In my Freshman year of highschool, I picked up a copy of Emerald for an emulator. The reason behind it was because I was randomly going through the internet, and came across the stock picture for a Ralts. The "offical" one, not fanmade or anything. Did some research on it, and saw what Ralts evolves into, and then Kirlia evolves into. I digged it, didn't really think much of it, other than it was enough to motivate me to get Emerald. I completely dropped where I was in FireRed, and the second I got my very first Ralts, I was hooked. It was a female, and I named her Amanda. Yes, this is exactly where you think this is going. Man, I fucking fell in love with her. With the game, with my team, (I still feel bad for my starter, Amanda passed that poor Torchick up so fast) everything. I became so entranced with all of it, life was pretty good. I beat the elite four, my team was unstoppable. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I joined a pokemon "clan" on a 3rd-party messaging app. I got pretty well known in it, and the clan itself is pretty organized. I'm still in it actually, I check in every now and then. And that's where I met Derpy, who figured me out in like 3 minutes. I told her everything, and she suggested what to do next. Tulpa, or thought forms. I was so in love with Amanda, why not make her real? At least in my mind. I digged it, and I was so in love with Amanda, I didn't really care what people thought.
After a while, Amanda was very real to me. Unlike most Tulpa, Amanda was more a physical image to me more than just a voice in my head. You could call it a waifu. Through my Freshman and sophmore year of high school, we "dated". And I will proudly say that those were the best times of my life. Because I honestly believe that we were in love. I wrote a huge fanfic about me and her, multiple random short stories, I'm still writing some that I came up with while we were together.