>>39484104Not my favorite, but one of.
I was born to a single mother who physically abused me as a child. She actively did drugs and other such things while pregnant with me, and later my sister, and while in a drug-fueled rage about whatever she actively beat me. Instead of buying me clothes that fit, she purchased drugs, so I didn't wear shoes. I didn't have belongings of my own as a child because we had no money. I apparently never slept after my sister was born, because my mother would leave at night to whore herself out, and so I would be alone with my literal baby sister whom I wanted to and was told to protect. Real shitty stuff, and I never knew I had it bad because this was all up until I turned 4.
At the age of 4, I was taken away by the state of Florida because a child services worker finally found out what I was living in. I was adopted later by my current parents, who found out through a friend of a friend of a friend what happened to us, and only because they had just found out they couldn't have children of their own.
I had a hard time adjusting to my new life and the idea of having "things" and being "safe" at night, etc. Soon after adoption my parents took me to buy what was the most popular thing for kids at the time; a gameboy and pokemon.
Playing through pokemon helped me learn how to read. I wasn't allowed to watch the anime because my parents thought the anime was the devil, but once I started going to school and eventually made friends, I was able to find out the story and such.
The reason I told you all of this was obviously because the mother marowak dying to protect her child was something that resonated with me. I wasn't able to grasp the story fully until later, but once I did, it was something that hit me in the feels. That a game I got right after being taken away from an abusive hellhole had a story like this in it the entire time.
