>>50895843>>50895885don't have proof but it's most likely just this
>rgb arc finishes serialization early 1998>gamefreak tells the writer gold and silver won't be out for another year and a half>writer is probably contractually obliged to create pokemon manga but he can't just sit on his ass cause he has bills to pay>thinks to himself "ok, they're gonna release special pikachu edition soon">game only makes minor changes based on the anime, which he can't use as he's already set up a different universe>already told a story based on the core gen 1 games in rgb>thinks to himself "ok i can just create an oc and original story">yellow is bornspeaking of yellow:
>last real appearance was in frlg>last cameoed in hgss for a single panel relating to lance of all peoplemeanwhile:
>red and blue both appear in oras>green appears in xy, red and blue cameo in a flashback he has, no mention of yellow at all>blue appears for a single panel in b2w2 as an easy to miss cameo>lgpe arc likely not happeningyellow has basically memoryhole'd at this point
the real question is why the writer felt the need to create an oc for emerald, shafting wally for no reason
