tesalionlortus:

harmarkie:

“Why, whatever did you think this was? What all of these past few years have
been?

“Lysandre
saw your potential at exactly the same moment I did, but he was far too
impatient and propositioned you straight away. I took a more careful approach,
tested you, observed you, giving you the enormous task of uncovering the
mysteries behind Mega Evolution in my stead, making sure you practised your
potential, helped develop it into something more.

“Granted,
it took a little longer than I’d initially intended…but I had to make sure.
And I am very pleased with the results. After assessing your progress, I can
easily say with pride that you’ve exceeded my expectations, and I am now offering
you the chance to join us.

"Now,
please sit back, and allow me to further convince you why you should accept.”

Mmmyeah I’ve discovered that I have a nasty habit of trying to make fanon out of canon ¯_(ツ)_/¯

After replaying Pokemon X, I’ve noticed that the games give so many opportunities to play around with the idea of Sycamore’s involvement with Team Flare, and I couldn’t pass it up 😀

So true! I love me some shady Sycamore and Sycamore/Lysandre relationship.

Meanwhile, for all the development, the anime decided to make them complete strangers. How silly and cruel is that? Especially that you would expect a leading pokemon researcher of Kalos and a director of great
research institute to have some chat at some point. Not to mention… the whole thing with Alan would be a lot more appropriate, dramatic and interesting if Sycamore and Lysandre actually knew one another. Not only befriending/manipulating/corrupting such a “pure boy” but stealing his good friend’s pupil for his own hidden agenda.

Y E S to all of this.

I think about what could have been. I love angst tbh, so imagine the potential if Sycamore had been with Lysandre since the beginning or at least supports him and Alain finds out, like would he still go up against Lysandre or would he be too shocked/pain to stand up to Sycamore.