>>35254817>Be lonely child>Don't really have any friends>Get LeafGreen as first game>develop a sort of bond with my Venusaur starter?>like this is the closest thing I have to a friend>get to the postgame>find the daycare>find out it's used for breeding>Venusaur at this point is level 100 (because I got lost in the Pokémon Mansion for over 300 hours)>Figure that level corresponds to age because ???>Figure that it's very old and very near death>Figure that if it dies I can coax Oak into giving me a Squirtle>Figure that it'll die if it breeds at this old age>Stick it in the Daycare with a level 90+ Pidgeot>Fly around with my Crobat that's in a Master Ball because I didn't realise Great Balls existed>eventually give up after about 50 hours of this>I tried to kill my oldest "friend">for a fucking shitty-ass Squirtle>I had descended so far as to consider it a legitimate friend in the first place>and yet this wasn't influencing me at all>mfw looking back on thisalso had a Jigglypuff, a Clefairy, a Haunter, a Machoke, a Graveler and a Kadabra, all at level 60+, before I realised they didn't evolve by level up
and I legitimately went into every single grass tile in the game looking for an Oddish because I didn't catch onto the idea of version exclusives
