While I was visiting Kyoto last year, after a raid, Syunpei (I don't know their real name) and I added each other and have been exchanging gifts since.
After reaching Forever Friend, I was disappointed when I found out they did not tag any Pokemon for remote trade. We have no way to communicate as they're not active on Campfire. Only after a month later did they add a shiny Camelrupt – which was on cooldown. I was waiting for the cooldown to end to initiate a trade when they started adding more to the list (the wait was so long we're already half way through being Forever Friend again lol). Since we're lucky friends I figured I would want a shiny high IV Groudon so I picked it from their list and the next day the trade went through. I traded my shiny Terrakion: And I got a shundo Groudon! I guess the patience paid off!
Since I always name my hundos, I decided to name it after him. I started walking with it as my buddy until today I also found that he is doing the same to my Terrakion (named it after me). I felt this warmth in my chest that I can't tell anyone in my family so I wrote the story here.
To Syunpei, if you can see this, I hope my Terrakion ended up a shundo for you too! Thank you for being a great Forever Friend.
by vinhtrind