Your Real Team!

[speshal]

The best section I could think of this was for games, so...

Have you ever wished that Pokemon were real? They may not be, but we certainly can pretend...

The point of this is to try to think of EVERY place you've been in your life, and think of what Pokemon you could have possibly encountered and what they would be evolutionary-wise at this point of your life. Clearly, if you're younger, your Pokemon may have not evolved yet! But, think of a team of 6 (or additional PC Pokemon if you wish) that could have been in places that you have actually been. Do not forget to give us a reason they would be there or something! It'll make it more interesting. Now, onto mine...


**Many of mine are evolved because I dug into earlier areas of my life.


1. Purugly
With my mom disliking dogs for the longest time, I had always had a cat or two growing up. Recently we got a dog and she dropped this irrational dislike, but still, I did grow up with one cat in particular who my mother named "Tiger" (and I've had him since I was 5). He's not necessarily ugly, but he definitely is fat like a Purugly. ^_^



2. Crobat
My house has a backyard which is larger than most in my neighborhood because the back fence borders a field that is owned by the school district I go to. Due to the large trees in my area as well (like these things are multiple stories high), many bats live in them or around them and swoop down into the field at night to get their dinners. This has been something I've observed since I was very little and I think I would definitely have caught a Zubat somewhere along the line!



3. Sawsbuck
Living in Michigan, I am one of many who "go Up North" (basically just up into the part of Michigan where it's mostly woods) and relax in a cabin for a few days. My dad and uncles have always gone hunting, which I have understood, but still really thought deer were cute. I have a feeling that at some point I would have ended up adopting one of these as a Deerling.



4. Wartortle
I'm gonna start off by stating that I have a cousin who is studying zoology and LOVES reptiles. He's always had huge displays in his basement. A few years back, he offered me a baby turtle. I declined at the time because I didn't have the means to care for it or the patience, but had I accepted, I probably would have owned a Squirtle in an alternate world!



5. Wingull
Living in Michigan, the Great Lakes State, you're ALWAYS within a half hour of a beach. No matter what I did, there was always an option involving the beach. I would often get dragged to one nearby that had a ton of people picnicking like... all the time. This attracted a lot of seagulls who desperately wanted the food. I can recall two separate occasions where one of them once stole fries right out of my hand and another where it tried, failed, then pooped on my head. That thing had good aim. No doubt I would have tried catching it.



6. Ludicolo
My cousin, the same one with the turtles, has a pond in his backyard that he would tend to often. It was very well kept and always had lively fish in it. But, the thing that often interested me was the number of lily pads he had growing. And when it comes to lily pads, the only thing I can think of is Lotads and Ludicolo!


~Possible PC Pokemon~


7. Raticate
Living in front of a field, as mentioned before, there are many mice. I guarantee I would have caught one (even though my Mom hates them).



8. Buneary
In front of my house we've always had lots of bushes, the biggest being right outside my window. I can recall many nights walking home and seeing bunnies running towards my room/area of the house outside. We can always see their tracks in the winter, too!



9. Graveler
When I was little, talking like 5 years and younger, I used to go to my Grandma's house and get bored. She would just want to sit in the yard and relax and there was nothing for me to do. So I cleaned rocks. I literally sat there and washed rocks in a bucket of water. I'm sure at some point, if they were to come to life, I would have befriended a rock.

[Mizumanta]

Ursa
The adamant and calm ursaring was found as a teddiursa in search of food near my Ohio home. Living by a small forest, many pokemon would come out, but very few would stay that is until teddiursa. It often used cute tactics to get food from me. After a while, my personality rubbed off on it and it became a strong willed pokemon. Right before graduating high school, teddiursa evolved into ursaring. He still kept his calm nature, surprising those who were intimidated by it.

Phoebe
Just before the forest in my house was a stream that was rather close by. When I tried fishing in it as a kid, I saw very few fish, but right before giving up, I found feebas. It was covered in mud, but didn't seem to care. It turned out that there were a lot of fish in the clear stream, they were just all buried in mud. After catching the one, I decided to let her come inside with me. She had some problems with how she looked compared to other fish, but I think she's pretty.

Dewey
After moving to Arizona, I searched for a place for phoebe to stay. Just around the corner from my apartment, a teen center offered to let her stay in their lake. After visiting her everyday, I knoticed an otter looking thing. It joined me as I pretended to be a swordsman and copied my moves. It was fun, and it decided to join me. Luckily it didn't need to go to the water as much so it could stay with me.

