>>57710186I'd love for Uruto to travel with LiRoy. Horizons is uniquely starved of negative interpersonal character conflict and sorely misses the comedy and story potential that comes from having two or more characters that aren't emotionally in step with one another. Liko and Roy are TOO calibrated to one another's temperament, which resulted in an uninteresting relationship between the two, and that's why their dynamic isn't the subject of any episode until they had a 2v2 at school.
Roy's supposed impulsivity and Liko's occasional timidity don't surface around each other in a way that creates episodic or series-long tension. This is a bad mistake, in my opinion, as these weekly Pokémon stories are always a good opportunity to explore feel-good narratives about increased understanding and communication between different types of people and creatures... and it's also inherently funny when two people act very differently when faced with the same situation, which Liko and Roy don't.
The point of my long-winded rant, which I appreciate you youngsters for reading, is that Uruto's intense personality personifies the type of storytelling I've described. Roy was never an intense enough character to spark conflict OR comedy, so shifting him to a straight-laced role (which is actually what he always was) is a brilliant move. Having Uruto around is great. Negative character interactions are fun.
