>>56170759>Maybe it's by design, maybe I'm supposed to feel a bit uncomfy about it.Could very well be. I think it's possible GF realised that out right shilling characters and trying really hard to make you love them, like in previous generations, was a massive failure and thus had the writing team take a completely different approach with Kiki, giving (You) a very specific dynamic with him so that his popularity could develop more naturally. Could be that the writer(s) just wanted to sneak a more complex/semi-romantic plot in
maybe to appeal to a female audience, and they succeeded.. Could be that the writer(s) just have a boner for humiliating shotas as other Anons have speculated before, haha.
I love discussing this shit even though I'm not always extremely coherent at it. Kiki's story is the first and probably the last time I want to rip the writing seams apart in a Pokémon game.
>>56170825Let's not forget about the grandfather. Imo it's mostly just that Carmine doesn't even get a chance to grow as a character, like she was forgotten about at some point during the story. She's extremely static compared to Kiki
