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Comic Con Berlin || 20-21.10.2018 (mostly my impressions about meeting Rooker :D)

Okay, well... I just had to make a post about this epic adventure here too. 

So, what to start with? Okay, let’s start from the very beginning. One night we were having a skype conversation with @magneto81 and for some reason we started talking about conventions. And Maggi mentioned that Rooker is gonna come to Comic Con Berlin. To tell the truth, I was thinking about European conventions for quite a long time - I have a friend from Moscow who went to a couple of cons in France, and her stories were quite inspiring. Also - ROOKER!!! So my brains immediately started to work. My Schengen visa is still valid until September 2019... I only had to earn a couple of days off (and some money)... So yeah, a couple of months later we were buying the tickets! It was absolutely unbelievable for me. Even on the plane I couldn’t believe that very soon I’m gonna see Maggi and Rooker (I was actually very excited about both these meetings :DD) I met my friend Katya in St. Petersburg and in the morning we were already in Berlin, waiting for Maggi’s train to come.

Friday was really good. I met Maggi and it felt like good old friends meeting, as if we knew each other for ages. We walked around the city, did some shopping, talked a lot, then watched Blue Iguana in the hotel... Yep, that was a really very nice day. 

Saturday was the first day of Comic Con. We had tickets for Rooker photo op on this day, and I was NERVOUS AF! Really, even my stomach didn’t feel very well - that’s how nervous i was! But after some coffee and a morning walk it actually got a bit better.

We had to stand in line for a while, but it didn’t cause big problems. We got in, listened to Billy Boyd’s pannel a bit, walked around the territory a bit and then decided to listen to Backstreet Boys pannel. 

Okay, there goes the most interesting part :DDD

So, we’re sitting there like normal adequate girls, I look at my phone and suddenly see Rooker live on Instagram. We switch it on, and we see that he’s hanging somewhere around the territory! And me and Maggi, being two silly psychos just rushed to find him! We run around the territory looking at the phone like “okay, there are shirts behind him... where are the shirts? and the sweets... Maybe here... No! The ceiling looks different! Wait, I know!...” Lol, we were sooo silly, omg! And finally we found him! So at first we were just following him making videos with our phones, but at some point I realized that I’m walking really close to him. So... It was now or never! I touched his arm and said “Hello, I came here from Russia.” “You’re from Russia?!!” Michael exclaimed and this is how our a bit awkward conversation started. Me and Maggi managed to speak to him for like 2 minutes and a half and later we managed to download this insta-live and now we have it and it’s so cool! It’s even better than a selfie! Yes, we looked like fangirling idiots, but OMG WE DIDN’T FORGET HOW TO ENGLISH and it’s already good. I’m kinda proud of us because we were shaking, but still managed to speak. Though I mostly talked about my friend Olga. She was so hoping to meet him at Moscow Comic Con, but it didn’t happen. But I knew she wanted it so much and it was the least we could do for her. And Rooker was SO NICE!!! So simple... I have some experience in catching celebs, but there were mostly Russian (and some German) rock musicians... And he’s the first like.. Hollywood star I’ve ever met! And I knew he’s cool, but I never thought he’s THAT adorable! He hugged me twice and when we were back to Katya I was shaking, sweating and overall was a complete mess, but a very happy mess :DDD We watched Rooker’s pannel (he was AWESOME) and then walked around some more until our photo op.

We were really happy that we managed to catch Rooker before the photo op, because we were totally less nervous. The photo op went very fast and of course I look like a silly happy hamster, but... who cares! He held my hand and yep... I was really happy %)

But there was one more thing. I had a gift to Michael. I drew a picture of him as Yondu ages ago actually and I realized that he probably gets a lot of much more beautiful presents, but... I still wanted to give it to him. I wanted to do it at the photo op, but it wasn’t very convenient and the staff guy told me that I should better wait for him at the place where he gives the autographs and give him my present there. I thought that maybe I won’t be allowed to do that if I’m not gonna buy the signature, but it was okay, no one told me to go away or something. 

So, I approached Michael for the 3rd time that day and I still was shaking. But I took a deep breath and gave him my drawing and a card with my city. He was very attentive, asked me about the card and I explained him about our region and my small town near the Northern Dvina river and the White sea... He listened very carefully and held my hand again, omg! He said it’s great that I managed to come from the place so far away and that my drawing is beautiful and then he was like “It’s so sweet of you, let me sign your... your... your badge!” Yep, I had leather ravager badge on my jacket (thanks to my friend Olga once again!) And of course I wasn’t against it! So he signed my badge FOR FREE, and I didn’t even ask for that, he did it just because he wanted! And then we hugged again and I was so overwhelmed!!! And my girls weren’t around (they went to buy some water) and I needed them so much, I just needed some support %)))

Finally Maggi came to rescue :DD When I told her what happened, she got inspired too, and decided to give Michael the drawing her son made for him (Yondu as well). And he was super nice with her too and he signed the drawing and wrote something like “Good job, keep it up!” It was really the best thing he could do :)))

Here are our drawings, btw:

So yeah... It was really one of the happiest days of my entire life and I still have no idea what did I deserve it all for. I was really excited about this trip, but I could never imagine that it would be THAT successful!

Michael Rooker is an amazing and adorable human being, God bless him!!!

On the second day we didn’t get hugs for him, but it really would be too much, I guess :’DDD But we managed to take really nice seats on his pannel and enjoyed it a lot :)

Also we grabbed a couple of lollipops from Michael :)))

Overall day 2 was quite relaxing after such an intense first day... But there were really good moments I’d like to point out:

We tasted Twinkies! Yep, those Twinkies from Zombieland! :))) 

 Aaaaand... We hugged Billy Boyd! Aw, Billy Boyd is such a sweetheart :))) He asked us where are we from and when me and Katya told him we’re from Russia, he was like “Oh, I don’t know anyone from Russia!” And we were like “Well, now you know US!” :DDDDD It was really cool and really sweet :))

So... Yeah. Conclusion:

Comic Con Berlin was AMAZING! Rooker was AWESOME! Billy Boyd was ADORABLE! Cosplayers were BEAUTIFUL! Organisation and atmosphere - greatness. Plus - I had a REALLY GOOD COMPANY! So all I can say is that it was one of the best weekends in my life so far. I’d love to turn back time and do it all AGAIN! :))))

Thank you guys for reading ;)