WTF?

WTF?

It was a dreary and stormy evening the day my life changed drastically. Before I get into all that I should introduce myself , Alexander Drake a fairly normal twenty year old guy all things considered. I have short thick messy black hair and job that barely pays for my rundown one bedroom one bathroom house as well as a small amount put into the rainy day funds under the mattress. Sure it wasn't some glorious existence but I lived alone in two thousand and twenty three America which was quite the achievement let me tell you.-

I was never very athletic to be honest so I had a little bit of a gut on me but thanks to both a fast metabolism and only enough money to eat a single decent meal a day I was by no means fat. I suppose I also got lucky in the genetics area though as I was a solid eight out of ten if my female coworkers and casual hookups were to believed. Never really cared for trying to make myself look good and was likely to wear a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with some sarcastic saying on it to literally any event.-

I did have one rather big flaw that I mostly kept to myself but those who knew me long enough were aware of. I had a near crippling level of apathy about everything since as far as I could tell there was honestly no real reason why I should care about anything. I wasn't emotionless , no far from it , but I simply accepted that there was no point to getting stressed over things out of my control which was basically everything. For some people they strived for something greater than human but I accepted that it simply didn't exist.-

It wasn't all that expensive to get all these games and the console to play them either. About two hundred dollars from my rainy day fund after taxes since I got everything from a reliable game shop second hand. Thirty for each of the ds cartridges , seventy five for the ds lite itself including the charging cable and twenty five for each of the gba cartridge games. I started with pokemon emerald and went through the story within two of my days off. Despite clearly being meant for children the game was actually pretty comprehensive in it's mechanics.-

Obviously the level system made the type system slightly less valuable to memorize when a higher level tended to mean a pokemon could tank an attack of a type it was weak against if the level difference was high enough and the opposite was true. If a pokemon out leveled it's opponent it could still seriously harm or even "knock out" a pokemon strong against that type of attack. This was where things got a bit unbalanced as it was totally doable to just have your character run back and forth in a specific area defeating the random encounters repeatedly to over level your party of six pokemon thanks to the exp system in levels.-

Otherwise though the game had a fairly good thing going for it that made it fun to try and play through the game with various limitations. My personal favorite was the "adult" version of the game where if a pokemon was "knocked out" in battle you had to store it in your pc box and release it because it was "dead". This meant I was forced to be more invested in actual strategy then just brute forcing my way through the story and gyms.-

Once I got too comfortable playing with emerald I moved on to fire red then heart gold after that and finally I was playing through Pokemon platinum for the first time when everything changed. I'd like to say that it was some grand spectacle but in all honestly it was not. One moment I was watching the credits of the game after defeating the champion Cynthia and the next everything went black. I am pretty sure I was instantly killed by the bolt of lightning that I had no way of predicting. I am also pretty sure SOMETHING had grabbed my soul at the moment of my death as When I woke up I was very much no longer on earth. My first thought of course was 'What the Fuck?'.