>>33899890>your pokemon professor is LITERALLY your professorSweet Jesus no, that's some monkey's paw shit right there. You don't want your Pokemon professor to be your actual PI. Let's consider what would happen, and heaven forbid, if that were the case.
- Your professor gives you a newly discovered Pokemon and asks you to get it to evolve. You do this by leveling it up, finding six different kinds of evolutionary stones to see if the thing reacts (and like fuck are you buying these, you'll need to go around asking other departments for small pieces), exposing it to magnetic fields and cold, bonding with it, trading it, doing all of the above with various held items, and finally finding out that its evolution is triggered by maxed contest beauty. During all of this he hounds over you while acting like it's your fault that the thing isn't evolving.
- Your professor decides to open a gym as a public service to get brownie points with the university, but basically forgets about it three weeks in, leaving you and the other poor suckers to travel 3 towns and catch the required mons in your region's designated ice area, also catching the flu as a bonus. You return to find that he changed his mind and wants his gym to be electric-type instead.
- Your professor suddenly remembers a 15 year old research idea and wants you to work on it, doesn't listen to the new literature saying that it ain't gonna happen and wants you to try it anyway, you spend 5 months trying to breed Swords Dance onto Goldeen and it doesn't pan out, professor still wants you to publish your non-findings in a respectable journal.
- Your professor agrees to show up in a conference for a talk and even an exhibition match, has to cancel it for some other business at the last second, and sends you as a replacement so that you and your pet Goldeen are staring down a Mega Garchomp just after talking about shit you barely understand.
And so many other things it hurts to think about.
