What is Crossplay?
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Known as the action of cosplaying (wearing costumes) characters from the opposite sex; it applies to both genders. NOT related in any way with sexual preferences of the people who practices it, in most of the cases.
A guy that wears a Card Captor Sakura costume is doing crossplay.
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Some hairy guy over there is crossplaying as Faye Valentine.
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A branch of cosplaying/roleplaying. When a fan of an anime, manga, game, or movie dresses up as a character of the opposite gender than themselves.
This is sometimes confussing, especially when the person or character they are dressing as has hermaferdiac traits..
Then again, some crossplayers are so good at what they do that they seem to be the same gender as the character they are cosplaying as.
"My friend likes to crossplay as Ed from Fullmetal Alchemist"
"One year I went to Otakon crossplayed as Sango."
"That one crossplayer for Fuuma was was so good that I didn't know it was a girl till she wen't in the girl's bathroom"
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4.
When someone cosplays as a character of the opposite sex. This phrase is more often associated with male cosplayers.
That guy in the Sailor Saturn costume is a a crossplayer
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Crossplay is when a guy cosplays as a girl or vice versa at an anime convention or other event.
Dana: Ohmygod, did you see that girl crossplaying as Mori?
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#2 playing a video game character of opposite sex while same sex is available
#1 man-faye is a crossplayer
#2 playing tomb raider as a male isn't realy crossplaying, but if the same male is using a female character in an online game...
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A derogatory term used to falsely label and segregate cosplayers who cosplay characters of the opposite sex from the cosplay community.
The guy dressed as Sailor Moon is a crossplayer, not a cosplayer.
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