Felix
A weird pokemon that seemed to enjoy the intense heat, Felix would sit outside and sunbathe just outside my home. I read a book that said it was collecting energy. Luckily, it also acted as an alarm system and would make the lights in the house surge if someone was coming. After giving it food to hep it stay, felix decided to stay with us.

Astral
During a visit to my grandmother's hhouse in California, I felt bad that I couldn't take my pokemon with me. We didn't have the room or budget to feed them all for vacation, so we left them at home with the fruit trees. While sulking over my loneliness, a ralts came over to make me feel better. Apparently they can sense when you're sad and stuff so it stuck by me. Mom let me keep ralts after it proved to her that it could handle itself with its psychic abilities. A year later, Just before leaving Arizona, it evolved. This kind of frustrated mom becuase it got bigger and we barely had room in the car as it was. I still haven't had Astral's gender checked, but I'm sure I will learn eventually.

Rosie
Mom actually had Rosie for a while while we were in new york. Rosie smelled nice and mom wanted that smell in the house. We gave her fresh water and in turn, Rosie kept the house smelling beautiful. It wasn't long before mom got frustrated. Whenever mom wanted to pick rosie up, the thorns would get her. Since mom couldn't handle that, she gave Rosie to me to take care of. I let rosie handle growing vegetables with me at the school's garden. She is motivated in gardening and will make the sun brighter (somehow) to aid in the plant's growth.

PC pokemon: TBA

[Wyndi]

Pelipper
The seagulls in my hometown always liked to hang out in parking lots, much to the frustration of anyone trying to get into or out of their car. They were especially fond of Burger King and McDonald's, but I guess nowadays they've moved on to Wal-Mart.

Jumpluff
Dandelions. Everywhere. The number of hours my family and I put towards trying to eradicate them from our yard is actually ridiculous.

Spinda
The one animal obsession that outlasted even my dolphin obsession. The first time I saw a real panda was at San Diego Zoo when I was eight, and twelve years later, I would find myself in Hong Kong glued to the pandas rolling around uselessly at Ocean Park and refusing to budge from my beautiful viewing spot because I'd waited all day for them to wake up.

Chimecho
I don't really know what it is with me and wind chimes (my brief dabble into feng shui told me they help dispel bad energy), but my dad bought me a set of dolphin wind chimes when I was younger and drilled a hole in my bedroom ceiling to hang them up. Does the wind ever reach them? No, but it's nothing a little manual shove won't fix....

Linoone
Fun college adventures with late-night animals, part one: I was walking back to my dorm my first year late at night, which meant I had to take a path that cut through a woods-like area. After a while, I noticed something was following me...and when it actually pressed its face against my leg, I just about flipped out internally. So I ended up doubling back to the place from which I'd come (since there was more light there), and only when two other girls saw me did the raccoon stop following me and flee. Thanks, raccoon. I'm glad you thought my legs smelled so good.

Deerling
Fun college adventures with late-night animals, part two: our campus is home to a family of five or so deer. I saw them around a lot in the daytime my senior year since my dorm looked right into the woods, but I also encountered them twice while walking back from a midnight shift at the library I work at. The first time wasn't too bad; they were all just clustered around a few trees and kind of stared at me as I walked past, but the second, they were literally blocking the walking path I was on, and I had no way of going around them. So I went through them. Very slowly. Trying not to brush against any of them. They probably thought I was crazy.

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PC

Venomoth
Moths are one of the very few bugs I'm relatively okay with, which is lucky, because growing up, moths would swarm to our house as soon as the sun went down since we lived near the woods. Of course, all those moths were much smaller than a full-grown Venomoth....

Magikarp
The first time I visited China, I ended up with a fever and missed one day of whatever tourist trap activity my mom had decided to drag us all on. Apparently the rest of my family went to a goldfish-catching place, because when I woke up from my fever-induced sleep, there was a small tank of countless goldfish sitting on the coffee table. They didn't survive very long (yeah, twenty goldfish crammed into a tiny plastic box; who would've guessed), but they were in a way the first (and as of today, only) pets I've ever had.

Trubbish
I spent this past spring break helping with the annual shore clean-up at Biscayne National Park in preparation for sea turtle nesting season. So much trash. So much. We found things that you'd expect, like fishing wire and beer bottles, but then there were the mattresses and the gardening pots and the bras....Seriously. Don't litter. Especially not near a national park.

