Horrible plot. Spike Chunsoft has lost it.
>>33639110Sleeping animations and extra emotions disappear in Gates and Super's postgame anyway, regardless of whether or not you evolve. The only time where evolving ruins animations is in Explorers, where you lose the sleeping and cheering animations that show up when you wake up or beat Sentry Duty. Rescue Team's cast mostly has no portraits at all, so evolving will get rid of them in two scenes where your starters get used instead of the current leader. Every other scene makes the player silent or doesn't make use of non-default portraits.