Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : So this happened earlier in the year at Dragon-Con. I was just chilling on a hotel balcony with my brother drinking, laughing, and talking to nearby cosplayers 


At one point, I went up to get a drink and noticed a petite Asian girl wearing a black tank top and sporting a bowl-type haircut with a blue streak through it. I told her I liked her hair and asked if she was Knives Chau from Scott Pilgrim. She immediately got defensive and angry with me saying things along the lines of “so I’m Asian, I have to be an Asian character?” I tried to backpedal a bit (definitely taken off guard by her tone) but I did say that I considered her race when I was trying to guess her costume, but really, it was the hair color/type that sealed the deal. 


I finally managed to get her to tell me the right costume - Mako Mori from Pacific Rim. An Asian character with very similar hair to Knives. So my first instinct was to kind of laugh at the coincidence and point out the similarities and tell her she seemed to have overreacted. However, I cut my losses, said nice costume and skulked off. 


So AITA for assuming her costume in part because of her race, and should she have gotten so angry even though it seemed (to me) a big coincidence and an entirely possible mistake? 