Chatting Some More about AZ
This will be brief, I think... maybe
But I wonder, did AZ happen to plant more than just this tree [ and that flower] while searching for his best friend?
He spent a chunk of his eternal life prior to the events of XY looking for a pokemon that loves and has specific tastes in flowers. Did he travel from region to region, specifically looking for gardens, fields, forests, nurseries?
Floette's general dex blerbs are interesting to me.
Apologize in advance for those with vision problems if this particular screen clip of bulbapedia is difficult to read. There's a lot I can say about the different texts that may add some flavor or context to AZ's story and his previously damaged relationship with her, but I'll focus on this one: "When the flowers of a well-tended flower bed bloom, it appears and celebrates with an elegant dance." The Flabebe line of pokemon, individuals of this species, pick a favorite kind of flower. Perhaps, you'd want to plant as much of that favorite flower as you can, and tend to them well to gain their attention. AZ loves her so deeply I consider Floette his soul mate, so surely, a king such as he, would know how his pokemon's favorite flower is taken care of. I don't doubt he would have ordered a special space made for her where she could indulge, or maybe even tended to a flower bed with her.
I mean...He looks like he's wearing a gardener/carpenter's knee pad or brace. He's tall [ NO SHIT ], so he probably has to lower himself often. But it's a detail about his character design that really sticks out to me. It's just a theory, of course. I'm still not sure of it's purpose.
But... I'm under the assumption that after the end of that terrible war, Eternal Floette's favorite flower went, or 'was' extinct. Did AZ have an unfortunate hand in that? Did his own man-made, mechanical flower, the ultimate weapon, scar the earth so badly that the real flower its power and appearance imitated, could no longer bloom? Dreadfully Ironic. I imagine, [ or I hope] AZ did learn how, where, and when to nurture certain kind of plants to make the most optimal meeting places. Maybe stayed in a region a few decades, left to live in and survey another, and then returned to check on previously started gardens after they had some time to establish. It makes sense to me that he would try to 'lure' her in somewhere. Or give her places where she could comfortably appear.
Maybe working on bringing some life to the world also assuaged some of his immense guilt.
ALSO.
I wonder how difficult it was to acquire blubs/seeds of her favorite flower to experiment with? Or did he already have them in hand, but could never manage to get them to grow anywhere until recenly.
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Did AZ fuck up the previous condition of the Kalos' region's soil? Seems it recovered, it's plenty green again now, but it'll probably never be the same as it was. Side Note: Again from Floette's dex text: "It gives its own power to flowers, pouring its heart into caring for them. Floette never forgives anyone who messes up a flower bed." Her disgust with him over the ruin and theft of life is more than reasonable. But secondary to that, metaphorically, I think AZ messed up one really big flower bed.
okay sorry this wasn't brief i'm unfortunately in love with him
