I can't believe it's not canon

My job is to look too deeply in the things Professor Sycamore and Lysandre do and say and to make perfectworldshipping look as canon as possible.

[volknersraichu]

HELP???

[a-perfectworldshipping-guide]

If you are not already in the know: Merchandise related to Pokemon Masters EX’s 3rd Anniversary has just been released (to celebrate a new feature in the game). You can now purchase a travel-size Professor Sycamore as a plushie or an acrylic stand! (You can check here and here for more details.)

For overseas buyers, you can opt for meccha japan or a suitable proxy shipper of your choice. 

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The Visionary 👁️ | Pokémon Evolutions: Episode 3

When chasing your dream, do you give up when everyone tells you it’s wrong? Should you listen? Or do you continue to follow your vision, even if it puts all ...

Let me recover.... for a few days.... (before I start the analysis)

[Screenshots Below]

[jadeazora]

Professor Sycamore's and Lysandre's sync moves.

[a-perfectworldshipping-guide]

About the previous post,

I would like to put up a notice that japanese people culturally do not like leaks. The announcement I made has not been officially released. Because this is a majority english-speaking platform (who are fine with leaks on the most part, or even thrive from leaks), I won't remove the post. But please do note not to spread leaks where japanese shippers are present.

(The reason for this post is that I got a scolding by some of the japanese perfworldshippers today for leaking them some things out of enthusiasm. Perhaps Prof Sycamore was right, we do indeed meet people with many ways of thinking)

[a-perfectworldshipping-guide]

Both Lysandre and Professor Sycamore are confirmed to be in Pokemon Masters for the "Give and Take" event on Feb 11 2021! Lysandre will have Yveltal and Sycamore will have Xerneas. (Sycamore will be a free unit but Lysandre isn't so please save up gems!)

Also, it feels good for perfectworldshipping to be revived... sort of. Not many ships are lucky for such things to happen.

Datamine credits: @absol__utely on twitter

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A Perfectworldshipper’s List of Things to do

Generation 6, together with Pokemon XY, has almost come to a close to make way for Pokemon SM and Generation 7. The only thing we have left is Pokemon Generations before we wait for Pokemon XY sequels or remakes.

You probably won’t see any Pokemon X and Y content for a long while, which means that there isn’t any perfectworldshipping evidence to keep this ship sailing in the long run, unless something completely unexpected and magical happens.

Hence, I have created a master post to prevent you from getting bored during this wait.

A LIST OF THINGS TO DO

1)      Browse the entire perfectworldshipping tag

There’s 3 years of content worth inside, just hope that tumblr doesn’t crash on you when you are too deep in.

2)      Play Pokemon X and Y

This one is pretty obvious.

3)      Watch perfectworldshipping videos on YouTube

There’s a playlist full of perfectworldshipping MMD (LINK HERE). If you don’t know what MMD (MikuMikuDance) is, it’s basically adding motions to character models to make them move. In this playlist, Professor Sycamore and Lysandre can be seen dancing and doing weird things in general.

There are other perfectworldshipping videos which are not related to MMD which can be easily found if you just type in “perfectworldshipping” in the search bar.

4)      Play Professor Amie (18+/NSFW)

(LINK HERE) 

It’s an NSFW game about Professor Sycamore. You touch him in places and… I think you might want to see this for yourself.

5)      Read both the Pokemon TCG/ Pokemon Adventures manga

Both have Professor Sycamore and Lysandre talking about or to each other at some points of the manga.

Pokemon TCG- (LINK HERE)

It’s all in Japanese and there are no translated versions at the moment.

Pokemon Adventures- (LINK HERE)

The arc hasn’t been completely translated neither is it the official translation (link provided above). The only other way to read it in English is to buy the manga yourself.

If you don’t mind reading Japanese version (and it’s complete) you can click here. (LINK HERE) If you need a summary, here’s a link (LINK HERE)

6)      Look at perfectworldshipping art

There are 2 main sources to view perfectworldshipping art. That being DeviantArt (LINK HERE) and Pixiv (LINK HERE).

For Pixiv, you will need to sign up for an account if you want to look are NSFW/18+ work. You have to click on the pictures twice if you want to see the full gallery. The number of pictures in each gallery is indicated at the top right hand corner of each picture when looking at the overall tag

Other sources include Twitter and Instagram but are much harder to find.

