To whoever my gifter was, thank you so much for restoring my faith in exchanges. I had previously entered into a Pokemon exchange and unfortunately did not end up receiving a gift from my gifter, although he told me that it would be arriving to me shortly, which was several months ago. Needless to say I was a little worried about participating in another exchange because of that experience, but I figured that I would give redditgifts one more try to see if I could experience some of the epicness that I've seen being posted on the subreddit. My Secret Santa truly came through for me this year, and because of him/her, I will now be participating in many more exchanges!

So now onto the gift itself. I mentioned in my bio that I was a fan of Kingdom Hearts (well, "Kingdom H" since I ran out of characters) and because of my sort of rural location, there aren't really many places that sell any kind of Kingdom Hearts swag that I can browse through, save for maybe a keychain or two at a Hot Topic. As I opened my gift, I was immediately happy to see the familiar logo on the package while I was digging through the box and incredibly happy to have received Sora, since he and Roxas are both my favorite characters from the series! However, as I examined the figure more closely, I noticed something a little... off about its eyes. This caused me to burst out laughing uncontrollably in front of my mother.

After I had contently examined the figure and proceeded to start emptying the packing peanuts out of the box, I noticed an array of colored objects protruding out from the spaces in between. As I reached my hand in I pulled out a bunch of tiny Pokemon figurines! I kept searching through the box and finding more and more until I had finally found all 38 of them! I hadn't seen any figurines like these since I was a child, so not only did it satisfy the longing for Pokemon from an exchange in my heart, but it also brought upon a great and unexpected feeling of nostalgia.

So again, to my wonderful gifter, thank you so much for what you have given me and I hope that you had a very Merry Christmas! I can't wait to do this exchange again next year!