Personal Narrative-Stereotypes

I have been a daddy’s girl ever since I was a little girl. We did everything together, from playing Counter Strike: Source, dueling each other in Yu-Gi-Oh, and even watching scary movies together. We have been glued to the hip for as long as I could remember. My mom on the other hand, we did not have as much in common. The only thing we both liked was the Harry Potter series as well as the Lord of the Ring series. Little did we know, dressing up as fictional characters would bring us closer together. This is a picture of myself. This is however, not a picture of what I look like in real life. I am dressed up as Alice from Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. When I was 15 years old, I started a hoppy known as cosplay. Cosplay is a contraction of the words costume play and has grown wildly since the 1980’s after being introduced in 1939. It is a hobby where people dress up as their favorite fictional characters either from TV shows, works of science fiction, cartoon, etc. and try to bring them to life. Over the years I have done several characters ranging from all different forms of media, but I would not have been able to do any of this without the help of my mom. My mom is the one who took this picture of me while at
I never thought my mom and I would be this close from something as simple as dressing up as fictional characters. We are closer now than we ever were in the past. Cosplay has strengthen the bond between my mom and I that cannot be broken. We have put blood, sweat and tears into this hobby and have created so many beautiful pieces of work. I appreciate my mom in everything she does and I have finally recognized everything she has ever done for me in my life. My mom has always pushed me to keep doing the things that I loved no matter what it was. All she wanted to see was me being happy, and she has made me the happiest person on the