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[kuruk22]

I've been thinking long and hard about it, and after much consideration and careful rumination, I'd have to say that my favorite character from Pokémon's Generation V is Bianca.

I would bombard you with pictures of Bianca being her lovable self, but I don't have very many. I need to remedy this.

Oddly enough, I was sure that I wouldn't like Bianca

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[solarpillar]

I think Cheren isn't that similar to the previous rivals. The first thing that made an impression on me was that after how Bianca trashed my room Cheren still decided to have a go at pokemon battle with me to show off how he can do it without damage. This means he is very secure in his power, as opposed to Green and Silver who were very insecure and vulnerable and were practically feinting superiority just so the protagonists won't look down to them. They were really fighting the protag to beat him/her down. But Cheren here didn't need to defeat me, that is just a bonus he's aiming and the main goal in the first battle was just to show off his skills. Not to win against me and rub it against me. He doesn't need that and in fact didn't need an ego boost. And he said he wanted to be a champion at first, but later on he doubted it and wasn't sure anymore and wanted to find something else that he likes better because be a champion just to be a champion isn't right. And he's the rival who thinks the most. Green had to have his dream

[solarpillar]

*she wasn't, not she weren't
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[kuruk22]

Perhaps I misspoke by saying that Cheren was just a rehash of the previous rivals. What I should have said is that the character that seeks strength but doesn't know why he/she does and then discovers him/herself through the journey has become so common that it's an archetype now. It might not have appeared in pokémon before per se, but the whole "finding out my reasons for seeking strength" has definitely been done before

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[kuruk22]

His experiences with Alder, watching Hilbert/Hilda become "the hero of Unova" and stop Team Plasma... all that served as the impetus behind his transformation at the end of the game. He's secure in his insecurity, if that makes any sense, because he now realizes that he can't apply his logic to every facet of pokémon battling. If you notice, he's always saying things like "Should I try giving my pokémon this item or that one?" and what-not, because he overestimates the technical aspects of a pokémon battle. Because he keeps looking at things through the lenses of his logic, he misses out on the emotional part of battling and establishing a bond with his pokémon. The game's events teaches him that he can't be overly logical, and he accepts the fact that he has to work on finding himself spiritually, emotionally, or whatever. So... yeah. I hope that made sense

[solarpillar]

I said that the protagonist's dragon was probably popped out because its twin was there. I was wrong. The official material has just proved me wrong.

http://www.pokemon.co.jp/ex/ranse/

Look, Nobunaga has the black dragon, but the white dragon isn't there. The protagonist has an eevee instead of an legendary.

/facepalm from the whole Pokemon x Nobunaga's Ambition thing.

So yeah, I think you were right about the second dragon appearing because of the protagonist.