7)      Read  perfectworldshipping fanfiction

A03 (Archive of Our Own) is the main website to read perfectworldshipping fanfiction (LINK HERE).  Do not type in “perfectworldshipping” in the search bar, you would only get 49 results.  To see the full list, you would need to click the “Fleur-de-lis/Dr. Platane | Lysandre/Professor Augustine Sycamore” tag to see all 174 works (as of 9th December 2016) that are currently available. To make your life easier, you can just click the link above.

www.fanfiction.net is another place to read fanfics but most of these are reposted from A03. (LINK HERE)

8)      Watch the Pokemon XY Anime and Pokemon Generations

If you want to just see the Lysandre and/or Sycamore bits, here is a link to a list of episodes that Professor Sycamore (LINK HERE) and Lysandre (LINK HERE) have appeared in.

For Pokemon Generations, I will post a link when the time has arrived. The non region-blocked one, of course.

9)      Join the perfectworldshipping discord

It is a chat room where you can cry about the ship here or talk about random things. Link does not expire. (LINK HERE)

10)   Ship similar ships

If you have done everything related to perfectworldshipping and you are desperate for more ships that are similar to perfectworldshipping, I can only recommend you to Klaus von Reinherz X Steven A. Starphase from Blood Blockade Battlefront (Kekkai Sensen/血界戦線)

The Japanese name of this ship is クラステ (kurasute). The fanbase is mostly from Japan with little to no English-speaking shippers.

Fanart from Pixiv- (LINK HERE)

This list will expand if I manage to find any other things we could do. For now, we have Pokemon Generations to look forward to. Arceus help us all.

[pokescans]

Clearfile

[ryttu3k]

@scrawlers, this is the thing I mentioned which showed Mega Garchomp and Mega Gyarados directly opposed to each other! (And both directly tied to Charizard!)

[fg083-deactivated20250515]

what is going on???

i opened my regular bookmark and like 6 pages of the stories are gone?? is it just my device?

[cherry-jacks-deactivated2024020]

nope same on mine as well… what the hell. My work still exists on my page, but it isn’t on this list.

[cherry-jacks-deactivated2024020]

if work in the tag is updated it will show up in the tag again. However the works that are finished are gone from the search as far as I can tell. I hope this gets fixed soon.

[fg083-deactivated20250515]

hmm i checked their social media they havent posted anything yet, i checked the other ao3 tags most are fine its just this one that’s affected for me….

[cherry-jacks-deactivated2024020]

I just sent in a bug report and informed them of the possibility of this being an issue in other tags. I believe it is from what I saw. 

(Also I totally did a fake update for science haha! The prof and cranky lion man will show in the real update.)

[ryttu3k]

Just chiming in, got the same thing. My fics show on my own page, but not on the tag page. Totally rude.

[cherry-jacks-deactivated2024020]

Alright, I know this is already long but I found out one more thing. The tag itself is the problem. However if you type in the pairing that you are looking for in the search bar the rest of the fics show up like that. All that needs to be done then is to choose how you want to edit your search to make it show (for example) most recent works. 

So the problem isn’t as bad as previously thought, but it does make it a pain. I’m sure it will get cleared up soon. 

[citrus-cactus]

I can’t confirm this, but I really, really want to believe that the abandoned subway where Clemont and Bonnie befriended Bunnelby, as shown in XY087 (“A Train Revisited! Citron and Horubee!”/”A Trip Down Memory Train!”), is based on an actual place.

Since Lumoise City/Kalos is more-or-less the Pokemon universe’s equivalent to Paris/France, the most obvious place to start drawing parallels with the Lumoise City subway system is the Paris Metro– and as it turns out, there there are several “ghost” stations in various states of use, reuse, and abandonment to be found throughout the city. I will admit, though, there is something a tad unromantic about those fluorescent lights (particularly when viewed next to the old-timey lamps shown briefly in the anime—those are lovely!), so that doesn’t seem to “fit” as much as one would think.

[Source: Clicsouris - Own work (Photo personnelle), CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5267214]

Perhaps a more likely source of inspiration is Le Petite Ceinture (“The Little Belt”). This is an abandoned railroad that was designed to circle Paris waaay back in the 1850s, and sections of track were variously designated for military, freight, and passenger use (the passenger section was electrified in 1925 and plans were in place to convert certain sections of it into a tramway relatively recently, but the T3 was built instead). The passenger line has been closed since 1985 and access to the tracks is generally forbidden, but there are several entry points to the tunnels and bridges (both hidden and in plain sight) and the penalty for getting caught is a relatively trivial fine, so many people still explore it and marvel at the greenery (I mean, it’s gorgeous– just look at it!).

[Source: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28985698]

Now, comparing to screenshots from XY087, it doesn’t look like this was used directly as a reference by the background artists, so I’m only offering up conjecture here. Still, it remains an interesting little tidbit (well, to me, anyway!) that this sort of thing really exists—though in a city as old as Lumoise City Paris, perhaps it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise!

