#🌹🗝️

[kingsbride-moved]

Little doodle I made Before I decided to draw AZ with curly hair 🙏🏾

[kingsbride-moved]

Giantess girlfriend

[kingsbride-moved]

Unfinished Nerine / AZ doodle from a few weeks ago btw.... Drawing them together is hard due to the height difference but I stay silly

[kingsbride-moved]

Writing for AZ & Nerine is really fun, I forgot how much I love exploring romance between mature / older characters 🙏🏾

[kingsbride-moved]

This sounds silly but I'm so glad to finally have a ship I can attach susumu hirasawa songs to 🙏🏾 I don't listen to his muzak as much as I used to but it still means soooo much to me.

[kingsbride-moved]

Here's some info about Nerine 🫶🏾 super simplified because I'm lazybones right now 😭

Like I mentioned she's Also 3000~ years old due to the effects of the Ultimate Weapon 💔 her height didn't increase like how AZ's did but it did affect her hair and eye colour 😱

Currently thinking of her as like an early chemist, like ah... I forgot her name 😭 that ancient Assyrian perfumer girl.

AZ had an interest in building machines, and Nerine had an interest in science and humanities. This is how they initially connected...

Because I'm a big fan of cheesy tropes I do like the idea of a "forbidden love" between a noble and a lower class woman 😭💔 not sure if I'll go that route tho

Also considered the idea of AZ taking notes from Nerine's research in order to construct the Ultimate Weapon... something she absolutely did not give him permission to do 🙊

Her Magearna is a prototype of the "official" Magearna, which is based on old concepts and diagrams by AZ. Nerine's Magearna has a deeper colour palette as well as a keyhole in her chest protecting her soul-heart. Its eyes also appear to be constantly closed... AZ had created it as a gift for Nerine 3000 years ago, so there is no other exactly like it in the world.

Nerine's doublade is straight up just the soul of a famous knight who died during the war 3000 years ago.

Nerine's name comes from a type of spider lily... Her spider lily theming as well as palette are meant to tie her to yvetal. She looks a little suspicious; there's certain things about her that could easily tie her to team flare, and the fact that she's not particularly emotive doesn't help........ (The reality is that she's just autistic)

AZ's floette sometimes comes to visit her, tho she's never made herself a permanent companion. Floette is waiting for AZ to let go of the anger and grief he's held onto for centuries now...

Floette isn't quite sure if she can forgive AZ. Neither is Nerine... but 3000 years is a very long time. The world has changed and so have the people within it...

AZ only finds Nerine again after Floette returns to him. They've led two very different lives in their time apart. While AZ was once a king he seems to be nothing more than a vagabond to most people. And Nerine is now a deeply respected academic and fashion historian (is it cheating if she's lived through it all?)!

[kingsbride-moved]

✏️ for az??

"Eternalflowershipping" comes from AZ's floette! Though neither she nor the move can be used in game without hacking, she has a special move called Light of Ruin that gives name to the flower she holds:

"Drawing power from the Eternal Flower, the user fires a powerful beam of light. This also damages the user quite a lot."

It's also apparently the most powerful fairy type move in the whole game 😭

[kingsbride-moved]

For the assumptions ask game: Nerine and AZ sometimes go into some academic library or other in Kalos, and look through the historical records on file there, seeing what modern people think of and know about the events of three thousand years ago. Laughing at how hilariously misinterpreted some things are, smiling about little details that managed to get preserved through all that time.. I can just imagine them both reminiscing like that together, even if only occasionally. I hope this is okay!

This is so real to me 🫶🏾

History is something that's bound to be misinterpreted and inaccurately recorded... even the people who were there to witness it are bound to have some biases or assumptions about everything that happened! Sometimes, though... Folks will write whole books that are just nonsense 😭 Nerine shocked and appalled finding a book that suggests Ancient Kalos as a nation just straight up did not exist