Call me crazy but i wish the fandom actually paid attention to how Lyney and Freminet address each other because i am personally so interested in the implications about it.
This is something i always see people get wrong about their relationship. Freminet USED to call Lyney brother (and possibly? Lynette his sister? Ok so. We don't actually know enough much about their relationship to know if Freminet ever called Lynette his "older sister" so I won't be talking about it too much here. Sorry Lynette fans.) he doesn't anymore for some reason and i think that plays a major role in their familiar relationship.
On its own it's an intriguing thought that Freminet has stopped referring to Lyney as his "brother" for certain amount of years because that creates a certain amount of tension in their familial relationships however it becomes more interesting when you factor in one simple thing.
Freminet's relationship with Lyney never actually changed.
Yes i acknowledge the fact that he stopped calling Lyney his older brother but you cannot look me in the eye and tell me that character does not love Lyney like his older brother. Like look at anywhere where Lyney and Freminet are mentioned and you can easily tell that there is clear familiar relationship there.
That is still his older brother even if he doesn't call him "brother" anymore.
So what changed? Weirdly enough from what I can tell, it's just seem to be his title that mainly changed.
Freminet mostly calls him "Lyney" sometimes he refers to him as their group leader and that's about it to be honest not much of how he address Lyney is different than how you talk about a family member.
This is fascinating because it indicates that while yes there is definitely a shift in their familial dynamic it's not big enough to actually cause a major rift in their relationship which is probably the reason why Freminet was seemingly surprised that Lyney seemed effected or even a little hurt by his actions because from his perspective nothing really changed about their relationship aside from Freminet's refusal to call Lyney his "older brother" specifically.
But at the same time something did changed.
Even if for Freminet it might not be that big of a shift in their dynamic. You have to admit you don't just randomly wake up one day and stop using a title that you have been using for multiple years now. There is something that has to be changed in order for him to stop calling Lyney his older brother.
So again I ask, what changed? Well to figure that out let's look at some of the ways Freminet refers to people around him.
We already talked about Lyney so I'll not mention him again. As for Lynette well... It's similar to Lyney he just call her "Lynette".
Crucabena "the previous director" or just "Crucabena".
The only people he has actively referred to with familiar terms are his biological family members (father and mother) and Arlecchino.
For his biological father i think there is a clear argument to be made that he doesn't actually know his name and that's why he's calling him dad. It would be clunky to have Freminet refers to his biological dad as "the man my mother married" so that's probably why they are using it.
And while some could argue that he is doing the same for Arlecchino. As in he's calling her "Father" because that's literally what she is supposed to be called. I do think that there is something to be said about Freminet using the title of "Father" even when he is not needed to. That being said, i am willing to acknowledge the fact that Freminet has never actually called Arlecchino "Father" in a familiar way like for example "My "Father"" or something. So i am just gonna leave that as ambiguous as to whether or not he actually means it.
And then comes his biological mother. The only one he has actively used familiar titles with and he calls her... "my mother" instead of "my mom" granted there is nothing wrong with this language, it's actually reads as very familiar but i have to say Freminet is surprisingly formal even with his closest relationship.
This is actually very important to keep in mind because if we compare this language with Lyney because Lyney's language when talking to the people he's close to is very casual "my dear sister, Lynette", "my naive little brother" there isn't much formality to found in his language like there is for Freminet. Keep this in mind as we go forward with this.
So, what does this actually tells us about Lyney and Freminet?
Well... For starters Freminet actually uses familiar terms very rarely. Most of the time he calls people by their names or titles rather than familiar titles like one person would when refering to their family members and even when he does he's weirdly formal about.
In short Freminet not calling Lyney "his older brother" is actually surpringly normal for him as he uses those terms very rarely to begin with and even when he does it in an extremely formal. Now of course this is not the norm for Lyney as Lyney uses the familiar titles very often with not much formality with it.
This is interesting because to me this indicates something else.
As in. I don't think Freminet's relationship with Lyney changed but rather his views on the concept of family itself started changing as he grew older.
I think that's the thing that makes the most sense considering his background plus the fact of how formal he's with even with his most important familiar relationship.
Now as for what exactly changed? To be honest I am not exactly sure.
From what I can see with his relationship with Lyney.
He is one of the people to reach out to him.
Yet Freminet is still hesitant to ask anything of value from him.
Both of those statements make sense.
Freminet's first actual friendship was with Lyney. Yet despite this he and Lyney keep getting into unnecessary fights for various reasons as stated in Lynette's voiceline so it makes sense that even when he deep down knows that Lyney will always reach out to him when he is in danger he is still hesitant to ask him for things because he is worried that they'll get into another argument something he obviously don't want.
There isn't much indication in what ways Lyney changed how Freminet started to view family differently.
I guess the only thing that could have changed through Lyney's involvement in his life was the realisation that he wasn't special case.
We know from Freminet's voiceline about Lyney that Lyney treats a lot people like his family as in he plays the role of big brother quite often.
Therefore it's possible that Freminet just considers his relationship with Lyney anything special. In his eyes Lyney is family but maybe not his family specifically because Lyney plays the role of big brother quite often.
I guess that's why he was crying when Lyney said that he was important to him because maybe he genuinely didn't expect him to say that considering he never considered that his relationship with Lyney could be anything out of the ordinary.
I don't know if this is the right answer but at least i think i am close. Maybe? Hopefully?
God how i wish hoyo would expand on this because I find this so interesting.
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