Cosplay is fun! Dressing up as something you're not, acting out a role unlike yourself. It can be fun doing it on a public stage, or privately in your home, or anywhere in between.

When Thor the Salamence asked me to do some cowboy-themed cosplay, it sounded pretty harmless. He wanted to dress as a spirited rancher, and wanted me to equip a good set of bullish attributes. A bit of a lowly role on my part, sure, but it seemed appropriate to the theme we were going for, and as a pet, I don't exactly have a huge amount of pride.

The dragon-type donned his attire easily, and then even did all my work for me. He strapped the fake bull horns tight to my head, locked the fake bull hooves securely around my paws, slipped the fake bull tail around the end of my real tail, splotched white paint here and there over my scales with a thick paintbrush, and finally, fastened a thick bullish nose ring between my nostrils.

I was quite bovine indeed now, and stamped my hooved feet with a loud 'moooo!' when Thor was finished. He had done a fine job securing everything to my frame - so fine that I'd likely find it impossible to remove this stuff by myself later! Of course, he could just help with that too, right?

Perhaps this should have alerted me to the fact that something...was amiss. I should have at LEAST noticed the larger red flag as the Salamence stepped away for a moment, before returning with the final piece of his costume: a well-woven rope lasso...

"YEE-HAW!" stereotypically shouted out the dragon quite suddenly, making me glance toward him in confusion and instinctively step away from him. Too late! He had already released the looped end of his tool, the lasso slipping neatly and perfectly under my stumbling hooves. Before I knew it, the rope had tightened against my wrists and ankles, scrunching my limbs all together as I was felled to my side with a thud!

Dizzily, I shook my head clear, ratting the heavy horns atop my head as I did so. Thor...what had he done?! I tried to un-scrunch my legs, but to no avail; looking down, I could see that he had bound them quite tightly, and with my paws covered by the unweildly hooves I wore, I could not try to claw through or untie my bindings... He...he hadn't said we'd be doing anything this rough during our cosplay!

"Well now, yer a mighty fine-lookin' steer! I'm glad to have wrangled up such a prime hunk o' beef like you..." Thor spoke in a well-practiced, yet still quite corny country drawl, planting his bare foot firmly atop my left flank and leaning his weight dominantly down onto me. "A pardner like m'self can have a lot 'a uses outta a bull like you. Seein' as I bested ya fair 'n square, 'n all! Yep... A lot 'a uses 'ndeed..."

Immobile as I was, I could still see Thor's cheek-to-cheek - and quite cheeky - grin. I opened my mouth to give him a piece of his mind over this rough roleplay, but was quickly cut short as the dragon shifted his weight and planted his sole right down atop my snout, obviously anticipating my action.

"Ah ah! Cows don't speak their minds; they don't got the smarts for that! Heheheh... But don't you worry, chunky-beef, I'll do ALL the thinkin' for ya for a good while... 'Cause I got plenty of thoughts ta entertain, ya see!"

After Thor moved his foot back off my face, I felt like growling. I glared hard at my captor, feeling my face grow hot with embaressment over my situation. But...ultimately...I let out a small sigh, electing to breathe out a bullish snort, and an angry moo, instead. I was bested, after all, and had to play the part I was given...

This bovine WOULD have his revenge, though... Eventually... Right..?

...M-moo...

Well! This was another collaborative commission I did in joint with   imperfectflame! This pic was done for   thordrake, starring his anthro Salamence self and my character.

My character doesn't get involved in that much bondage - and I think this is the first time he's been involved in clean bondage, for that matter! It's certainly an entertaining activity though, with all the helplessness involved. ;3 Thor's idea for cosplay mixed into that made for a fun drawing to work on. Painfully-stereotypically-Western as well, but hey, it's a setting I've not worked with before, and it works rather well here. :P

Thanks again for the commission, Thor! <:3

(And I have to say - I rather appreciate/enjoy when people commission something involving my character, especially in a unique situation like this. ^.^ Hopefully that's not egotistical of me! It's hardly necessary for me to be involved or anything, but it's just fun to work on my own character, not to mention generally quicker. :3)