That's fine, too! Silver's just the name ingrained into my mind when I see this rascal; adapting to another name ain't no thing.
Heh, Paul could come from various points in time, though it's more interesting to place him after he gets publicly humiliated by Brandon or by the end of the series. He doesn't do a 180 in terms of his character and whatnot. And the vast majority of his controversial pokemon treatment came from Chimchar (which came across as ignorance and incompatibility rather than actual malice or sadism); all his other teammates seem A-OK with his brutal methods - they're all probably assholes of varying degrees too. :P For what it's worth, he stopped releasing pokemon entirely after Chimchar as well. Too bad that all happens well before Paul gets his whole world shaken up. XD By the end of his run he's softened up a little, but he still has very horrifying battle tactics. In many ways he plays like a defensive-oriented metagamer. He doesn't get all buddy-buddy with Ash at the end thankfully, and he doesn't quit being a trainer. He just learns to maintain some form of respect for the guy and accepts his differences. Though to me, that doesn't mean Paul likes the guy.
Made sense to me that Paul's next foe would be a more extreme version of him. It's been pretty consistent with Niko's counterparts that Paul's usually the underdog between them regardless.
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Heh, Paul could come from various points in time, though it's more interesting to place him after he gets publicly humiliated by Brandon or by the end of the series. He doesn't do a 180 in terms of his character and whatnot. And the vast majority of his controversial pokemon treatment came from Chimchar (which came across as ignorance and incompatibility rather than actual malice or sadism); all his other teammates seem A-OK with his brutal methods - they're all probably assholes of varying degrees too. :P For what it's worth, he stopped releasing pokemon entirely after Chimchar as well. Too bad that all happens well before Paul gets his whole world shaken up. XD By the end of his run he's softened up a little, but he still has very horrifying battle tactics. In many ways he plays like a defensive-oriented metagamer. He doesn't get all buddy-buddy with Ash at the end thankfully, and he doesn't quit being a trainer. He just learns to maintain some form of respect for the guy and accepts his differences. Though to me, that doesn't mean Paul likes the guy.
Made sense to me that Paul's next foe would be a more extreme version of him. It's been pretty consistent with Niko's counterparts that Paul's usually the underdog between them regardless.