My Gym
History
I first discovered Pokémon in mid 1998 when I found a poster of the original 150 in a teen magazine. I was fascinated with the creatures, and on first impressions alone, liked Hypno. It was a couple of months later when I watched my first episode, Challenge of the Samurai. With that episode alone, I fell in love with Pokémon and a little while later got my first game, Blue. After studying the manual, I chose Bulbasaur as my starter, while my first captured Pokémon was a Rattata. I kept that Rattata, whom I later nicknamed Bronze, throughout my entire journey, and it became my favourite Pokémon, simply because it was the first one I ever caught.
When the Orange Islands saga was first showing on tv, I started to delve into fanfiction, and evantually signed up on fanfiction.net (this was mid 2001 I believe). If I remember correctly, back then the Pokémon section was about 50 pages, and even back then I thought that was lots. The less you say about my first poor attempts at Pokémon fanfiction the better.
When second generation came, I got Silver. This time I chose Cyndaquil as my starter, and just like in Blue caught a Rattata as my first Pokémon. I was also very fond of my Lugia and Umbreon. Upon finding my old Silver game back in 2006, I was heartbroken to find my beloved Silver game with all my level 100s had reset. However I later discovered a Crystal game in a second hand shop, and I started playing that.
In the long wait between second and third generation games, and due to me not discovering fandom yet, I fell out of Pokémon for a little while, however I still watched the anime. Evantually Ruby and Sapphire came out, and I fell in love with Pokémon all over again. As the games were a while away from Europe, I first played Ruby on an emulator. My starter was a Torchic, but I later chose Treecko when I got the actual game. The whole reason I bought my GBA-SP was to play Pokémon. Some of my favourite Hoenn Pokémon are Milotic, Mawile, Groudon and Ninjask.
It was around this time that I started discovering the main Pokémon fandom. Despite this I never signed up on any forums, or never even really spoke with anyone from the fandom, choosing to lurk around the forums instead. Evantually I stopped watching the Advance Generation anime as it just wasn't interesting to me anymore. I have missed a lot of episodes, but I don't really mind, since I learned everything important I needed to learn right here on Bulbapedia.
Finally in 2006, with Diamond and Pearl were nearing release, I kept up with all the new info on Serebii, and bought the Japanese version of Pearl when it was released (although I wouldn't get until December that year thanks to the site I ordered from losing my first copy). I choose Piplup as my starter and went blindly through her game, unable to understand a damn thing, and evantually getting so lost that I begrudginly went and found a walkthrough for the rest of the game. Later getting the European released of both Diamond and Pearl, I only uses my Japanese game now for exploitation of the surf glitch. Some of my favourite Sinnoh Pokémon are Lucario, Arceus, Shaymin and Froslass. I also fell back in love with the anime recently, thanks to Dawn and the, in my opinion, awesome Diamond and Pearl series.
Fanfiction
I have been writing fanfiction for years, long before the internet and Pokémon, back before I even knew it was called fanfiction. My first attempt at a Pokémon fanfic was back when the Orange Islands saga was first showing on UK tv, long before I got the internet at home. My story was about two pages long and had a plot where Jessie and James actually caught Pikachu for once, which forced Ash and gang to go to a Team Rocket base stationed in Orange Islands to get Pikachu back. It also had the overused "Giovanni is Ash's father" plot, which I would continue to use in most of my multichapter anime universe fanfiction. I discovered fanfiction.net in mid 2001 and signed up immediately. I've written a lot of multichapter stories, but never really finished any of them due to either procrastination, writer's block, or a busy schedule. I tend to write a lot of drama/angst, as well as some action/adventure. For my earlier fics, pairings and possible romance were usually developed later then the actual plot, but recently I have started writing plots based around pairings. I also recently started writing more game universe fanfiction, with my first attempt into this being Shock Waves an AkaHika fanfic I started writing back in late 2006, just after the Diamond/Pearl games were released in Japan. My fanfiction can be found on fanfiction.net under the pen-name Arceus.
Teams
Pearl
Nicknames:
- Infernape - Lucky
- Lucario - Luke
- Darkrai - Chaos (in Fullwidth font)
- Gyarados - Storm
- Leafeon - Sheik
Other Pokémon I'm thinking of adding to this team:
Ruby
LeafGreen
Emerald
Dream Teams
"Hoenn"
This will be my "Arrived from Hoenn" dream team, trained originally on Sapphire and then sent over to D/P to learn the rest of their moves from here. Natures are undecided for now. All will be trained from their proper caught spots, the only exception being Sableye who needs to be bred for Recover in order to keep it alive in battle. :(
- Swampert - Waterfall, Earthquake, Avalanche, Rest (Ability - Torrent)
- Ludicolo - Water Pulse, Energy Ball, Rain Dance, Toxic (Ability - Rain Dish)
- Ninjask - U-turn, Aerial Ace, Swords Dance, Baton Pass (Ability - Speed Boost)
- Sableye - Knock Off, Recover, Mean Look, Confuse Ray (Ability - Keen Eye)
- Weezing - Sludge Bomb, Thunderbolt, Flamethrower, Will-o-Wisp (Ability - Levitate)
- Altaria - Dragon Claw, Dragon Dance, Roost, Perish Song (Ability - Natural Cure)
Fighting
Created this fighting team originally for an OC of mine, but I ended up wanting to train them for myself. :) This team will be:
- Breloom - Focus Punch, Seed Bomb, Substitute, Spore (Adamant)
- Infernape - Close Combat, Flare Blitz, Stone Edge, Swords Dance (Jolly)
- Poliwrath - Surf, Ice Beam, Focus Blast, Hypnosis (Modest)
- Toxicroak - Earthquake, Brick Break, Poison Jab(?), Rain Dance (Impish)
- Gallade - Psycho Cut, Night Slash, Close Combat, Thunder Wave (Adamant)
- Lucario - Aura Sphere, Dragon Pulse, Psychic, Calm Mind (Timid)
Event & Shinies
Shinies
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Events
Legit
- Mew - UK Toys R Us Event - OT/Aura ID/20078 Nature/Naive
- Jirachi - Pokémon Channel - OT/Channel ID/40122 Nature/Rash
- Manaphy - Pokémon Ranger/Trade - OT/Sam ID/64493 Nature/Hasty
- Manaphy - Pokémon Ranger/Trade - OT/Cecil ID/23674 Nature/Hasty
'Semi
- Shaymin - Surf Glitch - OT/JENNY ID/29111 Nature/Modest
- Darkrai - Surf Glitch - OT/JENNY ID/29111 Nature/Calm
Shippings
Jenny likes the following pairings:
Het
- AkatsukiShipping (Cyrus/Dawn)
- BlueOrbShipping (Archie/May)
- PearlShipping (Ash/Dawn)
- DiamondShipping (Giovanni/Delia)
- SkillShipping (Ash/Domino)
- PandoraShipping (Saturn/Dawn)
- HoennChampionShipping (Steven/May)
- BurningLeafShipping (Red/Leaf)
- CrystalShipping (Eusine/Crystal)
Yuri
- GirlPowerShipping (Cynthia/Dawn)
- ImageShipping (Misty/May)
Yaoi
- PreciousMetalShipping (Gold/Silver)
- SacredShipping (Morty/Eusine)
- RaiSnagShipping (Ein/Wes)
- FlamingHairShipping (Maxie/Lance)
- HardenShipping (Archie/Maxie)
Pokémon/Human
- TotalEclipseShipping (Darkrai/Dawn)
- AltoShipping (Ash/Latias)
This user has a shiny Rattata. 
