"HOW DID APOLLA COME TO LIKE PIERS?" Apolla started out as a friend of Noelle's, and would often hang out with the two, starting from around 4th grade. Piers at this point was the weird guy who hang out with two girls but one was a troublemaker and the other was the super nice one and it was strange. Anywho, they had no connotation of what falling in love meant but Apolla harbored a crush for Piers about a year later off the basis that he was super nice to her. She's fairly good with secrets abd Piers has been oblivious his entire life so he didn't realize until middleschool dances rolled around and their ever-growing ragtag group of friends pressured each other into slowdancing together. It was super embarassing in hindsight. Things escalated since there and they've been dating since highschool. That's only how their relationship became what it is as of present, however. Apolla is so enamored with Piers because he has always treated anyone he recognizes as a friend with utmost adoration and that struck a cord with Apolla, as she realizes how much of a jerk he is with anyone else, because she has seen how much of a compassionate person he can be underneath his shallow husk of anger. (Because after all, Piers' anger used to be a cynical brand he harbored due to his lack of parental figures. It became more agressive when he started trying to protect himself from giving sympathy to others post-becoming a magi.) Aside from that, he's also aesthetically pleasing to her because she digs the tall athletic boys. He's also a very honest person and his general personality is one that she can appreciate, especially since he always lends an ear to her issues and expresses most of his own to her as well. Overall, she realizes he can be an asshole but enjoys the fact that she's one of the genuine exceptions because he doesn't have the capacity to be two-faced in a malicious way in social situations. He's also pretty dang attractive yo.









