As someone who’s new, question to the mod: what is the clefairy incident and was it ever explained?? I keep seeing references to it but I have no idea what it’s on about

{So! Before anything else, I kinda want to cover this other question that I’ve actually gotten a couple of times because it’s kinda important to the Clefairy Incident. But basically, Bill is a minor (canon) character in the Pokémon universe responsible for inventing the storage system, which is the thing that stores your pokémon after you catch the six you’re allowed to carry. (Lanette manages this system in Hoenn, so she’s canon too.)

That’s one thing Bill’s known for. The other thing is, well, turning into a pokémon via an experiment gone wrong. Idk, guys. It was the 90s, and everyone was making jokes about The Fly. But in any case, while that pokémon was never specified in Red, Blue, or Yellow, in the remakes of the Gen I games (Fire Red and Leaf Green), it was specifically a clefairy.

Canonically, word about this got out and spread, which we know because it’s part of the reason why Lillie leaves for Kanto in Sun and Moon. But in the canon of this blog, Bill’s less enthusiastic about talking about it, which is why he and the other storage system administrators just refer to the accident as the Clefairy Incident.}