I know them. They're pretty big in Hoenn right now. Maybe you and her could come tour the region and check them out once you're done in Kanto, huh? [archie exhales lightly, slightly amused. a girly thing, honestly, blue...] She sounds pretty great, based on everything you could show me.

[he gives blue's shoulder a squeeze, deciding that maybe he actually should give more details about his future with red...]

Yeah. He was actually with you in Alola, to help you run the battle tree. You were working together. [archie falls silent as he considers how to continue.] You're with him back home and you're with him here now. No matter how you're gettin' along you're gonna end up together.

[he means literally, not... romantically. that's still not something he wants to talk to young blue about. fucking hopes the ten-year-old mind would work literally????]