So the protag you didn't pick doesn't exist? Not even

>>29816869
gfj you aborted Chicken-chan

Has anyone tried looking for them in the alternate universe?

>Acting like this has never happened before

>>29816869
Chicken is with Leaf and Crys

>>29817099
According to Game Freak, Lyra is the same person as Kris

>>29817078
only time it happened was in Crystal and FRLG actually

let's see

RSEORAS - Birch's assistant
DPPt - neighbor friend
BWBW2 - Subwway
XY - rival

>>29817078
Literally last time it happened was aaaall the way back in FRLG.

And that character is literally no more than a meme now simply because of that fact.

>>29816869
she exists in another dimension
I fucking hate this plot point

>>29817209
she doesn't even appear there in the SM dimensional transition

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>>29816869
>>29817072
>>29817209
>art already exists for this scenario

mamma mia GF all you had to do was give her the smallest most insignificant role possible

>>29817180
I know, but still.
>>29817198
>Crystal

>>29817253
the art is flawed in that it treats the female the "main" one and not the male

>>29817253
>You will never meet and fuck your alternate reality genderswapped self.

>>29817315
Wtf I hate living now

>>29817253
>Elio in Moon
>Selene in Sun

This bothers the ever living fuck out of me

>>29817315
>you will never impregnate your alternate mother and become your own dad

>>29816869
lol I didn't think about the other b2w2 protag being a bum who lives on the subway

>>29817244
Obviously that's because she heads to your universe at the exact same time you go to her universe.

Duh.

>>29817459
it doesn't work like that anon

I'm sorry your poultry waifu is nonexistent in canon

>>29816869
These are the canon characters:

>Red
>Ethan
>May
>Dawn
>Hilbert / Nate
>Serena
>Chicken-chan

Search your feelings, you will know it to be true.

would removing Hau entirely and replacing him with the character you didn't pick make it better?

>>29817776
Blue, Lyra, Brendan, DP's male protagonist whose name escapes me at the moment, Hilda, Rosa, and Calem all exist in the game regardless of who you picked

Serene doesn't exist, much like Crystal and Leaf, especially with the defaulting of the male as the protagonist

Considering how you use the term "canon characters" and even use Chicken-chan I guess you're that hopeless, deluded fag

>>29817776
>Dawn
>Serena

Characters that were highlighted in the anime for multiple seasons aren't canon protagonists in the game.

>>29817776
Switch out Dawn with Lucas and this is my head canon protags as well.

>>29817776
>selene over elio
Nope.

>>29817819
he didn't even say main lead, he said "canon characters" so he's fucked up regardless

>>29817776
All the boys are the canon ones, anon. Boys are pokemon's main demo, so they will take precedence.

>all that chicken garbage being forced in every /vp/ thread
>always memed her in every way that cluttered /vp/'s catalog
>turns out she isn't recognized by the game
>is literally meme tier like Lyra and Crystal

talk about pottery

>>29817253
>komala hanging onto the backpack
I have a new headcanon for my playthrough. That's kawaii as fuck.

>>29817776
Hilda is the only fem mc that I consider closest to canon. She doesn't appear in the ashnime to shill ash as his waifu, and she isn't downgraded as a side character during animated shorts like Rosa and May were. And there is some romance subtext btw the mc and N during the events of bw2. And certain artworks from bw give her more prominence than Hilbert.

Of course I'm not saying she's the intended protagonist, but she has the most arguments going for her of all the fem mcs.

Honestly, didn't everyone have the feeling that chickenshit didn't ""belong"" or wasn't ""meant to exist"" from the moment the SM demo forced you into being male?

Literally Leaf 2.0. Just an obligatory option they HAD to make because it was expected at this point, but not deserving of acknowledgment at all beyond that. SM's plot most certainly calls for a male MC.

>>29818024
or you know, at least she exists in battle subway

>>29817776
>May
>Dawn
>Serena
>Chicken-chan

All noncanon.
Female protags are never canon, they are just extra content for the girls who play pokemon and the waifufags.

>>29816869
>Not even something like in BW/BW2 where the other character is stuck in the Subway?

I don't know why people think appearing on the Subway counts as existing. The Hilda you met there is obviously not the same one you can control, and even if it was then it would be definitely noncanon and just extra conteent, which it is already regardless.

>>29817776
>May

Generations confirmed she isn't canon.

>>29818846
Generations only uses guys so far, and it does non-canon things.

>>29818824
so PWT is non-canon I guess

>>29817276
You are flawed in thinking that either one is considered the "main" one.

>>29819764
>desperate waifufag

>>29819753
Post game one certainly is.

>>29819823
anon I know you don't want to tarnish Red's already bad record but pls, you can't have a cake and eat it

>>29817253
>A boy falls in love with a girl. Unabl

>>29819844
Literally some characters don't age inside despite 5 years at minimum having passed like Tate and Liza. On top of that there's a constantly rotating roster.

>>29819914
Go away /a/

>>29817276
There is no canon main character except Red

>>29817315
I didn't want this feel anon

>>29817776
This is correct.

