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    Patrick Smith
    by Patrick Smith

    BuzzFeed News Reporter, UK

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    Matthew Tucker
    by Matthew Tucker

    BuzzFeed Staff

    1. The self-styled Darth Valkie – "I am the darkness".

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    Real name: "Dave".

    Age: 26.

    From: The Wirral.

    Job: Works in an amusement arcade.

    2. Unnamed character from the Star Wars universe – "Unstoppable".

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    Real name: Jade.

    Age: 23.

    From: The Wirral

    Job: Chef.

    3. Daredevil – "You can succeed and be great even with faults!"

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    Real name: Jason Summers.

    Age: 25.

    From: London.

    Job: Facilities manager.

    "I've been coming to Comic Con since I was 17," she says. "It's grown a lot since then."

    4. Deadpool – "Because being normal is boring".

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    Real name: Michael Smith.

    Age: 30.

    From: London.

    Job: London Underground customer services.

    5. Unnamed character from the World of Warcraft universe – "confident, happy, crazy."

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    Real name: Sarah Strickland.

    Age: 23.

    From: Bexley, South London.

    Job: Most recently worked at a garden centre.

    "I made this myself, it took a couple of months" she says. "I'd never sewn before and I just bought a sewing machine and thought I'd give it go."

    6. Unnamed character from World of Warcraft – "Glory badass".

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    Real name: Rob.

    Age: 18.

    From Penzance, Cornwall.

    Job: Studying games design.

    "Penzance is nice, but nothing like this," he says. "It's not much fun if you don't like watersports and old people."

    7. A chimera - "A sassy piece of shit".

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    Real name: Zephyr.

    Age: 24.

    From: The Midlands.

    Job: Freelance artist. (Zephyr made this suit herself and the tail swayed back and forth – it was very impressive).

    8. Ezra Scarlet, from the Fairy Tale anime series – "Born leader".

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    Real name: Giverny.

    Age: 19.

    From: Brighton.

    Job: Most recently worked at a travel agent.

    9. Some cats, from Cats – "Fun".

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    The cats declined to be interviewed and stayed in character for the entire day.

    10. Effie Trinket from The Hunger Games series – "Being fabulous!"

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    Real name: Lulu.

    Age: 20.

    From: London, but Romania originally.

    Job: Recently graduated graphic designer.

    11. Dark Candy Fiddlesticks, from League of Legends – "Amazing".

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    Real name: Paul Heatherington.

    Age: 34.

    From: Wallsend.

    Job: Works for Marks and Spencer.

    You can see the process of how Paul made his costume at his cosplay page on Facebook.

    12. Two Doctors – "It's complicated".

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    Real names: Aidan Kalel, 21, (left) and Chris Hunt, 28.

    From: Both from Birmingham.

    13. Mystique – "Dark but awesome!"

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    Real name: Emily Sefton-Smith.

    Age: 17.

    From: Petersfield, Hampshire.

    Job: Student.

    Bonus: We met Hattie Hayridge, who played Holly in Red Dwarf! She said playing Holly "Expanded my brain!"

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