I know this comic is old... But man, I remember seeing this somewhere, and I still love it. It's also gotten a bit famous too, and I heard somewhere this comic actually made Osuwatt more popular. I was actually shocked when I heard people hated Osuwatt, since it was my favorite of the Unova starters, and as a Japanese American by birth who got "Otter" as a result in a personality test, I especially like it. I always chose it in every gen V playthrough. Now, I have been debating who should get Osuwatt in my game novelization fics I'm thinking of, Hilbert or Hilda, but this comic and the colors (which is the reason here too) have always been a reason for giving Osuwatt to Hilbert (though the reason I want to give it to Hilda is that, again, I chose Osuwatt; and who gets Osuwatt kind of determines who is the "real" main protagonist, mainly since Cheren and Snivy are a team-up made in heaven, and I discovered my concepts have a dearth of main female heroes. I thought of giving both of them Osuwatt until I thought that it would work better for the first gym if each got a different starter. Plus, my personality for it works great as a hero's Pokemon to disprove N's notions about Pokemon.) Ironically, it turns out Tepig eventually became the misfit of the group. I wonder if this is a thing for water starters? I mean, Popplio is going through the exact same thing. To be honest, looking back, water starters always have looked kind of derpy, but that's part of their charm.