Pokemon theory
Let me be wierd about this. It's one am and I've spent the past hour in Reddit. Kitakami siblings and Corbeau possible relationship by the way, the difference is that unlike Reddit I'm using my brain.
So. Alot of people have noticed and pointed out the similarities between Kieran Carmine and Corbeau. There's people claiming he's their dad since the first trailer.
Reasons why that can't be true:
First of all Corbeau is not old enough. Until just a bit before Lysandre turned crazy he was his charge meaning he's at most 30 and Carmine is 16. Which makes it pretty much doubtful to happen.
Second. Why would an abandoned child, that only knew loneliness until he was taken in abandon not one but two of his children.
Third. This is following the plant name based theory. Yes Corbeau's name in Japanese can be a plant from the same family as Kieran's Carmine's and their grandpa's names but knowing Kieran's grandpa. Does he look like the kind of guy to abandon his son and then take in his kids? Why would Kieran and Carmine be raised by their grandparents then?
Now. Someone made the mistake of pointing out this picture:
That's just lazy. His glasses are an obvious reference to poison types. Not a bird that had the poison type added because a peach possessed it. His tie looks more like a reference to spikes or thorns like Scolipede's or Roserade's not the bland smooth white neck of a bird. And last but not least. Weren't we pointing out his relationship with Kitakami through the colors? There's something even more obvious there. It's a black jacket with orange and purple on the inside. Like the Kitakami siblings' hair?
Other people commented that related characters in Pokemon are much more similar. Let me put their example: Perrin and Adamant. Yeah pretty similar. BECAUSE THEY WANTED YOU TO NOTICE. Now why they're wrong: Silver and Giovanni. What exactly is their similitude? Penny and Peony. Penny doesn't even look like her sister. Plus parents and kids are not 100% alike but that's not the point since I don't believe he's their father.
Similitudes between Corbeau and the sibblings or more precisely with Kieran:
The most obvious one is their eyes. But it's not just the color. It's the way they shift slightly before a battle. How the light expresses their emotions. When battling Carmine her eyes loose that highlight for a second but Kieran lost it for a long time. He lost it when he was mad at us and didn't get it back until Area Zero when he battled with us against Terapargos. Until that moment he was practically a beast that wouldn't stop for nothing to get his goal.
To continue there's the similitude on the hair. It's true that Corbeau has two different tones of purple and not black and purple but if you mix the orange from Carmine's hair and the purple from Kieran's..... Depending on the cuantity... Shouldn't you get a mutted purple? (I'm still learning about colors. Don't be too mean)
We already pointed out his jacket.
Now the nervous habit. Have you ever seen a nervous bunny? That's Kieran with his arm and his foot. He moves his arm and his foot when he's nervous. I don't have footage but I remember it called my attention when I played. Now. Today while playing the DLC Megadimension. I saw Corbeau with a nervous habit that reminded me a lot of Kieran's. A lot of people tap their foot and stuff but Kieran and Corbeau both tap their right foot and move their left arm. Kieran does small taps and Corbeau swings it a bit but it's the same habit different form.
Both of them are very persistent and decided on how the main character should see them. Corbeau wants to be seen in a negative form and Kieran was really into being seen as a friend again.
So this takes me to my personal theory:
Corbeau is their older brother. The timelines make sense. He's only a few years older but they go from 5 years older to 10 meaning that if their parents abandoned Kieran and Carmine after the youngest' birth Corbeau should have been around 7 years old. A 7 year old is much more manageable than a toddler. It's a wierd desition to make but I've seen weirder reasons to do weirder stuff. Maybe they realized that a 7 year old still had needs and they were around Lumiose at the time so they just abandoned their eldest there. And so years later Corbeau is now an adult with lots of resources just because Lysandre raised him. Lysandre a descendant of a noble man. Dude is loaded and has connections. So he decides to search for his family. Because he vaguely remembers two babies being left behind. That's when he finds out about his siblings. Who are now preteens. He decides that since now he has the resources he will provide for them and try to get to know them. Because they were all abandoned by the same people. The grandparents still have some sense of responsibility towards Corbeau and tell him they're doing fine but he insists and they end up letting him pay for his little siblings' education. That's how they end up in Blueberry Academy in the middle of the Unovan sea with permanent residence and individual rooms. He's still in contact with them and knows something was up with Kieran during those months of the SV events even of he may not know what. But he knows everything's fine once he sees the light back in his little brother's eyes because he hadn't seen his own light for years until he met them.
Anywho. This is just my opinion that I didn't post on Reddit did to me not having an account. This post is so long though. I doubt anyone will read it. If you did thank you. :)
