>the friendly rival has issues with their parentsSo deep, I love the writing of Pokemon!
>it's another "Ohmori writes his family trauma into the main conflict of the overall story" episode
oh boy I can't wait to see the thrilling conclusion of this storyline the game has built up>you should forgive your parent>okWOAH! Ohmori DOES IT AGAIN
>>59053700This happened once with Bianca
>>59053702Masuda did this first with Bianca, the worst Pokemon rival.
>>59053726And with Hau, and with Gladion, and with Hop, and with the guy with the sick dog, and I might Mandela Shauna into having daddy issues too (I can't remember but that seems plausible)
>>59053728Bianca's daddy issues were the defining incident in which caused Ghetsis to groom N and set him up as a false messiah?
>>59053733>>59053737Holy shit I forgot N. Add N to my list of shitty rivals with parental issues
>>59053702I was talking about this being a trend with his games years ago and it seems like only recently other people have caught on. Kind of surprising in retrospect he didn't alter Norman's character in ORAS to be more of an "assertive" parental figure.
>>59053726>>59053728Bianca's gets resolved halfway into the game and isn't the conclusion nor the main point of her story, it's nowhere close to what happens in Gen 7+
>>59053711Of course Pedohmori wants to gaslit children into forgiving adults who abuse them so that they're easier to groom
>>59053733>>59053747OP said friendly rivals doebeit
>>59053700I literally cannot think of a single time this happened.
>>59053752Bianca fits this more than most of the other friendly rivals
>>59053749None of the RS characters had new family trauma elements, but Zinnia is more or less haunted by dead mommy issues, as was confirmed in an issue of Nintendo Dream where he says Aster the Whismur got her name from Zinnia's lorekeeper predecessor. He literally can't resist doing this shit.
Why do they pretend Silver doesn't exist?
>>59053802Silver's daddy issues were a manga construct and weren't applied to the games until Gen 4..Absolutely nothing in GSC imply Silver had a familial connection to anyone in Team Rocket, he was just an edgelord who was an implied victim of Team Rocket's criminal activity given his specific hatred for them.
>>59053700How does anyone in the Pokemon world have parental issues if you can legally leave home at 10? Like, fuck off me, dad, I'm going to the mountains.
>>59053815Not every child gets a free rare and powerful Pokemon from their region's professor, champion or some associate of such people.Most have to wait until their parents trust them enough to give them a Poke Ball or a set of balls so they can try and catch a local shitter mon around their town/city, and then see if they can actually do anything with said shitter that allows them to actually sustain a living out in their region.
>>59053733None of the gen 6 rivals have daddy issues. Bianca does though it gets resolved halfway through the story. N kind of does, but it’s not really the focus of the story.
>>59053733>HopLeon and Hop were actually going to have an absent father based on the SwSh leaks, though this is not fully elaborated in the final game. It can explain why Leon overcompensates.
>>59053814FRLG mention that Giovanni has a son with red hair.
