dman_dustin
Well-Known Member
I'd assume they're specifying that she appears to have become champion BECAUSE they know not everyone will recognize that outfit and make the "she's wearing her champion outfit, does that mean...?" connection on their own.
And this article isn't written for kids.
Which is meaningless if she's not champion instead it should just be attire she's seen wearing in the games.
The mention of "champion" seems irrelevant here. Even if she's trying to become champion why not say that, something like "Iris has decided her goal is to be the Unova Champion" or whatever equivalent.
Why is there, this "seems to be" in relation to her outfit which really wouldn't matter or make sense if she wasn't currently champion, it would simply be just an outfit that she wears in the games and now the anime. The champion bit is wholly unnecessary here if she isn't.
It's like a video game character who becomes a villain and wears a specific bloodstain outfit as a result of a massacre of children like a trophy, or admission of villainy, and in the anime we don't see the character for years and then comes back donning that outfit and article says "seems to have massacred a group of children and turned evil" but the "seems to be" isn't confirmation, again in this hypothetical example I fail to understand the point in mentioning this, if it was simply an outfit being worn.