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In practically any coverage of controversial writing from Glip/Purplekecleon. This never gets covered, as this happens in the background with side characters (and it's surprisingly not THAT on the nose considering this is PMD-E we are talking about), so perhaps no one focuses on her? Well, I will still cover this at it's still quite a heavy subject matter. Palette is a Zoroark who was taken in by the Smeargle, Pal. This is shown in Doujin 1, which is quite obscure, but the story can be read in full on here. Later, the Zorua grows up and becomes an artist alongside Pal, in hopes of making up for her past actions of leaving clients with fake art pieces. Quite wholesome stuff on the surface, with a story even being made of Pal trying to pay off his debts to help buy a good home for him and Palette. The aforementioned story can be read here. If that's all this was, then I wouldn't be discussing this. Unfortunately, it's not. Glip had made decently strong implications the two could've become Lovers at the end of Inspiration. Said story can be read right here. Perhaps that may not be enough proof of anything foul waiting, for some anyways. But then it becomes FAR more problematic when you check their wiki page and check the name tags for one of the art pieces

Reunion between two lovers.

Source, This Page.

I also cannot link to anything for obvious reasons of Tumblr's Rules, but Glip had at one point reblogged someone's NSFW art of the two in bed, on their own NSFW blog from back in the day. One can't help but call into question why there'd be implied love between someone who took in another when they were a child. ---------------------- Now. As mentioned. It's still somewhat ambiguous and not outright explicitly shown and talked about like with the Rhodes story. But the subtext more than tries to bake it in for the readers. Because of this, I've always seen it more fit for Pal and Palette to have a Father and Daughter bond. It never made sense to make the two "lovers". And as there isn't direct canon content that makes the two outright a couple, I will basically just decide to leave it at that. I could call this a retcon, and it likely counts as that. But considering PMD-E is for the most part pretty clear where it stands when writing varying topics (most of which of questionable intent), I will repurpose the two to remain something far less sinister, and something far more wholesome. In other words, I'll call this a Reinterpretation.