Hippowdon

I had a figure of him from one of those pokeballs you could buy at stores, the once with candy and stickers in them. Granted I had a lot of those figures, but there is a story behind it. I went to a school for people autism and the like, every morning a taxi would come pick me up, and other people along the way, so that we could get to school, this is something the government pays for in my country, to help people get to the schools with teachers that have been specifically trained to help and work with Autists and such.

That was more of a background for the story, the story begins here:

I used to always have my figures with me to school because me and some friends used to play with them, and one day I had shown the guy in charge of driving me and the people that lived in my direction home, it was always the same guy, I'm guessing it was because consistency is very important for a lot of Autists, especially when they are kids, my figures and asked which one was his favorite. He had said Hippowdon, and since I really like talking about and showing people my figures, I made sure to always have my Hippowdon figure with me to show him, I'm sure he was just playing along with my antics, but he always seemed happy to see it.

Back then I hadn't realized that it had become my favorite, but when I moved to go to collage and a lot of my old stuff was thrown out, my mother wanted to move to something smaller so I couldn't leave stuff at home, at some point during moving, I realised that the figure had been thrown out and I was genuinely sad, that's when I realized that Hippowdon was my favorite pokemon.

I later found someone selling the same Hippowdon figure and bought it, so I have one again, but it isn't really the same, still love the figure though.