What Pokemon would you, realistically, have?

[nastypass]

Saw a thread like this on /vp/, but my post was too long, so I decided to post it here instead! Basically, you decide which Pokemon you'd own based on where you live and where you've traveled, and post how you got each of them.

I'll start.
Location: Northeast Ohio (pretty much equidistant between Akron and Younstown, closest to Warren if there's anyone here that has any idea where those are :B)
Pokemon:
-Linoone, by now probably level 38. It had been hiding in the attic part of our garage a few years after we moved here (I was three when we moved, so at this point I'd be... four or five? not sure). My dad eventually got fed up with it, caught it, and gave it to me as my first Pokemon after a very lengthy debate with my mother over rabies and how the two huskies we had at the time would react. He's been The Bro ever since, even for my little sister. (There really had been a raccoon in our garage around this time, but dad had just killed it when it had tried to start a fight with our huskies. He used his bow so that I wouldn't wake up and cry over it...)
-Poliwhirl, by now probably level 36. My grandparents gave me a recently-hatched Poliwag as my 7th birthday present. It was the only egg of my grandpa's Politoed that they decided to keep, the others had all been given away. I'm fairly sure that I'll evolve it into a Poliwhirl once I get my hands on a Water Stone. As anyone who's been voting for Hiram Farm on the Pepsi Refresh program knows (hurr obvious plug is obvious), my dad works on a farm that gives autistic adults something to do every day. He's made very unsubtle hints about how helpful another fighting type would be there. I think I might leave him here if he evolves before I go to college, but I haven't told him yet. I might just make it a surprise.
-Dustox, by now probably level 35. My dad explained Pokemon battles and capturing Pokemon when I was about six. There's a large field by our house that the owner uses to grow soybeans and feed corn, so he decided that would be the easiest to go there to show me. This little guy was the first thing we ran into (albeit as a Wurmple).
-Pelipper, by now probably level 30. I caught him as a Wingull during one of my family's trips to the Cleveland zoo when I was 10. You technically aren't allowed to bring empty Pokeballs into the zoo, but I was ten. You can't have expected me to not try to catch the zoo Pokemon. When my dad saw me try to subtly (by ten year old standards) throw a ball at one of the Donphan, he stopped me, explained that they were probably already registered with the zoo, and let me off with a warning. ...I then proceeded to use the ball on one of the Wingull that was hanging around the food area trying to steal people's french fries. Mom was not happy.
-Gengar, by now probably level 29. Interesting story behind this one. I don't usually walk to or from school, seeing as it's an almost half hour walk, but drama club rehearsal had taken strangely long, and dad had taken a few extra hours at work (this was a few months after he lost his eye and was his last day of his old job. long story, don't ask) so he would take quite a while to come and pick me up. Rather than just wait around at 7 PM in mid-December, I decided to start walking home and meet him roughly half way. I passed the local cemetery along the way, which ordinarily isn't particularly creepy at all, but I'd just run over to the other side of the road because there was a dog on the side I'd been walking on and I didn't want it to follow me and it kept barking and augh. Anyway, on this particular occasion, I was pretty scared. Then, out of nowhere, a Gastly pops out and I practically wet myself. I instinctively threw out Linoone and wasted like five minutes using normal attacks before I thought to use Odor Sleuth, and it still took me ten more minutes to finally bag him. Got him just in time, too, because my dad drove up a minute later, and his headlights would have scared it away. Got him evolved in a trade-and-trade-back deal with H-land when he came to visit last year.
-Ekans, by now probably level 18. Most recent catch, maybe four or five weeks ago. I'd been camping with my family and some other relatives (who are the ones that technically own the camp site, but that's another story) and my dad went out to get firewood. No big deal, we got some without any trouble. But apparently, while we were out, this guy slithered down from the hillside and was right in our path on our way back. As soon as my dad heard the rattle he froze. As soon as my dad froze I started thinking, heard the rattle, and then froze. After everyone else had gotten the dog inside the cabin, dad tried nudging it with a stick to make it leave. It just struck the stick instead. After about three minutes of standing still, I got fed up and sent out Gengar to weaken it some so I could catch it.

