Well, you should know what I call Garde' outside of her American name, so I won't really get into that again, all other forms are called either Ralts or Kirlia only, considering both names are the same between countries.
I like Gardevoir because I like Kirlia, pretty much. And the reason I like Kirlia is a long story. The gist of it goes like this:
The time was after R/S's release in Japan, but before it's release everywhere else (ROMs don't count). I was at some Japanese fan art site when I saw this picture of Kirlia. It was amazing, I couldn't believe she was a pokemon (the picture's Kirlia was female). From then, I couldn't wait to get R/S for just that Pokemon. I also didn't know she was part of an evolutionary line. Once information was released, I learned about the other two, and thought the line was purely female, as that's what fan art would have me assume.
...lots of events that aren't important happened, mainly in just playing the game...
Months later, partly in boredom and in wanting to see more pics, I used Yahoo! Japan to see if I could find more wonderful pictures. Little did I realize I'd stumble across a obsessive Japanese fansite where everything was of Gardevoir's evolutionary line only. About 400 artworks submitted, 3 or 4 Oekakis dedicated to ONLY these 3 Pokemon, flash games, clay figures, hand sewn dolls... I could go on. Needless to say, while I liked Kirlia before, seeing this site put what I called an obsession to shame, and now I'm practically a hopeless addict to Kirlia and the others. The site really got me into liking the other two as well. And you'd be amazed too, if you didn't know they were Pokemon before hand, this site definately wouldn't have convinced you otherwise. Ralts, Kirlia, and Gardevoir can easily be put into any situation and you'd think they were part of some other anime.
That's my story, and yes, that is the short version. XD
The only thing now is that site is down, and probably won't come back up. =(
Oh wow! It's back up! Nevermind. Now if you excuse me I must endulge myself again. ^ ∀ ^