>>46774007Hop becoming professor doesn't need build up because it's just a cope on his part
>O-oh yeah I t-totally want to be the assistant to the actual professor h-haha. My dream t-totally changed after a string of humiliating defeats. Hop is a loser. He lost to you, he lost to Bede, he lost to the royals and at the end of the day even a legendary Pokemon can't save him. He's doomed to tinker around in a lab doing Sonia's bitch work for the rest of his life while his legendary dog regrets their decision to choose him every day.
