bunny girl propaganda

Alouette for example, has a many nicknames other than Allie. Beau sometimes calls her Lulu, but also "my little lark" since that's what her name means. Terra calls her "chickadee / my little chickadee"

Apollo gets called Pollo (while coincidental, it does mean 'chicken' though the pronunciation is different), but also affectionately called "my/our little pidgey" by both when he was much younger due to his attachment to Sunny, though Terra often called him 'Champ' even before he became Champion. Beau sometimes calls him that too but to a much lesser extent, usually when he can tell Apollo's feeling down.

Oleander gets called 'little Torchic' specifically because of his hairstyle that Lida gives him. He's also called 'little lion/Litleo' when it's not tied up.

god wdym you can feel your organs shift back into place?!

wdym your undercarriage feels sore and swollen for WEEKS?! Some say it hurts to pee???? the postpartum depression too… oh my god girl i’m so sorry no wonder beau wanted to adopt instead

also reading about how late in the pregnancy, breathing gets difficult cos your organs are getting crushed like man what the fuck

The gist of it is that Terra wants a pet name since she calls him Beau and he's like. "That's not really a pet name is it? that's just the 2nd half of my name" but she's relatively proud that she gets to call him that because she feels like she earned it. (for context, she tried to call him 'Beau' during their first meeting just as a 'breaking the ice' friendliness type of thing, she didn't know what it meant 'boyfriend/lover'. He shut her down, but then later on allowed her to call him that after their promotion battle, though she still didn't know what it meant)

She also wanted something Kalosian because she thinks it would be more romantic.

His list is as follows, and pardon the inaccuracies, I'm not french i just did some googling months ago :

mon lapin (my rabbit), she rejects it because it's purely tied to her haircut

ma puce (my flea), he explains that it's meant to be cute, like she's his cute little flea, and she rejects it entirely because she finds it weird and they're also the same height so it doesn't really match

ma princesse (my princess), rejected because she doesn't really like being put on a pedestal or waited hand and foot in the way princesses typically are

ma chérie (my darling) and mon amour (my love), both rejected because she feels like it's lazy, it's just the Kalosian version of what he already calls her

there's one last name on the list that he's hesitant to tell her because he himself feels a little 🥴 using it but she can tell he's hiding something, and forces him to say it, and that's mon coeur, which means 'my heart'

Was thinking about the specifics of her death, and I think the most painful way would be something not even heroic, maybe even Looney Tunes-esque. But she's not a Looney Tunes character, and a large slab of concrete or even a metal beam falling from Ange Floette as she comes to a halt is not something she can survive. And perhaps Beau had to witness it all unfold right infront of him.

He can't forget the feeling of her blood splattering across his face, nor the metallic scent lingering for days after. He tried his best to pull her out from under the wreckage, but as strong as she is, there was no way she could have survived that. The only silver lining is the results of the autopsy showing that her death was immediate, she was dead before she knew it.

Her body were so disfigured that she couldn't have an open casket funeral, he can't even see her face for one last time. Though, he was so far back among the crowds of people who came to pay their respects that it's not like he would ever have the chance if she did.

It wasn't some kind of heroic sacrifice, it was completely avoidable if something or someone just pushed her out of the way. There are days where Beau thinks of all the "what if"s that could have saved her.

What if he hadn't called her over for a congratulatory hug, would she still be alive?

What if he had ran to her instead? He'd be dead but his death would cause much less pain to everyone in general, some may even cheer at his demise.

What if the couple of minutes they were embracing and sharing a kiss before she faced off with Ange Floette was all it took to kill her? Or even just the act of fixing her hair up with his tie. Butterfree effect and all that.

A small part of him feels like he could have done something, or maybe, he even caused her death.

But as he's leaving Hotel Z after picking up a small box of her belongings (mostly gifts from him) that her parents had decided to leave behind, he sees them.

Urbain and Floette, giving him a smile laced with pity.

He, who insisted he was up to task to save Lumiose City from Ange, and she, who gave it her power.

His grits his teeth as he storms out of the hotel. His anger towards them only grows as he makes his way back to his home to shut himself in for the rest of the day.

She's gone because of them.

Throughout her stay, Urbain had caused nothing but trouble for her, all because of his naive sense of justice. Of course he'd the be the very reason she died! Dumb kid couldn't let his rivalry with Terra slide for a second, not even after she trashed his team to determine who would be the one to save the city.

It should have been him under the rubble. That smiley-faced brat.

And that cursed Floette too. How is it fair that she gets to live forever when Terra's life was cut so tragically short. She didn't cry when Terra died, and even at the news of AZ's death, she still had that smile on her face. Is death just a joke to you? Is this what immortality does to one's mind?

He takes a drag of his cigarette and reminisces the early days of his time with Terra. All the laughs, tears, slowly opening up to each other. Funny how they started out hating each other. But then it hits him.

They only ever got to know each other because of Urbain. Urbain is the reason he got to know such joy, camaraderie and love, and yet, Urbain is also the one to take it away.