"What in the..." My last egg had just hatched. The tiny Shinx that tumbled out of it just looked... strange. Where he was supposed to be light blue he was light lavender, where he was supposed to be navy blue he was grey blue, where he was supposed to be yellow he was neon blue. And there was some black fur just starting to poke out from under his nose.
I was embarrassed of him. Sure, he learned to walk and talk before his sister or brother, both of which were normal colored, but all he did was tell jokes, pull pranks, and be an overall menace. When my friends came over, I had him go to his nest and play there, so that they wouldn't laugh at me.
He was an unremovable stain on our family name.
He evolved before his siblings too; much too early. I dreaded what would happen if he evolved into a Luxray before them too. And the black fur on his face- it kept growing. He was PROUD of it. He shaped it into this fancy shape, and he was PROUD of it!
So I took matters into my own hands. I told him that it was a family tradition to leave once they evolved into a Luxio. He was to leave completely stripped of everything: his name, his family, anything that would allow people to connect him to us.
He left after I told him. He believed it! I smiled, and went back to my normal, plain Shinx. My mate knew I was going to.
All was well.
Later...
I wasn't stupid. I knew what my mother said wasn't true. I had heard her discussing it with Dad after she thought we had gone to sleep. I knew she didn't want me much. I had seen the pain in her eyes every day, every time she looked from me to my sister, every time her friends came over, every time she saw me go out to play with my brother.
So I had fun. I tried to make her smile. But she only thought it was foolish. She really didn't love me.
I wanted to leave. And she offered the chance.
"You must strip away everything that would bind you to us; your name, your memories. You must become someone else."
I would. I would become who I wanted to be. I would be Theophrastus Bombastus. I would make other Pokémon smile.
I would make my mother proud of me.