HC that pre-canon Laventon absolutely was out in the field nearly getting himself killed every day studying pokemon and didn’t realize it was a Problem at first because his research assistant had common sense never did anything stupid so whatever right?
But then the protag falls out of the sky and immediately proves to have nothing even remotely close to a healthy fear of pokemon or death which gives Laventon a such an intense crisis of self that he instantly cleans up his act in a desperate attempt to be a good role model and convince the teenager he’s kinda sorta responsible for to stop coming home covered in scrapes and bruises excitedly talking about how an alpha Blissey hyper-beamed them off a cliff like that’s a good thing.
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