I feel like it's probably a minority opinion here, but I always thought the scenes with Lysandre in Ultra were more scary than the ones with Ghetsis. (They're both still plenty scary tho.)
Yea, Ghetsis assaults Lillie and is implied to have probably killed N and is basically is one of the few villains who actually won in their world (A&M would have actually died if Giovanni hadn't intervened, and Cyrus got whisked away by Giratina), but it's pretty likely before he does anything more that's too severe, I could have called out my Golurk, and just have it tear him away from her before beating him senseless. It's borderline a desperate threat with his entire team down, and he knows your team is absolutely pissed at him for shoving Lillie. (You could at least give him an actual grip on her still or something.)
Lysandre gets to your world after having likely just killed many in his own, and is ready to keep killing people. But, even if the Ultimate Weapon talk is a bluff on his part, he decides to psychologically torture the 11yro player character because both buttons (supposedly) lead to a "doom the world and it's all your fault" scenario. You lose to him, and it's apparently a game over for you and everyone you know and love in Alola, and he made sure you're dying despairing that you're at least partly responsible because no matter which button you chose, he's rigged it against you. Man might not be as personally nasty as Ghetsis is, but there's definitely still a notable sadistic streak with him too 😬
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Decided on a whim to redraw a frame from the Pokémon XY animatic i did 4 years ago about Lysandre! The new game announcement has me thinking about them again, and i couldn't resist a cheeky redraw :]
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actually I proposed AZ's brother as being the one to be in charge of the rebuild in PLZA but I also think it's possible that proto Team Flare is behind it because
There's talk about "beauty" as the main goal which is Flare's entire thing
The rebuilding of Paris in 1853 IRL also was done out of a need to "beautify" the city
In PLA we see the origins of Team Galactic but as heroes, so it's entirely possible they'll do the same thing again
Team Flare is named after solar flares, and the logo on the documents kind of looks like a stylized solar flare, with the ring being the sun and the burst being the flare
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Lysandre - The Tower (7/12)
The Tower is the card of destruction, sudden change, and crisis. This card indicates that one may have been building their beliefs on falsehoods. When reversed, the tower may indicate a resistance to change.
Available on my Redbubble!
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I love the threat escalation in Pokémon
You fight, in this order:
The mafia
A slightly disbanded version of the mafia
Two sets of eco terrorists
Nihilists who want to end the world
P.E.T.A but run by a child abuser
Regular terrorists
A genocidal maniac
An insane woman who fused with a jellyfish and runs a powerful organization (and is also hinted to be abusive towards her two children)
A being in constant pain that was sealed away
An apocalypse brought on by an ancient being being summoned to provide unlimited energy!
School bullies
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Team Leaders (/assorted main villains) version! Obligatory Penny and Piers are only counted because they're the leaders of the "antagonist" teams, tho they're not really villains themselves.
Cyrus generally gets about 3hrs of sleep a week on average, when he actually does sleep, he could sleep thru the end of the world. It makes a road trip with all these other idiots bearable.
Colress mostly doing the "Are we there yet?" to piss Ghetsis off. He stops after they leave Ghetsis stranded.
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OK I LIED ABOUT PROBABLY NEVER FINISHING THIS LOL I CHURNED IT OUT IN LIKE 2 HOURS
enjoy this team flare!sycamore and lysandre bs i drew instead of working like i should be doing 😭😭
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I'm assuming that similar to the Galaxy Expedition in PLA, the organization behind the renovation of Lumiose in PLZ will be a precursor to Team Flare. Especially with Lysandre's thing being beauty, since:
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I drew Lysandre and Yveltal for a secret santa event on a discord server and against all odds finished it almost in time. This one was for grimcarebear (idk if that tumblr is yours too sorry)
Technically my last art of 2023 but I was too busy being drunk with my friends to post it lol
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