Can I know more about the Hop/Gloria family and how they interact with the Victor/Bede family?

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(Yes this ask is very very old but I’m doing my best to clear my ask box out!)

Hop and Gloria’s story follows pretty closely to the game’s plot, with the two being rivals and Hop often feeling unable to catch up to Gloria as a trainer. The two had a deeper rivalry than Hop had with Victor, which I think mainly stemmed from Gloria having a more obviously competitive personality, which then got Hop fired up too when he battled her, while Vic was (on the surface) more laid back and chill with battles so his and Hop’s rivalry was a bit less intense.

Of course, then the Champion Cup happened and Gloria defeated Hop only to be soundly demolished by Victor, who then went on to defeat Leon and become the new Galar Champion. This kind of blindsided the both of them, as Victor had kept just how seriously he was taking the League Challenge fairly secret. Prior to this however, Hop and Gloria were the ones who teamed up with the two Legendary Wolves to defeat Eternatus, and this experience changed things for Gloria, she felt something when fighting side-by-side with Zacian and wanted to explore that more, so when Hop announces he’s going to be working for Sonia as a researcher, Gloria decides to follow him. She had been ahead of him as a trainer, now she’ll be the one following him – they can leave the professional battling to Victor.

Romance followed pretty quickly for them afterwards and both were quite active in helping Bede when Ambrose was born (though not as much as Victor haha). All that babysitting led them to want to start a family of their own, so around when Victor and Bede announced they were going to be having a baby, Hop and Gloria started trying for one as well, wanting the cousins to be the same age. Things panned out nicely, with Robin born in November and Neil the following March. While Robin and Neil often played together growing up, their personalities never really meshed – Robin being quite shy while Neil was very outgoing. Neil was such a handful that he kept his parents busy from wanting any more kids for quite a bit, but seeing how large Victor and Bede’s family was becoming, they decided when Neil was five to have a second child, which ended up being Caelia. Tania followed quickly about a year and three months later, then finally they had their fourth and final child, Annie, three years after Tania.

Despite Victor and Gloria’s best efforts and dreams of their kids being best friends, none of the cousins are exceptionally close. Ambrose is quite a bit older than his cousins, so mostly sees them as (additional) younger siblings more than anything. Neil is close in age to Robin and Isidore but doesn’t really get along well with either of them, being a bit too pushy with Robin sometimes and then getting on Isidore’s bad side, the two often fighting. He does enjoy being a cool older cousin to the twins though, and will enable their pranks and stunts gleefully and even give them pointers (thus their parents don’t particularly like how close they are…). Caelia and Theo have a bit of a rivalry going on, where Theo often bossed Caelia around when they were little and now Caelia is determined to get back at her for it. Tania’s quite introverted, but unlike her older sister does get along pretty well with Theo (even if she does find her exhausting). Against all odds, Annie and Reynard are fairly good friends, and a lot of it is based on shared experiences of having so many older siblings with big personalities and feeling overshadowed by them sometimes. They like to go exploring together and other activities where it’s just the two of them being themselves. (Merlin is The Baby and too little to play with any of his cousins yet.)

Also since this is very long a quick breakdown of the Hopria fam under the cut!

Robert “Hop” Arjuna & Gloria Arjuna (née Ellington)
– The parents! Both are senior research assistants to Professor Sonia Magnolia, focusing on Pokémon Mythology like her. Hop focuses more on research in the lab, while Gloria prefers fieldwork. They live in Postwick (possibly in Hop’s family home?) and commute to the lab in Wedgehurst for work. They also regularly check in on Zacian and Zamazenta – the wolves also sometimes wandering to the village to visit their humans as well!

Neil Arjuna (Born March 20, 3024)
– The eldest and only son. He’s very outgoing and energetic and loves racing around the Wild Area on his Rotom Bike. He can often be reckless and has had plenty of accidents, though he always bounces back. He decides to take the Gym Challenge, traveling alongside his (paternal) cousin Charlie, but doesn’t really have any solid goals in mind about becoming Champion or anything. He just wants to have fun! His starter is a Bulbasaur who rides in his bike basket (and hasn’t evolved in order to remain able to fit in said bike basket).

Caelia Arjuna (Born June 21, 3030)
– The second child and oldest daughter. An extrovert like her brother, Caelia wants everyone to know who she is and what she’s about. Loudly. She adored tagging along with her parents on their fieldwork excursions, deciding to follow in their footsteps as a researcher. She’s a very animated fan of any kind of ruin and gushes about them to anyone who happens to be within earshot (and then yells at people who she doesn’t think appreciate them enough). Cae also has latched onto Edmond as a mentor during the time he spends studying abroad in Galar, finding his study of ancient Pokémon Art fascinating. Her starter is a Scorbunny (same as her father’s!).

Tania Arjuna (Born September 23, 3031)
– The third child and second daughter. Very introverted, unlike her siblings, preferring the company of books to people. Strategy books about pokémon battling specifically. Tania travels with her older sister, and people often assume that not only is the quiet and mature Tania the older sister (her being taller doesn’t help), they also presume she’s the researcher and Cae is the trainer, when in fact it’s the opposite. Tania has her eyes set on the prize – becoming Champion! Her starter is a Sobble (same as her mother’s!)

