>>56034107Ogrepon and the MC at least had a chance to build rapport justifying why we get it. Meanwhile Terapagos literally just comes to us because… MC privilege. Admittedly Kieran had no connection with the turtle either and only wanted it as a way to beat us, but the narrative could have at least allowed him the dignity of coming to that conclusion himself and giving us the turtle on his own accord.
>>56034887> That would also explain Hau and Hop,SM focuses so much on Lillie, and SwSh is so lazily written that if the writers wanted to humiliate their little boy characters, there just wasn’t enough of a chance to do so.
Meanwhile with Kieran: his first appearance is him cowering behind his sister, said sister spends most of the story infantilizing him or yelling at him, his only friend lied to him for seemingly no reason, the Pokémon he looked up to his entire life hates him, his attempt to prove his strength to that Pokemon falls flat so badly he has a mental breakdown and literally does the dogeza pose (surprisingly Game Freak let him have clothes on), when he goes back to his school and becomes a champion, you swoop in and knock him off his throne (something you were only able to do because Kieran himself let since otherwise you wouldn’t even been allowed in the BB league), he has another mental breakdown (ex-champion style). Then after pulling out a Pokémon out of stone with his bare-hands, it rejects him for (you), even when he catches the thing with a master ball it hates him so much it breaks out (some anons compared it to a impotence metaphor)
Even the freakin Offical Pokémon Twitter can’t help joining in
And while Hau shown to be mostly well adjusted in the first place, and Hop gets handed a legendary and a cushy lab job and iirc never had any established goal in the first place), Kieran (despite his life being much better now, having friends and genuinely become stronger) He never really completed his goal of defeating (you).
