We joke a lot about how Alan “I’m doing everything to bring back Manon’s smile” is actually always, directly or indirectly, a destroyer of smiles, but hey! I don’t think we give him enough credit.
What do you think of Alan's handling in the main anime(XY&Z) so far in terms of his characterization, battling and relationship to other characters(eg. TF) and do you think that they have kept him consistent to what was shown in the acts about him. And lastly do you think that putting Alan into Satoshi's world was a mistake?
I found XY&Z013 and XY&Z014 mostly fine: there were elements that I wasn’t expecting to see, and yet they happened and made me really glad - the fact that Alan was indeed interested in Gekkouga’s new form wondering if it was or not a Mega, the call to Fleurdelys with the mention of Manon!!, the fact that Alan was so awkward around the group without talking to them, that his first interaction was around Pikachu!!! (Alan is the new N, I told y’all)And XY&Z014 basically confirmed that Alan wasn’t a “member” of Team Flare but a special case for Fleurdelys. (Good, maybe he didn’t ruin anyone else’s life in the same fashion. Pachira was right, he was lucky to find a pure one like this one.)
I’m much, much more ambivalent and worried in the aftermath of XY&Z023... (cut)
(Puni-chan, come here, come here, let’s play!)
(Puni-chan, a dazzling catch)
Squishy and tender, squishy and green
Squishy and in my pochette, do you like it there? Puni-chan!
Where are you from? Why do you feed on sunlight?
I love my mysterious Puni-chan! Please tell me more and more!
I nuzzle together our cheeks
From then on, we are friends
We’ll always be together!
And I’ll protect you!
(Puni-chan, what do you want to play?)
(Coochie-coo~ How about we bask ourselves under the sun?)
(I got it! How about this? Whispers, whispers)
(Well? Wouldn’t that be great? Tee hee hee)
SO, after watching today's epiosde's A;an is really a total dick like he may not not the full extent of Team Flare's plan but he freakin saw ZYGARDE BEING ZAPPED WITH A GUN AND PUT INTO A CAGE AND SAID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OR EVEN THINK IT WAS WRONG. How can you still say that Alan isn't somewhat a villain, it not just about "being confused" or "helping to recover hari-san".
I’m a bit disappointed over the lack of explicit contextualisation (they had done it well in XY&Z013 with the short moment of dialogue between Alan and Fleur!), while here we didn’t follow Alan’s point of view at all this episode, but: 1°) Alan is confirmed to not be working with Flare (the Admins really weren’t expecting him to be there, and Alan did confirm he was there because Lys had asked him), 2°) re-used animation is Not Unusual (and understandable), but CLEARLY, the fight against Zygarde was choregraphied to echo the fight against Groudon from Act III where The Two Legendaries were just big bad news (I would like to hear it explicitly, it’s an assumption from me at this stage, but I really really wouldn’t be surprised that Alan, right now, sees all legendaries as threatening due to Kyogre and Groudon’s actions. He arrived just when Zygarde 50% was on the verge of launching an attack on some ‘mon and given the hits Lizardon took, I’m not sure they would have survived?), 3°) anyway, Alan doesn’t know what TF is doing or aiming at. He helped Lys, because he trusts Lys to do the right thing (and Lys has never mentioned anything about threatening the world or harming people to him).
So Alan is more a big, big idiot thinking he’s globally helping people by helping Lys (he’s not even assisting him in genocide/world domination/whatever, he’s helping him for research, for preventing ~bad people~ from using their discoveries, and for putting sources of power away from legendaries who would cause problems + the whole Hari-san deal in the background). That he helped with catching Z2 is indeed a bit weirder, but it wasn’t even “terrified”, it was pissed, and people in that word tend to catch Pokémon by brute strength; if Alan knew about the experiments that were done to Puni-chan in Act IV, it would be another story, but he precisely doesn’t know that Lys will do something harmful to it or to Humanity (so far), so /o/
He’s not doing good things, but he’s not gleeful about it, not exactly enjoying it, and he’s basically lacking the context. N in the games was much more problematic (he was bred into it, he lacked some bits of knowledge, he didn’t know Ghetsis wanted to double-cross him, but he was still really fervent about doing a coup d’État and forcing people to release their ‘mon whether they wanted it or not), and I wouldn’t call him a villain, so I have even less reasons for Alan /o/
(But he does make Terrible Decisions, and was a dick to Manon, THAT is for sure.)
Sssssso: Team Flare Admins know about Alan’s existence, but they really weren’t expecting to see him there because he’s “under Fleurdelys’s direct commands” (and indeed, Alan confirmed thaaaaat... it was a direct order from Fleurdelys. He wasn’t surprised about the suits, but “Team Flare” wasn’t mentioned anywhere around him.)
So Alan is ~a special case~ for Fleurdelys.
People, write me the ~personal~ debriefing that will so happen off-screen.
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