>>33029262>Was Lyra's design meant to be a hypothetical Gold/Silver female protagonist, something new for the sake of it, or a flat out Kris replacement?A good question, one that might never be answered. I've seen several theories/reasons why Kris wasn't in HGSS such as it being a remake of GS and since Kris wasn't in those games (what gamefreak said) or her design being outdated (a common fan theory.) They're both kinda bullshit though, Kris looks better in lyra's clothes than she does in my (and others) opinion so updating her design wasn't really a problem and Kris has an unused sprite in the pokégear in HGSS meaning she was going to be in it but they decided to replace her later in development. I don't think lyra was meant to be a hypothetical GS protag since Kris was intended to be in those games too but couldn't for the same reason Leaf wasn't in RGBY (storage issues) pic related is her early design.
>The Gen II games have no trainer gender flag to determine whether the OT was a boy or a girl, whereas everything from III onwards does. So if a Pokemon caught by Kris was transferred up, the game would consider her a boy, just like Ethan.Did not know that, I'm sure there would be some way they could get around that, maybe just have you be the OT when transferred or something. I actually think another reason they aren't releasing Crystal is because they don't want to acknowledge that Kris exists, that might just be me being paranoid though.
