>>40020381He only became a researcher because Blue was originally gonna be one of Oak's aides in the 1997 Gold beta. In that draft, he lost to Red so hard (bear in mind Oak came to the league to congratulate him, not Red) that it completely and utterly humiliated him, eventually prompting him to start helping out his gramps at the lab. He speaks a lot more politely too, compared to Gen 1.
