Marnie and Sonia's personality is great in here Man I hope the author do these characters justice, especially Hop! And glad to see he hasn't changed :) I'm seriously looking forward to how he goes about this story since literally I'm just glad to see Sword/Shield actually be involved in the plot (And hopefully moving forward since we were such bystanders!)
I hope that unlike Sun/Moon where they took away Lillie's development, we get to also still see Hop's and Sonia's development (I think Bede is already a given here seeing how he's an ass right now) @SapphireShine I have a feeling that it's also Leon who endorsed him. But he probably endorsed him much earlier than Sword and Shield. I mean the crowd is only saying that it's the first time he endorsed 2 at the same time, not that it's his very first time endorsing someone.