For those of you who may not know there's this game series called Pokémon that started out as a Video Game, or rather set of video games, for the Nintendo Gameboy. These games were Pokémon Red and Green, where the latter was replaced for Pokémon Blue in Western releases. But that was just the beginning. This franchise has since grown and spawned 29 main series video games that have developed over 7 generations, 40 spinoff games, 6 animes (with multiple sub-series seasons), 20 animated films, 83 mangas, a trading card game, a viral smartphone game, and nearly infinite sellable merchandise. Now this series follows 10 year olds who abandon their home lives to travel the world alone in order to collect Pocket Monsters, or Pokémon. A weird premise, I know, but this seemed to have resonated with people which allowed for its continued success. There are currently 807 of these creatures, not including the multiple forms that some of the Pokémon can take. However, when I was deciding on a username for this website, there was 493 Pokémon. Still an incredible large number of options. However, among all these other monsters, there is one whose only ability is to transform into the other Pokémon. When I remembered this, I was astonished. If I named myself after this Pokémon, would I be able to embody all of the current 493 Pokémon and any others that come after? Could I truly be every Pokémon within one username? Is that too much power for one user to have? Yet when that last question popped into my head, I was overcome with hubris. I swiftly typed in the 5 letter word into the box that said Username. I instantly became the most respected user on this website, not only for my clearly superior username, but also the clear genius and confidence it takes to wield a username like this. And that, dear reader, is where my "nick" comes from.
Plus Ditto is cute.
