Okay, so here's my story.
A couple years ago I got some mystery gift pokemon at an anime convention. one of the events was for shiny eevees run by a random guy, the other was run by the site Halolz and they gave out shiny mudkips.
both of these are equally fair you would say, yeah? well the halolz ones went through fine, but the eevees won't transfer over. These things are some of my most cherished pokemon, so I've been desperately trying to find some kind of workaround for them...