>>58512355Malva got off scott free as far as we knew in XY. She's still a news anchor in ORAS and she helps the player stop Xerosic's Essentia plan. And an NPC in ZA asks what happened to her, meaning she wasn't publicly arrested, but also isn't a newscaster or E4 member anymore, she just vanished from the limelight despite normally basking in it like a lizard on a cold morning.
So unless the police were able to connect her to it later but arrested her on the downlow so random NPC guy didn't know, she's probably not in jail.
It would, however, have been a very smart move to flee the country just in case they ever did.
>Gyms are now permanently closed? Replaced by the Royale?Gyms are presumably still around. The Royale is a Lumiose city only thing, and was created by Quasartico specifically looking for the strongest trainers in Lumiose City, to secretly spearhead a disaster prevention group related to the Rogue Megas. The city is being flooded with mega energy, creating crystals all over town, attracting wild pokemon in droves creating the Wild Areas, and driving some of them berserk when it concentrates enough in one area. If you've ever watched Legend of Korra, it's kind of reminiscent of the Spirit Wilds in Republic City situation. Technically this is spoilers but like, c'mon, no it's not, it's incredibly obvious from the get go their foreshadowing has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
Given the situation in PLA and the fact this is the only two times we've seen them, I heavily suspect that Alphas only occur when the ecology is heavily disrupted by large environmental doses of infinity energy.
>Why haven't we seen the previous gym leaders, elite four and Diantha participate in the Royale?Diantha, Clemont, and Bonnie are all explicitly missing. With the DLC being Mega DIMENSION, I kind of expect they ended up Fallers like Annibelle and Inigo. Lumiose has no gym currently because the eiffel tower itself is under renovation and its leader is missing.
