Hello, people with faces. I'm SB. Some may know me from other forums, where I kinda created a name for myself.
That "name" disappeared in about nine months. Yeah, not happy.
But... anyway. I'm a really boring person. Who is legally blind. And has an I.Q. of almost 180. And plays bass and sings in a band.
...I'm not as boring as I thought.
I joined the party kind of late. My cousin (Amira-Yukimenoko on dA) was absolutely in love with the series since late Kanto, but her first game was actually Pokémon Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire. She later got Sapphire, and occasionally let me play -- I got hooked. (One of my most "famous" Pokémon was a female Sandshrew named UPMYBUTT. Yeah, not joking -- Amira sure got a kick out of it.) I got Sapphire in late '03, named myself GARVOR, and started with a Torchic named AARON. I assume at least two of the users here know the story with him?
Later, I got LeafGreen. Name BRETT, ID 39495. The game is actually in a box in my garage, and I still remember half the info and Pokémon nicknames. (Rattata named 1st Mousey. Beedrill named Weediania. Yeah....) This was when Amira and I got kinda in-depth with the series. Started experimenting with shinies. That ultimately led me to find a "cheat" on shinies. It said that if you booted up your Sapphire/Ruby, and then started a new game and saved right before you pick your starter, it would be shiny AND you would have your old file back.
Needless to say, I cried myself to sleep that night.
After that incident, I got Ruby, Red, Blue, Yellow, Stadium, and Crystal in quick succession. They made me momentarily forget about AARON and Sapphire.
...Oh, wait. Forgot.
The Mutant Golbat
So. One day, I was in Victory Road in Sapphire (AARON file), just walking. Right in front of the entrance. You know, before you really do anything, where you're just sitting there, looking at the rocks, saying "OHCRAPOLAIHAVETOGOTHROUGHTH|SBORINGPLACETHANKSGAMEFREAK"? So. I all of the sudden found a SHINY FRUCKIN' GOLBAT. FRUCKIN'. YES. A EUPHEMISM. HA.
Anyway, I got freaked out. Absurdly so. I called my cousin frantically over, wondering if she could solve the mystery of the green-and-pink Golbat.
She gasped and whispered this gem: "It must be a... mutant Golbat!" Ha.
But yeah. This was before we became Serebii nerds. Ah... the internet.
Anyway....
