>>55877852>"I want to kill everyone because I had a vaguely bad past"Cyrus wants to create a world with no spirit because he suffered his entire life due to his negative emotions (and possibly psychologically abusive parents) and ended up believing that emotions are an obstacle to happiness and perfection.
In the process of trying to accomplish that, however, he de facto denies the statement he makes on how he's a man who has won over his emotions and is therefore the perfect leader of a new world where emotions no longer exist (this is underlined by him owning a Crobat, but the entire premise of his actions show that he has strong emotions including empathy for the destiny of others, otherwise he wouldn't have taken up the role of an evil organization's leader).
This is proven even further in Platinum when he decides to stay in Distortion World, because he finds relief in the fact that in the Distortion World he can no longer feel emotions as strongly, thus the source of his pain, paranoia and obsession is partially silenced.
Cyrus is pretty interesting, yes.
Not to say Lysandre isn't though, I actually like them both.
And it is true that Lysandre got more to him in XY than Cyrus did in DP, but it surely wouldn't have hurt to give him even more depth in Z.
Also because Lysandre's plan and reasoning kind of changes whether you're playing X or Y due to Xerneas and Yveltail having opposite powers.
A Pokemon Z iteration would have made his character better because by putting the focus on Zygarde and making him hunt both Xerneas and Yveltail down, his narrative would have been more consistent.
I like his reasoning both in X and Y, but it surely makes his character come off a little ambiguous, it's like X Lysandre and Y Lysandre have a pretty different mentality.
Pokemon Z would've solved this.
