>>51233255Tepig, even though it’s never felt like it
chose him because I thought he looked really cute (no idea why Oshawott didn’t catch my eye, but my sister chose him so I guess I wanted to be unique), actually really loved its evos and thought Emboar was like that cool older kid down the road who gave you cool tips and told bullies to fuck off without censoring it for my dumb baby ears
probably would be a lot more attached to it now if my only friend at the time hadn’t traded me an Axew two gyms early so that I could get past Elesa without wiping to her Emolga pair. The minute I saw that thing I fell in love, and the Haxorous that resulted from it is my only lv.100 pokemon and probably my favorite individual one of all time lol
pic related. Since my mom pirated all the games and the flashcart I used to play them still works, I managed to get the save working on a PC emulator and screenshot
I will force him and his terrible name into everyone’s faces at any available opportunity and nobody can stop me