Himalpaca

hi i'm kyra (pronounce it like kira ;w;)
i'm an american foreign exchange student (living in hämeenlinna, finland)
my biggest hobby is cosplay, but (obviously) i enjoy pokémon and various anime/manga (hetalia: axis powers is my favorite, but i've also become infatuated with Vinland Saga and Shingeki no Kyojin)
i've been playing pokémon since i was in 4th grade, and my first game was pokémon pearl. i was able to get 456 pokémon registered in my national dex but then I got a "game card could not be read error" and it hasn't worked since. since then i've owned (or still own): pokémon pearl (2 copies), pokémon platinum (lost), pokémon soulsilver, pokémon white, pokémon black 2, pokémon firered, pokémon emerald, pokémon ruby, pokémon sapphire, and pokémon leafgreen (borrowed).
my proudest pokémon achievement has probably been when i bought pokémon pearl, firered, ruby, and emerald for $1.50... altogether.
when i still had platinum i dabbled in competitive battling but never really got into it more than EV training, but now i am getting more interested and i've started reading more.
my favorite pokémon is wurmple, foremost and forefront, but then behind it in no particular order are haxorus, charizard, chandelure, palkia, pidgeot.... and then a bunch of others that i'm too lazy to name.