>Hey, I got an idea! >For our villain team, let's

They're thematically perfect.

Flare doesn't just mean fire, it can be fashionable. And have you seen high fashion, and some of those fashion shows? They look fucking retarded. So Flare being fucking retarded and just terrible in every way, and being the worst team in the franchise, is thematically perfect.

It's supposed to be a play on "flair", i.e. stylishness

because the region is based on france, and especially Paris, a place with an emphasis on style

Did you seriously not know this?

>>26838120
That just makes it an even bigger failure, because there's nothing stylish about Team Flare.

>>26838120
Everyone does.
They also have an obvious fire motif.
Are you blind?

>>26838137
how can you look at malva and the female executive/admin and say that

>>26838153
It's almost like Malva is just one of hundreds of members

>>26838137
That's the entire point, though. It's a joke about how they think they're fashionable (just like the entire fashion industry), but most of the rest of the world just thinks they're fucking insane.

>>26838153
Funnily enough, Malva is literally the only Team Flare member who actually looks like they have anything to do with both sides of the theme (Fire and style).

I swear, Malva was meant to be the leader of Team Flare until someone insisted that the team leader needed to be a dude at the last minute, forcing them to spin up some completely out of nowhere guy who's not terrible on paper, but ends up looking like a total idiot for hiring stupid rich kids when he looks like that he should be hiring competent thugs instead. Then GF shoved Malva into the Elite Four so that she didn't end up being a complete waste of resources.