The April Fool’s Day Misty Mystery

At what seems like noon Pacific time today, dozens of cosplayers around the world posted to Facebook that they were planning on cosplaying the same character at a non-existent convention, in what seems to be one of the most elaborate April Fool’s Day pranks of the day.

Dozens of cosplayers — mostly women, but some hilarious men — announced some variation of this statement posted by Kristen Hughey (who is the right image in the featured photo, along with Lindsay Elyse and Zeek. The photos were taken from those cosplayers who clearly took selfies, not those taken by photographers):

I can’t wait to debut my new Misty cosplay at Cerulean City Comic-Con!!‪#‎Pokecon‬

I’ll be hosting the “How to be the very best like no one ever was 101” panel on Saturday at 3pm. Be sure to stop by!

The whole thing was born from the creative mind of cosplayer Missyeru, who has confirmed that in addition two the two unnamed sources who told me she was behind it. She said she started planning the whole thing months ago, and about one month ago created a private Facebook group from which she got an estimated 80-100 people participating. All because she wanted to top last year’s prank.

“Well, last year I did a great prank that I got a fake Vi tattoo and went to a tattoo artist, etc. — it was very in depth. So I figured this year I needed to on- up myself, and what better than to blow up everyone’s Social media with every Cosplayer I know, in a very recognizable character while also being inexpensive for the Cosplayer to make,” she said in a Facebook chat.

Cerulean City Comic-Con is a reference to a city in the Pokemon game series, but may also be a spoof on Seattle’s Emerald City Comic Con. Some of the cosplayers are clearly wearing the same top, from Uncanny Megan (and one even credits her for it). Even our new West Coast pal Kohalu got in on the prank.

Kudos to Missyeru for an amazing prank, which was schedule to drop at 11:11 Pacific time on the 1st. And please enjoy this Facebook search link and the sea of Misties it contains.