BioShock Cosplay Is Better Down Where It's Wetter

Earnest Cavalli

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BioShock Cosplay Is Better Down Where It's Wetter



Lazy fish, bloody bunny masks and a few million gallons of seawater make for brilliant BioShock-themed imagery.

Atlanta, Georgia is known primarily for three things: William Tecumseh Sherman's pyromaniacal 1864 siege, Outkast's brilliant Stankonia album, and the four Cy Young Awards that Greg Maddux picked up in the early 90s. Otherwise, it's a sleepy, oppressively hot burg wrought from Coca-Cola bottles and fluffy biscuits.

Also, it has an aquarium. This place, fittingly dubbed the "Georgia Aquarium," contains the usual aquatic beasties, but in a stroke of oft-replicated engineering brilliance, it also includes a section where visitors can stroll beneath the waves in a crude approximation of what it might be like to live in a glassy, underwater city.

Much like the one seen in the BioShock game series.

In seemingly unrelated happenings, the recent Labor Day weekend saw hordes of geeks descend upon the city for the annual Dragon*Con gathering. If you've ever attended the event, you likely know that it has become tradition for a large collection of *Con attendees to gather at the Georgia Aquarium.

Irrational Games, the people behind the BioShock series, likely put the two events together, and knowing their fans' propensity for cosplaying characters from the series, rushed down to the Aquarium to snap photos of BioShock characters in a close approximation of their natural setting.

The result, as you can see from the handful of images in the gallery below (or in the full collection you can find on the firm's Flickr gallery [http://www.flickr.com/photos/irrationalgames/sets/72157627531644403/]) is rather clever. The juxtaposition of maniacal splicers and serene aquatic life is as jarring a contrast as is possible in our meatspace reality without actually dismembering anyone or figuring out a way to shoot bees from one's hands.

Though, I have to wonder what the fish think of this whole thing. The comedy answer is obviously that the bunny masks blow their tiny fishy minds, but in reality those are likely the most jaded sea bass on the planet. They've seen it all, and can't be bothered to point out the anti-Humanist flaws in Objectivist theory, no matter how convincing your Little Sister costume might be.

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Source: Irrational Games [http://irrationalgames.com/insider/bioshock-photoshoot-at-the-georgia-aquarium/]

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esperandote

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Is the first picture edited or is that a huge ass fish?

Nice little sister, i really gotta get this game.
 

Albino Boo

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The 1st picture looks suspiciously like my ex-wife. The woman not the fish before all the gags thank you
 

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Being formally from Atlanta, I approve of this greatly


esperandote said:
Is the first picture edited or is that a huge ass fish? ...
No, that's a big fish. They have some very large fish there.
 

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I've never played Bioshock but from screen caps that looks pretty good.

As for the fish, it might be a Grouper fish. Those things can get as big as a large man.
 

Luke5515

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I actually saw a really good splicer costume at zombie day in Pittsburgh, I'll try to get it on here.
 

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I'm Andrew Ryan... And I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to go into an aquarium with a group of bloodied madmen. No says the man on the entrance "Thats not an 8 year old girl" you'll have to buy an adult ticket. No says the security guard by the Sharks "you can't bring that Syringe OR that lead pipe". No says the manager of the aquarium "You'll have to leave you're making a scene" I rejected these answers, and instead I chose something different. I chose the impossible!
I chose RAPTURE!
 

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Rhys95 said:
I'm Andrew Ryan... And I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to go into an aquarium with a group of bloodied madmen. No says the man on the entrance "Thats not an 8 year old girl" you'll have to buy an adult ticket. No says the security guard by the Sharks "you can't bring that Syringe OR that lead pipe". No says the manager of the aquarium "You'll have to leave you're making a scene" I rejected these answers, and instead I chose something different. I chose the impossible!
I chose RAPTURE!
I love you...


OT: That is some awesome cosplay. Hmm, Maybe I should replay Bioshock...
 

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I wonder whether they went in through the entrance dressed like that, or changed once they were inside... shame they couldn't get a real little girl to be the Little Sister though, didn't any of them know a friend with a child they could use? I've really gotta try dressing up my younger sister like this before she gets too old for the role.
 

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Is it wrong that the Andrew Ryan cosplayer kind of reminds me of the boss from the first season of the IT crowd?
 

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esperandote said:
Is the first picture edited or is that a huge ass fish?

Nice little sister, i really gotta get this game.
It's a grouper. And it's not even one of the big ones!

I've had the pleasure of diving in GA Aquarium's super-huge tank (complete with four whale sharks!) and the grouper are really one of the most intimidating things in there... aside from the ten-foot hammerhead, of course.
 

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Otherwise nice job. I can think of three characters missing from this group: Floating hands(the player character), Big Daddy, and The Magician.
 

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Dastardly said:
esperandote said:
Is the first picture edited or is that a huge ass fish?

Nice little sister, i really gotta get this game.
It's a grouper. And it's not even one of the big ones!

I've had the pleasure of diving in GA Aquarium's super-huge tank (complete with four whale sharks!) and the grouper are really one of the most intimidating things in there... aside from the ten-foot hammerhead, of course.
Lucky! I can't even begin to express my jealousy. How did you wrangle that one?

OT: This is really good Cosplay. The little sister is the best out of them all.
 

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Earnest Cavalli said:
Though, I have to wonder what the fish think of this whole thing. The comedy answer is obviously that the bunny masks blow their tiny fishy minds, but in reality those are likely the most jaded sea bass on the planet. They've seen it all, and can't be bothered to point out the anti-Humanist flaws in Objectivist theory, no matter how convincing your Little Sister costume might be.
This paragraph killed me. Cheers for the lolz.

I'm pretty impressed by the costumes too. Although the last one reminds me of Doctor Horrible in his League costume. So much so that I'm pretty sure that the last guy just carried a surgical mask in his pocket so he could cosplay as two characters on the same day.

That's still pretty impressive if you think about it.