>>38000156I name my character ‘M’ because it’s the first initial of my name, and I have done so since Gen I. I eventually created a head canon that my character’s full name is Maple, and that he’s a young Pokémon professor that hides his name because he doesn’t like it.
When Pokémon Colosseum came out I named the male protagonist ‘Black’ and the girl protagonist ‘White’. Eventually I imagined that Black was a very aggressive rival to M, and that M’s relationship to White was a complicated romance. After Colosseum, I played as a new character for my story in every new game that came out, like M’s younger sister Mina or a legendary collector named Perish. During the Perish play through I decided M opposes the use of legendaries for their power.
When Black and White came out I thought it was so funny that N existed. Not only that but N uses a legendary Pokémon to reach his goals. I came to realize that M had been fated to have a final battle with N since the beginning. I relished in defeating N without using the legendary dragon you get beforehand. Good times.