>>29817871
>>29818708
thanks for your headcanon

>>29820246
>redfags

>>29820313
>literal NPC you fight
>not cannon

>>29817253
>Girl gets 2 starters like the ORAS promo while boy only gets one

>>29817180
Wasn't DPPt Rowan's assistant? The neighbor friend was Barry. RSEORAS was Birch's assistant and neighbor friend as well

>>29817776
Brendan instead of May
Hilda instead of Hilbert

>>29821379
both

>>29818059
Not when they gave her more options for customization.

>>29821457
it was the same deal with XY where females have more options

something about females being more stylish or whatever

>>29817776
Every save file is its own universe, and therefore has its own canon. That's how it's always worked.

>>29817253
The picture really gives off a Kimi no Na Wa feel

>>29817276
Dawn is the main Sinnoh protag so why not here

>>29817253
A boy falls in love with a girl.
Unable to confess, he is gifted with by a deus ex machina with the girl’s phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.
But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day’s confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn’t exist in this universe at all. She is his gender swapped alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC’s crush's AU brother, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.
Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other crushes. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

>>29821948
>>>/a/
And stay there.

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So should I play as a male then? I made a girl and was very pleased with how cute her mannerisms are and wanted to make her adorable, but I only just started. If she DOESN'T EXIST I can simultaneously see the appeal in that, but also would prefer the "canon" (and self-insert) choice while waifuing all the cute girls in this vicariously...

>>29817266
FRLG is more recent than Crystal anon.

>>29818824
What the fuck are you talking about? Not the one you can control? No shit. Rival May and Serena are different than the mute "chosen one" protagonist you can control. That doesn't make the rival versions "non canon" or some shit.

Just because the battle subway isn't necessary to the story doesn't mean it isn't real. With that logic, any Pokemon not used by mandatory trainers aren't canon. Pokemon Centers don't actually exist because you never HAVE to go into them, so Nurse Joy is non canon too then.

>>29822023
Canon is both of them, you mongol.
>>29821948
Fuck off Migu

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NPC counterparts were a mistake.
They're completely different characters with their own names and lives. They shouldn't have protagonist bodies slapped onto them.

One of the worst examples is Gen 3. How can May be born to Norman in Johto AND Birch in Hoenn?

Why is Pokemon Sun current in the middle of the day for me in a new game, going to the first town? It's 1AM in the morning???

>>29822244
It's weird right? Like in a way Brendan and May are siblings, but at the same time they're totally not.

>>29822244
It's weird how May x Norman and May x Birch porn can both simultaneously be incest and not incest at the same time.

Also you really shouldn't think about it too much. By the same logic, how can May choose Treeco and fight a Groudon and also choose a Torchic and fight a Kyogre?

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>think the female MC is cute
>but also think the male MC and Lillie are cute together
I seriously have no idea what to do. Every other gen I played the male being a male and thought for once I would finally pick the girl but with all the stuff with lillie I'm having trouble doing it.

>>29822305
Every save file is its own universe and has its own canon. That's literally how it's always been.

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>>29822244

I understand now.

All the MCs are ultra beast changelings cucking whichever family is more convenient in that particular world. That's why they tend to act so weird and are absurdly competent trainers.

>>29817253
When they announced the time difference I immediately pictured that both games would share the same canon with slight difference to story and opposite gender protag meeting you with the their legendary at the end to take down the UB

>>29822322
Play male first to experience the story and interactions with Lillie, then replay at a later date to play pretty princess dress-up.

>>29816869
Anyone else really dislike these protags? That perpetual smile keeps bugging the hell out of me.

>>29822244
It's not actually that big a deal and if you weren't hopelessly autistic you wouldn't obsess about the vague concept of "canon" in something like Pokemon

>>29817315
I'd rather become the alternate reality genderswapped self and knowing me, my counterpart would be happy to switch places.

>>29822333
So then Leafs canon. If SM Anabel and Delta Episode talk about Emerald having its own universe, then a universe where Leaf went on a Pokemon journey has to exist too.

>>29822417
All possible universes are canon

Except Leaf being champion

>>29822336

Going even further.
Look at that little emotionless smile in OP's image that's present throughout all of SM.

>Giovanni: You have a certain look... It reminds me of the kid who stood in front of me three years ago... You have the same eyes...
>Ghetsis: I have a memory that has continued to haunt me. Just one. That unpleasant look in your eyes reminds me of it.

Both times villain bosses encountered a second MC they could tell something was off just by looking at them too.

>>29822417
This is completely true in my opinion. Obviously if they need to GF will pick one character over the other for promo stuff, cameos or anime appearances but I think "every save file is it own reality" has been cannon (in the loosest sense) since Pokemon started.

>>29822434
Which is the best PU?
>the universe where the pokemon dress like characters from the games.
>the universe where everyone is genderbent
>the universe where pokemon are the trainers and humans fight
>the universe where there are no battles and you have to befriend pokemon to join your team for contests and daily life stuff.
>the universe where the protagonist is controlled by hundreds of people on the internet
>the universe where all feminine pokemon are male and vice versa
>the universe where N becomes the princess of Unova
>the universe where shinies and normal forms are switched out.

>>29822537
>the universe where shinies and normal forms are switched out.

Most disgusting
Too many of them look like puke

>>29821055
but boy gets cosmog

>>29821055
Maybe if the boy wore something cute he'd get more.

>>29822023
the interactions make more sense as male

>>29822480
It's called autism, seriously MCs are freaks of nature that can beat ridiculous challenges in a few days