#originally a twt thread but i want it in Xan's tag 😭

[kuruna]

Developing Xanthos is sooooooooo fun I missed being obsessed with my own OC 😭

He felt like an outsider in his own family (everyone else was skilled with invention and metal working and the likes, but he struggled with that kind of creativity) which lead to him becoming an extroverted busybody of a guy.

But also he's scared of being Judged by others- this lead to him sort of rejecting Floette as a member of his family, because during this period in time (pkmn bronze age), it was considered unnatural to treat pkmn in such a way. AZ meanwhile was very close to Floette and treated her like a sister, as their mother had requested of him some many years ago.

AZ was close with his family, but struggled to make friends. Most people considered him to be strange and unsettling, which was only made worse by how close and familial he was with Floette. But... Xanthos felt a strange jealousy towards AZ 💔

In addition to being closer to their family, AZ was just... openly weird. He seemed not to be concerned about what others thought about him. This is a little untrue- AZ did care, but it was less bc he cared about fitting in and more bc he was lonely and being Strange just made him lonelier. But Xanthos did not see this loneliness... He only saw that AZ, in some ways, seemed to have a lot more freedom than himself.

If AZ and Xanthos ever talked to one another about all this their lives would've been much happier. Unfortunately it didn't work out like that 😔