"Emma, AZ, Floette, Lida, Naveen, me… We all care deeply about you. If you want to give everything you have to Lumiose, save some of yourself for Team MZ. If you’re willing to die for this city, then live for us. Remember that you’re important to us. You’re so, so important to all of us, and we want you with us… I want you with me.”
You know, it's been a while since I was so fixated on a potential couple in Pokémon. I mean, almost all the potential protagonist/rival couples are cool, and I still hold Gladion, Kieran, and Marnie close to my heart, but I think the last time that happened was with N from Black and White. I don't know, man… It's just, there's something about the chemistry of Team MZ that tickles the right spot inside me, especially Taunie/Urbain with Harmony/Paxton.
Speaking of Taunie/Urbain, I don't care what some people say negatively about them. I love my dumb but selfless child, and they deserve all the love in the world. I adore their relationship with AZ, their adopted grandfather (I have no idea if either of them knows this), I love their bond with Lida and Naveen, and I'm 90% sure they have a crush on the protagonist, I just have no idea if they realize it. But considering that our protagonist readily agreed to help save them from their debt to the mafia (By the way, why do people say we were forced to pay their interest? Gameplay aside, it's quite obvious that everyone on Team MZ could have left at any time, but they chose to stay and even decided to help Taunie/Urbain out of the situation the mafia tricked them into), at the very least Paxton/Harmony has strong feelings for them. Whether romantic or platonic.
I would also love to put them in therapy because I'm convinced that half of what they do to help people is because they enjoy helping, and the other half is because they feel guilty that their mother (Potentially their father too, since we don't know who he is) was part of Team Flare. Someone needs to help them understand that their mom' sins aren't something they need to resolve on their own, especially since their mother left that situation the moment she realized that the group she worked for wasn't all that great…
Anyway, this is a scene from a fanfic I wrote a while ago, playing with the fact that people with special abilities (or very specific curses in Leon's case) are something relatively unknown, as is my desire to write something about connection, loving despite fear, something inspired by the song 'Under Pressure' and an irresistible urge to explain the potential mechanics of Soulmates. I'll leave a link if you want to read it sometime.
By the way, a little headcanon:
Once Ange was stopped, it became customary for the Team MZ to sleep together from time to time.
Does anyone else ship the four of them together? I can't be the only PolyMZ shipper, can I?
I like to think that they are so close that nobody knows what they are: whether they are friends, whether they are dating, or whether they are queerplatonic (the answer is all three, it just depends on who's with whom). The arrival of Korrina and Ansha only made things worse, since Ansha is their unofficial daughter whom they unintentionally adopted, and Korrina purposefully says vague things to anyone who asks about what they do together, and usually seeing the four of them being 'who-knows-what' with popcorn as if she were watching the best soap opera she's ever seen.
I should write about this one of these days…
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