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Posted this in a /vp/ thread a day or so ago so I might as well share here
>8 years old
>get sapphire
>read themanual and gawk at All of the awesome new pokes
>get towards the end of the book and see snorunt and Glalie
>instantly fall in love
>stay up late squirrelling my gameboy SP away just to advance further into the game to find this awesome guy
>I recall how magical it was, spelunking the caves, delving deeper through the ice with my sableye
>brought poke balls up the bum for the journey
>reach the bottom
>heart racing I searched for a snorunt
>after ten minutes of walking I finally encounter it
>attacking and battling as delicately as I could I began to shake
>"what if I kill it by accident? Its so fragile! What if it defeats me?"
>remember throwing a timer ball after it escaped at least 6 of my other thrown pokeballs
>three shakes and its mine
>read the pokedex entry, tickled by the lore and how cool it was
>emerge from the cave
>train my snorunt, feed it pokeblocks and take it to the elite four
>its a glalie now. Watch as it tears through with tooth and nail
>get to Steven
>Sheer Cold
>Blizzard
>Hail
>imagine myself as a Norse god summoning snow with my loyal pet
>victory. I claim my place in the hall of fame
>put the game down for a few months before picking it back up again
>decide to train Glalie (whom I named Guru by the by)
>fight many a battle
>revisit old foes with vs seeker
>lay waste to them all
>grind victory road
>get guru to the highest level I had gotten any poke before him (74 I believe)
>shut the game down for at least a year or so
>turn it back on
>team is a level 10 mudkip and other useless shit
>confront little bro
>ask him where the heck my save went
>fucker restarted my game only to play it for a few hours
I miss Guru. I miss him so fucking much.
