I am also writing a fair bit this month. Doing camp nanowrimo this month (first time I tried anything of the sort) with a target of 10,000 words, which I'm basically doing on train trips to/from uni. Which might be a bit silly of me - besides the ORAS competition assuming there's no extension, I'm also judging the yearly small writing comp over on PC. And have uni stuff that'll take up over a week of my time as well. :V Whoops! Still, at least I'll get some writing done regardless this month.
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Hmm, they did give Silver some more backstory, but then I'd argue that he was already a decent rival back in GSC. What he got that was new was a bonus - RSE rivals need a lot. =p (And sadly Australia never got that event Celebi =().
More Wally is certainly something that needs to happen. After all, he has green hair!