>>58312102#3, Professor Connors, conspiracist extraordinaire. Grew up in a rich family with a happy childhood, so his greatest fears ended up being completely imaginary. Fell hard into conspiracy theories through college and only ended up in the League because his parents paid for him to be there so he wouldn't be unemployed. Loves his original Sceptile like a brother and keeps claiming it's his only friend (even though his family still loves him). Constantly wears an astronaut helmet covered in tin foil "to keep his brainwaves safe from Psychics."
His gym is a refurbished laser tag place, bought on the cheap and hardly configured. Challengers have three minutes to shoot as many aliens as possible and avoid being shot by federal agents. Each alien grants 1 point. UFOs grant 5. Federal agents give -5 per shot. Once the time limit is up, as long as they have more than 100 points, challengers get to face the gym leader in a sterile lab setting (to make him seem like he knows what he's talking about). If not, they're kicked out.
He doesn't trust the entire rest of the League because he thinks they've been hired to keep him quiet. He personally scans every trainer that manages to reach him with a light gun, pretending that it's for metal detection purposes while really being meant to detect Psychic trainers. The light gun is completely useless, but Connors doesn't know that so he just thinks he's never encountered a Psychic before.