[kismet]

<sub>well, as you know in Australia we have snakes galore. I've had my fair share of encounters with snakes in my house, my yard, my school, anywhere and everywhere! However, they are harmless unless provoked. It isn't uncommon to see one slithering around your backyard, if you dont have small pets outdoors, they should be okay. I would like to think i would have captured one eventually. I had ekans originally but we dont have cobra's or rattlesnakes, so seviper was chosen in place of it.


When we were in Bali, we visited many temples (as many as we as tourists were allowed, and followed all their traditions.) Most of them were adorned with the Fu Dogs outside the entrance, or the Lions. It was also full of monks, incense and offerings. It was.. really cool! I loved my time there. I also saw animals running free - in harmony with the monks i assumed - and some were dogs, I'm going to associate them as Growlithe, since they were designed with Fu Dogs in mind, which the temples had.


I did own pets too haha, and my oldest was a Whippet named Dookie (after the greenday album). We got him when he was a pup, although i was also young and grew up with him. He was great, and so gentle. We had to put him down due to a tumor he developed.. on christmas eve....But, im sure he would be around today in pokemon years.


Haha..Im not kidding when you say i have kangaroos in my yard. Even in suburbia. In early morning, you see kangaroos eating your roses (much to our dismay) and hopping about leaving big marks in your dirt. They are hard to approach, and they can be lured into eating some carrots or something if you're careful (to try and keep them away from the roses - also spraying gross stuff on the flowers works too)


ANOTHER THING IN ABUNDANCE ARE MAGPIES - SO MANY MAGPIES. This is a pest and i would have caught one to study it, but i also really like birds and magpies so i would have definately caught one. They are quite noisy at dusk but i like to imagine they're summoning their family for dinner.


Aussies are known for farming land, and sheep. Much sheep. I mean not as much as our New Zealand cousins, but sheep regardless. My best friend owns a farm and she has lots of Mareep...Skiddo....Miltank....Torchic(?)...and some houndours. I've fed a few , they're pretty nuzzly and smell funky but lambs are pretty cute. They do their own thing.


