The Humanities Department May Have Been A Little Bit On Fire.

[rionaleonhart]

You people are amazing. Absolutely amazing. I love you and your hilarity and the way you are always so wonderfully reassuring when I need it. But most of all, I love the fact that, when I jokingly ask for fanfiction about Jeremy Clarkson failing at university, people will actually write it.

I have such insane good Internet friends

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[captlebubbles]

My cousin and I used to trade Pokemon between G&S, and we gave our Pokemon the most absurd names before trading them because 'ahahaha, you're stuck with an Oddish named Godzilla!'

Obviously my cousin and I are children. I also once restarted my Sapphire game to see how far I could get in 8 hours (without saving once) and named everything I caught 'Fred.' Another time I wanted to see how far I could get in LeafGreen on one battery charge and named everything after characters from whatever I was into at the time. And when I played through Silver to see how far I could get before my parents came in to bug me to do stuff (what? I get bored a lot, ok?) I named everything after the Pokemon I caught before it (so that my starter was named after the rival's starter, then the first one after the starter, and so on like that.)

[rionaleonhart]

my starter was named after the rival's starter, then the first one after the starter, and so on like that.

That may be the most brilliantly ridiculous idea I've ever heard. Switching out would be so confusingWhen my brother wanted all three starters in Blue, of course, he had to start a couple of games to trade the starters over to me before starting his actual game. On both occasions, I traded him a Pidgey called 'David', because I find Pokémon with mundane names inexplicably hilarious. He got his revenge by trading me a Pidgey called David and a Rattata named Ian when the time came for him to reclaim his starter

[captlebubbles]

My facorite one was always Godzilla the Oddish, because she already had an Oddish and was only trading me something that I didn't have. I've been trying to remember some of the other naming tricks I used. I think in Sapphire I may have called my Beautifly Dustox and vise versa, and if I didn't I'm going to do that later.

Hang on.

Hey! My Metitite is named Ian as well! And my Bellossom is Belle. It was the most logical thing I could think of. (It helped me keep from getting it confused with the two dozen I've got in Silver.)