Could you tell me more about butler Caleb having a playdate with Lebanne please?
Good lord I’m sorry it took me this long to round back to this ask, my ideas were too excited and too scrambled I needed to organize them…just a little-
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Mixing kalosshipping and playroughshipping came to me super easily because I am biased towards both and already have a strong mental image for Calem and Serena in their timeskip. Serena being champion and Calem being someone important at her side, I lean towards e4 member knowing we have empty spots for him to fill there.
Serena gaining fame from being the region champion and savior undoubtedly puts her in the same elite ranks as Jacinthe and seeing her anime and manga counterparts I’m certain she’d be fond of her socialite gatherings, they are unapologetically right up her alley. And that’s before we even get into their coincidental companions who happen to vaguely mirror one another.
Calem and Lebanne are both battlers seeking infamy and strength but wield sore egos when meeting their rare loss, their only known foils, seemingly the only other trainers who’ve ever bested them; both being beautiful women (now) in high social standing.
Rival Calem is mean and blunt, off the clock Lebanne is scrappy and short tempered, only falling in line when it is regarding their ladies or prying eyes willing to tell the press.
And both make promises, Calem to prove himself to Serena, Lebanne to hold up her end of a bet.
It would be undeniably cathartic for them to have the ability to let loose and be earnest on a field as who they are. Battle driven assholes with no care for formality. Rigorous sparring and soothing their losses in their own power dynamics by beating each other up for sport.
I’d like to imagine they could be rather evenly matched? Taking into account my True Calem run team not his post game XY team. I’m sure he’d also be way more stacked competitively if he got a ZA team.
ANDDD for self indulgence sake I get to talk about a personal interpretation of my own for timeskip kalosshipping. Calem doing anything to stay by Serena’s side because without her there is no net to keep his behavior from regressing.
I’ve already said with a word count way too high and a lot of loose behavior analysis that I agree with the people who called Calem an asshole and I would step far enough to call him a recovered incel thanks to Serena beating him to submission, and even without that reading the only reason Calem became more selfless in the long run was because his belief he was the main character was disproven at every turn by Serena being this unjumpable hurdle that forcefully enlightens him he is in fact the supporting cast.
Her career taking off after becoming the face of the region she’ll be busy, too busy for him, that makes him selfish, being selfish makes him scared, team flare was selfish.
Desperate to maintain a place at her side he tries to prove himself useful to her and get positions and roles in close connection to hers, a reason to follow her without looking as pathetic as he is. Very self assigned butler behavior or body guard mindset, desperate to earn attention she’s already willing to give him if her work schedule were just a little more freeing.
Calem and Lebanne both like battling. Jacinthe and Serena both enjoy entertainment and a high class life style. Let the lapdogs let loose in even combat while superficial drama about the richest of the rich flows by word of mouth.
I could’ve broken down Lebanne and Jacinthe more but I’ve already done so, a lot actually in a very short amount of time. Calem and Serena on the other hand do need a little light shined on them since XY was less showing with its characters personality, you had to care enough to see it. (This was also more timeskip headcanon than anything else)
















