>>57504723>This will be the first on-screen death in the series.>The series that's primarily aimed at kids will definitely kill off one of their characters on-screenAnon, you're retarded
>They've already tested the waters with SV.Dead/posthumous characters have existed in Pokemon since forever, what SV did with the professor isn't unique or special, nor is it something they'd need to "build up to" in the first place
>He will die, and only then you get Eternal Floette.Knowing this series, we'll get our own Eternal Flower Floette either via space/time shenanigans (such as a postgame Ultra Space plotline), AZ's Floette just decides to join us, or simply as a random distribution event completely disconnected from the actual story
>>57504913>"you don't understand, I NEED the super-special unique one-of-a-kind pokémon, I'M The main character1111"It's not entitlement, but simply a very sound train of logic: When you go through the trouble of including a special NPC's Pokemon as a unique, usable rare creature in the game's data, players are naturally going to assume it was intended to be made available to them. When a sequel game goes back to revisit that creature, then the logical conclusion is that it will finally be made available to the player as it was intended all those years ago
>>57504978>declined turning it into a distro pokémon, because it was supposed to be unique, one-of-a-kind and owned by an NPC.Game Freak has never been shy of giving out seemingly unique NPC Pokemon as events. They did it with Ash-Greninja for the Sun & Moon demo with Ash himself mailing it to you. Then there's the event distributions recreating Pokemon from different characters from the Pokemon anime, which was even improved further in SV wherein they all get a ribbon that prefixes all their names with "X-character's Y-Pokemon"
