Gonna be real with y'all I love the pokémon ribbon community so much.
"Yes hello this is Cupcake the Swampert, my first ever pokémon from Ruby. I transferred him across mutiple consoles and generations and got him all the ribbons available for him because he's my best friend and I love him."
"This is my shiny Darkrai. I'm in the process of getting it the cuteness ribbon and after that I'll just need the toughness one and I'll be done with the contests. Isn't it neat? It's the cutest pokémon in this contest hall and I love it."
"This is the turbo rare limited shiny Mew I had to wait 13 hours for because the code for it was only available at one single Arizona Gamestop during the secret conjunction of the planets in 2011. It's very precious to me so I blinged it out with all possible ribbons because I love it."
"This Buneary is a random shiny I caught back in Diamond. Theoretically she's nothing special but I took her through multiple games, contests, battle facilities and champion leagues because she's pretty and I love her."
"This is the shiny weather trio I took through multiple games and ribbon mastered because they're epic and I love them."
"This is my first ever Mewtwo and I ribbon mastered him because he's iconic and deserves nice things and also because I love him."
"This is Banana the Weedle who won all possible contests and defeated multiple champions and I love him."
Brian the Heracross from Colosseum, shiny Pikachu which took many hours to hunt, partner cap Pikachu, Nebby from Pokémon Sun, Ash's Greninja from the demo, Celebi from Pokémon GO, someone's first ever shiny they just randomly tripped over at full odds, everyone's good friend from SV Koraidon and/or Miraidon who carried the protag through the entire game and thus deserves all those marks and ribbons, Nugget the level 100 shiny Magikarp with a rare mark caught in a Beast Ball. Event pokémon. Pokémon named after irl pets. Beloved npc trades. Shinies. Starters. Legendaries and mythicals. Random pokémon caught just for the challenge of ribboning across multiple consoles. Random pokémon ribbon mastered just because.
Every ribbon master has a story. Every ribbon master is beloved.
