Bernadette's relationship with Calem is complicated. She doesn't hate him, but she hates how he talks down to the friend group because of his parents' trainer experience.

Following the events of the Team Flare takeover in Geosenge, Calem's seeming-lack of sympathy for Bernadette's situation made it hard for her to justify continuing to call him her rival and friend. However, she has yet to blow up at him, and instead is staying silent to keep the peace for her closer friends.

Shauna has a crush. Bernadette is too stupid to notice.

Shauna and Bernadette spend a lot of time together sightseeing! The two are almost joined at the hip, always finding the next weird rock or funny piece of dirt. They used to consider each other rivals, but nowadays have dropped that.

"BAHHH! Everyone keeps asking if we're siblings!"

Bernadette is impressed that Trevor somehow resembles her. While they aren't as close as Shauna and Bernadette, and certainly not as close as Tierno and Bernadette, Trevor still manages to be acknowledged as one of Bernadette's good pals. The two are usually seen together while hanging out with Tierno.

In the most platonic way possible, Bernadette is head over heels for Tierno. She thinks his attitude toward life and his passion for dancing is the coolest thing ever, and the two spend a lot of time together.

No, they don't want to give each other a little smooch. Bernadette is totally convinced Tierno has cooties.

"Emsie!"

Bernadette stops by the Looker Bureau every day to bring Emma some weird trinkets she finds while wandering the region. Bernadette hides a small amount of sourness toward her friend about blindly trusting Xerosic, but despite telling her about what he did, Emma seems adamant on believing he's a good guy. Regardless, Emma's sweet enough, and Mimi is super fun to dance with.

"Oh yeah! That's the funny guy!"

Dexio is incredibly amusing to Bernadette. His and Sina's hero personas are endearing to her, and helped her to feel a little better about the guilt she felt about her uncle's direct involvement in Team Flare. She doesn't have much to say about him specifically. He's cool.

"A beautiful name for a beautiful lady~!"

Bernadette tries to humor Sina's proclamations of being a beautiful lady. She rocks the confidence, good for her! Like with Dexio, Bernadette finds humor in the masked hero personas that Sina and Dexio display.

She knows Sycamore had good intentions when it came to dealing with Lysandre- he wasn't fully aware of the guy's mindset.

Bernadette sees Sycamore as a second father figure to her. She knows that there will always be some degree of strain between them- she knows he sees a glimpse of his old friend every time they meet. Bernadette was always so much like her uncle, Lysandre, despite him never having any influence over her.

Bernadette just hopes that he'll learn to forgive himself.

"She totally forgot who I was before I went to challenge her.

Diantha is teaching Bernadette the ins and outs of being Kalos's champion. How it isn't something to just brag about all the time- being champion means being a leader. Diantha knows Bernadette isn't ready for that kind of responsibility, so she's guiding her until the girl is ready.

Bernadette was creeped out by Looker at first. True, she was officially a public figure; heroine of Kalos and new champion, but he knew more than she'd ever revealed. She decided to chalk that up to him being a detective, and needing information for his cases.

Frankly, Looker annoys Bernadette. He gets himself into worse trouble than she does (exaggeration: she saw the near-end-of-the-world happen right in front of her.) It does make her a bit of a hypocrite, but she hopes that she gets the point across: He's dumb and a danger to himself without any Pokemon. His slight kindness toward Xerosic certainly doesn't help her sourness either.

What once was admiration for her uncle's philanthropy has now turned to bitterness and grief for his passing, and hatred for his final actions. She can't forgive him for attempting to murder her and her friends- but she still cares for him.

Over the course of Bernadette's journey, she had gotten to know her uncle and his twisted ideologies. She believed that somewhere deep in her heart, she or her father could bring him off his awful path. Bernadette used to be proud that she and Lysandre shared blood- but now she feels nothing but shame for her connection to him.

Xerosic tricked Bernadette into pressing the button that released the ultimate weapon. Already off to a bad start. She tried to pursue him after the weapon situation was dealt with, but unfortunately this was for naught.

In the Looker Bureau events, she once more met Xerosic. She recalls trying to send Gummy to attack him, but the Hydreigon blatantly refused. Following his arrest, Bernadette struggles to understand how Emma and Looker can feel any ounce of affection for this horrible, horrible man. He was willing to make an unwitting Emma commit serious crimes, for goodness' sake!