 

[surskitty]

Kecleon, level 27, found on a trip to Florida; ekans x4, level 7, obtained at a reptile pokémon expo; houndour, level 19, gotten from a pet store; poochyena, level 12, and mightyena, level 24, both offspring from the houndour; assorted offspring from dad's clefable, level 62, caught in Carlsbad Caverns.

 

[Flora]

Starting Location: I live like fifteen minutes from Philadelphia and spend half my life there anyway, so I might as well make it there.

Pokemon:

Glameow: My mom used to work for a vet and, as a result, would sometimes take home litters of Meowth/Skitty/Glameow to take care of them for a while. Occasionally, she find strays and take care of them as well. (in fact, most of the cat Pokemon in our house were strays at one point) One day, when I was ten, my dad found a litter of Glameow kittens nearby his work, caught them and took them home. My sisters and I each got to keep one.

Zigzagoon and Pachirisu: My mom, though she no longer works for a vet, loves to feed the birds outside, which means they flock to our yard. My mom came downstairs one morning to find a Zigzagoon trying to eat the birdseed. She caught it (to spare the Starly from hunger) and gave it to me (as my older sister had many Pokemon of her own and my little sister didn't care).

There was also a Pachirisu that tried to get into the bird feeder every single day. At first my mom simply watched it amusedly, but once it managed to knock a screw out, she decided to catch it. I got this one since, for some reason, I had a strange obsession with the squirrels.

Buneary: The back of our house is basically a forest - which means Stantler, Vulpix and Buneary aren't uncommon. (seriously. I couldn't even sleep one night because there was a fox screaming outside. Have you ever heard a fox howl? It sounds like a screaming woman.) My dad found a little one, caught it, and gave it to me.

Vulpix: Remember that screaming fox I mentioned earlier? It wouldn't shut up until my dad caught it. It's more of a family pet now, really.

Starly: I was practicing throwing Pokéballs for when I became an awesome trainer. I..accidentally caught a bird.

 

[Coloursfall]

hmmmm. This looks pretty cool.

Location: Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

-Persian, Level 41
---My family has always owned a Persian, since even before I was born. Shortly after I turned four, my mother's had kittens, and I was permitted one of them as a pet. This one has been with me ever since, evolving around when I started middle school.

-Milotic, level 34
---My city is a fishing city, and every year they hold a Festival for fish and fishermen; I entered the fishing competition when I was young, and managed to catch a scraggly little Feebas. After keeping it in a fishtank for a few years, an influx of attention from me towards the little fish at the birth of my sister eventually let her evolve. She lives in our swimming pool when I'm at home.

-Whiscash, level 31
---Barboach fishing in the lake is a big kid's pastime in the summer, though we rarely catch anything, and if we do it gets away, since they're hard to hold onto. But one year, my friend's dad, who is an expert fisherman, helped us. I managed to walk away with a small Barboach to keep the Feebas from the year previous company. He evolved shortly after Milotic did.

-Staravia, about level 25
---When I was ten, the neighbor's Delcatty nearly killed a young Starly in our yard. My mother managed to catch it and nurse it back to health, and it bonded with us, and she let me keep it. He isn't too fond of my parents' Tailows, finding them loud and kind of dumb.

-Corphish, level 23
---There are lots of rivers and streams in the area I live, and you tend to see a lot of them when you're young and adventurous. Corphish catching was always kind of a sport to the boys in the area, who would see who could catch one and not get pinched. When I was 14, my current boyfriend had managed to catch one and give it to me.

-Sentret, level 15 (Minus tail)
---Only a couple of years ago now, a pack of Sentret would start to eat the catfood stored on the porch at night. One of the younger ones was missing a tail, presumably from a fight with a neighbor's dog. After some gentle coaxing and weeks to bonding, I managed to catch it.

 

[Chopsuey]

This is..... kinda interesting! :D

I live in a farming town surrounded by hills, plus there's a creek there.

