#corbeauxoc

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rich bitch x rich bitch

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terbeau wip...

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chrys floated an idea by me (based on her most recent piece of writing that's very cute and you should read) where Corbeau orders a grunt to put an umbrella over Terra, only for her to demand that they put it over him instead, and then they start arguing about it

Naturally, the only solution is to share this tiny umbrella and both get a little wet as a result of their mutual stubbornness

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made more dumb terbeau edits because i dont want to draw first few here

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compilation of twitter edits i've done of my silly little corbeau x oc ship

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(OC x Canon) sorry, TerBeau yapping again

In a lot of fics, people tend to depict Corbeau as man with a thing for control or possession/obsession as well as having abandonment issues and yeah I can see that, though I'm pretty free and easy about accepting different ways in which he's depicted.

All this to say that within Terraverse, it's something that he's grappled with since the moment they met because unlike his usual debtors or Lumiosian citizens that are afraid of him, he has little to no control over her or the circumstances that require her to leave Lumiose. She's not afraid of him one bit, and she's sure enough she can finish whatever job he wants to assign her that she doesnt worry at all about his threat of "If you decide to leave Lumiose before clearing this debt, think about what might happen to your dear friends in Team MZ"

putting a read more here since this got long as fuck oops

Much later on, once they've gotten close, with her departure date approaching, he feels dread hanging over him because pretty soon he'll be alone again. It's only made a little worse once she tells him who she really is, because what the hell is he as the boss of a Syndicate with an unsavory reputation supposed to do about the literal Champion of Hoenn needing to go back home, he can't just deprive a region of it's Champion solely because he'll miss her, can he?

Maybe it even makes him feel a little small (pun not intended), because now he knows where she truly stands, much much higher than where he is. But then again, right before she told him her true identity, she made him promise that it wouldn't change the way he treated or viewed her, because that's happened far too many times and she's tired of being put on a pedestal like that. As far as she's concerned, they're about equal (And they technically are...? His strengths just lie elsewhere)

There's also the initial uncertainty of if and when she'll come back to Lumiose (this was before she managed to strike a deal with Wallace and Steven). She promised she would, but couldn't give a date or even a vague timeframe. He just has to take her word for it that she'll be back in his arms eventually, that she wasn't just bluffing to soften the blow for him, that his most recent 'au revoir' to her wouldn't be the last.

When it comes to Terra, he has to let go of the need to be in control of every situation and having all the answers, because he can't. The power and authority he wields means nothing outside of Lumiose City.

Of course, he's going to feel like garbage once she leaves, but at the very least they call each other every day. Through the phone he can hear that she's trying to cover up her crying, and as much as he hates seeing(or hearing) her cry, a part of him feels relieved because it's confirmation that she'd much rather be with him, that if fate allowed for it, she'd stay in Lumiose by his side. Proof that she didn't abandon him for the luxuries that Champion life allows for.

And eventually when she does move to Lumiose, that's not the end of his troubles. She still goes back to Hoenn for 1/3 of the year, every Spring. I like to think that Corbeau's favorite season would be Spring because it signals the end of winter and I imagine that winters are tough when you're a kid on the streets of Lumiose with no home.

Spring is just as beautiful as before, but why does it feel so cold now? Even amongst the flowers, the springtime breeze, and the sunshine on his face, he feels so miserable. Now all he thinks of in Spring is how she's not there to enjoy it with him.

Summer can't come quick enough, and neither can the airport train ferrying his beloved back to Gare de Lumiose where he waits with a bouquet of her favorite flowers in hand. Too bad he can't control the seasons either.

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DLC TerBeau yap

tw : cheesy bullshit

just mostly copypasting my word vomit from discord;

i keep thinking about Terra meeting little Beau in Hyperspace Lumiose… Beau’s been having nightmares but he claims it’s fine, that it’s more important that he continue analyzing the Hyperspace survey data as per usual.

putting a read more since i just Love yapping

During the DLC, Terra stays at Hotel Z most days instead of at his house as he says he needs to focus and might not even come home sometimes to pull all-nighters. He keeps waking up more and more tired, so at first she chalked it up to lack of sleep. But there’s a look in his eyes that tells her he’s troubled but doesn't want to let tell anyone. One night she sneaks into Hyperspace and finds a little boy dressed in ragged clothes, hidden away in an alley. He’s cautious, scared, and so so frail, and doesn’t seem to know who she is. Terra tries to make herself as unthreatening as possible, crouched and keeping her distance but her voice remaining kind and gentle. As little Beau lowers his guard and approaches her, he opens up to her; Life on the streets as a kid is tough. It’s so painful to watch these happy families stroll by and ignore you. Was he undeserving of love? He wonders why he was abandoned by the parents he never got to know and thinks maybe he did something to deserve all of this. That maybe, he was born to be alone in this world.

