right so this post went round a bit ago about how Pokemon Go is basically a huuuuuge capture-tag-release wildlife research program for Willow’s lab
consider the following: Candela, Blanche, and Spark are his grad student advisees/assistants.
(incidentally we are the undergrads who will do a bunch of random shit for candy in this scenario.)
Blanche wrote the better part of the code that records and calculates all their statistics and occasionally winds up in a corner, morphed into a malevolent pile of scarves glaring out at the world through a choking haze of MATLAB, trying to fix some shit in the model while the other two occasionally scoot a cup of tea over to them
Candela and Spark take turns wrangling the undergrads and other randos who contribute to the program (large parts of Team Valor and Team Instinct are just the undergrads who particularly liked either of them and will get into arguments over which is better)
Spark does the most field research of the three and at one point wound up flat on his back in the middle of a field with a mob of Pidgey attacking his pockets because he forgot he had sandwich crusts in there
Spark occasionally has an really out-of-left-field hypothesis and the other two are simultaneously amazed and infuriated at how frequently his weird ideas are right (instinct yo)
Candela occasionally just slams a couple of energy drinks and pulls an HONOR AND GLORY enthusiastic all-nighter and the other two come round in the morning to throw a blanket over her because they know she’s just gonna wind up passed out on the desk eventually
the three of them haggle over who gets to play music and have worked out a rota, or at least they did until Willow confiscated their speakers because they were tagging batches of Jigglypuff at the time and the jigglypuff were picking up their musical tastes so there was one day of Dragonforce Jigglypuff (Candela duh), one day of J-Pop Jigglypuff (that was Blanche surprisingly enough), and one day of super-soporific Jigglypuff because Spark had the bright idea to play them some Pachelbel
Candela orders hot peppers on the pizza, Blanche has a knife and fork in their bookbag and eats pizza with utensils (plastic utensils really aren’t enough), Spark will stack one piece of pizza on top of another and eat both simultaneously
Spark once took a photo of Candela tackling a Snorlax that didn’t want to be tagged while Blanche and Willow looked on in horror
Candela in general handles the big Pokemon where a bold approach works best
Blanche handles the tiny ones that need a lot of precision
Spark handles the shy ones that need an understanding approach
or at least that’s what they would each specialize in if they weren’t all fuck deep in Pidgey and Rattata all the time
Spark has a handful of Rattata that might not have made it back in the wild and he’s named them all and taught them all ridiculous tricks. His Pikachu acts as their leader
Blanche has a Lapras they hatched from an egg and they ride it, among other things, across the aquarium tank that houses the big water pokemon that need examination and tagging
Spark wants to help with the aquatic pokemon and will attempt valiantly if allowed but he can’t swim for shit so he’s banned, Blanche and their pokemon had to keep rescuing him (Candela was taking pictures)
Candela has a Growlithe that follows her everywhere with no Poke ball or leash, including to lectures and office hours
OH SHIT TEACHING PROFESSORS the team leaders are Willow’s teaching assistants too, Blanche is the most meticulous grader but also is the most sought after at office hours because they’re very knowledgeable and good at explaining, Candela is beloved for her personality and occasional Adventure Tangents and Spark straight up puts stickers on papers he grades
Spark will eat obscene amounts of instant noodles because lol grad student budget, Blanche makes instant noodles too but you don’t realize it because they put in egg and vegetables and somehow make it very edible
this isn’t as #overlyhonestmethods as I wanted it to be so go ahead add more ideas on if you want
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