>>57973136
Then as if this shitshow couldn't get any worse or more complicated, the (western) fanbase's reaction to the ORAS arc's clear shittiness was to misguidedly either scapegoat Ruby as "trying to take spotlight away from Sapphire" (when this contradicts his character on multiple levels) or scapegoat Sapphire as "doing literally nothing" (except she clearly tried to, but just got kneecapped by fucking God (Kusaka) at every turn), or just blame both of them, when neither of them were the core problem. The writing was just that bad, end of story.

And things only get worse from there in the ORAS arc, but Sapphire not getting either Lati sibling to match Ruby (which is what the early-middle RS arc would've done), hell just the fact that Ruby got Latios instead of Latias to begin with, is just a perfect encapsulation of just how much missed potential/completely avoidable fuckery was going on in ORAS. This arc just suffers from insane shounen ensloppification, and is such a downgrade from the original RS arc which was unique for how much it eagerly broke convention, or at least tried to. Most of ORAS arc feels like it was just trying to un-break those same conventions, even if it made the story worse or nonsensical.

>>57972681
Yeah at least her butt is cute.