While little Beau doesn’t mention it, Terra’s sure that Lysandre’s actions 5 years prior also took its toll on him. Why would Lysandre do him a mercy by taking him in, only to later try and destroy it all. She can only imagine how it feels to be abandoned not once, but twice.

Terra tells him of all the great things he'll come achieve, the allies he makes along the way along, the sheer number of people that respect him, and all the good things he does for the sake of the City. That being dealt a bad hand doesn’t guarantee a loss, and he's a prime example of that.

As they take a little walk around Hyperspace Lumiose, she points out all the little ways that this city has been fixed up as a result of him; A now-cleared corner of an apartment building once filled to the brim with Mega Crystals, the clean floor of a children's playground that previously was covered in filth, a tree that almost threatened to fall over into a cafe before he had asked her to intervene.

Some of these being her earliest memories of her time with him, along with all the other jobs he's sent her on that don't leave a visible trace.

As they reach the Hyperspace Portal that she has to soon return to, she gives him a hug, "Nobody in this world is born undeserving of love, especially not you, I'm so sorry that you were left all alone. We can't change what happened in the past but we can shape our future. All I can tell you is that you'll be so deeply cherished, you'll want for nothing." He asks her how she can be so sure of this, and who she is, someone so pretty and warm like sunshine shouldn’t be associating with a lowly street urchin like him.

As the Hyperspace Portal is about to close, she takes a step in and looks back at him. “I’m someone who already loves you so much”

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TerBeau ramblings about food but then it devolves into some other shit idk

French food keeps popping up on my social media feeds now and I can't help but think about Corbeau introducing new (and less well-known/touristy) dishes to Terra.

I keep seeing Le goûter/le quatre-heures (specifically the one that's a baguette with some salted butter and some chocolate bar squares, apparently a popular french childhood snack) imagining Terra walking into his office to find Corbeau snacking on one in the late afternoon and be kinda curious about it since she didn't think of him as a chocolate type of guy.

Maybe he’d regale her with stories of his childhood on the streets, waiting outside a bakery for bread to get tossed and he’d try to sneak one. Maybe the shop owners took pity on him and made him a fresh one instead, a kindness he wasn’t familiar with. It’s less about the food and more about sharing little bits of his life and past with her, about who he used to be before Lysandre came along. Though, I do like the idea of her getting more acquainted with the less touristy and bougie side of Kalosian cuisine, the kinds of food a regular Lumiosian would eat in their everyday life.

He takes a look at her "50 foods you HAVE To try in Lumiose City" listicle that she's saved in her phone and scoffs at it because it’s mostly tourist traps. He knows where the GOOD stuff is, hidden in little alleys and shops without flashy signs.

If she’s to experience Lumiose City, he wants her to experience it through the lens of someone who knows the city like the back of his hand, get to know all the little stories and anecdotes of his life...

Perhaps he gets some sort of satisfaction from watching her face light up after she's taken a bite of whatever it is he's recommended, that despite him not being a good person in his own eyes, at least he can make somebody happy, even if he does have ulterior motives. After all, he's still just trying to gain her trust enough to get more information out of her about her real identity...

Maybe if he tells her enough of his life over these little excursions to try new food, she'll start opening up about her life too and he can begin to unravel her well-kept secret.

It would be a real shame if he started to get to know her more and more and realized he quite enjoys these little moments he has with her. Sipping coffees together, taking bites out of little pastries and watching her reaction, hearing about some crazy story about how the Pokemon in Hoenn will chase you down at top speeds (probably why she runs so ridiculously fast), while he tells her about all the little jobs he used to do to try and get by as a youth, or even some of the ridiculous clients he's had to deal with in the past.

He's gotten to know so much about her life and yet he's not even close to figuring out her identity. But maybe... he doesn't mind that so much anymore, after all, he's having a good time... but he's also starting to realize that pretty soon, she won't be around to grab a bite with him anymore, won't have his little lunch buddy to share life stories with for much longer. He can only hope that she'll be charmed by these little tales of his; that while Lumiose has it's fair share of problems, she'll be able to see why he loves this city so much... maybe even consider moving there... idk... for now all he can do is share his favorite croissant or galette with her and hope she likes it too.