#oúrion

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I've mentioned before that AZ and Xan have two older brothers in my personal lore.... it's more "just standing there" art but I wanted to doodle them 😭 their clothing is actually more Mycenaean inspired than Celtic but my excuse is that their daddy's Greek.

Bonus doodles... something that would've happened when these two were teens + a little chart for how exactly they're all related to each other 😭

Originally in my AU Oùri had gotten immortality too, but I decided I would rather just focus on the relationship between AZ and Xan and Floette ! It's already complicated enough as is after all 😭

And yes this means Lysandre is cousins with Gurkinn and Korinna and Wulfric.... for Gurkinn and Korinna it was a way of tying mega evolution into the story a little more, but for Wulfric it was just me having fun 😭

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I've been thinking a lot about the world's most terrible and awful and uncomfortable and spite filled family reunion lately, so I doodled designs for my AU where AZ's younger brother becomes immortal too... And I also threw in an OC I made for my personal lore, which is (one of) AZ's older stepbrothers 😭 also another really scribbly preview of my design for Lysandre where he survives All That and has to deal with the aftermath.

More info under the cut 🙏🏾

Xanthos is AZ's younger half brother, specifically! His mother, Arisa, had him with Sairo, AZ's stepfather. They got along really well when they were kids... But no longer 😔 the scar on Xan's face is from when AZ stabbed him in self defense some many many years ago (😱) but that's a long story.

Sairo was a widow when he met Arisa. He had two sons (Oúrion and Rhinon) with his first wife. AZ was around 2 or 3 when Oúrion was around 7 or 8. They never got along with one another, Oúrion's extremely nosey and overly blunt personality clashed really badly with AZ 😭

Floette was a wedding gift from Sairo to Arisa. The flower Floette holds is from Arisa's homeland, Tassil (my name for Pokeworld North Africa). She ended up being raised like a sister to the other children, and so she acts a bit more like a person than most other pokemon do 😭

When Floette died, Oúrion said something really fucking insensitive that led to him and AZ having an ugly fistfight right in the castle walls 💔 AZ is trying not to hold grudges anymore, but... This one is a bit difficult to let go off. It doesn't help that even now, 3000 years later... They still don't get along!!

Floette meanwhile is just happy to see everyone safe and (mostly) sound. She's not the type to get angry like that...... Usually. (She does have her limits 💔)

Rhinon died pre-ultimate weapon so it wouldn't make sense to include him. Unless I make him a ghost or something but I probably won't 😭 but I'll probably design his young self (and Arisa and Sairo) next.

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Recently I'm really enjoying the idea that AZ's anger issues weren't something that cropped up only when Floette died, but something he struggled with all his life 😭 for better and for worse, he'd always React...

Personal lore stuff so it goes under the cut. AZ's final interaction with Oúrion, one of his older stepbrothers... was socking him across the face 😭 Oúrion had attempted to comfort AZ after Floette's death but he was a bit calloused and insensitive, he was Always a bit calloused and insensitive... AZ doesn't necessarily regret getting a bit Physical at the time considering his motive for it, but he does regret the fact that their last moment together was one of Violence.

What's funny though, is that after the war ended and AZ disappeared, Xanthos and Oùrion formed a much, Much more positive relationship with one another than they had as children. Xan thinks Oùri regretted never intervening when he had the chance, and while they can't undo the past, they can at least make the future a happier one.