>>57525049Not all of us have red hair dude. Besides, even Game Freak know red-headed men are all ugly as fuck, thus by default cannot be an MC of Pokémon.
>>57525062All IP's have a world bible troglodyte. A basis and framework as to how the world and universe can be presented (like Red and Cynthia being the strongest trainers in the canon) and the character bios are just that - the framework on which their game presentations got hung on, regardless whether Game Freak wasted studio time and effort coding a cutscene in where an NPC gives you their life history, before asking you if you like Pokémon?