>>57882941Sapphire has the handwriting of a small dumb child. It's meant to be cute, another hint that beneath the aggressive front she has a rather childish personality, with low impulse control and a short fuse on all her emotions (all of them, not just anger) combined with a naive outlook on the world. That's why she comes off as dumb and easily manipulated and that's why Ruby's always so worried about her. His character arc about learning responsibility fits well with the fact Sapphire often acts like both a kid and a pet at the same time (retarded) who might need a handler outside the forest.
That vulnerable side of Sapphire is also one of the main things that somehow get lost in cultural translation where western readers constantly equate her aggression to malice. They then ignore all canon and characterize her like some roided out butch school bully who's a completely independent girlboss with no weaknesses, who's emotionally stoic and is basically an adult man in a teenage girl's body. They'll portray her as literally anything that's the opposite of cute (thus feminine). As if being aggressive and being cute are mutually exclusive traits.
In reality the whole point is that Sapphire's like an animal (Pokemon) and animals/Pokemon even if dangerous are incapable of malice. They may react based on instinct and accidentally cause chaos, but their souls are pure so they're more like indicators of something wrong in the world, which is actually always humanity's fault, at least according to a lot of Pokemon lore including the manga. Like that one early anime episode with Team Rocket's Pokemon saying there are no bad Pokemon, just bad trainers. Though I don't know if
Gengar from the first Mystery Dungeon games (and a lot of PMD characters in general desu) count as contradictions of that "Pokemon are always pure and it's humans who are le evil" idea, there are some real asshole Pokemon in those games with no humans around to blame for it.
