Sketch of Larry and Craig <3 and some infodumping on my cringe oc x canon old man yaoi and their history
- Childhood friends who attended the academy together. They meet when they’re about 9 or 10 years old and in the same class.
- Both are 2nd generation immigrants to Paldea, with Larry’s family being from Sinnoh and Craig’s family being from Hoenn.
- Larry has always been pretty stoic and struggled with expressing himself, while Craig has always been outgoing, expressive, and talkative. They play off each other well, with Craig getting Larry to come out of his shell and Larry getting Craig to calm down and use his indoor voice.
- They’re inseparable throughout their childhood/teenage years, but end up going down different paths in adulthood and growing apart a bit. They still talk just not as frequently.
- they’re teammates on the school’s baseball team as teenagers before Larry unceremoniously quits.
- Larry quits not only so he can start working after school instead of attending practice to pay off family debt, but also because he struggles to be anything more than average (if not a little slow) at baseball. Craig is the stronger athlete in their younger years and comparing himself to Craig makes Larry doubt himself even more.
-Similarly, after failing the gym challenge yearly since he started attempting it, and losing countless battles to Larry, teenaged Craig eventually abandons his dream of becoming a champion and throws himself into his studies.
- they end up reconnecting as adults when Larry is inducted into the elite 4 (in my hc this happens about 3 years before the canon game starts). Craig shows up to his induction party and they end up talking all night, with Craig consoling Larry about his work stress and disappointment with his life path and both of them promising to talk/meet up more regularly.
- They stick to their promise and start hanging out again and even though they’ve both aged they still get along just as well as when they were kids.
- Craig started crushing on Larry when they were teenagers, but never said anything out of fear of ruining their friendship. His feelings kinda numbed as they grew apart and remained distant through their late 20s-30s but once they reconnect it all comes back to him and so much stronger
- Larry is kind of oblivious to his own feelings but he finally realizes he likes Craig as more than just a close friend shortly after they reconnect at the elite 4 induction party. Truly hits him how much he missed having Craig around and how happy he is to have him back.
- It still takes a while for them to officially get together, since Craig is scared of ruining a good friendship by making things awkward and Larry is. Larry.
- once they DO start dating though. Craig gets Larry to put a little more life into that work life balance. Nobody thought it was possible
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