I guess I'll list what I thought of all the characters:
Lillie- she's a total cutie, and the development was nice, if a bit repetitive at times. They really hit her moe factor hard and Im a sucker for it. kek Her leaving at the end hit me pretty hard, no more smiles :c
Hau- Total cutie too, never really irritated me. Fun guy, I don't really feel much development but but its still there in small bits, and I'm glad for that.
Gladion- He actually kind of annoyed me, idunno. Not his character (he was hilarious and awesome) but the way he started commenting on working together post Hau; idk, it makes sense, but i felt the dialouge expressing it was quite awkward and I swear he said the same thing twice...
That said, that smile right before the elite four was beautiful and there needs to be more of it :<
I did like how Hau thought he did half the stuff he did because he thought it'd make him look cool LOL I think that was my favorite line because its so true. Probably what normalized his weird tendencies to me.
Kukui was an awesome professor kek
Team skull themselves were awesome, although I was sorta disappointed with Guzma, I wanted him to be more of a threat in the end, just kinda felt he petered out... (although perhaps me using crobat removed the tougherness of his fight.)
Cool that the Nigihleo caused him to feel fear tho, knocked some sense into him and while I haven't seen it in game, I have heard about his past, which does make me understand why he's the way he is.
I didn't really like Plumeia though...she's just kind of there, Her remorse was cool but I didn't get or connect with her like the others.
Team aether- I kind of did like their execution.
I also ****ing called Wicke not being evil/crazy, it just didn't make sense to me. I was surprised faba was in on it though, maybe my surprise is stupid in hindsight (he's ego driven) but I thought that annoying ego would have been something Lusamine hated. Tbh, I thought it was only Lusamine that was in on it and she just had a catalog of grunts on her side, and I was...sorta right, I guess.
Lusamine- She annoyed me more then made me interested, but I eventually was okay with her. I really disliked her because I didn't understand her at first, but the moral conflict over how much she had control over her actions was probably the best choice as otherwise i couldn't take how crazy she became. Subject of many debates in the future. Her theme is nice though and god did her final battle catch me off guard... (****ing clefable)
Trial captains and Kahuna:
Some of these were hilarious and I was laughing the entire time, along with being surprised at the toughness of the totem battles; but thats for another thread.
Personal favorite was probably Lana and a certain elite four member I can't spell the name of (Ace- agh...) Lana had me rolling all the time, thirsty, deadpan no nonsense girl. Sadist too god.
The Kahuna were all pretty cool, I liked them all o vo.
Anabel at the end completely caught me off guard lmafo, what the hell. I did not see that coming.
One thing I was disappointed about was the UBs being mostly in the post game. When I saw them descend and attack the different island I was expecting,...so much more, come on. Zzz