[i]"Breakfast sounds good. Though, I sense that you wish to go shooting arrows. I have no issue accompanying you to do so, but after breakfast. Perhaps some food will awaken my senses." [/i] Lucario said, even though he knew that archery wasn't something her father would approve of her doing. Lucario would just come up with something to cover up the fact that he was encouraging the princess to do what was considered a manly thing to do.

He did not really approve of the gender stereotypes between men and women, boys and girls, but Lucario knew that his opinion was a rather unpopular one. Had he been born a girl and dropped off at the castle's steps, things might have turned out differently. For example, he might have been raised in a different way by Sir Aaron, and not trained to be a knight. Sure, Soleanna had female knights, called dames, but they were not as abundant as the male warriors. Perhaps, Lucario would have been raised to be one of the female servants who tended to the female members of the royal family.