#i called her MsSpookums

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I recently started a Pokemon Crystal Nuzlocke run, because I rewatched Griffin McElroy’s nuzlocke, and it just got me itching to play a pokemon challenge run again. So here’s the start of my journey:

My roommate rolled a die, and so my starter pokemon was a Chikorita! Chikorita is, historically, my least-used gen 2 starter, so it’ll be cool getting to raise one this time around. I had yu-gi-oh on the mind, so I decided to call him Yami. 

I did the boring Mr Pokemon stuff and then got back and fought my rival (who, of course, I named ???). Then talked to Prof Elm and got some pokeballs and the adventure began for real!

I caught a ratata on route 29, who my roommate named Ratatouile. Ratatouile has so far been mostly like a mascot of the team - there on the team, and absolutely adorable, but still is level 3 and I haven’t raised him much

Then, I took a quick detour into the south side of route 46, trying to take advantage of a little trick I remembered from my playthroughs many years ago - Route 46 has a lot of geodudes, which make for excellent helpers against the first gym leader, Falkner. I caught a level 2 geodude, and named her Lena

Then, we progressed onwards with our team of three. We got to Cherrygrove, healed up, and then entered route 30, where we ran into a Hoothoot! Catching that Hoothoot was pretty easy, and I named him BackstBoys in honor of my favorite Whose Line clip

Right after catching BackstBoys, the real excitement began. The second pokemon we ran into on that route was a POLIWAG. I was so excited and so disappointed when that happened, because I had NO idea that poliwag could show up on that route. IDK if it was something added in Crystal that I’d just forgotten about, or maybe it’s a nighttime-only find, or what, but it was so damn exciting to see that. But, we’d already caught BackstBoys in the route, so there was no catching a poliwag for me. We continued up route 30, mostly training up Lena, which also trained Yami and made him into even more of an unstoppable killing machine

Then I reached route 31. I had forgotten there were 2 routes between Cherrygrove and Violet cities, so this was really exciting! Another new pokemon for the team! Who could it be~~~?

IT WAS A POLIWAG!!!!!

I was so damn excited. I’ve basically never used poliwag before, and I didn’t even realize it showed up in this area anyway, so, like, YOOOOOOO. Lena was at the front of my party and I had her use a tackle to weaken the poliwag. But... I didn’t realize poliwag learned bubble as its starting move. Despite being twice the level of that poliwag, Lena was killed in one hit from its bubble.

I had really grown to love Lena in the short time we were together. She was rough around the edges, sure, but she was really strong and she cared so much about protecting the rest of the team. And she was pretty much my one big hope to use against the first gym. But, it was not to be. RIP Lena, you will be missed.

So, I sent out Yami and started throwing pokeballs. It only took a couple to catch that poliwag. Since it was the one who had murdered Lena, and also in honor of that meme about Hannibal’s mother thinking of baby names which I can’t find right now, I decided to call this poliwag Hurdurer. 

Welcome to the team, Hurderer. 

RIP Lena, I hope you find peace in whatever the afterlife looks like for pokemon. You will be missed