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From a Nintendo Dream magazine interview
>Hilda and Hilbert:
>Older compared to the protagonists in other Pokemon games who are around 10, 11.
>Male protagonist was drawn by Sugimori to be cooler/hotter looking than past male leads.
>Professor Juniper and her dad:
>In earlier designs, Professor Juniper was a fat middle-aged man and his dad was an old man, an aesthetically bad combination.
>Thus after complaints from staff, Sumigori changed Professor Juniper to a woman and her dad to look younger.
>Professor Juniper is modeled after women working in NY.
>Cheren:
>Designed to look like an intelligent guy who’s earnest and inflexible.
>His jacket is made to look like one worn by class presidents to emphasize this.
>Bianca:
>A girl that does everything at her own pace. Ditzy and not exactly stylish.
>Design to give off a “round feel”, as female characters in BW are mostly “sharp.”
>She’s especially designed to be the opposite of the female lead, who has a sharp feel to her.
>Fennel:
>She’s older than she looks but calls herself “the dreaming maiden.” Roughly the same age as Professor Juniper.
>Mostly there as a guide to Game Sync, and so her overworld pixel is a reused/remodel of a female scientist character.
>Dreamy eyed as if she’s going to drift away, daydreaming.
>N:
>Shows the dangerous side of being a genius.
>Artistic-looking and almost androgynous, he looks like the male lead in some aspects.
>A straightforward “hot male” but deliberately shifted away from looking normal.
>Kageyama mentions that N’s musical theme is a “fragile music box.”
>Hilda and Hilbert:
>Older compared to the protagonists in other Pokemon games who are around 10, 11.
>Male protagonist was drawn by Sugimori to be cooler/hotter looking than past male leads.
>Professor Juniper and her dad:
>In earlier designs, Professor Juniper was a fat middle-aged man and his dad was an old man, an aesthetically bad combination.
>Thus after complaints from staff, Sumigori changed Professor Juniper to a woman and her dad to look younger.
>Professor Juniper is modeled after women working in NY.
>Cheren:
>Designed to look like an intelligent guy who’s earnest and inflexible.
>His jacket is made to look like one worn by class presidents to emphasize this.
>Bianca:
>A girl that does everything at her own pace. Ditzy and not exactly stylish.
>Design to give off a “round feel”, as female characters in BW are mostly “sharp.”
>She’s especially designed to be the opposite of the female lead, who has a sharp feel to her.
>Fennel:
>She’s older than she looks but calls herself “the dreaming maiden.” Roughly the same age as Professor Juniper.
>Mostly there as a guide to Game Sync, and so her overworld pixel is a reused/remodel of a female scientist character.
>Dreamy eyed as if she’s going to drift away, daydreaming.
>N:
>Shows the dangerous side of being a genius.
>Artistic-looking and almost androgynous, he looks like the male lead in some aspects.
>A straightforward “hot male” but deliberately shifted away from looking normal.
>Kageyama mentions that N’s musical theme is a “fragile music box.”
