Lysandre/Professor Sycamore

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. (16 October 2013) 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. (17 October 2013) (17 October 2013) Ginnypants wasn't aware of the cheating. (17 October 2013) The name was then disqualified and the poll was closed. (17 October 2013) (17 October 2013)
On 23 October, the curator of the Neverending Romance ship list chose PerfectWorldShipping as the name. (23 October 2013)
==Example/Notable Fanac==
===Fan Communities/Fan Events===
* , a yearly fanweek ran by Insecateur/Samifer and Jonphaedrus.
===Fan Blogs===
* , a fan account on Instagram
* , a fan blog on Tumblr
===Fan Fic===
 on Fanfiction.Net
* (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.
* (2014), Lysandre is a ridiculously tall man. Augustine likes tall men. A lot. Rated Explicit.
* (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===
* (2024), J. C. Leyendecker pastiche.
===General Fanworks===
==== Fan Mixes ====
* (2013)
* (2015)
* (2015)
* (2014)
* (2014)
* (2016)
===Wikis===
* on PixivEncyclopedia
* on PixivEncyclopedia
===Zines and Doujinshi===
== References ==
Category:Pokémon Relationships
Category:Boys' Love Pairings
Category:Yaoi Pairings
Category:Slash Pairings