A shiny Feebas? You are quite lucky; this is only the second one I've seen. How did you obtain it?

I bought the egg from a seemingly sweet girl. I don't know why you think I'm lucky though.

They learn few attacks at first and evolving them is not very intuitive, but once you get past that they become excellent battlers. They can also learn Surf, Waterfall and Whirlpool, which makes sea travel much easier. And if that does not suffice, yours has a much rarer color than the usual.

Who did it? Who gave you this... this hideousness?!

[How dare people mess with his brother!]

Don't people know the only pranksters allowed are the Hitachiin twins?! [In his dreams.]

Some girl in a lot of pink.

[France's expression is one that clearly shows he takes great offense at Kaoru's opinions.]

That is a Feebas, and it is most certainly not grotesque! In fact, if you don't treat it well, it wouldn't evolve at all.

Just because it looks bad, doesn't mean I'll treat her poorly. Geez! What kind of person do you think I am?

[...at least he didn't end up with a Magikarp...?]

...it'll look better once it evolves...

So I keep hearing! It's a little hard to believe.

A-ah...that's really not cute at all...but I'm sure it has some sort of charm!

By the way, Kao-chan, guess where I am~!

IF you're in Viridian like you're sort of hinting, then maybe you should come and see for yourself.

[Pff, sorry Kaoru there's a slight smirk.]

Does it even do anything?

[ bows! ]

It knows plenty of attacks, thankfully!

...there, is something off about it.

But - Hitachiin-san - did you not know about Feebas before you bought the egg?

[Apologies, stranger. You're getting a long distance twin mix-up along with the questions.]

[ welp ]

No, not really. It just sounded neat.

_{[Henry is staring in something like awe. And disgust. But mostly awe. What even is that?]}

It looks more like a dog toy than a pokemon.

[ hold on, Kaoru is laughing. just a little. ]

That's a little mean!

Feebas may look like that, but Milotic is a lot prettier! So I wouldn't get a refund just yet. And it's shiny, too, if I'm any judge.

What is up with the shiny thing anyway... I don't remember that being in the original two games.

[There's a sparkle in her eye as she looks at that Feebas.]

Wow a shiny Feebas...but really, it'll evolve into something wonderful under proper care! Think of it like the Ugly Duckling story.

If she really will evolve into that giant sea serpent, then I'm going to do my best.

It's special. Don't be cruel to it.

Geez. I wasn't going to be.

Uh... Ya might wanna get your fish checked out. It looks kinda sick.

She's not sick...