yes i do the giving yes i do the taking

started replaying X with my partner and no matter how many times i play this game i do get the urge to tear something to pieces with my teeth when i think about professor sycamore for too long. oh sure yeah standard pokemon professor except he’s beautiful, maybe a bit flamboyant. that’s the end of that, right? WRONG, he’s a kind-hearted soul who wants you to understand that everyone in this world is different and that you should embrace and love those differences, especially if you don’t understand them. okay that’s sweet, but then you turn around and he’s friends with and highly praising the guy who is CLEARLY plotting something evil? oh he must be an oblivious ditzy idiot, lolol. except, after everything is turned upside down and lysandre’s plan fails and he’s presumed DEAD, you’re proved WRONG AGAIN, because AUGUSTINE KNEW THE WHOLE TIME. he knew lysandre was going to try something drastic, he knew he was struggling, he knew he did really want a beautiful world, not a destroyed one, and he did nothing. Sycamore Did Nothing And He Regrets It. and you think oh wow that actually really sucks, should’ve would’ve could’ve, though, and then you walk up the stairs to the train station in couriway town and you find a note your professor wrote in his youth, maybe when he was your age, even, asking if you like the person you are now. and you start to think that maybe he doesn’t. not now. how could he?