Scyther, Level 32.
First Pokémon. I was poking around in some mantis Scyther nests, then I noticed a huge egg. It was creamy white, speckled with green. It barely fit in my backpack (It was also quite heavy.), but I managed to get it home safely. I kept it in my basement, staying with it in all of my free time. It hatched, I kept it fed with leftovers. When he got strong enough for a fight, we bought a Pokéball. End of simple story.

Ekans, Level 24.
Was walking near a river on a fishing trip (Hoping for some Barboach--nothing.) and noticed a bruised-up, bleeding object on the path. It attempted to fight me off, until I sprayed it with a Potion, where it submitted to the nice, relaxing spray. After having her professionally checked to make sure she had fully recovered, I talked her into joining my... arsenal.

Aron, Level 29.
Basically, I can't describe where I found him. (If I snap a photo, I'll post it. It's a cliff.) Noticed him there, nibblin' on a piece of granite. He knocked out Ekans, and nearly Scyther, but I caught him by surprise by throwing a Pokéball early in the fight.

 

[Zora of Termina]

I live in some suburbs in Illinois, a good mile or two away from anything important.

Delcatty, Lv... 56, I'd say: Our family had a serious Rattata problem back when we lived in our apartment, and our neighbor gave us a baby Skitty so she could kill 'em when she was older. I was about three years old at the time and couldn't imagine life without the cat now.

Murkrow, Lv. 35: I was nine years old when we moved into our house, and when we first moved in we noted a few Murkrows flocking around. I just happened to catch one while playing with a Pokeball one day. I still haven't found a Dusk Stone to evolve him.

Skuntank, Lv... certainly after the level that Stunky evolves at: It so happened that about a year after I caught the Murkrow that a Stunky got caught in my window well (my bedroom is in the basement). Dad caught him and gave him to me... for some reason. He got a lot of attention after my little sister was born, so he evolved.

Vulpix, Lv. 31: There happened to be a family of Vulpix/Ninetales living in the forest behind the house. One baby Vulpix happened to get lost and wander up to our house, where I found her and begged Mom to let me keep her.

Stantler, Lv. 29: There's a lot of deer around here, and sometimes they wander onto places where humans are. I was at school one day, and we were walking back from lunch, when a Stantler ran past us through the parking lot and toward a wooded patch. I instinctively threw a ball at it and happened to catch it.

Corphish, Lv. 15: The newest addition. Recently I've started taking walks down to an old mostly-abandoned park in the neighborhood, where there's a pair of small lakes. One day after it rained, I decided I'd walk around the bigger of the two to see what I could see. I sat down a moment about halfway around... and was attacked in the ass by a Corphish. So I did what anyone would do: I bashed it in the head with an Ultra Ball and caught it.

 

[Music Dragon]

I live in Sweden. I would have a Swinub farm.

 

[Pwnemon]

Starting Location: 20 minutes outside of Baltimore.

Graveler, level 62: When I was a little kid, by which I mean two years old, I lived in Oklahoma. We loved to dig up rose rocks, but one time as I was digging, a Geodude attacked me. My dad caught it for me and gave it to me as my first Pokemon, and I kept it when we moved, though it still has not evolved.

Porygon2, level 49: I used to be addicted to GameCube when I was around 7. I didn't have one, but my friend down the street did. So anyway, we would always hang out together and play two player Mario Kart co-op on it. Anyway, one day I noticed a glitch. In the course select screen, mirror mode looked like it had something in the mirror. When I checked closely, I realized it was a Porygon! I pulled out a Pokeball and oddly managed to catch the thing. It evolved to a Porygon2 when I got a Wii (lolupgrade).

Pinsir, level 23: This is my newest catch. In Chorus class one day, all the girls in the Soprano section started screeching. I looked over from the tenors and saw that there was a beetle crawling across the floor, and like any normal person, I would catch it. Owait. But I still did catch it.

 

[Tailsy]

Starting Location: FUKKIN SCOTLAAAAND

- Ten million Shellos - WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS IN MY HOUSE

 

[Sage Noctowl]

Let's see, well, I live in a swampy area in upstate New York, so...

