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forgot my poke-ball gown

For those interested, there's a bit of personal backstory about the pikachub shirt:

When I was in high school it was really uncool to like pokemon because teens are idiots and decide on a whim what is acceptable to like. I was really into pokemon back then and I had a pikachu shirt that my mom had bought me a year or so ago. I loved that shirt and I generally wore it on weekends to celebrate not having to go to school. I made sure not to ever have it on to school in fear of getting made fun for it. One monday however, I was late to school and just got dressed real quick. We had ceramics in art class that day so I had to take off my hoodie and to my horror realized I'd worn the pikachu shirt underneath. Tried to hide it but the other teens of course saw it and made a complete mockery out of it. The amount of shit I got for just having worn that shirt for a single day was baffling. People would bring it up a year later and always ask me idiotic things like "lol do pokemon turn you on?... you know coz... you had a shirt... " After high school nobody of course cared and I even played pokemon in school with some friends from another class. It never came up again but thinking back it just feels absolutely mental how you can get bullied for something so ridicilously insignificant. 

The situation in the comic is not of course the same, young adults in university don't act like braindead teenagers and most university students seem to be okay with liking pokemon. Tessa just uses the shirt as something to latch on when it comes to Saiya, otherwise no one would really care. However I wanted to include this as a personal nod to an important event that I will probably remember for the rest of my life. I think the ordeal itself made me stronger about not caring what others think, but I would still not wish that on any teenager.

Anyway, that's the story about what the pikachub shirt is based on!