Spastic Spazzing

[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

On a random whim I asked all members of my family that plays pokemon in any way from the classic games we know to just only played pokemon go how they nickname their pokemon.

Categorizing us all up by ages here is the results.

Grandparents (only played go.): named their pokemon from every child to them's own nicknames, so for example tossing my IRL name out here again if I done so before cause idk how much I done it around here if ever Everett went to their Eevee they named Ev from their way to differ me from my father whom had the same name but went with Rhett for his nickname, and so on with other pokemon they thought fit the nickname perfectly so I'm an Eevee named Ev and my dad's their Eeveeloution dad's parents went Umbreon named Rhett, my mom's parents went with a Flareon (their reasons are funny and adorable.) & they all made my mother Syliva was her name into the obvious best Eeveeloution for her name Sylveon. (so we're the Eevee family. And the reasons why my dad to his parents is a Umbreon is because back in school they knew him to be the kind of kid to act tough around all when he was really sweet, as for my mom's parents my dad is Flareon because they say he had a fire in him to not give up on winning their blessings to marry my mother, and apparently according to my E do da he said my father's hair matched Flareon's hair.)

Parents I lost both sadly so couldn't ask them, so their group instead goes to aunts and uncles whom also played only go: they do the same as my grandparents except they include all family member's nicknames to pokemon they see fit.

Older siblings (side note they were all adults or off to college a few months later when I was born.) were a mixed batch of only go and some that also played red or blue before cause I, or their own kids showed interest in Pokemon: named pokemon from languages they learnt or know, or also after their kids & grandkids.

My group late 80's to early 90's kids: we are still degenerates from the 90s but less so now, and we kind of do what my older siblings do with any language we learnt or just know some of we use, and any with kids have named pokemon after their kids, followed up by this we got our references and inside joke names only we all would get. (Like my female Pikachu Philip.)


Children of family: they're young as lambs so just as innocent with misspelled Pikachu around the board, but they are also mostly made up of toddlers.

the few teenagers of children of family aka only three literally: named pokemon after their favorite characters from anything else.

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

I found it entertaining to learn, especially since I know for myself I name all around the board of nicknaming pokemon, I have a rough time getting a female Eevee to make my Sylveon to be named Sylvia but ever since I learnt my mother's name I always had a Sylveon named Sylvia in her honor, rarely I'll do a Vaporeon named Sylvia due to her favorite color being Blue (what I need is a shiny Sylveon to solve this.), but other than that I named pokemon when I get into the mood to make myself name most of them all I can done memes, anime references if not character names, IRL stars like Bruce the Hitmonlee or the occasional ironic now Ryan the Raichu (since Ryan Reynolds was Detective Pikachu's voice. Before that all I just weirdly did it on a whim.), our old classic ways of nicknames are rarely done now for it depends on if I want to go back into that nostalgia feeling atm, and then I got like how you nicknamed some where I look at element of pokemon, their animal or material IRL thing they represent and etc to decide a name. I even done the old Pokemon reference to Sparky the Pikachu whom was Ritchie's Pikachu.

In the end it was fun and interesting to learn how we all named our Pokemon, in the future I might extend my questions of nicknames for pokemon to random people on the streets I see playing Go or even just make a website poll where we give an age range & have multiple select answers for what they nickname their pokemon like A.) after family members nicknames or real names, B.) Celebrity names, c.) anime characters, d.) memes etc. just get a basic summed idea of how people name Pokemon more.

Guess I'm on my way to becoming the next Pokemon Name Rater if I go to do exactly that later on sometime. rofl




Also I just have to ask if you find hilarious some that this boy (in the middle) here is named Goh in Pokemon Journeys, and he's known in the series for just tossing pokeballs out and catching many of his pokemon with never battling them at all? (minus the couple times they stuck to he HAS to still battle them to weaken the wild pokemon in order to catch them.)

I honestly personally feel Pokemon knew exactly what they were doing when they made this character with how they named him Goh, and made him be in the anime series.

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Since I went and started talking of Pokemon Journeys I wanted to show more gifs of it now. xd

 

[Tobi Kaito]

Queen Spazzy

Honestly I'd love to see the results of that too, it'd be interesting to see what differences and similarities people in general have around our world for Pokemon nicknames.

As for Goh I'd also love it if pokemon did do all of it on purpose for it would show they cared enough to notice and make a character into a whole wordplay for those of us whom would notice it.