>>44835483>There is no coherence to Cynthia's design and her characterYes, she is a woman with a passion on the myth of her region and she is a champion. So making her looking intimidating and mysterios is a good design choice. That's the whole point.
>She has no character or personalityI think you didn't play the game, or you don't know what "personality" is. Her personality is just fine, something not exaggerating, just a moderate one. It's something you would expect from a researcher, so a calm and clever character.
>Nothing about the character is written that wayThe fact that she says nothing about her being the champion is part of the mistery, you see this girl who is studying and researching the lore, helping you through your adventure and then, in Platinum, at the Spear Pillar, revealing to you that her studying purpose was about finding out the secrets of the creation trio, finding out the existance of Giratina and what it could do.
>And she proceeds to do fuck all which is why the player has to face Cyrus insteadAs the other said, she is probably testing you, seeing what you can do, since she might know you're her next challenger in the league. It's something that we've seen often in previous generation, it's a sort of message of "letting the youngest do the work", testing them and see what they're able to do. After you catch Giratina, she even says she wanted to be the one who faced it, so she kinda regrets her decision.
