Mairin has the world's most obvious crush on Alain. She supports him like crazy and seems to care more about his wellbeing than her own. She's followed him after being asked not to and hates being left behind, although Alain does so in an effort to keep her safe. With help from the XYZ gang Mairin decorated Professor Sycamore's lab and made loads of food to have a party to celebrate Alain's return when Team Flare has been shut down. During the party she makes sure he tries the Poképuff she made just for him and is delighted when he likes it. Alain doesn't show a whole lot of emotion, but he does show that he cares a lot for Mairin. At the beginning of the Team Flare saga Ash asks him if Mairin is important to him, to which he awkwardly said yes. If they were like siblings to each other Alain wouldn't have a need to be nervous around and when talking about Mairin. The whole reason he was (tricked into) helping Team Flare was because he wanted to save Chespie, Mairin's comatose Chespin.
— In the anime —
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My thoughts - I fell in love with Mairin's character the second we were introduced to her. I didn't care much for Alain at first but once Mairin was brought in the way he cares about her changed my perspective entirely. XY/Z had some amazing pairings. ^o^ To clarify ~ I know some people don't like this pairing because they see them having a massive age difference - from everything we saw I interpreted Mairin to be around 13-14 and Alain to be around 16-17 - which isn't bad in the slightest.
