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Lysandre/Professor Sycamore
| 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
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Fan Communities/Fan Events
- PerfectWorldShipping Week, Archived version, a yearly fanweek ran by Insecateur/Samifer and Jonphaedrus.
Fan Blogs
- perfectworldshipping, Archived version, a fan account on Instagram
- in-my-perfectworld-blog, Archived version, a fan blog on Tumblr
Fan Fic
PerfectWorldShipping search query on Fanfiction.Net
- Collateral by wildfillysama, Archived version (2014-2023), Professor Augustine Sycamore was a brilliant researcher, but not necessarily the most observant one. That being said, even he didn't usually get locked in broom cupboards when the world was ending. Rated Teen.
- Café Noisette by orphan_account, Archived version (2014), Lysandre is a ridiculously tall man. Augustine likes tall men. A lot. Rated Explicit.
- Breath of Life by ryttu3k, Archived version (2014), Trapped in the rubble of his ruined laboratory with Augustine Sycamore, Lysandre has difficult questions to ask and harder choices to make.
Fan Art
- perfectworldshipping as jc leyendecker’s butterfly couple <3 by arevixie, Archived version (2024), J. C. Leyendecker pastiche.
General Fanworks
Fan Mixes
- parentheses by issun, Archived version (2013)
- I Knew Him Well by honowo, Archived version (2015)
- paradise by anikikiyotaka, Archived version (2015)
- please don't lose any sleep over me, i hardly exist by asteroidfield, Archived version (2014)
- ♥ No Good for You ♥ by sophiawolfie, Archived version (2014)
- And I Love You A Bit More by leoneabbacchio, Archived version (2016)
Wikis
Zines and Doujinshi
References
- ^ 'shipping name poll by incompleteromance, Archived version (16 October 2013)
- ^ To address the concerns of the piling up votes y'all are messaging me about by incompleteromance, Archived version (17 October 2013)
- ^ Lol, it was so fucking worth it. So fucking worth it. by yougreaserfuck-blog, Archived version (17 October 2013)
- ^ WHAT THE HELL LIAM I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT ;___; I thought my facebook friends were voting it up…!!!! by ginnypants, Archived version (17 October 2013)
- ^ I guess Blazingflame is disqualified by incompleteromance, Archived version (17 October 2013)
- ^ The LySyca poll is closed, btw, due to the issue(...) by incompleteromance, Archived version (17 October 2013)
- ^ As a side note, in case no one noticed, we took PerfectWorldshipping for Lysandre/Sycamore. by incompleteromance, Archived version (23 October 2013)