Iris and Cilan were purposely chosen because they play off each other
You act as if Iris and Cilan are the only two that can do this. If Hilda was here, she could have easily been a friend of Cilan's, or had a personality that contrasts with Cilan's.
CyberCubed said:
I get the feeling Hilda would be almost exactly like Dawn, just slightly less girly. I think we had enough of that.
I keep seeing posts like this. I understand where you all are coming from, but at the same time, what makes you all think you know how Hilda would have been? For all we know, she could have been a female protagonist who had traveled through Unova once (hence why she would know Cilan^), or who simply knew Unova very, very well, and didn't need to be a noobish girl. I don't see how that background is any less plausible than the one we saw with May and Dawn, so really, saying "Hilda would have just been another Dawn" is entirely arbitrary and not a real excuse.
Umm no...she looks like a Mcdonalds employee.
What McDonalds do you live by? My McDonalds definitely do not have girls that look like Hilda.
You must realize that they have to name her "Hilda" because their Japanese names are twin names, and it would make sense to give them English twin names.
...
Alex
ander and Alexis?
Andrew and Andrea?
Markus and Marian? (...)
Johnny/
Johnathon and Johnna?
Laurence and Lauren?
(EDIT 2:) Hilbert and Hilary
I realize that their names have the German word for "battle," but you're acting as if Hilbert and Hilda were the only two options that GameFreak had. I honestly would have preferred any of the above (besides Markus and Marian, maybe) to Hilbert and Hilda.
EDIT: Oops. Forgot that there's a seven-character limit. Regardless, there are many more I didn't name that are male-and-female twin names, so there is virtually no reason why Hilbert and Hilda needed to be used beyond the "battle" reference.
EDIT 2: And hell. If they had to go with the
hild word in the name, what the hell happened to the name
Hilary? That makes me so annoyed. They should have known how most people find the name "Hilda" to be ugly here, so why couldn't they just go with
Hilary?