Pokemon Pokopia seemingly hints at a tragic fate for a specific NPC from FireRed and LeafGreen: "The sea is really rough today"

Pokemon Pokopia has seemingly confirmed that a NPC from Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen is dead… or has a sore tummy. Equally bad fates.

Possible spoilers for Pokemon Pokopia ahead, and I guess Pokemon gen 1 too?

Something isn't right in Pokemon Pokopia. The whole plot (at least in the early hours of the game where I currently reside) revolves around how no one can find the humans at all, and the only remnant of them is one Ditto who remembers what their trainer looked like. But as you explore the somewhat apocalyptic lands, you find notes scattered about from humans from before whatever happened in this world took place.

There's chatter of space travel, an incoming catastrophic event, and notes from or about specific people like the NPC builder in Vermillion City or a Team Rocket Grunt talking about their squad. But one you can find, on what appears to be the wreckage of the S.S. Anne, seemingly tells you the fate of one specific patron of the vessel.

The note is titled Sailor Dylan's diary, and has the NPC originally found in FireRed and LeafGreen – maybe Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow too (most trainer NPCs weren't named in the original versions) – describing a really rough day on the ship. Dylan says, "The sea is really rough today. The ship keeps swaying back and forth," closing out his memo saying "Ugh… I don't feel so good… I might not be able to write much mo–" abruptly cutting off.

Some – like Twitter user Tales_of_Taylor – have taken this as the last moments of Sailor Dylan's life, assuming the ship to have crashed as he wrote this note, hence it being found in the wreckage. "This game is fucking devastating," another replies.

Although, another reading of this is mentioned in the responses, suggesting "he frew up" from seasickness, which is also a possibility.

However, given that Pokopia takes place seemingly ages after an apocalyptic event, Sailor Dylan is probably dead anyway… alongside every other NPC from those games.

I thought nothing could replace Animal Crossing for my nightly cozy vibes, but Pokopia's delightfully unhinged dialogue is very tempting: "It's a pretty nice butt, don't you think? So shiny!"