>>41679825>And the reason why they DIDN'T do any of that is because they realized they have to primarily market to boysWrong. The reason they didn't stick with Clefairy is because they thought it was too girly for boys and didn't want to alienate them. Big difference. Pikachu appeals to both boys and girls.
>That is not better reasoning than a parallel backstory made to show a repeat of history. There's already the contrast of truth and ideals, a genderswap doesn't add anything substantial to the conflictYes it is. If you wanted to portray things as canonically and faithfully accurate to history as possible, you'd have the actual two brothers with the dragons (you being one of the siblings and N being your brother) instead of two random people who bear no relation to each other. The gender difference further strengthens the Yin Yang theme of Black & White by having both you and N being as different from one another as possible.
>She has features of both. The bottom half of her face might as well have been copy/pasted from Hilbert's artExcept Hilda also has the exact same bottom face contour that the mom has too. Hilda and mom both have blue eyes, both have similar hairstyles, both make the same body gestures, and both wear mostly white with some pink and a hint of blue. Hilda and Mom's idle sprites both share the same dimensions (18x29), while Hilbert does not (22x26)
