Did Burmy count as "cute"?

Genesis wasn't really sure. It was... sort of cute, they supposed. In a buggy sort of way. But Genesis had been accumulating Bug Pokemon, and Pokemon in general, a lot lately, and they really didn't need to hang on to this one, when they couldn't foresee any use for either Burmy itself or its evolved forms.

Even if part of them liked hoarding Pokemon, perhaps from early memories of trying to "catch 'em all" in a game where Box space was much less limited.

Even if Burmy was sort of cute, in its own way.

Audino seemed promising enough, though Genesis didn't have any plans for it just yet either. But it was something different, at any rate.

If Burmy wasn't cute enough, the other Trainer could always just deny the trade request, right?

Yeah. Yeah, that was how it worked. It was worth a shot. The worst that could happen was the other Trainer saying no.

...they were probably overthinking this, but, well, what else was new?