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He wakes up to see the time on his laptop showing 1:30PM, and panics for a bit before noticing a pleasant smell in the direction of the kitchen, but also his son asleep snuggled up next to him.

He gently carries his son, careful not to wake him (and thankfully he's a deep sleeper like his mother), and makes his way in the direction of the delicious scent. Terra stands in the kitchen, stirring a pot of stew, it's her mom's recipe that Apollo really loves, but especially when Beau cooks it. As she hears his footsteps approaching, she turns around,

"Oh, you're awake, how was your nap?"

"Good, good. Did you turn off my alarm?"

"Yeah, I figured you needed the rest. I know Apollo begged you to cook this but I'm sure he won't be able to tell the difference..." Terra says, gently running her hands through their sleeping son's hair

"Perhaps, but if he says it's not as tasty as usual, I'm not taking the blame for it."

"Awww is your confidence in the culinary arts so fragile that a 4 year old's little comments could break it?"

"Oh please, as if the opinion of a child who thinks chocolate sushi is a good idea would have any sway in that."

"Hey, maybe he's onto something, maybe he'll be the pioneer for the next big thing! We used to scoff at the Croissant Curry back in Hotel Z but it really took off"

"Yes, yes, and I'm the mayor of Lumiose."

"I know you're joking but I think you'd actually be pretty good at it. Even Emma said it a few years back."

"As if Lumiosians would elect me... anyway back to dinner; I wasn't joking when I said I'm not taking the fall for this."

"Tell me what's wrong, Beau."

"I just - I don't want to give him more reasons to dislike me."

"We've been over this... he doesn't dislike you, he just prefers me. And we've already established that he only wants to stick with me when I'm doing anything vaguely exciting, which is most of the time to be fair."

"I know, I know - but it's hard to feel like I'm being a good father when my own son barely wants to spend time with me when you're around."

"Beau." She stops stirring the pot.

"When we were at breakfast, he kept pointing at the menu and asking "would daddy like this?". When we came home earlier, he insisted that he wanted to do some coloring right next to you. When I asked him if he was ready to head over to his room for a nap, he pleaded with me to let him nap with you instead. That boy loves you to the moon and back, he's just a little shy about it for some reason, kids are just like that sometimes. And if you don't believe me, check the fridge."

As he squeezes past her over to the fridge, there's something new being held up by colorful fridge magnets; a crudely drawn picture of Beau holding Apollo's hand, standing infront of a house as well as a few hearts surrounding them. There's also a smiling sun in the corner wearing cool sunglasses.

"You're not a good father. You're an excellent father."

Unfortunately for him, she still had a few tricks up her sleeve. He never even knew about her Shalpha Scolipede until they fought because Terra hardly trained her due to her inability to keep Chevaline under control.

Their battle isn't like "Oregano kills everyone" levels of one-sided, but she does have half her team still standing when he's on his last. When he sends out his Scolipede, so does she, but because Chevaline is so large and untrained, her attacks are wild and hard to dodge. Corbeau gets injured as a result (minor injury, but visually it was a lot of blood), and Terra stops the match just shy of her victory to run over and check on him.

After he gets patched up and the physician has confirmed that it's just a minor scratch on his forehead (foreheads just tend to bleed a lot), he's resting on the office sofa while she has her head in her hands and feeling REALLY guilty because this only happened due to her negligence as a trainer. He tries to reassure her that it's okay, accidents happen, but because he's so low on energy now from everything that happened, he tone comes off a little half-hearted and Terra thinks he's just saying that to be nice.

He also forfeits the match, giving her the victory, stating that while he's not usually the type to do this, he knows when to call it quits; there was no way he was going to beat her knowing the rest of her lineup against his one Scolipede.

He then shows up again after the sewer mission... he already has a grunt to supervise the player, there's no need for him to be there. But the player's piqued his interest with the whole 'I'm the one calming down the rogue megas' thing (as well as having met Lysandre).

He shows up AGAIN at the battle court after you help out those kids.

"Anyway, you really are strong, aren't you? And yet you don't boast or show off... Why, nobody even knows that you're the one calming Rogue Pokémon. You're an interesting one."

You don't have to read it as romantic interest, but he's definitely taken quite an interest in the player and is constantly seeking them out.

The whole thing with his stay at Hotel Z is so fucking funny to me cos he's just saying shit and no one is directly responding to him.

All AZ says after this is "If you would put your name down here."

No one comments on him joking about being a "handyman" No one even comments on his handwriting either after he brings it up, they just show him to the elevator to rest for the night.

It feels like he's trying to break the ice or lighten the mood but no one gaf/too scared to say anything/hates his ass too much to entertain him

In the Z-A Infinite Royale, he says this when you beat him “Even when you beat me, I still end up having fun. Guess it’s ‘cause I can be myself around you.” which is cute but is so sad?? How much of yourself do you have to hide from others that you're saying shit like this to a tourist you only recently met. Skipping forward to the DLC cos my memory of his dialogue in the Jacinthe Tournament is honestly foggy as well as the end of the mainstory (I know what happens just not the dialogue specifically)

It wasn't as obvious in the main story, but it's written out for you in the DLC that Lumiose residents are scared of him.

He probably stays in a lot more than he'd like to avoid causing unecessary distress, and if just walking around is enough to spook them, I don't think its very likely that they'd be comfortable befriending him either.

Even during the main story, we see Jacinthe call him 'The cunning Corbeau', who would ever be comfortable befriending a guy with a reputation like that?

Bringing up the early interaction where the player sasses him again, it was probably refreshing for the player to have an attitude like that. You had the guts to talk back to him despite disadvantageous circumstances he had put you in; you were not afraid of him, and that's just so interesting to him.

Come on, let's be real, this is just his way of saying "I'm lonely, please come visit me" but written up in a fancier way.

A lot of his dialogue feel genuine on his end but because of the way he talks and phrases things, can come off insincere or indirect in a way that may be offputting to people. Like he's addressing matters directly but the phrasing is indirect. Idk how else to describe it. You know when someone speaks so eloquently it comes off pretentious and insincere? smth like that

idk when in the timeline SV is in relation to ZA but I feel like if he had a wife to have kids with it would have been brought up somehow, unless SV is truly so far in the future that Kieran and Carmine weren't even born yet at the time of ZA.

You could say Beau's very secretive etc so he could have just Not mentioned it, but to me he reads as a really lonely guy that finds any reason to see his little friends though he tries to be a little subtle about it.

This is evidenced by him always asking you to drop by his office during the DLC (he literally says it himself that he prefers face-to-face chat because of the warmth it brings as opposed to calls, which is just his way of saying "I'm lonely please come see me"). If he had a wife by then he could just go hang out with her instead; your partner should be your best friend, no?

The only way it feels plausible for me is if SV is in the far future, I just can't see him managing to fit a secret family he never mentions in the context of ZA, especially with how close he gets to the player and saying shit like "Even when you beat me, I still end up having fun. Guess it’s ‘cause I can be myself around you"

Which if I had a husband who was saying this to some random tourist they met recently, I would be fuming.

I think the evidence is mostly circumstancial tbh. They gave him purple hair to give off the crow vibes, and purple's complementary color is yellow, hence his eye color, and also to give off the snake-like feel. Them having japanese theming (Kitakami and RS being Yakuza based) I dont really think holds that much water since the game devs are Japanese.

I could always be proven wrong, but sometimes characters end up with similar traits simply because it's just a common thing in character design that works well. It could just as easily been "Wow, this Kieran kid sure is popular, let's try and make a character that is visually similar"