Anemone “Annie” Arjuna (Born December 21, 3034)
– The fourth child and youngest daughter. Quiet like Tania, she’s happy to play by herself and finds her older siblings often quite tiring. She’s very close with her father’s Dubwool and often goes on walks with him around the rolling Postwick fields. Annie enjoys drawing, especially nature scenes she sees on her walks, and also sometimes writes little poems about her favorite moments in nature. She doesn’t think of it as more than a hobby though, despite her parents encouraging her to sigh up for art and poetry programs and/or classes. Annie is still too young to go on a journey, so isn’t thinking too hard yet about what she wants to do with her life. Her (eventual) starter is a Snom.

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“Welcome to the Battle Subway, dear trainer! If you need any assistance, do not hesitate to ask me or any of the other conductors, we’re here to ensure your ride with us is as smooth as possible!” (Submas Concordia my beloved ;;;)

What was Saturn’s reaction when he found out he had a son?

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Well, by the time Cyrus and Aeon are recovered from the Distortion World, it’s been almost 6 years since the events on Spear Pillar. All the admins have moved on (or begun to move on) from their Galactic days and gone their separate ways. Jupiter and Mars got harsher sentences due to being at Spear Pillar, so mostly have dropped out of the public eye, while Saturn moved up to Snowpoint and became the Gym Leader there (as mentioned in this post). Prior to becoming the Gym Leader, when he was still new to the city (well, it was his hometown, but he hadn’t lived there in years), Saturn ran into Archer, who had also come there because it was so remote. The two ended up talking and discovered how much they had in common, which led to them becoming roommates, which led to a romantic relationship starting. A few years later, they’re married with a daughter, Ceres, and are generally happy with where their lives are – until the reappearance of Cyrus shakes everything up.

When they first are brought back from the Distortion World, Cyrus and Aeon move in with Cyrus’s sister, Johanna, in Twinleaf and live there for a while as they acclimate to being back in the normal world (especially since Aeon had never lived anywhere but the Distortion World). All of this was intentionally kept under wraps since Dawn knew any kind of attention was the last thing Cyrus and Aeon needed, so Saturn wouldn’t have found out via the news or anything. So the reunion between them only happens at Cyrus’s own pace, which takes a while. Eventually, and with some encouragement, Cyrus decides that he really should reach out to Saturn and tell him about Aeon, since his former right-hand deserves that much at least.

This is Cyrus though, so he basically just… shows up at Saturn & Archer’s home in Snowpoint with little Aeon in tow, so needless to say it’s A Lot for Saturn to process. He’d accepted that Cyrus was gone for good and moved on with his life and now all of it had come crashing back without warning, so it takes him a while to work through his reactions and feelings about it. With Aeon, however, it’s easier than dealing with Cyrus. Saturn is already a father, he knows how to handle that, so he does his best to bond with Aeon and invites him over quite frequently. He wants to be part of Aeon’s life, especially since he does worry a bit about how he’ll turn out if Cyrus is the only major adult influence in his life (which leads him to bond with Johanna unexpectedly since she’s also very involved in her nephew’s upbringing for the same reason). Since Cyrus usually comes with Aeon on his visits, the two eventually have to confront everything and end up having a lot more heartfelt conversations than they’d ever had, being more honest with each other about things. Saturn can see that these past years have changed Cyrus, and Cyrus has a lot to ruminate on seeing this side of Saturn where he’s not just devoted to him and Galactic. (And Archer just keeps taking Aeon and Ceres on day trips since the tension at home between his husband and his husband’s sort-of-ex is so thick.)

But over time, now that there’s no Galactic backdrop and both of them have had time away from that and each other, Saturn and Cyrus are able to develop a better and healthier relationship. While Archer doesn’t have any kind of past with Cyrus, he knows how much Saturn still feels for him (he was/is the same with Giovanni after all), so he supports the reconciliation and makes the effort to bond with Cyrus as well. Eventually, Cyrus doesn’t really want to keep living with his sister anymore and spends enough time up in Snowpoint anyways that he (and Aeon) just move in with Archer and Saturn. So yeah, basically Saturn meeting Aeon and Aeon existing at all is what leads to him and Cyrus reconciling ultimately since if there hadn’t been a kid he might not have been able to bring himself to confront Cyrus or at least it would have been a lot slower and probably wouldn’t have ended in the throuple ending.

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I’m late but 02, 27 and 29 with Draco for the ask meme? 👀

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You’re not late at all! I’m still taking these (as this is only my second one) – keep em coming!

02. What is one of your character’s biggest insecurities? Are they able to hide it easily or can others easily exploit this weakness?

Draco has many insecurities that he tries to hide, mostly by projecting his less deep-seated insecurities up to the top so people don’t try to look too deeply into any other weaknesses he may have. For example, he puts his temper and short fuse front and center, to distract from his low self-esteem. Of course, this habit is an insecurity itself so if people catch on to it it’d be pretty easy to seriously throw Draco off-balance. He’s doing his best even if his best is not that great.

