The title sounds pretty weird but let me give some background, I(14M) have a friend(15F) who’s Hyper fixated on pokemon and we both share (multiple) favourite pokemon, those pokemon being
-Charizard
-Lucario
-Umbreon
now I’ve loved Umbreon for years, it’s my comfort pokemon in short, I’ll get to the main story now
i woke up at 7am or something similar and i opened my messages app to be greeted with the message
"Hey Umber(not my real name obviously), we need to talk about something."
this concerned me as i didn’t know what i did wrong, I awnsered and she immediately replied back to me, in short it went something along the lines of
"I’m uncomfortable with both of our favourite pokemon being Umbreon, and you need to choose between keeping Umbreon as your favourite and losing me, or no longer liking Umbreon and keeping me as a friend"
i didn’t know what to do because i just work up so i replied that I’ll think about it and now I’m posting this here, I’m thinking of keeping it as my favourite since i really like Umbreon, so i need to know AITA for not changing my favourite pokemon because my friend asked me to?
UPDATE!!!
i didn’t expect to update this so quickly but she responded faster than i could read every comment!!
in short i said to her
"Sorry, i choose Umbreon because Umbreon has been here longer than you have."
she FLIPPED OUT, she started cursing like crazy, i did block her so that’s that! i chose Umbreon in the end!! yayy good ending 🥹
NTA tell them to get over themselves (not really). Umbreon is my favourite too. It’s a popular series watched by millions of people across the globe. She doesn’t get to call dibs. Tell her “I like what I like and I won’t change who I am for you. You will have to live with me liking Umbreon, like the thousands of other people who like them too.”
Wowzah… Your reply to her is “Sorry but if you were my friend, you wouldn’t try to dictate what I can and cannot like, especially as trivial as Pokemon. I’m not changing which ones are my favorites.” NTA
Is your friend mentally ill. Obvious nta.
NTA I know you guys are kids but this was an immature request from your friend even for her age. This is not how life works, nobody can tell you what to like, and you liking something doesn’t take away from anyone else’s enjoyment of it. Keep whatever favorite you want and tell your friend to grow up!
This is just so silly. Tell her it’s called a fandom, and many people are allowed to like the same thing. There are entire groups of people who love the same singular thing. She can’t gatekeep liking an imaginary thing.
NTA. Tell her she’s welcome to keep liking this Pokémon, but that she might want to start acting her age instead of like a 5yo. Keep liking what you like, OP.
pick umbreon because you do not want a friend like this by your side. literally what is your friends issue? this is some petty teenage crap. NTA and choose umbreon lol
Is this a joke? NTA if it isn’t. That’s fucking weird. I haven’t been 15 in decades tho so what do I know
This is one of those things where you’ll look back and realize how dumb teenagers are. NTA
I feel dumber just reading it
The most cringe I’ve read this week.
If this isn’t AI slop, then this is no true friend, no friend would ask you to stop liking something just because they like it to, it;s a bit of a madness. Just say sorry I’m Umbreon for life, pack up your shit and get out.
Um. NTA. I’m trying to keep in mind that you’re both really young, so that might be a factor in your friend’s behavior, but she is acting very toxic. There is no reason why you can’t share the same favorite Pokémon.
Ah, to be young again… If this friendship is real this will cause a small spat and you’ll be friends again after apologies. Maybe ask why she’s uncomfortable with this. NTA obviously. Man this got a chuckle out of me
Oh what a bummer of a text.
How has having the same favorite Pokemon impacted you? Does it having any impact on playing the game? (Sorry I don’t really know how the game is played).
Does sharing the same favorite Pokemon means one person always gets to have/be/play that character, and the other one doesn’t get to then be their favorite Pokemon? That would be an issue of sharing/ taking turns.
If it has no impact on how you two get to interact, then I’d encourage her to understand that Umbreon is cool enough that thousands and thousands of people have it as a favorite Pokemon. And that it just means you both have good taste.
Choosing to lose you as a friend would not make her the only one who likes that Pokemon, it’d still be your favorite.
Maybe I’ve forgotten what it’s like to be 15, but I’d expect this kind of petty behavior from someone who’s 9, not someone who is 15 already
I feel like at 15, my friends and I would have considered this to be really wild