>>58549393Both, depending on what Sapphire wants at the time.
>>58550191There's evidence both for and against blind Steven theory, but he probably isn't.
>>58550454The "omg Ruby is le heckin cheater who doesn't care about his gf" fake out is a directly copypasted parallel of the "omg Norman is le heckin deadbeat dad who doesn't care about his son" fake out. Point being that Norman was a loner with bad communication skills, which caused misunderstandings in his closest relationships despite his best intentions, then Ruby being his son inherited Norman's flaws and ended up creating similar misunderstandings with Sapphire. Kusaka also heavily curated Ruby's entire social circle to make him look straight and not gay, with no male characters his age besides a gross midget, so the intentional "player" framing even if actually untrue is part of that. Hell I even think one of the biggest reasons Ruby/Sapphire became a canon romance (instead of something like the Red/Yellow never ever hell or the Black/White eternal edging) was just to emphasize Ruby's heterosexuality.
But I don't blame anyone for not paying attention while reading ORAS since it sucks, no sane person reads PokeSpe past BW anyway. And no, Norman did nothing wrong.
