This is just some information about the epoch of Romanticism. If you are not interested, skip this chapter. See you in the next, first real chapter. By the way, I do not own Pokémon.
The picture of the flower is lovely, isn't it? Why I chose this flower? Believe it or not, in the literature epoch of Romanticism the romantic colour was ... blue! And (at least in Germany) the most important symbol of this epoch is the blue flower (at least in Germany; in German it's an alliteration : "Blaue Blume"). A German Romantic who called himself "Novalis" introduced this symbol and said this (everywhere shown here) flower is the flower he thinks of when he talks about "Blaue Blume".
Important subjects in the Romanticism epoch were dreams, nature, night, desire or longing (is there a difference?), infinity, mystic, travelling and hiking, music and all other kinds of arts, synaesthesia and of course love. They wanted to combine differences and a world with the main focus on the fine arts. They also liked the Christianity (not everything will be mentioned in the story) and the Middle ages with his knights in shining armour and the <<chevaliers qu'ils se battent pour l'honneur et la gloire>> (knights whos fight for honour and glory).
Pourquoi écrits-tu français?
Well, that's because the word romantic comes from the old French word "romanz".
"Romanz" was the ordinary (Romanic) language compared Latin, which was used by the educated people. "Romanz" became "romance" and described every story which had something to do with knights, love or phantasmagoria (mythical, magical and fabulous stuff). Then romantic described all beautiful or lovely and everything it means today.
The romantics were idealists and not materialists.
They thought they are part of the infinity of the world.
(This needn't be 100% correct because it's a shortened story even more shortened. Please correct me if you find some fautes) (Not "fautes", it's French for faults.)
Oh, and they disliked the ancient world because it wasn't Christian and was way too ancient/old. (No, they didn't give the ancient world millions of dislikes on Facebook. 😝)
