>>58918593>if she just flew away from Hoenn and left everyone to their fates and never came back it'd make more sense than what actually happened.Ruby almost did that in the RS arc and Sapphire screeched at him for it, so it'd actually be the opposite. Sapphire would never abandon Hoenn. Besides Ruby acting selfishly to the detriment of others, vs Sapphire acting selflessly to the detriment of herself, is how they've always acted. Only western libertarians keep suggesting that Sapphire becoming a selfish individualist degen like Ruby would be an improvement/fix the story.
But the ORAS arc still sucks. I wonder if it felt unnatural partly because Sapphire's existence may have contradicted a theme Kusaka was trying to push. Then because of time constraints it became easier for him to just unperson her, to make that plot point work
but it still didn't work.
The theme I'm talking about is just
>Guys stop fighting each other, if you don't work together then Hoenn will be doomedWhich was originally a big part of the RS arc, expressed as
>Ruby and Sapphire fighting>Team Aqua and Team Magma fighting>Groudon and Kyogre fightingThen by the climax everyone teams up with their rivals to stop Groudon/Kyogre before everybody dies. Not that complicated. Also here, Sapphire was part of the problem, for awhile she picked fights with Ruby and crashed out on strangers for no reason as she was immature.
Later the exact same theme returns in ORAS, with some similar conflicts. Except now it's also framed as a more nebulous impersonal faction war. The 3 main factions are
>technology (Devon Corp and its laser/rocket; to an extent the Pokemon Association and its secret lab experiments)>tradition/lore (the Draconids preserving a 1000 year old method to stop the meteor)>nature (as in the destructive natural force of Groudon/Kyogre, also zombie Archie/Maxie are their mouthpieces for some reason) 