Pokemon is one of my fave video games ever ever ever!!I love the little guys and it got me into turn-based RPGs which are my fave genre ever now.
My first game was FireRed but the first one I played all by myself was Diamond, and gen 4 still has a really warm place in my heart. When I was a toddler, my babysitter collected Pokemon cards and gave me her collection (it got stolen years later which is still the saddest I’ve ever been tbh).
Vulpix is my all time favorite Pokemon, I used to say goodnight to my Vulpix card every night and imagined she was my pet!!!
I also love love love Piplup because she was my first starter on my own!! I have a cute Piplup plushy my husband got me back when we were in high school that I sleep with ^_^
Other favorites include Jigglypuff, because she was my favorite in the anime and in the short lived Pokemon shoujo manga where she was a recurring character!!!
I also love love Houndour and Poochyena because I used to play Pokemon Colusseum all the time with my dad and would have them out first as my puppy team, including evolved form of Houndoom and Mightyena.
