An Introduction
Hello! Welcome to my little bitty blog on the great wide internet! This is just a side-blog, so forgive any weird follow-backs or replies. On to the fun stuff -- My name is Aster! approximately twenty-six years ago, I received a Gameboy Pocket as a Christmas gift, and with it: Pokémon Red. Because the anime had just begun airing, and the trading card craze had kicked off in the United States, I eagerly started up the game. I picked Charmander as my starter -- and thus began my first ever save file. My parents were not what you'd call wealthy, so it was the only game of my own I had, and whenever I'd beat it, I would start over - and always choose Charmander. I had lots of fun! I wore out the cartridge. But then I entered late middle school, and Pokémon became a thing of my childhood. It remained the only game I had ever played -- at least, until Pokémon Go! 2016 was a bad year for me, and that little app got me out of my house and walking around, and reignited my interest in these little pocket monsters. In 2020 I bought a Switch (for Animal Crossing, tbh) and picked up Sword & Shield....which I didn't finish. That little spark had already faded away, and I sunk 700 hours into Animal Crossing instead. If I'm honest, what reignited my interested in the franchise was meeting my girlfriend. Unlike me, she'd been playing Pokémon all along, and had lots of stories and sentiment I just couldn't match. Her passion got me excited, and we decided to play Scarlet & Violet together -- and I had a BLAST. So much so, that here we are now! It's time to go back and see what I missed out on, and play all of the existing Pokémon Generations. Starting with Fire Red (in place of Red), and reuniting with my childhood Charmander, Scorch. The Rules 1. Play every generation of Pokémon, on either an emulator or my Switch. 2. Try to play with as many new or unfamiliar Pokémon as possible. 3. Create a new Trainer OC or each game, with Fire Red being a Trainersona. And that's it! I should note here that this is not a Nuzlocke, fun as those are (and I do have an in-progress Nuzlocke on Violet.) This is an attempt at getting to be a kid again for a few hours a day, playing a game I really loved and enjoyed. Below will be a Masterpost with links to each Trainer, and the hashtag for each game. Hope to see you around, and I hope we all enjoy our Pokémon journeys!
