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egberts:

this… this is really modern art. this is a level 1 shiny dialga in an event ball is on the gts and the only thing this person wants in exchange for it? a… male… ditto.

once, on my copy of X, probably like 5 years ago, i wonder traded away a much beloved, level 100 shiny mewtwo named Biohazard. In return, i recieved a level 1 Giratina, named Dave, knowing only the moves Scary Face and a low-power dragon type move. I was so stunned and pleased by my new friend that I vowed to raise him from level 1 all the way to 100, but shortly afterward i misplaced my copy of the game and lost him. Fast-forward to the present, after cleaning my old backpack out i discover my old copy of X, and delightedly bring my old friends into my copy of Moon, including Dave. Literally as I am doing this, I hear my little brother yell ‘holy shit its HIM’ and come running up the stairs. He opens the door and shows me that he had, in fact, just wonder-traded away a baby starter and had recieved Biohazard, the original boy. Five years later. He hadnt been released, or altered in the slightest, except for the countless ribbons he now proudly wore. I am now raising Dave, who is level 25, alongside my trusty old friend, Biohazard.

I have both X and Y and I occasionally like to use Y to breed and Wonder Trade starters from previous generations that can be harder to get in those games. For several months I had 3 freshly hatched level 1 totodiles sitting in my PC that I would occasionally look at and smile over because I happened to like their names.

Anyways one day I was in the mood to trade and decided it was finally time to give them to someone new who would hopefully show them lots of love. I forget the other two’s names, but I remembered my favorite one was a male I had named Delios. So I traded them away, hoping they would be happy in their new homes.

Cut to about an hour or so later I had run out of Pokemon to trade on my Y game so I switched to my X. I connected to the internet before getting distracted by something on my computer, but then I noticed something pop up on my DS, which was none other than a trade request. I knew it was just another person wanting to show off their Pokemon like usual but I was in a good mood so I decided to humor them and maybe give them something nice if they were willing to trade.

I was right about them wanting to show off, and the first couple of Pokemon they brought up were nothing special. But then they decided to show off a level 1 male totodile named Delios.

Keep in mind I was on a different cartridge with a different character and they had no way of knowing it was still me. But still they had felt happy enough with their brand new totodile that they had wanted to proudly show him off. Shortly after that they ended the trade.

I never got Delios back, not that I wanted to, but it made my day to see that one of my favorite babies went to such a loving home.