>>38711749>TOTT: Academia and the scientific community are practically non-existent in canon - an area ripe for exploration and interpretation. For instance: we know they have their specialties, but what do the pokemon professors really do? They claim to be studying pokemon but most of them we've never seen outside their lab. What kind of research do they do? Do they publish papers? Guest lecture at universities? How do you envision these important-yet-generally-in-the-background NPCs?I would presume they're doing more in-depth research than the hot take blurbs the Pokédex spits out and backed up by a local academic institution, given that they do stuff like show up on radio/TV in the anime.
Also, unrelated to acedemia, but I'm back with a story update after missing the boat a couple of times.
FFN:
>https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11084689/73/FledglingsAO3:
>https://archiveofourown.org/works/3465593/chapters/45265084Hoping to pick up the pace a bit after some very busy meta, but if nothing else the new arc will be a bit of a change of pace.
