Here's a nice idea:
Your dad stays at home, and saves you money (but actually buys you useful items like stones once you've reached a certain point), while your mother is a distant wandering trainer that you battle a couple times, besides playing some roles in the plot. However, just before you beat the elite four, she is in the same position as you (about to enter the elite four) and battles you. In beating her, she returns home to train in the backyard or be around town, and you can battle her once every day. And a random number generator decides when she leaves the town occasionally and be in a random place or town, where if you find her, she'll give you a really neat useful rare idem.
(c) Weatherman, Kiyoshi and Doubleglalzingcomics
NOW THAT'S A REFRESHING FREAKING IDEA.
But yeah, I hope they put in a dad this time. X3
A mother rival?:surprised:
If the rumors about R/S/E remakes are real, then yes, they could.