>>54317045I think BW story works in White too, it just has a different take on it.
N's view is based on his own experience and the one of abused Pokemon he knew personally and grew up with.
He's pure and his opinion is, in fact, not only an ideal but his *truth*, the truth he witnessed before starting his adventure.
When he started his adventure, he soon felt his beliefs challenged because he met Pokemon who were happy to be with their trainer, but that doesn't make the truth of some Pokemon actually being mistreated by cruel humans any less true or valid.
Reshiram resonates with N in White because as partial to his own personal experience of abusive upbringing N's view of the world is, he's genuine and innocent about it, he does see as a truth and not an ideal.
The difference is that an ideal tends to be a projection towards the future, whereas a truth can be valid for one personal experience or for some point in history but it's not necessarily universal.
Reshiram doesn't choose N because it thinks he's *right*, but because N's truth is real for his own experience and unlike Ghetsis he's driven by innocence. As the Pokémon of truth, it's Reshiram's duty to accompany N to discover a wider truth throughout his adventure, but it also allows him freedom to change his mind with his own pace and purity without any imposition.
Because you may try to impose an ideal onto someone else, but you cannot force truth, truth must be found by yourself, slowly, giving yourself the time to make experience of the world, internalize it and get over your previous beliefs.
BW protagonist isn't the player, it's N.