27. If your character was going to get arrested, what would be the most likely reason for it?

Getting into a fight, probably. Definitely he’s done other things that could get him trouble with authorities, but starting fights in public is a bit of a recurring habit that draws attention unlike some of his other self-destructive/destructive in general tendencies that manifest less obviously (or just not in public spaces where he’s making a scene).

29. What is one of the most courageous things your character has ever done for a loved one?

For Draco, throwing himself into dangerous situations barely warrants a second thought. He is fully willing to put himself in danger for the sake of someone else, especially someone he cares about, and that’s a whole rabbit hole into his self-worth issues you can jump down, but the important thing is that for him, courage in the face of an outside threat is not something that comes difficultly to him.

Rather, the most courageous thing Draco has done, in the metrics of what types of things are most difficult and hard to face for him personally, is when he first allows himself to be vulnerable in front of Cypress, to talk about his deepest worries and insecurities, and admit that he isn’t in control and desperately wants to be. Draco struggled for a long time with letting people grow close to him, so taking the initiative to be open with Cypress was a huge risk to him. He’s deeply fearful of others rejecting him if they find out his “true self”, especially people he considers friends (even people he trusts like Renato, Roy and Ulyssa he’s often reluctant to bring up his own issues with).

Cypress is someone Draco has come to deeply cherish, who isn’t someone he’s known since childhood or a relative and thus is “stuck with him”, so he seriously feared driving him away by opening up to him and losing someone who’d become so important. To Cypress, this was the moment that proved to him just how much Draco thought of their relationship, that he was willing to do something so courageous, and is what convinces him that he needs to put in the effort to make their relationship serious as well, because what they have is something both want to last. This step also serves as the foundation for Draco opening up more to his family as well and taking initiative in self-improvement and getting help, so overall one of the big important moments of his character arc.

((redo bc im dumb pls ignore the first one)) 01 for any kid of your choice! or 30 for Tanith!

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01. What does your character’s name mean? Did you pick it for the symbolism, or did you just like the way it sounded?

I had trouble choosing for this number, so I asked my discord friends for suggestions and got the SoulSilver and Achromic kids!

Renato’s name information can be found in his profile, so I’ll just do Celeste here. I chose her name since it’s a type of musical instrument, matching Lyra’s name! The instrument is more commonly known as a celesta or a bell-piano and is sort of like a small piano. One of the most well-known pieces of music played on a celesta is “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” from The Nutcracker! When going through musical names, Celeste stood out to me as being cute and suiting what I had in mind for her character, plus it has the added bonus of being a sky-themed name as well (like celestial), which suits Lyra’s Flying-type specialization as a gym leader during the next gen.

As for her family’s surname, I picked Campanella to match Lyra’s maiden name, Suzuki! Suzuki is written as “bell tree” and Campanella means, literally, “little bell”, but is also a type of flower, so both names relate to the two towers in Ecruteak as well as plants.

Now for Hilda and Aubin’s twins. These two have gone through quite a few variations, but their current names reflect something I think each parent would pick. Bertie’s full name, Bertram, means “bright raven”, which in a roundabout way fits the region’s “black & white” theme. It’s also close to Hilbert’s name (both “bert"s meaning "bright”) so I like the idea of Hilda naming her son after her brother, especially due to some stuff that happens to Hilbert after BW that I’ll get into more in a later post (at some point). Maela is the feminine form of Mael, a traditional Breton name that means “prince, lord”. My version of Unova has some Breton influence, so while for the modern era that usually only manifests in surnames (Morvan, Marec, Herve, etc) rather than given names (same as regions like Kanto having a lot of English given names and Japanese surnames, for example), Aubin is originally from medieval times so a more traditional name made more sense as something he’d pick. Mael(a) might even have been the name of a relative he admired.

Speaking of surnames, the protag family’s has also gone through a few changes, but the current one, Morvan, derives from the historical figure (also spelled Morman or Morwan) who was a king of Brittany, alluding to how this family is descended from the Harmonia royal line. I’ve found a few different etymologies listed for the name, though the most agreed upon one seems to be “great power/might” (other possibilities relate the “Mor-” part to mean “sea” and the “-man/van” part to mean “to think” or “mind, reasoning”, so the name could also mean “sea power” or “great mind”.)

30. When it comes to the arts (music, film, theater, etc), what does your character like?

Tanith really likes upbeat pop and rock music! Especially 80s/90s stuff – think workout music. Anything that gets her energized. As for film, she enjoys a fairly wide range of genres, though her favorites are cheesy mindless romcoms and cheesy over-the-top slasher (or other horror) films. Basically, stuff that you can enjoy with a big tub of popcorn at a sleepover. She doesn’t really like watching movies by herself and enjoys having friends to react with. She also loves musicals! Otherwise, as a coordinator, she often watches recordings of famous past coordinators to get an idea of what made them stand out.