#idec if chespins not a starter i WILL find my boy

[hopefulstarfire]

Not to get sentimental today but like. Look Alola may be my favorite region, and Sinnoh and Hoenn may be my Homes.

But Kalos holds such a unique and special place in my heart.

X and Y is the first time I really got to experience the community in real time. I was a homeschooled kid until 7th grade and it came out my sophomore year, announced while I was still a freshman. I remember sitting around with my friends talking about the news and leaks and how excited I was over Fairy Types and Mega Absol. We were all talking about what starters we wanted and what pokemon we thought were cool.

My uncle bought it and a 2ds for me for an early Christmas present, so I could play with him and my cousins. I had my Chespin and I built my team and I just had a blast wandering through Kalos.

And as a more somber note, it's the last game I played while my Grandpa was still alive. He died 2 months after the game was released in January of 2014. It's been 10 years and I wish he was still here. But I think going back to Kalos gives me an opportunity to kind of reconnect to that time in my life. A happier time, one of the happiest of my life, right before my world turned upside down. Hell, I was sitting in his favorite chair, playing the game all the time and on the very first day I got it.

Idk maybe it's dumb and sentimental. But it's nice to reconnect to that part of me.

And me, Bucky the Chesnaught, Mavis the Sylveon and Sabre the Absol? Yeah. Yeah this is gonna be a good adventure again.