>>49366388>It was always feminine, it’s just discarding everything else about itself.What is all this that it has it discarded, exactly?
It was originally:
-a guardian spirit that was fiercely protective. Kept this trait.
-Had a dancer motif(it and Kirlia).
Kept this.
-Had a reference to knighthood in the name and maybe the hair(slightly helmetlike), but this was always very secondary to the other parts of how it was portrayed.
Can be argued to have faded somewhat, but it was always secondary.
>So that’s what happened with this character too?Sapphire was a princess forced to pretend to be a prince to inherit, the male heart she had simply allowed her to keep the facade better.
So no, she did not "lose everything about herself", she could just embrace what she always wanted to be.
Also, once Gallade got introduced, it might actually be that Gamefreak started to lean more into Twin Knights, the sequel starring her children 