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Idk if it's called Step Forme or Piroutte Forme but anyways...

When you talk to Meloetta in Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity and it transforms from Aria Forme to Step Forme, the Step Forme refers to Aria Meloetta as "my princess" or something, and Aria Meloetta calls Step Meloetta "my prince". What does this mean? Are they two separate Pokemon in one body or something?

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To be honest, the PMD series (Gates to Infinity especially) don't conform with the normally listed genders of legendary Pokemon. Virizion is referred to as "Lady Virizion", while Keldeo is highly suggested to be male and Victini is referred to as he. Also, Meloetta is supposedly genderless, but in the anime she's depicted as female in both her forms.

If you really want to give this some form of Freudian analysis, Meloetta could have multiple personality disorder, or is simply two genders simultaneously. Human concepts of gender are rather limited and narrow, and Meloetta can be what s/he wants to be.

It's a life choice.

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I already know the mystery dungeon games don't treat legendaries' genders as genderless. I just want to know why they refer Meloetta's Step Forme as a male and a female in one.
Why not? Pokemon can do what they like. It just so happens that the writers chose to portray Pirouette Meloetta as male. It serves no plot purpose in PMD: GTI, so it's just a preference on part of the writers.
Yeah, they claim most legends are He's...
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Well, I personally preferred to refer to Meloetta as Female, but from what she says in PMD: GtI, there is a chance that she basically has two personalities or is even transgender in both forms, but are essentially the same Pokémon and same gender. The only reason I could come up with was that in the BW anime, Meloetta in her Aria form is pretty shy, but gets used to someone she meets for the first time pretty quickly (like with Dawn and even developed a possible crush on Ash), while her Pirouette form is basically her "Battling form". This is evident with the fact that her Pirouette form is only usable in battle after using Relic Song, even though hacking the form in (via PKSM on a save file of Pokémon X or Y and Sun/Ultra Sun or Moon/Ultra Moon or PKHeX on Black, White, Black 2, White 2 and Scarlet & Violet) works just fine and even reverts back to Pirouette form after changing to Aria form in battle. Still, it is confusing that she calls her Pirouette form as "My prince!" and vice versa as "My princess!", even though she is the same gender, Female, despite not even having a specified gender to begin with even in a spin-off like Mystery Dungeon.

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am i stupid or is this answer just not really saying anything
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