I dunno about you but the last Hisuian Snow episode was a GIFT.
Spoiler warning!!!!! Also rambling warning! And also a lot of this is my thoughts/interpretations!
1.) it looks like Cyllene was the Captain of the Security Corps before she got moved to Survey Corps. (If not Captain, she was pretty high up the food chain, but since she’s the one with all the lines and making decisions, I’m going to just assume that she was Captain.)
2.) I also choose to read her as being a scheming little shit (or an opportunistic one) because she could have just said that the security corp was going out to look at the scary thing from the sky and refused to take Alec. Instead, she decides to go out with him (bringing a group so there’s at least some safety in numbers) so he can go out and do his thing and deflects the elders naysaying by just saying it’s for security reasons. (And not to help pokemon. And then comes back with Pokémon that need medical help. Lololol Cyllene you little shit)
3.) also I would bet hard money that she was the one who let Alec back in after he ran out to try to help the Rufflet. (She probably didn’t let him bring it in at the time, but at the end, it’s clear that it was brought in eventually. And I’ll bet you more hard money that she had to throw her rank around to get people to allow them in the gates with a bunch of Pokémon in tow)
4.) she tries to keep everyone safe, and also refuses to leave Alec behind (even if she thought he was crazy/being reckless only a few moments earlier).
5.) when Alec says that they need to bring the snover back to town, Cyllene’s only argument is that they don’t have the equipment. (Whether it’s the equipment to help the Pokémon get to town or equipment to help the Pokémon once in town is a bit unclear, but since Alec’s dad rocks up with a sled a few moments later, I’m going to assume the former.) She could have said “hell no, are you crazy?” Or “we’re only here to check out this crazy sky portal bullshit.” Or anything along those lines, but instead her only problem about bringing them back is more about being physically unable to bring them back than anything else.
6.) they end up saving more Pokémon than just the two snover (and rufflet) that they originally found. Cyllene is even carrying one in her arms (an Abra!!) as they return! So much for telling the elders that it was only a security issue, lololol.
7.) when Alec runs off to chase after the shiny Zororak, when Cyllene catches up to him she doesn’t berate him, she just asks what happened.
8.) this probably because they don’t want to show /imply violence in the anime with realistic weapons but it’s interesting to me that Cyllene goes out into the VERY dangerous woods without a sword. I choose to read this as her trying very hard to be nonviolent.
9.) her Abra!!! She carry it like BABY!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! A super skittish Pokémon allowing itself to be picked up and held by a person so it can take them to an unknown place to get help?! The trust!!! It probably read her mind and went “oh a good human! I trust you human!”I’m melting!!!!!!
10.) the scene where she is contemplating a pokeball while under a tree and the Abra is hanging out near her?? I bet she always liked Pokémon but doubted that they could leave in peace because she’s always heard that they can’t and has seen some shit and then Alec shows her that she’s not alone in thinking that maybe you CAN live in peace with them and I bet she starts scheming on how to start making that a reality and I’m reading too much into it and AHhHHhHhHh!!!!
11.) I wish the pic with Cyllene comparing Laventon’s photo to how he actually showed up fresh off the boat was In The English version but I have seen it floating around tumblr and I LOVE IT. (Also proves that those were his Pokémon and not ones caught in the space time distortions -which wasn’t a debate really, as far as I know, but it was something I had wondered about myself.)
Only downside to the episode, I am now throughly confused about the timeline of when Jubilife was founded. Were there settlers there but they just were unorganized for a while and THEN the Galaxy team showed up or what?? So confused.
