>>49106275Yeah, and she's also way more boring-which is probably why most people like her.
>Substitute geology with archeology as a passion to justify muh lore knowledge (Steven did know everything about Hoenn's legends anyways though, probably also because of Wallace)>Make her courageous and flawless... Ah, right, she does have a flaw: she is apparently untidy-which you never see on screen though, it's just mentioned so that you go 'aww'-meanwhile Steven is a very flawed character, with his obsession for his hobby and inability to properly shut up about it, and failing to help you in solving the crisis except for giving you useful items and advice, and ultimately leaving the region to 'do some soul-searching' which lets you understand dude knows he fucked up quite a bit>She has muh uber-competitive soulless team, while Steven has a pretty shitty team-except for metagross-that reflects all his passions and interests though (both fossils and a combo of ground, rock and steel types to represent a general 'earth theme')>She's super strong and likes battling, Steven is said to not even go out of his way to battle despite being gifted (Wallace says this in Emerald via pokenav)>She's implied to be a dex holder like (you), while we don't know much about Steven's initial adventure in rse; Oras and following stuff though inform us he was tied to lati@s and Wallace is his historical rival>She's a champion but a bumfuck who crashes at other people's houses-but that's never really treated like a flaw, Steven on top of being a champion is also heir to the biggest corp in the region and holds a ton of shady secrets (sea mauville documents in ORAS) All in all, also thanks to the remake, he gets quite an all-rounded characterization, while Cynthia stays ultimately a very flat character. Even in Pokemon masters, she doesn't have anything added to her (waiting for today to see if they do add something interesting through her giratina alt) while he's expanded on