Well, three years ago, before a development was built behind my house, I used to travel through the marsh. I've seen quite a bit of Wooper there, and I decided to catch one that came out at me. It's now at level nineteen.

Before that, I lived in a place further upstate, near Tug Hill. We had a little stream passing by the house, and I once caught a Yanma flying there. It's at level twenty-five.

A year before that, my family and I were playing in our yard when it began to snow. Hard. In the middle of summer. I went to investigate one of the larger piles of snow (it was actually a leftover pile from the previous summer, but it didn't want to melt. It happened to be a Snover that saw the pile of snow, and happily buried itself in it. Now, it's at level 34.

Before that house (Yeah, I moved to a lot of different houses), I lived in a house quite near to my current one. My friend across the street was a guitar player, and had a lot of fans, particularly Whismur. When I turned ten, he gave me one as my starting Pokémon. It is now level thirty-eight and a Loudred.

(I think I moved around too much as a child.)

Edit: I just caught a male Nidoran a minute ago. It was just walking around my mom's garden, and she called me down to tell me to shoo it out. I, instead, decided to catch it. It seems to be around level eight.

 

[....]

Location: Somewhere hot. Where it gets to 100 degrees in the summer. (No, I will not tell you where I live.)

Pokemon:

Shuppet: Around level 44. My first Pokemon. My mom, when I was 7, gave me 10 Pokeballs, and told me to go catch a wild Pokemon. She lent me one of her her Skitties, and I was wandering around in the grass outside my house. When I got bored, I looked up in the eaves of my house and saw a Shuppet. Then, because I was 7, I spent 5 minutes straight getting Skitty to use Tackle on it. I gave up, threw a Pokeball, and caught it. I showed my mom and she said that she expected me to catch an Oddish or something. It's been my favorite Pokemon that I've caught ever since.

Rotom: Around level 38. When I first got my DS, I turned it on and a Rotom popped out. I threw a few Pokeballs and caught it. My mom then asked me why I had a lot of creepy Pokemon and not cute ones like her twenty Skitties.

Quilava: Around level 37. When I was 11, they started teaching us about Pokemon battles and Contests at school. We were each given a starter and told how to take care of it. Then we had to choose between battles or contests. I chose battles. We were then told to go out to the playground and battle some Pokemon. I got extremely bored, because I knew this stuff, so I spent those times getting Quilava to like Rotom and Shuppet.

Togetic: Around level 36. Once I graduated elementary school, we were each given a mystery egg to take care of. Mine hatched into a Togepi and I then evolved it into a Togetic. She quickly bonded with my other three Pokemon.

Sneasel: Around level 32. One day, I got a call from one of my friends. There was a Sneasel in their backyard, terrorizing his little brother. All their Pokemon had already fainted, so I came and battled it. I then caught it , much to their surprise.

Murkrow: Around level 31. When I went to my Junior High School, I saw a Murkrow stalking me and my friend. He battled it, and all but one of his fainted. I sent out Shuppet, weakened it and caught it.

Also probably a thousand more Ghost-types that are stalking my house.
And occasionally we get swarms of Paras. In our kitchen.

 

[Superbird]

I live in a city. Big whoop. BTW, all of these are true except the me catching parts, no matter how weird they may seem.

1: Lopunny, ~lv. 43
Once upon a time, my mom attempted to plant strawberries in our yard. I caught the rabbit after he ate the newgrown vines.

2: Gastrodon (East), ~lv. 35.
Once my mom accidentally put a slug in her mouth. (Gee, I'm not giving her a good rep, an I? This is true, BTW.) After she spit it out, I befriended the Shellos, which recently evolved.

3: Chatot ~lv. 38.
The family pet, basically. We had one, and it flew away. The next was too timid for anything. The third, got accidentally stepped on by my dad not noticing it. Number 4 is the longest-living one, inherited from someone else, but it has a nice bond with my family, especially my dad. Its nickname is Dallas. [3 parakeets, then a cockatiel].

