>be me
>get ultra moon the night of release
>excited.png
>tempted to start game while driving home
>really wanna get a shiny popplio
>determined.png
>2 months later
>no shiny popplio
>thinks i should start pokemon journey before event lycanroc is over
>theSadTruth.png
>too stubborn to start
>thinks "just one more soft reset"
>a few weeks pass
>event lycanroc ends tomorrow
>thissucks.png
>takes a depression nap
>wakes up a day later
>event lycanroc is over
>suicidal.png
>starts journey anyway
>see people everywhere flexing lycanroc
>feel like a brainlet
>fast forward to now
>thinks i can still trade with someone on the GTS
>possible redemtion.png
>remembers the autistic devs wont let u trade z crystals because it makes the event pokemon more "special"
>thinks about handgun in drawer
>remembers that i could just hack it in
>only thinks about using hacks for extremely autistic situations as this one
>searches for how to do it
>all videos are in third world snake tongue language
>thinks about last time this happened
>flash back to 9 year old OP crying over mistaking local trade with wifi trade on diamond & pearl
>just wanted to trade with my sister
>she wanted a magikarp
>thought it was a cute fish
>mfw i traded BOTH of my event reggigigas to some random pleb because my autistic self couldn't tell the difference
>mommy couldn't take us back to toys r us because she was at work
>reliving my past mistakes
>depression.png

someone help a bro out. this is literally my worst nightmare being relived. my friendcode is 392644683316

if someone wants to at least give me some advice on how to get the rockruff somehow with the z crystal id be forever in your debt