>>58127099
>Did they ever say what they were doing in the year between Rs and E?
Not really, during that period besides the usual Ruby/Sapphire relationship drama, at most we learn that Ruby made himself and Sapphire new matching outfits. I guess it's also revealed that Sapphire knows about Ruby's lighter thing from Courtney, so as much as the meme is that he's always lying to Sapphire, Ruby actually tells her more about himself than he ever tells anyone else.
>Kusaka's old site states Ruby was a semi-finalist in the Dexholder tournament, was beaten by Red and it was after that R+S fangirl'd out over Red being the trainer they both admired all these years ago.
Link? That's cute. But also predictable, Blue (f) isn't the traditional battler type and is at a disadvantage if she's not allowed to break rules, so her team would be mowed down by Ruby's. Though nobody was going to believe it if Ruby beat Red either. Post RS Ruby seems to treat Pokemon battling as a social thing like basketball, or as a necessity when terrorists show up again, but he's only actually dangerous in berserk mode.
>>58127140
Emerald (the midget OC) beats Red. It's implied because Emerald's the one who wins the Frontier Symbol for the Battle Dome after the tournament. While I've never been sure about using the Pokedex holder tournament as evidence for power scaling, it's great for generating drama I guess.

But more importantly, I still have no idea who won the Gold vs Sapphire fight. The chances seemed like a total 50-50 to me.