More information about Le Petite Ceinture:

[“History of the Petite Ceinture railway line of Paris,” Association Sauvegarde Petite Ceinture]

[“La ligne oubliée,” photo collection by Thomas Jorion]

Now if only I could read the map in Clemont’s guidebook… XD

[theviolenttomboy]

Yamamoto said that he based Sycamore’s pose on the latest XY round cover off of the pic shown here. Wonder where it’s from? ^-^

[thespritelady-blog]

The reference is of the famous Alfred Hitchcock directed horror movies: ‘The Birds’. The lady from the referenced pose is one of the actresses in said film, Tippi Hedren. If you want to know more here’s the wikipedia article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)

[gummicandylicious]

And I present to you all the final nail in the coffin to prove once and for all that the in-game models aren’t scaled!

So let’s get started, shall we?

The first image I used AZ ’s canon height and lined up the characters to see how they fared next to him, and look at the difference! All of them have heights of either extreme or almost unrealistic proportions!

The height that I gave Lysandre was used for the second image, and here AZ is one foot shorter than his original height while the others are still pretty tall themselves.

Steven’s headcanon height of 5′10 was used for the third picture. While I could get behind Sycamore and Maxie being around 6′2, Archie being 6′7, and even Lys at 6′11, it still doesn’t do much that AZ is slightly shorter than his given height.

And last but not least, I used Archie’s given height and now have a similar situation to the so-called “canon” height chart from over a year ago that almost everyone on Tumblr accepted without question. Er, what can I say about this one…? Yeah, this one just doesn’t work at all. AZ is not standing at his canon height, Lysandre is at average male height, and the others are extremely short. 

So, all in all. The models aren’t scaled and therefor inaccurate. You can all thank me later.

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Not only that, look at the heights of these characters converted by different people (from game files to MMD). They are not consistent at all.

[windynebula]

And in metric for us who use a measuring system that makes sense:

AZ chart -> Maxie: 220,98 cm, Steven: 208,28 cm, Archie: 236.22, Sycamore: 220.98 cm, Lysandre: 248,92 cm, AZ: 274,32 cm.

Conclusion: Everyone are giants.

Lysandre chart -> Maxie: 198,12 cm, Steven: 187,96 cm, Archie: 210,82 cm, Sycamore: 195,58 cm, Lysandre: 218,44 cm, AZ: 246,38 cm.

Conclusion: Still huge.

Steven chart -> Maxie: 187,96 cm, Steven: 177,8 cm, Archie: 200,66 cm, Sycamore: 187,96 cm, Lysandre: 210,82 cm, AZ: 236,22 cm.

Conclusion: Still tall, but starting to make sense.

Archie chart -> Maxie: 167,64, Steven: 157,48 cm, Archie: 175,26 cm, Sycamore: 165,1 cm, Lysandre: 185,42 cm, AZ: 205,74 cm.

Conclusion: Everyone is suddenly tiny except AZ and Lysa.

[gummicandylicious]

And I present to you all the final nail in the coffin to prove once and for all that the in-game models aren’t scaled!

So let’s get started, shall we?

The first image I used AZ ’s canon height and lined up the characters to see how they fared next to him, and look at the difference! All of them have heights of either extreme or almost unrealistic proportions!

The height that I gave Lysandre was used for the second image, and here AZ is one foot shorter than his original height while the others are still pretty tall themselves.

Steven’s headcanon height of 5′10 was used for the third picture. While I could get behind Sycamore and Maxie being around 6′2, Archie being 6′7, and even Lys at 6′11, it still doesn’t do much that AZ is slightly shorter than his given height.

And last but not least, I used Archie’s given height and now have a similar situation to the so-called “canon” height chart from over a year ago that almost everyone on Tumblr accepted without question. Er, what can I say about this one…? Yeah, this one just doesn’t work at all. AZ is not standing at his canon height, Lysandre is at average male height, and the others are extremely short. 

So, all in all. The models aren’t scaled and therefor inaccurate. You can all thank me later.

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Not only that, look at the heights of these characters converted by different people (from game files to MMD). They are not consistent at all.

[theviolenttomboy]

And here’s this month’s Coronis XY summary, along with some news:

Sycamore is seen waiting for the kids on the Sundial (I’m not sure why he feels the need to climb on top of it. He does have safety belts and wires though). Several things we see:

he is only accompanied by Squirtle. No sure if the omission of Bulbasaur is deliberate

like how Sundials are supposed to work, its shadow reaches the Gym at exactly 6pm as it should

using some wave-manometer, Sycamore confirms that the Sundial give off a certain pulse wave which is strongest between 8pm and 9pm

He is startled by a flock of Spritzees who are in turn startled by Zygarde, who is seen lurking behind the Sundial on the sea surface (it’s not seen in subsequent panels though. It dove into the water?)

