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okay weird question for the hardenshipping community
how do y’all handle maxie’s motivations? specifically in the case of his oras version. i know they were going really hard for an Extreme Opposites thing with him and archie in oras but the “doesn’t care at all about pokemon” vibe rubs me the wrong way, especially when his rse version referred to the land as the cradle of life for both humans and pokemon
like. i love maxie but as a nature/animal lover myself i struggle with his motivations sounding like that of a ceo of an oil drilling company lmao
(I also don’t like the implication that science and nature are Fully Opposed and are mutually exclusive but that’s neither here nor there)
so do you guys tweak his motivations in your headcanons? if so, how?