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>depressed
>friendless and lonely
>very bitter and whiny as a result
>uses battles as a way to get your attention
>he'll have meaner dialogues if your character has a darker skin tone
>youre not really friends or even real rivals he's just a weird dude from your town that always wants to fight
>doesn't care about improving or getting better it's just the way he forces you to spend time around him
>over the course of the story he develops and spends your encounters telling you about the most mundane improvements in his life, never actually speaks about Pokemon or about battling
>his issues kinda solve themselves in a very uneventful manner because all he really needed to do after all was leave his room
>he has a final fight with you to show you his "new self"
>none of his Pokemon are past level 10 and he has like three of the same route 1 shitmon that he caught at the start of the game before giving up on completing the pokedex
>he breaks down in tears of happiness monoguing about what a great journey this was and what a good friend you were, then leaves
>none of it really matters to the main storyline