I've... in a very literal way grown up with Pokemon. It's the series closest to my heart. It's something that my father got me into and... one of very few things I have as a tie to him.
Fire Red was the first game I properly beat by myself. He gave it as MY game to do while from Gen 1 to 3 things transtioned from "My fiddling around on his save files doing stuff" to "Him guiding me through how to play on my own and carrying through grinding for me."
And part of that team, given I was the huge nerd enveloped in all things about this series at the time...
Was Raichu, or, as I nicknamed it, Raichie.
Gen 4 comes, I migrate my Pokemon up to my Diamond, etc etc.
I end up having him breed with a "trophy wife" (haha pun gotten from Trophy Garden) in order to have a kid with Volt Tackle.
This child, Pichuri, ends up being sent over to Platinum after finishing that run, in some aim originally to plan to try to EV train it and stuff.
And... I lost my copy of Diamond some time between. And this.... crushed me because of how much that game, and the fact that it held everything about my Fire Red adventure in it...
But. I had one little thing that tied to it.
An heir. And that.... started a line of things.
Raichie, the first in the bloodline. The one who counquered Kanto.
Pichuri, the firstborn heiress, who overtook Johto and followed her father's steps all the way to Mt. Silver, and ended up breeding up with the Luxray from my Pearl run... the only Gen 4 game that lasted all the years.
The third generation, then, was one of elegance and set to conquer a foreign land far from her own.
Affectionately dubbed Mami after... well, a binge of Madoka as of late and naming the Samurott Sayaka. The usage of her Charm was a far greater gift than I expected and it was honestly what made me really start respecting stat altering moves.
The set up for the 5th generation is actually fairly set in advance. Because the mother was already set a while ago.
The Chusplayer. The one who made up for the fact that the female Raichu from my Emerald game never got to meet Raichie and have the bloodline start with them.
Then, all that stands to tell. Is the story of the 4th Generation Male. Raichie's Great-Grandson. Mami's son bred with a (Mega) Ampharos to give us my next part of this bloodline.
Tomorrow.
Tomorrow begins my last of three runs of Kalos in the past like two months to make up for everything.
And it's gonna be fairly god damn cheesed.
Chu-Chu's Bizzare Adventure, begins!
