Pokémon Mystery Dungeon my beloved :'') so much of who i am today is a direct result of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, i owe it my life. Blue Rescue Team was the first Pokémon game i ever owned. after having a go on my best friend's copy of Red Rescue Team, i begged my parents for a copy; since they were fairly anti-Pokémon, they agreed on the condition that i saved the money up myself. so i spent months doing every chore in the house (something my younger sister must have been incredibly pleased about, lol) to save towards this game, $2 at a time. finally, i had a copy in my eager little hands the day before school let out for the summer; i stayed up until 2am playing until my eyes burned, and took the instruction booklet to school with me to pore over until i could get home to play it again.

the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series were my favourite games throughout my childhood and much of my teens; though that title has since been claimed by Xenoblade Chronicles, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is still incredibly near and dear to my heart :')

i own and have played the following: Blue Rescue Team, Explorers of Time, Explorers of Sky, Super Mystery Dungeon, and PMD: DX. while i whole-heartedly believe that Explorers of Sky is the best game in the series, Blue Rescue Team is probably my favourite. what can i say, i'm a sucker for nostalgia and internal character-focused plots :'')

while i've played through Rescue Team and Explorers countless times, with multiple different team comps, there's just something so special about your first-ever team that can't really be replaced... the following are my OG teams, who i still think on incredibly fondly (and occasionally revive for a fresh playthrough)

• Blue Rescue Team: Eva the Eevee and Chick the Chikorita of Team Evick

• Explorers of Time: Ciara the Skitty and Chica the Torchic of Team Chirika

• Explorers of Sky: Tanee the Torchic and Rory the Riolu of Team Tirade

the PMD personality quiz told me i was "naiive" when i was eight years old and i have spent every day of my life since proving it. Eevee is one of my favourite Pokémon, in large part because she was my player character in my very first PMD team.