(yes i wasn’t done with all prompts yet…) (this is still open btw, these things are always still open, i’m always a slut for rambling out my Very Interesting Opinions™ please indulge me……………..)
Adorable relationship, constant communication/real conversations, and they’re funny! Even the protection/caretaker dynamic is interestingly done, it’s mutual in different ways – Hari-san is more powerful, but smaller, so sometimes he*(see below) will be catching her or blocking attacks, but other times Manon is carrying and shielding him with her body, etc.
And yet very different personalities, they make a visibly obvious duo, but it’s not just copy-paste / a-girl-and-her-pet. Even their designs, Manon’s is obviously reminiscent of Harimaron but not in a lazy easy way – in particular, her palette does NOT actually match Harimaron’s (I’m especially fond of her red hair and of the fact that it comes totally out of nowhere). Hari-san has initiative, almost even more personality than Manon, definitely even more sass and aggressivity, and despite being in sync a lot they don’t always agree on things.
^ which really comes out with things like Hari-san being SHOCKED AND OFFENDED and clearly ready to FITE ALAN that one time in Act IV and that was delightful, even though iirc that directly leads to one of the most heartbreaking “Non, non!” of the series…
*actually we don’t even know if hari-san is a male and while we don’t HAVE to know, i got used to Best Wishes!’s constant stating all the mons’ genders instead of just “assume male unless we specifically say it’s a female (and give her a dress/bow/makeup skills)”, awright. SO it’s an annoying point that we don’t know Hari-san’s gender/that we’re likely supposed to assume it’s male. (I was expecting the localizations to translate the nickname directly as “Sir/Mr. something”/”Monsieur Marron”, which would have been adorable, but I’m quite pleased that they didn’t and kept the ambiguity!)
w-what about her other pokémon????????? where fla-chan????? yes losing her partner is and should be emotionally distressing of course but why is it completely incapacitating her in moments like during the Flare attack on Miare?? including to go save him??
she wants to mega-evolve and hari-san can’t mega-evolve ;_;