At the Lost Hotel, Green has let the kids go off on their own to meet Sycamore, but this infuriates Ramon since the kids may be in danger. Green mocks that they have an enemy (Essentia) who can shapeshift, and she may very well be among them. Ramon doesn’t like what Green implies, but Green says he is just stating a possibility. Mainly, he believes that nowhere is technically safe for the kids, and he would rather they seek important information from Sycamore. He has lent them Charizard and Rhyperior to accompany them, and we get the confirmation that Green is one of the 17 disciples of Gurkinn. The Vaniville kids go through Dendemille Town and then Route 17 under the protection of Charizard and Rhyperior, and Salame and Rhyrhy are amused to see their final evolution counterparts. Charizard and Rhyperior part ways with the group upon arrival at Anistar though, and presumably return to Green. The kids soon see Sycamore attacked by a flock of Hawluchas on the Sundial (he is bouncing up and down while being suspended on the safety belt wire). Y frees him with Absol (Solsol)’s Psycho Cut, and catches him (and his manometer) with her other team members. X sends out Pinsir (Rute) and we see that it can dodge the 4 Hawlucha’s attacks even with its eyes closed. It is X’s other 4 who took down the Hawluchas though. Sycamore does some more explaining:

when X battled him at his lab, his wave manometer picked up a certain wave, which he now knows comes from the Keystone, which also explains why Team Flare can track them

the Sundial also gives off a wave, which means it is of similar material to the Keystone

ever since the Ultimate Weapon bloomed, it has changed the wavelength of both the Sundial and Keystones, causing them to become synchronized. However, this also makes him unable to track the wave coming from X’s Keystone anymore (it appears that Sycamore was able to track the kids’ locations and confirm his suspicion when Trevor holo-casts him)

the Sundial’s wave surge at 8-9pm remains unchanged, and he has arranged their particular waiting time to experiment its effect

Sharp at 8pm, X and Y’s Keystones start to flash, and this flash in turns lights up the Mega Stones of Kanga, Elec and Lasma. Naturally, X and Sycamore work out that this would be a good method to seek out the Absolite and Pinsirite. X has his concerns however, since he can tell that someone is commanding the Hawluchas. He hopes Y wouldn’t blame him for breaking their ‘Pact’ again, and proceeds to hand her his Mega Ring. He wishes to stay behind to protect Sycamore while Y goes to seek out the Mega Stones. However, Tierno volunteers to do it instead, since they don’t know who is commanding these attackers and it is better if Y stays behind too. He isn’t concerned about Team Flare because as Sycamore said, they could no longer trace the Keystone’s wavelength with it changed after the Ultimate Weapon blooming. Shauna decides to go too, and X and Y both hand them their Rings. Meanwhile, Essentia is spying on them on the other side of the Sundial (clearly being the one to command the Hawluchas), and thinks it is a good chance to snatch the Keystones. However, her current mission is to track Z, which is seen near Anistar. Suddenly, her system goes ‘offline’ and Emma wakes up, alarmed that she has wandered off somewhere unknown again while she sleeps. The system then reactivates the hypnosis and Essentia kicks in again. At that moment, she is spotted by Y, and we have another cliffhanger…

Pics:

Sycamore’s Wave Manometer

Sundial and Z

The Char and Rhy lines

Moving across the the snowy route

Sycamore attacked

Y’s team saving Sycamore

X’s team frying the Hawluchas

Keystones resonating

Mega Stones flashing

Essentia snapping in and out of Emma

Shauna and Tierno heading off. See the Mega Rings on his bag strap

Cover art with Sycamore in distress

It also looks like there’s a new artbook that’s coming out in spring, and it’s going to have contain some concept art as well as the first round of the Pokemon Ranger manga.

[eitaroo]

First Pokespe XY of the new year!

Our heroes meet with Sycamore to power up their Mega Rings so they can find Mega Stones.

But here’s Essentia. Her suit seems to be malfunctioning.

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INTERESTING FINDS [Part 4] - The similarities in colour between things

Today we’ll be doing some colour/feature comparisons. All of the pictures are taken from their official websites (like pokemon.jp) because some photos from other sources may have been edited to look more vibrant (by increasing the saturation level), which won’t make this comparison accurate. (I’m not going to talk much here. I’ll let the pictures do the explaining.)

The only exceptions will be screenshots from the anime/games etc for those without an official art yet.

I’ll start with Lysandre first.

