>>44752828Do you remember those three eevee brothers in the anime (the first season I think)? Well, with my big sister and my little brother, it was basically us.
When I was little, no more than 10 years old, I had the blue version and my brother the red one, and I played with Blastoise and him Charizard. So once we got to the eevee, naturally, I made it evolve into a flareon and him into a vaporeon, to make up for our type weaknesses. And it became a frequent argument between us as to which one was the cooler of the two. We decided to ask our older sister - who wasn't playing - and she said she preferred... Jolteon. She liked it so much that she then asked me if she could play and she, who didn't like Pokémon, made a whole run on my blue version with her Jolteon as a "main". I think that's the only time I've ever seen her finish a game.
After that, it was a bit of a "fight" between us for years, and now, more than 20 years later, we sometimes laugh about it.
I don't know why I liked Flareon so much originally, but today, if I rationalize, it's because I "see" myself with him: if pokémon existed, like in the Detective Pikachu movie, I wouldn't like a pokémon that was humanoid or too big. I would take one - I think - that would look like a dog or a cat, like a pet in our world. And Flareon would fill that role perfectly. That's why in every playthrough, whenever I can, I take a flareon (female) that I always call the same way.
The funny thing is: i don't even like fire types pokémons.
