So as you can probably tell from the title, I've had an account here for a while, but since I'm more of a lurker than anything I never made an intro post.
I'm 19, I live in England, and I like video games (especially platformers and RPGs with fantasy elements), music (pretty much any genre), anime/manga (again, with fantasy elements), and dragons. I'm currently studying a game design course at uni, so maybe someday I'll get to work on an official Pokémon game, doing amazing things such as changing the hairstyle of a single sprite because for some reason there needs to be an extra spike in the western release. Looking at you, RSE Cooltrainer sprite.
I found Pokémon Reborn last July, when I for some reason decided that browsing the video game nightmare fuel page on TVTropes at midnight was a good idea. The nightmare fuel page for Reborn was listed under the main Pokémon link. I looked through all the pages, and I found it interesting enough to try and proceeded to get hooked. I then realised I should have learned from my midnight terror escapades when I decided to go through Shade's gym for the first time at midnight and was so freaked out I forgot to save when I reached him and, being the stingy moneygrubber I am, I reset when he wiped the floor with me and had to go through the gym again.
I'd actually lost interest in the Pokémon franchise around when X and Y came out after being a huge fan since I got Yellow in 2002, so it kind of feels like my love of Pokémon was reborn (get it? ...I'm so sorry) when I played this game. It's also gotten me more interested in fangames in general, since before this I think the only one I tried to play was called Pokémon Twilight or something. It crashed every time I opened it. I've started playing five other fangames since I beat Reborn's current episode, but I've only completed one so far.
Now to go back to lurking.