>>57340305For me personally, I twirled baton as a kid so when my fennekin evolved seeing the animations of it twirling the stick just brought back a lot of really good memories of time spent with friends on my team that I hadn't seen in a decade by then. Nothing against delphox, it's just a different theme and braixen was a small light at a really low point for me.
>last year of college>busy, hadn't followed pokemon news since BW2 global link support>classmate mentions XY release soon>preorder, go with everyone to midnight launch>morning classes, reluctantly go to bed>told myself worst case I'd start playing after exams>a few days later laptop won't turn on>software engineering, can't do shit without laptop>go see IT, spend 2 days trying to fix it>school finally approves loaner request>not allowed to open it up and toss in my hdd>anti-tamper stickers galore, something something stolen parts>everything's out of date, can't open my solution files>spend the night updating shit on shitty apartment wifi>visual studio will not authenticate>have a group project, can't just rebuild those files>after sunrise walk to a local computer repair shop, drop laptop off, rush to class late with loaner>professor takes a look>sends me back to campus IT>microsoft account licensing issue>most of the degrees require macbooks so IT rarely gets around to the 5 spare windows laptops collecting dust>tough shit, it'll be a few days, return loaner>get sick from stress>miss classes and group meetups>go to urgent care, get prescription>pay out of pocket for my laptop repair>broke>fail 2 classes>feel like crap, start X for a distraction>went in totally blind so braixen was a genuine surprise>nostalgia flood>get over flu a few days later, plenty of free time now that I flunked the semester>pull baton case out of closet, go to park, practice for the first time in years>pretend my new starter is training beside meSometimes it's the little things that keep you going.
