Headcanon Meme!

[usedlaserbeam]

✭ A HEADCANON/QUESTIONS MEME ✭
Because Plurk is down and everything is terrible.

→ Post with a list of your characters.
→ Comment to other people asking them questions about their lineup. Ask anything you can think of: questions about personal headcanon, thoughts on your CR, hypothetical situations, off-screen interactions, future plans, serious business, random crack, whatever!
→ Respond to the questions you receive!
→ LEARN NEW THINGS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CHARACTERS THAT YOU NEVER KNEW BEFORE.
→ Repeat steps 2-4 forever.
→ Holy Voltorbs.

Comments

[triptoprofiling]

This is a follow-up question to your previous response in regards to Albert joining academia. Since there is a "wordly consensus" that there is no chance of returning home and there is only so much SCIENCE you can do inside of a house, would Albert consider being in a professor in Route? And if so, what would he teach? Would he consider training new forensic pathologists in this setting?

[doitrockapella]

Oh, hmm, that's a great question! I don't know if Albert necessarily buys into the idea that there's no chance of returning home since he's seen that people do leave before, but assuming that somehow that stopped and he had a definite answer that no, there was no chance of returning home? Then yes, he'd absolutely start training people in the stuff he knows. I mean, hell, the Jennies wouldn't let him have a scalpel to perform lifesaving surgery on a Paras so he just trained his Scyther to do it instead.

(Coincidentally, that's where Dummy got his name; he didn't really have one yet and Albert was walking him through the surgical process and he was about to make a mistake with one of his incisions, so Albert yelled STOP, DUMMY! and Dummy just kind of decided that was his name from that point out.)

So yes, if it came down to it, he would absolutely be proactive about trying to make Johto a better place. He already kind of does, but the whole world is still so foreign to him that there's a kind of lack of attachment to it? And that's one that he willingly tries to maintain because Pokemon Land is CRAZY and he frankly wants to resist buying into the line as long as possible. But assuming he finally did, then yeah, he'd be all over it. He'd recruit the other smart people in Johto to contribute their efforts, too, and start writing textbooks — setting up a knowledge base from as many practical disciplines as they could manage and training up more people in them.

As far as what he would teach, he could probably stand to do chemistry and forensics, because those were what he majored in and what his focuses are; he could probably also do anatomy and physiology and in theory raise up some surgeons. ...and, well, he aced English Lit, so. I mean, under protest he could probably do Shakespeare, too. >>