✰take to the sky✰

You don't wanna know. 

"Th-that's none of your business!" 

When Falkner's happy, like really happy, it's extremely obvious. He tries so hard to make it not too obvious, because he thinks he looks kind of stupid and embarrassing with a grin on his face and a small happy bounce in his step, but it's kind of hard for him to control it. However, he rarely gets to the point of being that happy, and smaller bits of happiness are much easier to hide than full-on joy.

Falkner scrambled to his feet almost immediately, holding out a hand for the stranger to take in case he needed help up. "A-Ah! Sorry, sorry," he said, thoroughly embarrassed. Wait, this is Kalos, what if this guy doesn't know the word for sorry in English?! After thinking for a second, he added hesitantly, "Uh.. lo siento??"

Falkner usually wears traditional clothes, like his gym outfit, but on the occasion he's either too lazy to get dressed properly or it's too hot to wear outfits like that without being uncomfortable, he usually just wears whatever t-shirts and pants he has in his closet. Sometimes he'll tie his hair back (it's just long enough to be in a tiny ponytail) if the situation calls for it, but always leaves the fringe in front of his eye where it is.

Falkner usually keeps his stronger emotions a bit subdued. In his experience, it’s better that way; less embarrassing and less can go wrong. So when he lets them flow freely, a lot comes out that you wouldn’t even really expect from him.

Falkner hasn't ever really felt love, at least not in the romantic sense. He loves his Pokemon. He loves his friends, though they aren't many. But he doesn't love them in a way where he wants to kiss them and live with them (among other things), and he doesn't think he wants to or is even ready to feel that kind of love. 

Falkner's real family consisted just of his dad and himself. And to be honest, he liked it that way. There was less excitement, less important dates and appointments to remember, less chaos. His dad wasn't really around much after Falkner got old enough to take care of himself, so Falkner mainly considered the priests at the shrine he frequented a closer family than he ever was. 

falkner grew up as a part of the shrine, so for most of his childhood (when he wasn't in school) he helped out there, doing chores and acting as the equivalent of a prayer boy. he wasn't very good at school or making friends, mainly because shrine activities took up a lot of his free time (which could've been used for studying or having fun). most, if not all, of the people he interacted with out of choice were members of the shrine or his family.