HC + family
hc + meme
His parents were an absolute shitshow of arguing and generally being awful people. They never really wanted a child so having one around was an inconvenience more than anything else, and he knew it. The one perk was that he basically got free roam and that was a great excuse to avoid coming home to verbal abuse. He ran off to join Rocket at 16 and since leaving has only seen his parents once accidentally after moving back to Hoenn. They happened to be at the same place, same time, and met eyes, they didn’t say anything and acted as though the hadn’t seen him. Suffice to say he’s extremely bitter towards them.
As a result he doesn’t really have a strong concept of family or any particular desire to have one. Being married and settled is a nice concept to him, though. It’s just the thought of children that he absolutely abhors. No matter what level his own ego is at he knows he would never be a good parent, it’s just not something he feels like he’s cut out for, even if he also thinks that Archie would make a great dad. In all actually he probably wouldn’t be that terrible if for some reason they also accidentally ended up with a child in their care.















