Himmygas

I've recently merged my blue and red servers, selecting red server as the main server. However, I haven't played the red server before. This is done intentionally to replay the game with all my previously caught pokemons. When picking the starter pokemon in the merged account, it says that I already have a pokemon. Is this the way it is supposed to be? Will I still be able to do the hat quest and use surf tutor for pikachu? (I picked pikachu as the starter in blue server)