>>36197140My head canon while playing these was that it was all just a big field trip for special needs kids and you're seeing it through the POV of an actual retard. Hau is your fellow retard, Gladion isn't retarded, just has severe schizoid personality disorder from all the mental abuse he got as a child. Lillie is actually your tard wrangler, and she follows you through the whole game. It's just that, as a retard, you have very little spatial awareness, so when Lillie moves out of sight, she literally vanishes from your perspective. Kukui is the head tard wrangler, organizing the whole thing. All the captains suffer from various mental illnesses and are volunteers under Kukui, they're literally there to appease you and don't give it their all when they battle you, neither do their Totem Pokemon. Except Sophocles, he's a medium functioning autist, wrangled by Molayne. The Kahunas are all former patients from the same asylum you've been committed to, Nanu still suffers from depression and basically just lives for his cats and to keep the escaped tards (Team Skull) in check, Olivia is still dealing with her narcissism, but she's had success with her eating disorder, Hapu went from low functioning, to high functioning autism. Hala pretty average, suffered from PTSD for a few years because he watched a friend of his get mauled to death by a Midnight Lycaroc. That's why he uses fighting types. Acerola actually gets released from the asylum partway through, and that's why she's in the Elite Four. Kahili's just a normal woman and one of the 3 completely sane people in charge, counting Lillie and Kukui.
tl;dr
Everyone's retarded except Lillie, Kukui and Kahili. Yes, you are retarded.
