So, in the most recent chapters, we get confirmation of my previous theory, meaning that Lilly was indeed born in the regions. We even get to see her mother. However, after a few chapters, the mother’s hair changes. Now I know it’s kinda the author’s MO to change the length of characters hair at times to show progression of time and character archs, but this is different. It wasn’t length, it was the way it was drawn entirely. It went from short wavy hair to her shoulders to small crinkle curls and thick curls down her back. I think this is supposed to show that she is a different person. It would also explain the slightly different color of her hair in the images she is colored in.
Thus far in the series, we have only seen two people colored in and one pokemon. Lilly, Charizard, and Lilly’s mother. This makes me think that the hair color and eye colors are extremely important.
If anyone knows about hair dye, they’d know that its very difficult to mimic the color of a natural red head with dye unless you have red in your hair already. Lilly’s hair looks like a mixture of red and brown. Her mother’s hair in the first images of her we saw was a vibrant red that looked almost too bright to be real. However this is also shown to be in the regions where hair like Alder’s exists and Wallace has blue hair so I think that her hair is natural and not dyed. However, in later pictures, the most recently colored picture, we see it is darker, less vibrant, and drawn explicitly differently. This makes me think that the woman we see in chapter 19 isn’t Lilly’s mother.
Also, we never see Lilly’s mother’s eye color. In the flashback to Lilly’s birth her hair covers her eyes and we can’t see them. Likewise this woman in the bed has what looks like bandages over her eyes. This could mean that they have different eye colors and therefore are not the same person.
Here’s my theory: the woman we see in Alder’s back room isn’t Lilly’s mother. Those pictures on the wall could have been acquired and altered - remember that alder is a champion and can basically do whatever he wants. I believe that next chapter or in a few other chapters we will see that the woman isn’t her mother and therefore the implication that alder is her father is baseless and a red Haring. I mean, why would her father relocate her and date her best friend? That’s just creepy. I don’t think any of this was because the author forgot or was desperate for twists in the story. So far it has been far too consistent.
Anyway, sorry for the wall of text, I just thought I’d share my thoughts.
When the hell do you people sleep? Like serious, the chapter has been live for less than two hours!! lmfao
