>>58348290>if Ruby lived in one of the post gen 4 regionsSinnoh weather would've isolated Ruby more in some ways, but the contest scene would've been his main outlet. But you're right he'd end up even more mentally ill with early successes getting to his head. All main regions after Sinnoh are generally Weimar republics and if Ruby was there he wouldn't have made it out unscathed.
Random but the Legends Z-A DEI androgymous male fashion designer rival instantly made me think "Pokespe Ruby for modern audiences"Luckily for Sapphire she'll always be in Hoenn, can't read propaganda and doesn't know what a bank is. She canonically cured Ruby of globalism
