>>58336745I guess Ruby is controlling the way he's decided Sapphire must be immortal, and will do anything to ensure that's true, even if that worldview doesn't make sense to anyone else. But the word also has false implications, it sounds as if he makes Sapphire sleep in a crate at night or that he hunts for people to manipulate, when in reality he's a bit of a loner and is fine leaving Sapphire alone for weeks when she goes on her research trips to bumfuck nowhere. Maybe he has just enough faith to think nature (the Shinto gods) won't kill Sapphire on a random Tuesday. But something triggers Ruby when the literary Call To Action comes and he suddenly thinks Sapphire will be killed then. Desu this might just be another plot hole.
>NormanOutside this site, many people hate him and not just because his Pokespe version is ugly.
>traditionsTradition and religion are connected. For most of history they were considered the same thing in many isolated societies, separating them is a newer globalist idea often shilled by the
banking tourism sector. The first Kanto games had Shintoist imagery as that's where the Pokemon franchise's tradition of nature obsession came from.
Big cities are usually the richest cosmopolitan commercial hubs, but also the most degenerate and atheistic hubs of a country. It reflects how people leave religion when times are easy but often return when times are hard
(this fact is independent of whether their gods actually exist or not). First world countries are also run by international (((((bankers))))) who benefit from societies of selfish, isolated and materialistic people, which occurs most in cities. The globalism is relevant as it's Ruby who left his old home region to go to a new one (it's also implied he'd travelled around in general and that it messed him up). Meanwhile rural life is usually poor and tough, like how Sapphire lived without clothes or a bed.
