>>56768576She's not supposed to be the new Lillie you nonce.
>But LillieSun and Moon's main storyline literally orbit around her. Yes the player is discovering quirky knockoff Hawaii locales and taking the trials, but the game effective starts with he running away protecting Nebby and ends with her leaving to start her own independent journey in Kanto to unfuck her mom's jellyfish addiction. She's an uwu rich girl whose clueless about the world and you're forced to babysit and develop stockholm syndrome for, and if you aren't cynical then she's just generically cute enough for infinite shilling.
>but Marnie-She's the shitty punk knockoff Lillie, like how several other aspects of Galar are just shitty versions of Alola that weren't thought out as deeply. She basically does nothing outside of give GF a reason to make some retards in paint stand around as roadblocks like Team Skull did, despite it making less sense that Yell is blocking off bridges n shit during a major sporting event. However since she's a cardboard cutout the game just kinda holds up once in a while she is also completely inoffensive, so people just latch onto her uwu pastel punk outfit and convince themselves she doesn't get mogged personality-wise by the shitass NPC who can't stop making chimeric affronts to god and paint chips.
Meanwhile Penny's entire thing is that she's some cringe shut in loser. She's only barely in the same role as "girl related to bad guys", and even then Kieran's school shooter arc and resolution is closer to Lillie's deuterologist shit despite being DLC.