to be honest at the time i was probably something like fourteen and i wanted to just get better at pokemon after floundering on shoddy battle for a year or two of not really trying very much to get good at the game, i was kind of sick of being a mediocre player and wanted more direction
inevitably i decided to make an account and join battling 101 and under the tutelage of a few really cool players i think i became pretty competent at the game (particularly gens 4-5) but i never felt like i really pushed myself as much as i probably should have? and i realized somewhere along the line i didn't want to be much of a competitor. in any case, i don't really play very much anymore nor do i post particularly often, i mostly just lurk old threads for posts i thought were cool when i was younger but occasionally migrate to the rmt/ou forums to see what people are doing there
occasionally i think of returning and making a serious effort to compete again but mostly i'm content to lurk for now, it's fun to see what the community's up to every now and then