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Shane was overjoyed. Just a few weeks ago Nintendo announced that his favorite generation of Pokemon games - Diamond and Peal - were officially getting their long-awaited remakes. Sure, there were complaints to be made, but those paled in comparison to the excitement Shane felt upon reminiscing about revisiting his favorite region. Still, all that being said, the games wouldn’t release until the fall. Shane soon found that it was impossibly difficult to contain his anticipation, and for one primary reason: Shane loved the gym leader Gardenia. She was, by and large, his favorite Pokemon character. He loved her attitude in the anime, her rugged style, and was even a particular fan of the grass type in particular. The fanboy couldn’t wait to see what her remake sprite looked like - so much so that he began to surf the web for hacked roms of Diamond or Pearl that provided updated art and character models. Sure, they wouldn’t compare to the real thing, but it would suffice for now. Weeks

Nate was incensed. Even through the drizzling rain coating the asphalt and the swirl of bodies and voices brimming with energy after having been released from class, all he could hear was Tyler’s mocking voice. “You? Ask her out? Stay in your lane, numbnuts. Girls like Mia only go for real men, of quality and culture. Men like me.” Tyler could shove it up his smug, frat-boy ass. Nate chided himself on his carelessness, though – he had been speaking a bit too candidly about his long-time crush on Miyana Khatri in the halls with his best friend Ben before class. Somehow, with the worst luck in the world, Tyler Bowman had followed him from high school to college. And worse yet, they’d ended up in the same class together. Tyler had gone from a dickhead jock to an even more misogynistic asshole when he joined the university’s most notorious party frat, Alpha Alpha Phi. He was the kind of guy that viewed women as achievements, moving from one to the next as it pleased him. And Nate loathed