>>56000423>That's your own interpretation of the story.Ogerpon's trainer was alive before the mask incident and he wasn't after. Ogerpon is pissed at Pecharunt. The path of least resistance is to assume that the latter's group acted with malice towards Ogerpon's trainer. If you couldn't come to that conclusion on your own, then that is a personal problem. Typically when you allude to crucial events in a story without directly showing those events, you want to give your audience enough information that they can at least come to the same conclusion or nearly the same conclusion as intended. Or if you're intending to willingly mislead the audience, then you should at least have a meaningful reason to do so. Which leads us to...
>his plethora of character flaws which the video never shies away from showingHe isn't really deserving of a punishment worse than how a parent punishes a child. All truly terrible things that are caused by him are implied to be either him not really understanding what he did, or the unintended consequences of acts he preformed innocently. This backstory is intended to muddy the morality of the mask incident, to call into question Ogerpon's anger towards Pecharunt and his group, and thus to enforce TPC's policy of Pokemon species never being inherently evil.
>Plainly untrue as it's clearly established he's the one to set the events of TM in motionTeal Mask at it's core was about Ogerpon, and the core of Ogerpon's character is the mask incident and how she feels about it. Pecharunt in this story served merely to be the one who incited the mask incident and thus he should be judged solely on how he serves the story of Ogerpon. Overall his backstory does nothing to enhance her story and may in fact work against it if we're to apply the revelation of Pecharunt's intent to Ogerpon's feelings on the matter as I have done above.