SerGoldenhandtheJust
Deluded Dreamer
Acting like Dawn had no personality and character growth is the biggest and dumbest revisionist history I've seen on this site honestly. The reason Dawn is loved so much is because BOTH her character and goal growth were stunning. People majorly love Dawn due to the depression arc and you're gonna go and claim she's liked only coz of her goal and had no growth? Give me a breakI don't understand why people say that Dawn didn't had any growth during DP and that only her Contest arc was good but she stayed the same. And this is simply not true. Dawn started off the series extremely cocky and sure of her abilities (most likely because Joanna) and soon got humbled during both of her Contests that simply thinking you're good doesn't mean you are.
She basically pulled herself by the boot strap when she was depressed and realized she needs to overcome her loses. Dealing with this was able to help her deal with situations like Mamoswine. Additionally she became less superficial (and this is even shown in JN) and not caring so much about her appearance to an obsession point.
Every Pokemon had some sort of development personality wise.
Yeah that argument against Lillie was so stupid. Lillie doesn't need to be rich and have the privilege she enjoys to be happy, what she wanted was proper companionship and a family, instead of feeling lonely all the time. That was literally the point of Lillie's first focus episode and the underlying theme with her frustrations with her mother and the aether family conclusion in general.Anybody who’s saying that “Lillie was disrespectful to Lusamine because she’s a spoiled brat” is ridiculous.
Just because Lusamine wasn’t actively being rude doesn’t mean she was faultless. Lillie can be privileged and still have issues. If a person is constantly belittling you and your feelings, isn’t pleasant experience. Lusamine thought she knew what was best for Lillie despite barely being around. She didn’t even do enough research to find out exactly why Lillie was scared of Pokemon at all.
Why is it because she's rich does that somehow diminish her issues? Oh yea because modern society has showed countless of times that having money means you have no issues and bam problem solved!
So no I don’t Lusamine is not blameless. She didn’t do this out of malice but she still was a bad parent in this aspect. Oh yea because modern reality of course reaffirms that money somehow means you have no problems.
All that money and she couldn't afford a therapist?
Lusamine not being an evil wacko doesn't mean she was a good mom in the anime. Just because you have good intentions for your daughter doesn't mean they can't have problems with you or speak out at all, that's literally a toxic mentality
It's like people either watch SM with a blindfold or ignore the narrative with the bad faith takes you'll see against it