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What's in a name?

XQ is a pretty damn good nickname for a guy who's always making excuses.
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It's not his fault that's his nickname: it's fate's. You give a boy initials as rare as XQ and people are inevitably going to say them over and over and over again until they hear the fact that, yeah, they do sound like "ex-cuse" very slightly and haha isn't it funny because you're always making excuses up for something or other, aren't you?
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It's not even a real name! Xerys? Xerys? You've gotta wonder what his parents were thinking when they named that kid. Supposedly, they just chose something that sounded cool and unique and left it at that and, if that was their goal then they pretty much got it.
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Surprisingly enough, the name Xerys actually has a proper meaning, despite it having been quite obviously utterly made up. It means elder, respected in that sense, and an ambitious leader. He's not really any of those things, but he does have plenty of excuses as to why that's the case.
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The Life and Times of Xerys Quinn

The Quinn family of Veilstone were never really anything special. They weren't overly attractive or wealthy or famous, they were just average. Xerys Quinn wasn't an exception to that rule. From the moment he was born it was assumed he would follow the same general life plan the rest of his family so easily had: be born, live, die. They kind of raised him without much hope for sudden success or a change in routine, honestly.
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Problematic when you consider just how eager he is to get ahead in things.
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This life of sitting in the background of goings on and living his life in the wings was in no way appealing to Xerys. Right from the start he wanted to do a lot more than just work in the Veilstone department store like his father or stay at home all the time like his mother. He was sure he was going to be able to do a lot more than just sitting around meaninglessly.
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Generally, Xerys spent a lot of time alone in his childhood. He didn't care for large groups of friends or anything of that sort, finding them all too loud and irritating and feeling as though he was better off either alone or with a small selection of carefully selected people that he knew he could easily trust. Too many people was not a comfortable situation and, anyway, they were always asking questions.
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Spending so much time stuck in his thoughts meant that Xerys ended up spending a lot of time utterly distracted, and that was where the excuses thing started up. He always had to make up reasons for why he'd been distracted and why he hadn't been paying attention and all that. Children are cruel, children come up with silly nicknames, silly nicknames stick.
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It was probably a culmination of all these little things that led to Xerys joining Team Galactic. Of course, it helped that their headquarters were right in his home city of Veilstone, but there was more than that. They were so much more interesting than everyone else there and so much more convincing and they convinced him very easily that that was the path to greater things. As for their beliefs, those weren't much harder to convince Xerys of either. He understood that, you know? Emotions were kind of a major cause of issue for him. But they got that, and they were trying to fix that, and he could hardly resist it.