LEFT- Lysandre’s official art for the anime

RIGHT- Lysandre’s official art for the games

I’ve picked out several (random) colours from the art and placed them beside the character art if you want to do some colour comparison.

I’m not sure if it’s just me but the game art looks redder than the anime one. This brings out an interesting question. What colour does Team Flare/Lysandre represent?

In the TCG, Team Flare cards are red. In the games. In the games, Lysandre has loves red, as one NPC says, “Lysandre loves the color red, so even he even made his café red. His dialogue box is even red. Team Flare’s uniform is blood orange in colour though.

okay

Anyway, here is the colour comparison between Yveltal and Lysandre. I’ve mashed Yveltal’s colour palette with Lysandre’s for easier comparison. The column of colours on the left belongs to Yveltal while the ones on the right belong to Lysandre.

The only things that link Lysandre and Yveltal together will be the somewhat-similar colour scheme and the fluffy collars both have.

It does seem like the link between Xerneas and Professor Sycamore is much stronger than that of Lysandre’s and Yveltal’s.

Besides the similar colour scheme that they both have, their features are somewhat similar too. I have indicated some of these similarities on the picture above.

GREEN- Huge dark-blue collar

RED- Grey lower body

PURPLE- That yellow thing?

ORANGE- Dark blue upper-body.

During the summer camp arc in the Pokemon anime, the Professor is seen wearing…these clothes. What’s interesting is that those clothes have a similar colour scheme to that of a shiny Xerneas (in it’s unawakened mode).

1- Dark blue top

2- Light blue upper-body

3- White lower-body

4- Dark blue feet/shoes

Why then, is he wearing an orange shirt? If they did not meet in the anime until Mega Evolution Special Act IV, then Sycamore’s orange shirt would not be related to Team Flare. When the artists first thought of Professor’s Sycamore summer outfit, why did they use orange instead of blue? Isn’t blue a much better match for his light blue jacket than orange?

When I first watched the summer camp arc and saw that orange shirt, I went all giggly and imagined that he must have borrowed it from Lysandre ( seeing that he only owns blue-related clothes), or he could be an admin. The picture above is most likely invalid now, sadly. 

What’s even more surprising is that Malva’s colour scheme matches Yveltal’s more than Lysandre’s. And….

1- Matching diamond patterns.

2-Yveltal’s body is ½ red, ½ black. Malva’s pants is ½ red, ½ black.

Conclusion: My head hurts. What is Gamefreak trying to do

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to add up in case something might not have been mentioned

diantha

professor + lysandre 

[peagusus]

Okay so I haven’t actually seen TSME Act IV yet, but from what I’ve absorbed through dashboard osmosis, it seems that Alain has revealed another important facet of mega evolution: Being united with your pokemon towards a common goal. (In his case, both he and Charizard want to Win against every other mega evolution.)

This is interesting, because, before this, when Alain asked Professor Sycamore about mega evolution, Sycamore said that the trainer’s role was simply to draw out the hidden power from their pokemon. Like, the way I remember it, he and his team were operating under the assumption that the trainer was only passively involved in the act of mega evolution (by having that strong bond with their pokemon and touching their keystone), instead of actively involved (by being invested in the same interests and end goals as their pokemon and putting forth just as much effort to achieve them).

Not only does this show that Alain is learning useful things from his experience outside Sycamore Labs (and not just struggling to be a functioning human being), but it also says something about how both Alain and Sycamore view their roles as trainers.

Sycamore’s theory (at the time that Alain questioned him in the conservatory) was that, well, if you were friendly enough towards your pokemon, and you had the proper stones, you might be able to unlock their true potential. This theory assumes that the entire burden of mega evolution is on the pokemon (which might explain why game!Sycamore was hesitant to pursue mega evolution in the Tower of Mastery) and reduces the trainer’s role in the process to a glorified button-presser.

Which basically amounts to ‘If I’m nice, you might be willing to put in twice as much work for me’ – and that’s… really sad??

[ryttu3k]

Conservatory scene is from TSME1, IIRC? But yeah - I’d say it’s early enough that Sycamore’s own views have changed since then, now that he’s personally experienced Mega Evolution - he has faith that Garchomp won’t hurt him because of their bond, and he explicitly says, “Now it’s our turn!”, so he at least knows that teamwork is super important.

Just, Sycamore’s still working this out too.

[peagusus]

The whole Team Rocket debacle gave him firsthand experience of that same lesson that Alain learned, about being united with your pokemon towards a common goal, and I’d like to think that he’s reconsidered his theory since this discovery to be more inclusive of the trainer’s trust and direction as it applies to mega evolution.

(Also, yes, it was TSME1, thank you!)