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Unless you talked about this before, how did Raihan, Leon and Piers all end up together?

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I don’t think I have talked about this before, so I can outline the details now!

By the time the game plot kicks off, there’s definitely been a tension of sorts between the three for a while. Leon is extremely busy as Champion, so starting a relationship is something he simply doesn’t have time for, not to mention Rose wouldn’t approve since it’d kick off a whole new series of publicity issues to manage. So Leon does sometimes consider relationships, but only really in the abstract. It’s something has no experience with. Raihan is aware of this and is angry about it, but also keeps his own feelings for Leon private since he doesn’t want to make things even more difficult for his friend and rival. Piers, however, is aware of all of Raihan’s woes because the two are friends-with-benefits and Raihan likes to complain to him, haha. Piers is starting to get a bit fed up with the situation as well, though. He understands the situation, but he’d rather Raihan stop being indecisive about their own relationship (keep it casual, try for something more, or just break things off) so Piers can get on with his life knowing exactly where they stand.

After Leon loses the Championship to Victor and Rose is detained, however, suddenly the factors keeping things in that sort of stasis are suddenly removed, and Leon is now free to pursue any romantic pursuits he desires without Rose breathing down his neck about it or having to rush off to some event (or at least less events now). Piers assumes this means that Raihan will break things off with him to woo Leon, but the pregnancy with the twins complicates matters and when he brings up the idea of breaking up to Raihan he’s actually very upset with the idea. The two agree to stay close at least for the sake of the babies, and in the meantime Raihan starts being more overt with his flirting towards Leon, who does actually pick up on it (since the feelings were mutual and he was looking for it). Leon is hesitant since he was aware of Raihan’s relationship with Piers, but when both of them express that they didn’t mind him being their third, Leon decides to try the whole relationship thing out, finally.

Things progress pretty slowly from there, just due to Leon’s own inexperience with dating, but the three grow very close over time, especially once Chelsea and Merrill are born (Leon adores them and is a natural as a dad). As Leon and Raihan grow closer, Piers assumes they’ll want it to be just the two of them growing forward and begins to distance himself, but both of them make it clear that he’s wanted as well – Raihan not wanting to lose what they’d had for so long and Leon having bonded a lot with him and still wanting to grow closer. At some point, they all move in together in Hammerlocke (maybe around when Nasrin is born?) and I think they marry sometime before Charlie is born. They have a second smaller home in Wyndon for when Leon needs to spend more time at work as well (and it’s closer to the recording studio Piers prefers). And that’s the story! By the fankid era they’re all very happy with each other and are doing well.

Who’s Saffron?

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Saffron is Oleana and Rose’s child. Their design and name are loosely based on the character of Yellow Diamond from Houseki no Kuni, a manga series by Haruko Ichikawa, who designed both Rose and Oleana. I am a fan of the series, and YD is my favorite character from it, so it just seemed like it would be a fun idea to give this pairing a child inspired by HnK. 

After turning himself in at the end of the SwSh plotline, Rose isn’t in jail for very long. Once he’s free, he and Oleana reconnect and also rekindle their sort of friends-with-benefits relationship (but it’s not really that since Rose had all the power from the beginning.) Oleana is still so used to being Rose’s right-hand at this point that going back to the way things were is just easiest for her, even if the two of them aren’t working together any more. However, once she discovers her pregnancy, it sort of forces her to really start reconsidering her life and where she wants to go from now on.

After a lot of deliberation, Oleana decides to make a clean break with Rose, cutting ties for the most part and raising their child on her own. I’m still working on what she does with her life at this point, though working with Leon at the Battle Tower is very likely – definitely something business related since that’s her area of expertise. Once Saffron is born, Oleana does her best to be a good mother, but she can also admit she’s not the best at being affectionate. All the same, Saffron respects her and appreciates how much Oleana has done for them as a single mother, even if she wasn’t always perfect (they could always count on Leon or his partners to be more traditionally parental to them anyways). 

