Well, crap. I've decided to start playing Pokemon. Gah. Suckered me in, didn't you?!
I'm a fan of RPGs and it's an RPG through and through. Marketing be damned. I got into this because of the mechanics, not popularity. In fact, this is the first time I've ever mentioned this to anyone. And I've been playing for over a month.

Get ready for a lot of images.
First off, I made a male character, but my memory got mixed up and deleted him. So, to hell with conventional standards. I made a girl.

He just annoyed me with his high and mighty pose. So, Chosen One. Watch out for his tongue! Nyx is in reference to the Greek Goddess of Night.


I get to name this jerk? Sure! He freakin' challenges me the second I get my first Pokemon! Oh, and remember, I in fact have no prior knowledge of Pokemon. This is my first time through. With the exception of the premature save failure.


When I made Chosen One, I got a Charmander and named him after the Japanese form of Godzilla, Gojira. After that, my save file died. In the restart, I got a Squirtle instead. I named him after Godzilla's film rival, Gamera.


Pidgey is named after Odin's ravens, Huginn and Muninn. Rattata is named after Beakman's World character, Lester.


Mankey is named after the orangutan from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Beedrill is named after a Geonosian from Star Wars named Sun Fac. Very obscure, I know. Geonosians are those insect creatures from Episode 2 working in the droid factory. Sun Fac was an assassination target in one of the games.


Spearow is named after the roc, a mythical bird. They were known to eat elephants. One destroyed Sinbad the Sailor's ship. Caterpie is named after Godzilla's pal, Mothra.


Pikachu's name, Shocka, was random! Zubat is named after the Popokarimu, a bat-like monster boss in Resident Evil 5.


Paras is named after a definition of some crabs' scientific name, portly. Clefairy, he's a male fairy. He's Cosmo from the Fairy Odd Parents!


Geodude is named after the German word for stone, Stein. Nidoran(male) is a mammalian looking creature that is also poisonous. So, I thought about the platypus. In hindsight, platypuses are venomous, not poisonous. Platy means flat and pus means foot. Hence, Platyfuss, fuss being foot in German.


Nidoran(female) is basically the same. Anch means flat in a language I forgot, and ashi means foot in Japanese. Anchashi! Magikarp is named after the Leviathan.


Jigglypuff is named after Arthurian legend's Fairy Queen, Gloriana. Ekans is named after Lucy Liu. Mostly because of her roll as the Master Viper in Kung Fu Panda.


Oddish is named after Biollante. Biollante is one of Godzilla's many foes. The monster is basically a giant plant mutation fused with Godzilla's DNA. Meowth is named after Cat Sídhe or Cait Síth of Celtic myth. Wait, Cait Síth? Sounds an awful lot like Cait Sith from FF7. But to set things straight, I learned about the mythical cat before I played FF7.