#so cheren stays mad at n but he also blames him for stuff that was kinda out of his control

[ghostie-gengar]

i'm editing rn and i totally forgot how much unprompted shade cheren throws at N for no reason

like dude calm down lol

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@weliveinapokemonworld asked about the relationship between Elliot and Alexis, and Elliot Alexis and Naomi! This is going to be a long one!

From the beginning, it was always Alexis and Elliot, Elliot and Alexis. They were born together, raised together, made friends together- I mean duh their hometown wasn't really big. Believe it or not, in their more younger years( 5-10), Alexis was considered the more outgoing twin, with Elliot being the ever- so shy girlie. Obviously when puberty starts to hit, there was a shift, and Elliot became more adventurous, reckless and overall more outgoing, and in return, Alexis became the cautious older brother ( I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but Alexis is the older one of the twins). Despite this change, Elliot was the one that made Alexis pinkie promise to each other that they'll never leave each other's side and well, you saw how that turned out.

Their nuzlocke journey( which , yes, I'm still doing Elliot's, I'm just taking breaks so I don't get overly stressed like Alexis'), I feel that's when the distance started to grow between the two. Which make sense: their pokemon were dying and both of them were 14 years olds who probably haven't experienced death in such a way. Well, they did experience death before, but I'll get to that when I get to that. I feel like Elliot, would actively try to go for her brother, since her parents are so far away and she doesn't want her journey to end, but everytime they meet, Alexis is slowly getting more and more drained.

I feel like I already talked in detail about the Big Leave( Sidenote: I wanted to do a small fic/ one-shot between Elliot and N with Elliot getting mad at N cause she blamed him for Alexis running away to " look for him" but only to end up crying cause she really just thought she did something wrong. It was going to end with Elliot inviting N to her house cause the man does not have a place to stay. I'm kinda mad that I never finished that), so let's talk about the big return. Obviously things are rocky between the two. Alexis was in a state if isolation that did not help his mental state whatsoever, and Elliot has no many ( angry) words to say that she holds back on cause holy shit, her brother looks so broken. Cheren, being Alexis' not really ex but also kinda ex, didn't hold back though, and Bianca, precious Bianca, actually gave him the silent treatment for a bit. Now in her head she thought that Alexis thought that this outcome from Cheren and Bianca made him believe that he was now truly alone in this world and all that jazz which pushed her further into keeping her thoughts to herself. In other words, she's a hypocrite. She wants her brother to be honest with her when she's not being honest with him. Now that's not to say she didn't punch him, or chew him out a bit- she did. Trust me she did. But after that? All of her qualms with her brothers action was tight lipped.

Okay let's go onto Naomi cause this is getting long. However, I'm not gonna go too deep into the three, since I'm kinda already writing about it( SwSh rewrite). Though I'll admit its taking a while, so I guess I'll give you something. Naomi, Alexis and Elliot had only met once before her gym challenge. At her father's( and the twins uncle) funeral ( unless you count video calls with baby Naomi). Given how Leon was on his gym challenge and later became champion, I feel the funereal happened a year after. So Naomi was only 6, and Alexis and Elliot were only 13( or 12 depending on the month the funereal took place, which I haven't decided on). So obviously, the three didn't meet on the best of times. I feel like the twins would try really hard to either distract Naomi from the fact that her dad passed away, or they should try to gently tell her that her dad is no longer with them, since I feel that she wouldn't understand what's happening ( I was thinking of a certain full metal alchemist scene) . Of course, the two are very emotional pre-teens, so they couldn't really break down the news to her in a meaningful way. Though, in the short time they had stayed in Galar, the three did bond a little bit.

Fast forward to now and this is slightly spoilery( putting this in bold so you know it's might be getting spoilery!), but I haven't even finished the chapter yet, and I still need to edit, so some things might change between now and who knows when the chapter is done( I don't even know if I'm gonna post it on tumblr yet), BUT I will say that at the mention of her cousins from her mom, since Naomi already knew the two were coming to Galar, she can't really remember their faces. And she would just chalk this up to her being six and not every six year old remember things ( especially given how it was involving her dad's funeral) but it was always so odd that she can't remember. It was always....foggy? Hard to see? Whatever it's probably nothing.

Going back to more general stuff, the twins act like mentors for Naomi, giving her advice about pokemon battles, pokemon, wild life( even though it's a bit different than what they're used to). However they also pose as obstacles, since the two, especially Alexis, ate extremely protective of her, not wanting her to get involved with any of the dynamax situation. At all. Which kinda ends up falling flat, cause eventually she will get herself involved, whether they like it or not....if she has the confidence for it.