latealzalost: The sea captain that would give Michael one of five evolutionary items that allow his

latealzalost:

The sea captain that would give Michael one of five evolutionary items that allow his Eevee’s evolutions has unique dialogue should the player choose to release his starting Pokemon. He will proceed to give away an evolutionary item even without an Eevee in the player’s party.

Since that Eevee is probably the last thing Michael’s father gave him before he passed, according to the in-game details and dialogue, doing this would probably be very out-of-character for Michael.