>>51578937>My headcannonRentfree aside, there is a point to be made.
Whatever the canon is, it's absolutely not well presented in the actual game. The game was not well equipped to make the idea of Lysandre good. This is a theme with X/Y in general, the region had a lot of potential for beautiful routes and varied dungeons, and the concept art shows this to an extent, but what we got was Part 1 of Corridors: The Series on a subpar looking game on a weak console.
If you imagine what lysandre (and everything else in his game) was supposed to be like he is suddenly pretty cool. But that is simply not what he was. He was just a lunatic who they tried to present as a tragic villain for some reason.
This is also why villains like Giovanni and Ghetsis are just superiour.
>Bad man who wants to steal your superpowered pet for money>Bad man who wants world domination by seizing a monopoly on superpowered petsSimple premises, this, Gamefreak can handle. There was no tragedy, just a bad guy you had to beat.
With all of this said, Rose is the exact opposite of everything Pokémon villains do well. He is not evil, he is a supposedly good guy who fucks up stupidly. There isn't even an idea of how he was actually cool, like with Lysandre. No matter how you slice it, Rose was impatient and idiotic, and I don't even know what they tried to do with him.
