>>44167133She sabotages the efforts of the scientists trying to stop the meteor because she believes that her tribe’s legend is the truth and that everyone else is wrong, and when she achieves her goal it turns out that Rayquaza thinks she’s a cunt and won’t listen to her wish to protect the planet, and the player then has to pick up the slack and make Rayquaza go and fight Deoxys.
While Zinnia was right in the end, there wasn’t any evidence in her favour and she was so self-righteous that it didn’t even occur to her that she could get something wrong. If not for a series of coincidences that led to the player being present when Rayquaza was summoned, the world would have been destroyed and it would have been all her fault, yet she gets off scot free and never even apologises after everything she’s done. What really ties it all together and makes her thoroughly detestable is that the story tries to depict her in a heroic light all the way to the end.
Pokemon doesn’t have good writing at the best of times, but whoever wrote Zinnia fucked up big time and achieved the complete opposite of what they intended. There’s a reason pretty much the only fan art she gets is of her being killed or raped, and why Rayquaza straight up kills her in the manga and no one even cared. If the intent with Zinnia was for her to be a self-righteous asshole antagonist then she’d be excellent, but it’s incredibly obvious while playing the game that they wanted you to actually like her. Pokemon is full of mediocre and bad writing, but Zinnia is one of the few times it gets aggressively awful.
Highly fuckable design though, she’s definitely my type.
