>>36291171I did this too, but with Magikarp instead, and before I even reached Fallarbor. It was just my luck that Magikarp happens to have the shortest egg cycle of any Pokémon.
I nicknamed the first one “M-G JR.” because I knew it would potentially be both a Magikarp and a Gyarados. The second one became “M-G JR. 2,” and I did this through “M-G JR. 5” before I moved on.
But it gets weirder.
Fast forward seven or so months after I’d beaten the game and gotten a GameShark for fat presents man day, and I’m using cheats to breed Azurill because I sold my Sea Incense like the dumbass I was. When I return to the PC in Dewford Town to deposit the new Azurill, though, I realize something is off.
M-G JR. 2 isn’t a Level 5 Magikarp any more.
M-G JR. 2 is a Level 0 Mewtwo.
Not only that, but it had one move, in its third move slot, which had and unreadable jumble of lines for a name. Using it against a wild Wingull only displayed many question marks, then many exclamation points, before it missed and the Wingull oneshotted my Level 0 Mewtwo. The move disappeared once M-G JR. 2 leveled up to Level 1 with Rare Candy spam and started learning real moves, though.
I didn’t know about the Wild Pokémon Modifier cheats, so having a Mewtwo blew my fucking seven-year-old mind. I had changed my trainer name, so I couldn’t change the nickname, and Mewtwo wasn’t in my Pokédex, though using it in contests (I completed the Coolness track) at least got it registered as seen and using the cheat to access Birch’s bag and replay that whole cutscene let me nickname it “Mewthree.”
I know I sound full of shit; I haven’t seen documented cases of anything like this happening except for Bad Egg transmutation (which also happened to me once I started using the GameShark.)
I still have no closure on it to this very day.
