>>32629856>No, it is because she IS endearing.I disagree but I suppose it's subjective.
As to my bringing up that she's an anime girl, I sincerely believe Lillie would not have so many devoted fans (not necessarily fans in general, but rabid ones) if she were a male or if she were ugly.
>she is the main force moving the plot forwardBull fucking shit. You are right that her stealing Nebby sets off the plot, but everything else that happens around her is incidental. Things just happen around her. And a lot of the cutscenes I claim are "pointless" don't do anything but reinforce her personality traits. Those are the ones I would remove to clarify what I meant in my post
>>32629818 here. I don't play Pokémon for the story, I play for the exploration and battles (and postgame but we're not allowed to have that anymore), and the constant pointless cutscnes got in the way of that so heavily that I had to force myself not to drop the game, and toward the end of the game the cutscenes are almost 100% Lillie. I'm never going to replay SM unless someone makes a "no story" hack, which is unlikely given how undeveloped the hacking community is for Gen 4 and beyond.
>She COULD be just a random girl who got Nebby and wants to explore ruins, but that would be worse.That's because the only stake Lillie has in the plot is her relations. Like you said, if she didn't have that she'd be random and have no interest in the plot at all.
>>32629901If you're comparing the writing of a Game Freak game to fucking Eva I don't know how to express how much I disagree with said comparison.
I do want to stress that it's not any aspect of the character in a vacuum that makes me really dislike Lillie, it's just the fact that she won't fucking go away and she's constantly preventing me from actually playing Pokémon like I bought the game to do. As I said in
>>32629818 all the "friend" characters have this problem, Lillie's are just by far the most frequent because she never even battles you.
