>>28449671Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I've carried a Shinx on my team in every Sinnoh-based game I've played (except for a Platinum replay I did last year, though I did have a Luxio as a placeholder for a good chunk of the beginning of the game).
And one time in Pearl, I caught a female Shinx and named it Slinky, and dropped it in the box. I saw that it had a Lonely nature and vowed to catch it a ton of new friends to keep it company in the box, so with every Sinnoh run I did, it also became a tradition for me to catch a new Slinky and make it the inaugural Pokemon of Box 1.
It sounds pretty autistic reading this back to myself, but I was like 14, give a kid a break.