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6/25/2025, 3:28:26 PM
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In RSE, you basically make your rival (Brendan/May) give up on being a trainer, and in Emerald they're even angry about it at first. They also never fully evolve their starter. But although your encounters with Wally are more sparse, at least he challenges you at Victory Road, as if he was more determined than your other rival. He's easy to curbstomp of course, but I wonder if there was more behind these ideas that were just never explained well. Maybe being a trainer came easy to the child of Prof Birch at first, yet they later on gave up so easily. But Wally had to overcome his anime cancer to be a trainer. Then he got himself further than rival Brendan/May.
Your other rival shows up in the end, in the champion room after you beat Steven (I think)/Wallace, trying to help and give advice. Later in the credits, both Brendan/May are shown biking together, maybe going back to Littleroot as they both live there. If your non-Wally rival was mad at you, maybe they got over it. Maybe they changed their mind, deciding they didn't want to be your rival, but just a friend. That they want to focus on Pokemon research and not the league. Their optional battles from earlier bolster this idea, they weren't committed to the league anyway.
RS were also the first games to have apocalypses. In prior games the biggest threats were between your rival and evil teams. But in RS, suddenly even the evil teams look harmless compared to the ancient gods they'd awakened. This could be a reason why the RSE rivals are so ineffectual. Their battles are optional as they're not even supposed to be a threat in the big picture.
So that comic of the RSE rival just "existing to date you" instead of having proper battles (especially rival May who was both much friendlier and had a more distinct wishy-washy personality) might not be that far-fetched. It may have also influenced all the RSE Brendan/May shipping or their manga relationship, long before the ORAS shilling.
>>57939444
In RSE, you basically make your rival (Brendan/May) give up on being a trainer, and in Emerald they're even angry about it at first. They also never fully evolve their starter. But although your encounters with Wally are more sparse, at least he challenges you at Victory Road, as if he was more determined than your other rival. He's easy to curbstomp of course, but I wonder if there was more behind these ideas that were just never explained well. Maybe being a trainer came easy to the child of Prof Birch at first, yet they later on gave up so easily. But Wally had to overcome his anime cancer to be a trainer. Then he got himself further than rival Brendan/May.
Your other rival shows up in the end, in the champion room after you beat Steven (I think)/Wallace, trying to help and give advice. Later in the credits, both Brendan/May are shown biking together, maybe going back to Littleroot as they both live there. If your non-Wally rival was mad at you, maybe they got over it. Maybe they changed their mind, deciding they didn't want to be your rival, but just a friend. That they want to focus on Pokemon research and not the league. Their optional battles from earlier bolster this idea, they weren't committed to the league anyway.
RS were also the first games to have apocalypses. In prior games the biggest threats were between your rival and evil teams. But in RS, suddenly even the evil teams look harmless compared to the ancient gods they'd awakened. This could be a reason why the RSE rivals are so ineffectual. Their battles are optional as they're not even supposed to be a threat in the big picture.
So that comic of the RSE rival just "existing to date you" instead of having proper battles (especially rival May who was both much friendlier and had a more distinct wishy-washy personality) might not be that far-fetched. It may have also influenced all the RSE Brendan/May shipping or their manga relationship, long before the ORAS shilling.
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