>>36235851Trying to justify canon protag choices is a foolish endeavor and Gamefreak will never have one aside from Red. In fact, I can prove this claim with the BW2 cut Tournament data:
>Unused dialogue exists for the protagonists of the previous games to use in the Pokémon World Tournament.>Through a specific parameter in a PWT file, you can face the female protagonist, Hilda, as one of your opponents. She doesn't seem to have any Pokemon assigned to her, and the game does not load the unused dialogue strings as default text. Her intro text is the exact same used for Red. ("It's the living legend Red! Is that strength for real?!") before you fight, she also uses Red's speech ("...") Her only programmed line is for when she loses a battle, which is simply a copy of Red's defeated line ("...!").>Hilda actually has default dialogue.>[Hilda: Make your dreams come true! Someone once encouraged me to do that. Even now, I'm continuing my journey to realize those dreams.]>[Hilda: I'll leave you with words someone told me once. Dream your dream!]>[Meet Hilda, the Trainer some claim to be the strongest of all!]>Oddly, the male protagonist, Hilbert, is absent, though he actually has dialogue for the PWT, though mostly it's just Recycled from Hilda's dialogue.Gamefreak could have put in a canon choice. They instead removed both.
