Greetings. I had to talk to Yaezakura before I even knew this place existed.

My story isn't exactly happy at the moment, I guess you could say.

If you came from GameFAQs, you knew me as "Pikamaster Cubed". If you've ever visited Serebii, I'm PikamasterADV there. I occasionally post under Pikamaster Cubed on Smogon as well.

Why the name change, some of you are asking? (Or perhaps not. I just wanna tell a story.)

Well, it's not a frightfully long story. As a matter of fact, it can be summed up in just nine words: Last Thursday, I lost my DS and Pok?mon Diamond.

(Some of you will ask if I consider "DS" one word, and I do. If I had typed out "Dual Screen", then I'd have counted it ten.)

So all of the Pok?mon I had traded for from places, that event Manaphy I got, and all of the EV trained Pok?mon that I trained, all gone.

But, being me, I couldn't just give up and not play Pok?mon anymore. The thought strikes me as absurd. So I am currently in the process of acquiring another DS and another copy of Diamond, so that I may return to the fray.

When I was registering the name, I was thinking about "Rebirth". Like how a phoenix burns itself to ashes, and then is reborn through them. I also have been enjoying not just the G.U. games, but the original .hack games as well. So, I thought "why not use the name of that cool boss character?" So I did.

Further lurking could have told me that there already was a Kite or two here, and that I should have settled on something else. Oh well, c? la vie. I didn't want to wait for another day before I could start posting here.

I feel sort of strange, signing up to yet another forum that I may or may not continue to visit. Hopefully nothing will make me dread coming here like has happened on other occasions.

we all play shoddy here.

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(Some of you will ask if I consider "DS" one word, and I do. If I had typed out "Dual Screen", then I'd have counted it ten.)