4: Shiny Yanmega ~lv. 41
One day I was in the public pool, when a shiny Yanma landed right next to me. I'm lucky I had some Poke balls on hand!

5: Pachirisu ~lv. 32
My dad, like me, is an avid bird fan. So, we set up a few bird feeders outside our house, then discovered this squirrel trying to eat the bird seed. We shooed it off, then took protective measures. It tried to get at the birdseed for six months afterward, always failing, when I finally caved in and gave it mercy. It is now a good friend, and shares our Chatot's bird seed.

6: Taillow, ~lv. 9
Last week, a Taillow found its way into my friend's vaction cabin while I was there. As it tried frantically to get out, I seized the opportunity to catch the Pre-evo of my favorite Pokemon. I am training it now to be as strong as my other pokemon.

 

[hopeandjoy]

Location: Literally, right in between Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia in a suburb.

Pokemon:

Arcainine M Lv 30: Got as family pet when six. He's very fat, lazy, and sick, so we don't battle with him.

Arcainine M Lv 31: Got as family pet when ten. He's a bit of a dimwit and always has a rash of something or another, but he can be strong when he wants to be.

Misdrevous F Lv 27: Found on one of the city's tours after she tugged on Mom's hair. I wonder if she died in one of the Civil War battles here?

Glameow F Lv 14 x2: A pair of stray cats that Mom sometimes gives water to. They're really more the neighborhood's cats, though.

 

[Murkrow]

Location: Cardiff

Pokémon:

Wingull - They're everywhere you look around these parts, more common than Pidgey. I decided I sorta liked them so I caught one. I don't plan on evolving him but if he wants to I'll allow it :). Also don't listen to what anyone else says, my Wingull is the best Wingull.

Purugly - Pet shop! And he eats way too much :(

Murkrow - Well I love them so much and they're quite common so I went and caught one. In fact I didn't catch her when I actually went out looking, there just happened to be one sitting on an island in the middle of the road. I actually saw a Murkrow sitting there every day for a few weeks and I assume it was the same one each day. I managed to get pretty close when I decided to take a look so it wasn't that hard to catch!

Magnemite - Ever since I wrecked one of out old CRT TVs with a magnet I avoided bringing these home but now that we don't use that type of screen any more I decided why not catch one. So I went out to the place I saw one when I was younger; next to a pylon in an ADSA car park. I came across its nest quite near it, in the woods (who knew they lived in nests!?) and caught it. I think it was a baby since I almost got struck by lightning three times on the way home and swore I saw a Magneton following me. I do feel a bit guilty.


I think a bunch of Pikachu moved into the garden recently as well, which makes a nice change from the Croagunks (which I actually haven't seen for a while).

 

[nothing to see here]

Hmm... let's see, just going by pets and maybe some other random critters that live in the area...

1: Garfield aka "Garf," an older Persian with hyperthyroid problems (so he's a bit on the skinny side even though he eats loads and loads of food.) Despite this, he still whups Teekee's ass every time the younger cat sneaks out of the house to start a fight. He wandered into our yard years ago as a small and very skinny Meowth, and was named after Garfield because he would eat anything (including lasagna.)

2: Teekee, a young Purugly who is exceptionally fat yet still manages to run around pretty fast when he feels like it. We found him on the side of the road as a scrawny-looking Glameow, though he quickly gained weight and evolved after we brought him home. He usually stays in the house, but whenever he slips out, he always starts fights with Garf... only to get swatted in the face really hard and sent running off in fear every single time.

3: Sam, a large, extraordinarly fluffy, and stubby-legged Eevee who lives in the front yard. Originally owned by a really horrible person, my mom bought him from that guy, basically rescuing him. He gets along well with Rascal, and the two play together (pretty roughly!) whenever they have the chance, despite the size difference between the two. He sometimes comes inside, but he can't stay in for too long because he's never quite learned not to pee in the house.

4: Rascal, an Arcanine who lives under a big tree in the backyard. My mom got him from the animal shelter when he was a little Growlithe, and he's grown absolutely huge since then; my sister frequently wrestles with him, and she actually needs to use her full strength to keep up with him. He really seemed to like the family of Torchics and Combuskens that we used to have, and would try to protect them from Linoones, stray Houndours, and other critters as long as they stayed close enough to the area where he lives.

