The Terminal Cosplayer

Field guide / The Terminal Cosplayer

NEW SPECIES

Vestitus dramaticus

Habitat: The gate area, where everyone else is in a gray hoodie.
Marks: A full costume, a onesie, or pajamas with a matching neck pillow.
Call: "It's comfortable."

Dressed for an occasion that only it was told about. Gets through security slower and gets photographed more. Considers both a fair trade.

Seasonal, peaks in October

Sightings (2)

Dressed as a middle seat

Filed under Terminal Cosplayer · A party, in costume

A homemade Southwest middle seat, out looking for its Group C boarding pass. The most accurate costume of the year. Nobody picked it and it showed up anyway.

Found him

Filed under Terminal Cosplayer · The gate, on Halloween

Full Waldo, at the gate, on Halloween. Waldo's whole job is being hard to find. In a boarding area of gray hoodies he lasted about four seconds. The poster did not name the airline, so neither will we.