MORE AUSSIE ANIMALS - i like sharks more than jellyfish - Sharks Sharks Sharks, im afraid of the ocean, or more specifically wide dark open water. If i cant see the bottom, i'll get scared. So, i was at schoolies with my friends (uhh...a post graduation annual trip for all graduates, a custom here - involves much booze.) so we went to a beach at a friends beachhouse, it was nice and secluded (i mean it was a beach and bush , you wouldn't think there was a beach nearby haha.) so yes, we went swimming a lot, and night swimming! And you know sharks are more active at night yes??
yes i think you see where im going with this. No one got hurt but we never went swimming again</sub>


~~~PC Pokemon~~~


[dingo pokemon]
<sub>Dingoes are pretty rare where i live right now, but when i was younger I lived in Darwin where it was very hot and dusty, and wild dingoes ran wild! It was pretty cool now that i think back on it. So, I would imagine my Dad would've owned one, we like dogs, and he was in the Fire Brigade at this time (volunteer) and he told me once about a dingo he encountered once. I can't remember the specifics of the story but you can own dingoes only if they are raised from pup. They are wild. So you need a permit. I cant imagine a Dingo Pokemon so its a placeholder for now. I cannot own a dingo now due to my location so he'd be in the PC.


Another thing in abundance in Australia would be spiders. Oh god the spiders. I am actually looking at two different ones as I type this. I would have captured this as a Spinarak, probably after it ate its meal in its web. A garden spider! He wasn't gonna hurt me, but i would have gotten one eventually. I dont think Spiders are bad, im just a little scared of them! He would have evolved into Ariados eventually.


When i went to Hong Kong, it was so different and big from what i'm used to. We went through foggy forests and giant cicadas all over the place. They were bigger than our own biggest coin! It was ... really cool. The forests reminded me of something from a horror film, featuring werewolves but it was pretty. The cicadas were everywhere though, and i got used to seeing something large just fly past. I think it would be a Nincada!</sub>

[clef]

Liepard - Sage
Sage was my cat that my parents brought home as a kitten when I was five. She was the runt of the litter so she was really small. Sage was black with brown running through her fur, I think the fur pattern is called tortoise-shell. She had a very odd personality, as her 'meows' actually sounded like 'MEER' and she was constantly laying down, using her font paws to grab her back leg and rub her face with her foot. She was odd but she was one of my best friends. I was the only one she would listen to or let hold her. Sage died in November of 2012, but I imagine Liepard have longer life spans that house cats, so she would probably be on my party to this day.


Shiny Serperior - Reggie
When I was 10 my dad took me to the pet store to get me a turtle, but after seeing my choices I decided that I wanted the albino king snake. The people at the store said he wasn't very mellow and they aren't sure if he'd be a good pet for a 10-year-old, but I got him anyway. He was very good with me and he allowed me to hold him without any struggle. I had him for nearly 8 years, so I feel that he would have evolved by now.


Cacnea - Bernice
I live in Arizona right in the middle of the Saguaro National Park, so I will be damned if I don't own a cactus pokemon. Surprisingly enough I didn't catch her in the wild since harming Saguaro's is illegal here and Cacnea/Cacturne are Saguaros. I actually bought Bernice as a small potted Saguaro (true story) and I named it Bernice because I liked to think that Saguaros were people too. It takes many years for them to mature, so Bernice is still a Cacnea.


Mandibuzz - Wilma
With all of the Vultures I see flying around, I'm bound to have caught one. There are a lot of pretty birds out here like Cardinals and white doves, but I've always loved uglier animals/pokemon.


Growlithe - Cosmo
Cosmo was originally my brother's dog, named after Kramer from Seinfeld since apparently his name is Cosmo. My brother is weird. But anyway, when he moved out Cosmo became my dog and he's now my best friend in the entire world. He's very playful and he loves meeting new people, but he can get annoying since he tries to communicate by whining and howling.


Seel - Arthur
Sea Lions are my favorite pokemon, and since there aren't any Sea Lion pokemon, I can settle for Dewgong. When I was in San Francisco I saw a huge family of them and I know I would have caught one!

---PC Pokemon---


Helioptile
There are lizards everywhere. Every time I go outside I see a sunbathing lizard and they usually get spooked and dart away, scaring me in the process. I can imagine catching one just because its there.


Pinsir
In July these giant hideous beetles come out from under the Palo Verde trees and fly around. They are attracted by my porch light and have giant evil pincers and huge yellow eyes. I would catch one just to know that it was one less beetle in the wild. Although pinsir can't fly, it's mega evo can and those are scary.


Trapinch
When I went to my grandma's house I found a bunch of small conical pits in the dirt, and I observed an ant falling in and then it being eaten by an antlion. That is the inset that Trapinch is based off of, so I definitely would have caught myself a Trapinch. They take a while to evolve and I only found it 3 years ago.


Ekans
There are Rattlesnakes everywhere and obviously I would catch one for the cool-factor.

[sammiya]

This was kind of fun to try, hehe~

1. Shuckle: When I was about three or four we had a pet turtle named Tommy. He was a red-eared slider, I think, and was a pretty friendly turtle. However, one time when his cage was being cleaned he had been stored in a bucket, and then went missing from it never to be found again.


2. Houndoom: When I was five or six my parents got me a puppy as my first pet that was intended to be only mine. Her name was Rogue (after the X-Men character), and from how she looked she was a German Shepard mix of some sort, and she had a curled-up tail. She was friendly and affectionate, and lived to be eight years old. If she was was alive, she'd be about seventeen, which would've been plenty of time for her to evolve into a Houndoom.


3. Pyroar: The first cat that was "mine" was a male orange tabby, who I named Simba due to my love of lions when I was kid. I got him when I was about nine, and since I'm now 23 if he was still alive he'd be about 14 years old now, and cats develop prettty fast.

4. Persian: My second cat, Cody, was a tan/sandy color similar to Persian, even if he was also a tabby like Simba. He was rather bitey at times, but could be extremely sweet/affectionate from time to time. He enjoyed hunting mice/rats/birds, and would often try to bring his catches to me. I got him when I was about 11 or 12, which again is plenty of time for a mon to evolve.


5. Furret: My family used to have pet ferrets, who were very friendly, affectionate lil guys. They were extremely gentle, to the point that throughout our years of owning them they never once bit us. They were also extremely clever, too.


6. Zigzagoon: We used to have racoons living in our backyard. When dusk fell we'd get lil coons pressing their faces against the back door (which was a sliding glass one) and begging for food. (Due to having outside dogs and cats, we'd have dog food/cat food out, and the racoons would eat whatever was left over.) They tended to be fairly cute, and I would've been guaranteed to catch one at some point.