My favorite duck-artist on Tumblr (@modmad) is encouraging people to draw what your Pokémon-companion realistically would be, based on your childhood. What environment you grew up in, your personality, etc.
So here is young champ-in-the-making Myrling with her Spinarak called Therry (Theridion Grallator) and Joltik named Too-Ticky. 💚💛
I had a fascination with spiders as a kid and collected them for a "spider farm" that never really went anywhere. We lived in the middle of the woods where I would crawl around in the forest looking for 8-legged friends and I was blissfully unaware of the existence of tics. Somehow, I never got bitten by a tic, but I unwittingly carried plenty of them back home to my siblings and parents. ( '7')9