When Saffron is young, maybe 7-10 or so, Oleana and Rose sort-of begin talking again, but mostly this just involves Rose taking Saffron on day trips sometimes and offering to pay for Saffron’s schooling and the like, which Oleana always refuses. As a teenager, Saffron ends up becoming a model, mainly for high-end teen fashion. They really look up to Nessa and are always a bit starstruck when they get to meet her through Oleana’s League connections. 

Saffron also has no idea that Ambrose exists or is their half-brother until the two are both teenagers and meet by chance (though Ambrose knows who Saffron is). What happens from there as well as their eventual big confrontation with Rose once and Ambrose start interacting is still something I’m working on!

As a bonus, under the cut I’ll include a pic of a concept design for Saffron I made in Picrew!

Galar Fankids

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As of right now, my Galar fankids are fairly set in stone. I think I’ve got a good number of them and a good idea of who they are. They’re not on the family page yet since I need to come up with surnames for all of them, but as soon as I do that they’ll be posted. That said, I figured I should share what I have so far!

Gloria/Hop: They’ve got two kids, an older boy named Neil and a younger girl named Caelia. Amusingly, despite being the protagonists, their children have the least development. I know more about their relationships with other fankids than I do about their personalities. I’m sure I’ll know more about them eventually though, since these things take time.

Victor/Bede: Two boys, named Ambrose and Robin. Both were accidents and born before the two really properly started dating, Ambrose being born sooner after the game timeline ends (since dumb teens, but Victor was really committed to helping his friend out once Bede found out he was expecting even if the two weren’t dating at the time) and Robin about 5 years after. They grow closer as a result of having a kid though and probably end up marrying when Robin is a toddler or something, though I’m not sure yet. Ambrose was a sickly child but he grows up to be kind of really annoying and pretentious and dresses like a 18th century period romance hero. He’s rivals with Chelsea and Merrill (mentioned down below). Robin is a sensitive boy and a bit of a crybaby, but he’s also able to take care of himself and anyone who makes him cry is going to regret it. He’s only a year or so older than Neil and Bede and Hop wanted them to be rivals but the cousins are best friends instead. They travel together.

Marnie/Allister: My one rarepair/crackship so far. I just thought they’d get along and paired them moreso since I wanted to explore Allister rather than Marnie, who I would have been happy keeping single. They have a son named Damian who’s Very Goth (but like, refined Victorian goth). He starts out as a trainer but eventually realizes he’d rather be a coordinator. He’s rivals with Caelia and around the same age as her (so his parents take longer than other couples to get together.)

Milo: He’s a single dad. His daughter, Marigold, was originally actually a grandkid and I made a post about her a while back, but I’ve decided to scrap that angle. So she’s his bio daughter rather than adopted. Milo just has such dad energy I couldn’t not give him a kid, but him staying single was planned from very early on.

Nessa/Sonia: They’ve got a daughter named Susanna. She’s a scientist like her mother and great-grandmother, though she’s more interested in ecology rather than legends like Sonia is. She’s beautiful (of course) and has many admirers, but she’s got no time for any of that. Science is the only thing on her mind. So she’s got a bit of a reputation for being aloof as a result.

Raihan/Piers: Friends-with-benefits turned boyfriends. Their twins, Chelsea & Merrill (or Chell & Rill as they often go by), were accidents and are initially raised mostly by Piers, since he and Raihan weren’t living together at the time, but they visited Raihan and Leon a lot as well, coming to stay more permanently when they’re around 10 and Piers gets a big break as a musician, leading to him traveling more. They’re hellions, basically, and love to cause trouble and just shake things up. They’re also the oldest fankids for the region and were in the year after the game events.

Raihan/Leon: Raihan and Piers got together first, but Leon ended up fitting in nicely with their relationship (there was a bit of drama sorting things out at first but it all works out fine in the end and they’re all happy together.) He and Raihan live in Hammerlocke together and they’ve got a daughter named Nasrin who’s maybe a couple years younger than her half-siblings. She’s very much a celebrity trainer and probably like an Instagram model or something. Very concerned with her appearance and skills as a trainer. She wants to beat Champion Victor one day to “win back Leon’s honor”… or something. Chell & Rill tease her relentlessly and she’s very fed up with them and pretends they don’t exist which just spurs them on.