Well... [And here, he looks at his Pokemon, at Pansage in particular.] I've had Pansage with me since a very young age, and back then my brothers and I didn't think of any really good nicknames to give Pansage and the others we had with us. By the time I met Crustle and Stunfisk about... a year or so ago, it felt strange to try to call my partners by a different name?
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