Being Muggleborn

Unusually, Lily started with an Eevee. stranger than that, with a rare female Eevee. Her father was a researcher studying Pokemon behavior, and Eevee was one of a group of Eevees brought in to be studied. Lily bonded very quickly and closely with this female Eevee who she ( uncreatively ) named Eve, and was eventually given her as a pet with the promise that she would keep her father and his fellow researchers apprised of her development. They were very happy when the eve evolved into an Espeon, and confided to Lily that they’d hoped for such an outcome. Ralts was the first Pokemon Lily ever caught on her own. Very shy, it took him a long while to warm up to Lily, and it might have been somewhat motivated by an envy of Lily’s relationship with Eve. Rally grew more confident in himself as he worked with Lily, and was not at all shy when she failed to secure a sun stone to help him evolve into Gallade. It was a rough patch, though he’s forgiven her for it. Mostly. He’s not above flaunting how beautiful he is just to mock her. Vixen, as Lily named her Vulpix, was always a very prim little lady who had no trouble keeping Rally in line. The primness morphed into stately elegance when she evolved into Ninetails. When the others descend into ridiculousness, she’ll start by staying aloof and turning up her nose at them, but inevitably gets pulled into the fun. Bud has always taken it upon himself to be a bit of a bullying older brother, even before he evolved into Meganium and was taller than Lily. He loves bumping Lily with his head, and takes special delight in trying to make her look foolish in front of other people. Kingdra was actually not Lily’s Pokemon to begin, but her father’s. There are pictures of her going swimming for the first time with him as a Horsea, and as a Seadra watching carefully near by. Now passed on to her when she needed a way to travel by sea more freely, Kingdra is something of the stately grandfather of the party. Altaria is the newest addition to the party, though that is relative when it comes to Lily’s party. The absolute sweetheart, she has always endured Lily’s poking and prodding and her fluffy appendages with immense grace. Which is saying something, as it has continued to be a fascination of Lily’s long after it should have been.