#diary time

i need to say some things

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Fuck.

*giggles* I'm kidding. It's no biggie if I say fuck. I love you. The world is fucked, but I'll love it anyways.

So after beating FRLG, if you want to transfer in or out of Pokemon Box (y’know, the Gamecube game) you have to do the Sevii Islands postgame stuff.  And so I did, it’s like two short dungeons.  This also causes one of the three legendary dogs to start roaming.  Because I started with Charmander, I got Suicune.  I cheesed it a little with Max Repels to make the process go faster.  I also caught all the legendary birds, and Mewtwo.  There’s another unique Pokemon you can get from postgame; if you sail out to a little island an NPC will give you a Togepi egg.

In postgame Sevii Islands you have access to a breeding daycare, but I haven’t used it yet.  I actually don’t need to, because I specifically want Charmander and Charmeleon for my Fire Red’s living Pokedex, not my Leaf Green playthrough that will get deleted when I’m done with it.  And in any case, I still haven’t completed the ‘necessary’ (yeah I know) character growth for Eliza and Konstantin to willingly (YEAH, I KNOW) start making eggs.

You know that cliche high school plot where the teacher makes students take care of an egg or a bag of flour, as sort of a practice baby?  We’re doing that.

I made them take care of the Togepi egg.  Neither Eliza nor Konstantin are allowed to leave the party until the egg is hatched and evolved.  Hatching was easy, since I was running around catching legendaries anyway.  Out popped a standard issue Togepi.  Her name is Pietrina and she has a Relaxed nature.

Evolving is a different challenge.  Friendship evolutions are kind of annoying in FRLG.  There’s only one grooming npc (as opposed to the two in GSC), and friendship-raising berries only exist from Emerald and onward.  But, did you remember that FRLG has no internal clock?  Instead of grooming a Pokemon once daily, Daisy will groom your Pokemon every 512 steps.  So I just cheesed that out by running around Pallet Town a lot.

Imagine Eliza and Konstantin, forced to run around the world without dropping an egg.  And then, they’re forced to run around Pallet Town with this baby.  Eventually I got her friendship up to the right range, then took her out to get a few levels up.

It was Konstantin’s idea to take her to Cerulean Cave.  The encounters there are high level, sure, but he also has a weird fixation with the place.  In this life, he was caught in Lavender Tower.  In FRLG you can’t even find Cubone/Marowak in Cerulean Cave.  But in his hazy, deleted past this was his home.  He wants it to be a special, symbolic place.  So we put an Exp. Share on Pietrina and walked around a little with Konstantin at the front of the party.  A few levels later, we have a lovely Togetic.