Cosplay: Cosplay Creator and Community Convention (C4) 2025

Goh: Oh hey, C4 is back!

Ash: Looks neat!

Me: Indeed, C4 is back. But I have to preface this by saying that it was supposed to have been back earlier this year.

Goh: What happened?

Me: Remember the time we partially talked about diversions? 

Goh: Oh, that's what happened! 

Ash: Yeah. I got to the usual place and it was dark. We found out too late that it was cancelled. 

Goh: Or rescheduled, since it's now today.

Me: Right. It was supposed to be for that fateful weekend - specifically Day 1 that day - but then lots of bad things happened around the place.

Pikachu: Pika pika... ["Too bad..."]

Goh: Well, that was then, this is now. So this is a Sunday - this would be Day 2, yes?

Me: Indeed. Day 1 was yesterday, but it turned out that I had a couple of things to do then, and I wanted to send Ash on this day to make up for last year, so...

Ash: Here we are!

Goh: OK, anything different from last year?

Ash: The booths look almost the same, and what they had was almost the same too. Even the communities - the music game and tile game ones - and food were in the same place. 

Goh: Well, something else had to be different. 

Ash: Oh, there was a show space in the middle of the convention space entryway. 

Goh: That's definitely one thing.

Ash: But you know something else? I met Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy - actually them this time.

Pikachu: Pika chu! Pika pika. ["Finally! For real."]

Goh: Wow!! That's a real treat for us.

Me: That rarely happens. It's a great moment.

Ash: And then I met lots of our friend's other friends all day - even at the show space where they had a talk show and a comedy space.

Goh: Isn't that neat? All great things to happen at a convention.

Me: How about entertainment?

Ash: Dance groups and bands - one of them Otaku Band!

Goh: Nice! It's as if our friend planned this.

Me: I did say I had plans, like before. It's a good thing they're on stage today... and so are the competitions.

Goh: There was a character performance, and then a parade... but I'm in the second one.

Me: I really wanted you in the first one, but I'm scant on resources and time - and I had wanted you to go with your Kalos outfit anyway like I had planned previously.

Goh: There's the planning - how about the results?

Ash: I got nothing this time.

Goh: Well, that's OK. I guess it wasn't time.

Ash: Yeah.

Pikachu: Chu... ["Hmm..."]

Me: So, I think we got everything. After you did all that, I had you go on a side trip to another place to meet...

Ash: Your figure friends! I haven't seen them in a real long time.

Goh: Hey, they're not "deactivated" after all!

Me: I guess that's true - just dormant for a long time. And this was really needed while you were there.

Ash: We had a good time seeing each other for about an hour. And then I went back to you.

Pikachu: Chu pika. ["That was it."]

Goh: OK, so other than the hiccup earlier this year, I think they have this "character market" down pat.

Ash: I think so! This could be a regular for us.

Me: I'm very sure of that. I will surely send you whenever possible... and let's see about that character performance.

Goh: I think I need to poke and prod you for that.

Me: Keep poking and prodding. I'll get to it somehow.

Goh: Oh, by the way, there wasn't anything else Pokémon going on today, was it?

Ash: I battled for G-Max Snorlax a couple of times, but that was it.

Me: I already took care of it much earlier, so I didn't need to deal with it again.

Goh: But don't sleep on it!

Me: True - for this convention or otherwise. Great things will and should happen for it next time.

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