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Lysandre/Professor Sycamore

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Pairing
Pairing: Japanese: フラダリ×プラターヌ博士 (Fuladari x Dr. Platane)
English: Lysandre/Professor Sycamore
Alternative name(s): Japanese: フラプラ (Furapura) or プラフラ (Purafura)
English: PerfectWorldShipping
Both: FRPR and PRFR (abbreviations; common on Twitter)
Gender category: Boys' Love; Yaoi; M/M; Slash
Fandom: Pokémon
Canonical?: No
Prevalence: Popular for both characters
Popular overall
Archives: n/a
Other: n/a
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Lysandre/Professor Sycamore, known mostly as PerfectWorldShipping and/or フラプラ (Furapura), is a popular ship in the Pokémon fandom. It pairs Lysandre (Fuladari) and Professor Sycamore (Dr. Platane), the main antagonist in Kalos and the Pokémon Professor respectively, both introduced in 2013's Pokémon X and Y.

Canon Background

Popular Tropes & Fanon

  • Evil Wins: some works focus on the aftermath of Team Flare re-making the world, making it resemble the post-apocalypse.
  • Immortality: Fanworks may have either Lysandre or Sycamore be immortal, either long before or soon after Lysandre attempts to take control of Xerneas or Yveltal.
  • Role Swap: Sycamore may take Lysandre's role as founder of a large company while he takes on Sycamore's professor role.
  • Lysandre referring to Sycamore simply as Augustine, his first name, may be seen as important to the relationship.
  • The start of their friendship is also often explored. One common plot is that they meet at a convention for Mega Evolution.
  • Their relationship may cause a disruption in their social circle, especially if it takes place post-game. Sycamore may try and hide it from their mutual friend Diantha.
  • Some works may have Sycamore join Team Flare.
  • Opposites Attract: Lysandre is intimidating and straight-laced while Sycamore is approachable and more forgiving of others. They also have complementary color schemes.
  • Height Difference: Lysandre is taller, Sycamore is shorter.

Subjects of Fannish Interest & Meta

-Shipping Name Origin

'PerfectWorldShipping' was not the first -shipping name to be coined for Lysandre/Professor Sycamore. Others were coined seemingly soon after X and Y released, including MegaShipping, BlazingFlameShipping and CafeShipping.

Incomplete Romance Poll

On 16 October 2013, a poll was made to determine the ship name.[1] One option, BlazingFlameShipping, was coined by ginnypants, a well-known and somewhat infamous Pokemon fan on Tumblr at the time. A big fan of Ghetsis/N, she helped popularize their ship name HarmoniaShipping outside of the Neverending Romance/Bulbapedia circles on LiveJournal.

The name was ahead until PerfectWorldShipping suddenly spiked in votes despite it not being coined by a well-known fan. Anons on 4chan's /vp/ were apparently responsible after they learned that carpe-bourbon, ginnypants' friend, was cheating to get BlazingFlameShipping picked.[2][3] Ginnypants wasn't aware of the cheating.[4] The name was then disqualified and the poll was closed.[5][6]

On 23 October, the curator of the Neverending Romance ship list chose PerfectWorldShipping as the name.[7]

Example/Notable Fanac

Fan Communities/Fan Events

Fan Blogs

Fan Fic

PerfectWorldShipping search query on Fanfiction.Net

Fan Art

General Fanworks

Fan Mixes

Wikis

Zines and Doujinshi

References