5: Juan, a Combusken. Someone had a bunch of them and offered them to my mom, so she took the whole bunch in. Since then, the original family of Combuskens have reproduced, and the little baby Torchics have grown up. Unfortunately, however, most of them have died (mostly due to Houndours getting loose and attacking them, or other predators catching them.) Juan is the only one of them that's left; he's grown pretty big, and will probably evolve into a Blaziken soon. He usually sleeps in the big tree in the middle of the yard, right above where Rascal lives.

6: Two small, unnamed Barboaches who live in a fishtank in our dining room. We found them years ago at a petstore that is now no longer open. They belong to an odd subspecies of Barboach that swims upside-down.

Other things that I'd probably have the opportunity to catch if every critter I've seen around my house was translated into a Pokémon: various small birds (mainly Pidgeys and Spearows), other Barboaches and maybe a few Magikarps in the creek nearby, Caterpies and their evolved forms (or maybe Wurmples?), Beedrills, Spinaraks and maybe some Ariadoses, way too many damn Ledybas swarming our house, a Combee or two every once and a while, Zigzagoons and Linoones, Murkrows, Geodudes and maybe even the occasional Graveler or Onix up on the mountain behind our house, an Ekans or two in or near the creek, Stantlers... probably a lot more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

 

[wyoming789]

Ok, well I have three cats, so I guess Persian, level 33, Purugly, level 35, and Flareon level 20. I live around Lancaster, so Miltank probably around level 20 and Pachirisu because there are sooo many squirells, maybe level 15. Also, maybe a Swellow, because of the Swallows. Maybe level 25.

Lan-kist-er, not Lan-cast-er. Pennsylvania's Lancaster came way before California's, so dont get that mixed up.

 

[Anomaly 54]

LOCATION: Engadine, Sutherland Shire, Syndey, NSW, Austalia, Earth, Milky Way, Universe, God's back yard (But I used to live in England so)

(R.I.P) Mightyena (Max) , was level 43. Brought from a pet shop, it tradgicly died (In RL) after it's leash snapped and it ran accross the road. Did I mention there was a bus coming?

(R.I.P) Mightyena (Rover) , was level 40. Also brought from pet shop, but died before Max due to natural causes.

Murkrow (Echo) , level 34. There is a hole flock of them living in a tree in my backyard. They all cry either "Oi!" or "Wha...te...ver" because they like copying human voices. Anyway, I caught one just to shut it up.

Spinarak (Spiderspider) , level 18. It's Australia. Spiders all around. I didn't wanna be poisoned so I caught it. I was planning on releasing it (I'm arachnaphobic) but I got kinda attatched to it

Ekans (Ssssnake) , level 23. Again, Australia. Found when I was walking home from school, just lying across the pathway like nobody cared. Well, I didn't wanna be bitten so I caught it.

 

[Ralts]

A Delcatty with a very hard scratch and bite.

 

[Strife89]

My guess is that I'd probably have a Kirlia by now; she approached me curiously when I was young, and we've been close pals since. She goes by Deborah, after my mom; her idea.

(Being deadly serious, not just saying it out of preference for the Ralts line. Read Ralts's Pokedex descriptions. See also my TCoD quiz result in my sig.)

 

[Zuu]

Starting location: Northern Texas
Pokemon:
Meowth - Level unknown, due to its release while I was still young. Purchased from a store originally.
Rattata - Deceased from old age. Purchased in a store as well. Was level 17 when he expired.
Scyther - Level 29. Biked out around a sparsely wooded area and found him stalking an Ariados.
Magneton - Level 31. Built from a kit received from my uncle. (Yes, I contend that the Magnemite line consists of constructs.)
Victreebel - Level 38. Found as a level 7 Bellsprout when he wandered into my backyard.
Venomoth - Level 31. Caught as a level 19 Venonat, while roaming the fields around my grandmother's house.