Cyrano: The Absent-Minded Director of Blueberry Academy

A school director who crosses the sea to recruit a single student. Cyrano founded Blueberry Academy, the academy set off the coast of Unova as a sister school to Paldea's own academy, and he's the one who comes to offer the player a student exchange. Behind the enthusiasm and the chronic absent-mindedness hides, as it happens, the best-concealed opponent on campus.

Contents

• A Director Who Comes for His Student in Person
• Energetic, Enthusiastic and Utterly Scatterbrained
• The Secret Boss, a Request Signed With a Fake Name
• Cyrano Beyond the Games: The Anime and the Cards
• Cyrano at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions

A Director Who Comes for His Student in Person

Blueberry Academy is no annex: it's an independent academy, located off the coast of Unova and run as a sister school to Paldea's academy. Cyrano founded it and runs it, which makes him the seafaring counterpart of his old friend Clavell.

Recruiting the player involves no administrative paperwork. The feats accomplished in Kitakami made their way to him, and he travels all the way to Paldea to present his exchange program in person, in the school's entrance hall, under the eye of Clavell, who had actually been waiting for him in his office.

The application had a sponsor: it was Carmine who put the protagonist's name forward for the exchange. The scene sums up the character's method: he goes out into the field to find his students instead of waiting for applications to come in.

Energetic, Enthusiastic and Utterly Scatterbrained

Clavell credits him with a good eye: Cyrano spots young talent before anyone else does. It's the quality that justifies his position, and incidentally the reason the player ends up swept into the adventure.

The flip side shows up fast. He gets distracted by just about everything, misses the most basic conventions and gets lost in how his own school works — a director who barely knows his own house is a running joke the games lean on without ever spelling it out.

On top of that, he has a convenient way of dealing with chores: handing them off to someone else. Lacey bears the brunt of it and doesn't hide it, since she's the one who inherits the role of guide when Cyrano slips away, once the Terarium has been shown off and the Blueberry Pokédex installed.

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The Secret Boss, a Request Signed With a Fake Name

The character has a second face, tucked away behind the League Club Room. After ten trades, a 10 BP request appears, posted by a certain Saffron, who invites you to take on an opponent billed as the secret boss of Blueberry Academy.

The meeting point is the academy entrance, and the ruse falls apart on the spot: Saffron is none other than Cyrano, and the battle he was selling is his own. The director had, in other words, put his own defeat on sale for the price of a classified ad.

The reward comes in two stages: three Comet Shards, then an unusual trade offer — a Shiny Blitzle for just about any Pokémon. He also checks your Blueberry Pokédex progress at the academy entrance, and he's the one who hands over the Mark Charm once that Pokédex is complete.

Cyrano Beyond the Games: The Anime and the Cards

Pokémon Horizons: The Series keeps him waiting in the wings: he is first mentioned from afar, and only steps onstage much later, once the story has brought its heroes to Blueberry Academy.

His first appearance shows him watching the battle between Ann and Lacey, before he welcomes Liko, Roy, Dot and Ult. He says goodbye to them a few episodes later, leaving the door open: the academy will always be open to them.

The trading card game added him in the Scarlet & Violet—Surging Sparks expansion, released on November 8, 2024. His scarf echoes the sash worn by the Honedge line, a design nod that nothing in the story ever comments on.

Cyrano at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Cyrano in the Pokémon games?
  The founder and director of Blueberry Academy, an academy located off the coast of Unova and run as a sister school to Paldea's academy. He's the one who invites the player to study there as part of a student exchange.
• Why does Cyrano come looking for the player?
  Because the protagonist's exploits in Kitakami reached him, and because Carmine recommended the player for the exchange. Cyrano then travels to Paldea himself to offer them the spot.
• Who is the secret boss of Blueberry Academy?
  A League Club Room request, unlocked after ten trades and costing 10 BP, offers you a battle against this mystery opponent. At the meeting point, the academy entrance, you discover that Saffron, the author of the request, is Cyrano himself.
• What do you get for beating Cyrano?
  Three Comet Shards, plus an offer to trade you a Shiny Blitzle for just about any Pokémon you give him. Completing the Blueberry Pokédex is also what gets him to hand over the Mark Charm.
• Does Cyrano appear in the anime?
  Yes, in Pokémon Horizons: The Series. He is mentioned before he appears, watches the battle between Ann and Lacey, welcomes Liko, Roy, Dot and Ult to Blueberry Academy, then says goodbye while inviting them to come back.

In short

Cyrano is a rare case among the series' school figures: a director whose main skill is spotting other people's talent. He recruits, settles you in, shows off the Terarium, then delegates everything else to Lacey. His real place in the credits lies elsewhere, behind a small League Club Room ad — the whole school serves as the backdrop for a battle he commissioned himself.