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I don't have a specific story or anything, but when I was a kid my dad sexually abused me a couple of times that I remember. Thankfully I repressed the memories until I was 18, and when I was driving home from a friend's house in the rain (of course it was fucking raining) it just hit me out of nowhere.
I thought that maybe I was misremembering or something so I confronted him about it and he confirmed it. It's so fucked up... I've always been super trusting of people and naive and I felt so fucking retarded that I didn't realize what was happening sooner and run off.
Anyway, I've played Pokemon consistently since I was in the second grade, but I feel like having that copy of Diamond to escape into at the time really helped me cope. There weren't any other games I was even half as invested in back then, so it was either play Pokemon or get smashed every single night. Maybe escapism isn't the best coping method, but I like to think that having that game to distract me might have kept me from turning to more destructive things.
I'm fine now though. It was just really jarring at the time. My favorite Pokemon of all time came with Diamond, too. Penguins are my favorite animal so naturally Empoleon became my favorite Pokemon. Mine was named Quetzacotl. He's my main bro and still chills with me in B2. I can't wait to explore Kalos with him.
