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Comments

[doitrockapella]

Of course you would do this to me when I have more than one favorite. B|

If it had to be one of the ones she's already got, it would legit come down to a coin toss between Chief (her Kadabra and starter) and Zack (her Porygon2). I love them both so much in such fantastically different ways and I'd hate to see Carmen in Johto without either of them, but if it really came down to it, I think she'd keep Chief. Which has less to do with anything about Zack and more to do with the reason why I picked an Abra as her starter in the first place — because Abra knows Teleport, and if there's one thing that Carmen values, it's the ability to make a quick exit.

That said, if she were starting off fresh and legendaries counted, I'd give her a Ho-Oh. That's mostly an in-game development because of certain discussions she's had about birds and fire and the legend of Raven stealing the sun in particular (and I could tl;dr on those at length, too, but I won't here), but suffice to say, if there's one Pokemon I desperately want her to see before her time in Johto is up, it's Ho-Oh.

And if legendaries didn't count and I had to mulligan...I dunno, really. I guess I might give her a Smeargle. Or an Aerodactyl, since she's crazy about dinosaurs. But really, she's done so well with her Abra → Kadabra that I find it hard to think of her having anything else, really.

And she will never evolve him into an Alakazam because it would mean he would lose his big beautiful tail. BAD ENOUGH HE GOT LESS CUTE EVOLVING FROM ABRA IN THE FIRST PLACE. It used to be so adorable, he'd sleep for eighteen hours a day as is per usual for Abras and she'd go walking through the forest and he'd float along behind her, fast asleep, and IT WAS SO CUTE.