#west415bill

when i was young i was really into pokemon. REALLY into it. i watched the first episode when it first aired. i loved it! i loved the cards! my brother collected them so he could play with his friends. his best pokemon was a beautiful holographic lugia, charizard, gyarados, and an ARMY of squirtles.

now out of this collection of cards only ONE caught my eye....and my heart. a beautiful holographic Ninetales. it was the last one in the card store before they closed down. my brother didnt want to OWN her but i did. so i claimed the card but HE had to work on her to make her stronger. i dont know how the card game works. i still dont know. so i let him handle that.

lets put this into perspective: if that ninetales was put into the digital game. she’d be a level100 with a 50/50 skill set that is fire and psychic. she was, in a nutshell, OP. a gym leader’s secret weapon. a pokemon champion’s greatest companion. my closest and best friend (i was a loner child and liked playing with toys more than people)

then the INCIDENT happened. my brother went down a BAD path. he stole our most beloved items to buy drugs. i hid my ninetales (who i named BooBoo because her card gave me a paper cut) in hopes he wouldnt take it. it didnt work.

i woke up one day and found that BooBoo’s card was gone. all that was left behind was her sleeve and the energy cards. my brother, who helped me build this pokemon to become the ultimate companion, WHO KNEW I LOVED THAT CARD, sold BooBoo for drugs. HE SOLD HER WITHOUT A SINGLE CARE!

i still grieve about that day. i didnt call him out on it. didnt need to. bro was in jail. he got what he deserved in my eyes. so i stewed on it for a long time. until recently.

i think it was THIS birthday/Christmas when @west415bill did this for me but he got me 2 presents that ill never EVER forget. due to mis-wording things i thought he was ordering Pokemon Moon for me (haha! nope. i have a shitty DS)

turns out he had ordered a plush ninetales on Amazon. she’s super soft and squishy and sits next to my bed every day! i get her a scritch when i have bad days. the 2nd gift he got me BLEW MY MIND. do note that i didnt ask him to do ANYTHING. i never ask people to get me things unless it’s art (and even then it’s more of a suggestion. not a request. if anything i do art trades)

the 2nd gift was a beautiful.....holographic...ninetales card...a female ninetales. in a sleeve. BooBoo was back in my hands after 20 or so years. im still stunned that @west415bill did that. i have a hard time expressing gratitude or forgiveness (no one has ever said “im sorry” for the BS they’ve done to me and no one has ever said “thank you” for things ive done for them. i dont ask for this stuff either). but i silently thank him every-gods-damned-day because now i have BooBoo as a plush and a card. my old friend had come back to me and im NOT losing her AGAIN!