helovesyouthismuch asked: Hi there! I was wondering if you could tell me a little about your experience with meeting Aidan last month. I'm going to meet him in August and I'm super nervous. It's dumb, but I'm worried he and Dean will be super cocky or something. What was he like when you met him? Did it seem like he was genuinely happy to be there?

Not dumb at all, I always worry if the people I really look up to are going to live up to the hype. I’ve actually met both of them, so I’ll go the full mile and share all round. That said - I have about 15 minutes of one on one interaction with the two on them in total so this is just opinion and impressions based on that experience.

Dean is genuinely lovely. Just a really nice guy, but he was more reserved the Aidan - at least for the few minutes I met him. I was lucky enough to talk to him for a while because I happened by at a lull in the line and he was joking around with me and the other guys.

You can find my post-meeting rambling explanation of that conversation here. Of the two of them, I was instantly taken with Dean as a person. That panel was also in a smaller town and so he was actually walking around the stalls and chatting to people as he went.

Then there’s Aidan - and I might get a bit of flak for saying this - but he has a bit of an ego in panels and Q&As and depending on how you interpret it, you might think he’s a bit cocky. I think it’s the relationship he as with his co-stars (at least for the cameras) is based on teasing and a bit of almost sibling-esque rivalry. If you’ve seen the Supanova Panel video then you know the kind of joking I’m talking about.

That said, I really don’t get that impression too much on a personal interaction level from him. He smiled straight away when I stepped forward to meet him and when I told him I had bought two photos (which is like $80) he seemed a little shocked (and flattered maybe? It’s hard to tell when you don’t know someone really well). When we had taken both of the photos, I actually turned to leave (because they kind of hustle you through), but he just reach out to grab me and said “Oh no, what if that one didn’t work out?“ He didn’t have to do that. I didn’t pay for the third photo and I was pretty much on my way out the door, but he stopped me, pulled me back and wrapped his arm around me. That’s something that will really stick with me, because he took a thousand photos over the two days and he still cared enough to make sure mine were right - and I know other fans with similar experiences. Full story here.

There were actually a few moments I thought “Yeh, this guy cares about his fans” (by peeking out of the photo room to wave becase we’d been standing there for an hour, or signing autographs into his lunch break). As to whether he was happy to be there? Well, the second day he openly admitted to being hungover so I can’t speak for whether he actually wanted to be there, but he was still engaged and smiling and just hilarious. The fan photos prove that I think.

At the end of the day, all celebs are human but I don’t think these ones will disappoint you.