reunion with touya happens and they get all codependent and it Aint Great but its an improvement from him just getting stuck because now hes like. talking to someone besides occasionally seeing and chatting with the bw2 protag. doing things

Being The Bridge Between Humans And Pokemon but not any concrete way to do that. plus while hes doing a lot better than in bw & pre-bw hes still got tons of issues, 0 support structure, and now nothing to really distract from that

of guilt + convincing himself theyd want nothing to do with him. during his journey he didnt have a super concrete end goal besides experiencing the real world but theres an obvious way to do that. keep traveling and doing whatever along the way. but then he gets to unova and hes got the goal of -

him" but.... i like the idea. he gets back and he doesnt entirely know what to do with himself. just kind of hangs around what remains of where he spent the majority of his life. select spots in unova that are important to him. dwelling on memories. not reaching out to anyone he met in bw because -

theyre both aware that the others got some Unhealthy Behavior going on but oblivious to/in denial of their own. like "well *I* certainly dont have a problem here but dude you need to go see someone im worried about you :("

touya gets back & his family and friends are so relieved that he isnt just dead in a ditch somewhere and hes like "yeah sorry i went no contact for 2 years :) anyway im gonna go spend all my time with my pal here bye"

both of them have Issues, both are in denial about at least some of it, and given a good amount of it is from the same experiences & because theyre already super important to each other they just Cling. neglect everything else

no way in hell would i be able to recognize someone based on a normal amount of someone mentioning their friend. (its an anime world so the distinctive long bright green hair doesnt count)

this is mainly because i like the idea of n doing animal-y things sometimes. he was raised by animals & even after ghetsis takes him in, hes still spending a massive amount of time with pokemon. its fun

me as being completely 100% ridiculous

with people. pokemon are animals, animals that are meeting for the first time & are friendly will jump straight to playing. n would obv know that thats Generally not a thing people do but that wouldnt necessarily mean it Never happens. so while it still goes very over the top with it it didnt hit -

btw very glad they didnt end up having him pick a favorite in the end or whatever. that would be very Not Him to me. tbh i think hed be actually kind of offended at the prospect but whatever good enough

at the very least he absolutely isnt diagnosed. ghetsis does not give a shit and there is not a child psychologist on team plasmas payroll

up to this point touyas just assumed that n was autistic because like. obv. and only just thought to actually confirm it with him