So how did you reconcile him being Aether and him not having received an education?
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I’M NOT SURE IF I’D CALL IT RECONCILIATION SO MUCH AS IT IS REALLY BAD JUSTIFICATION unless i used the term reconcile at some point which, knowing me, I probably did. Moving on.
TL;DR: the Pokémon world doesn’t rub me as someplace that you have to go to school. Particularly if you’re going to be working with Pokémon, especially as a trainer, education is advised, but not necessary. I could go on about my school headcanons but that’s a bit extra.Many Pokémon Professors and Scientists aren’t formally educated–they are, however, recognized for their skills and knowledge and developments and discoveries and work and such. It’s like. If you can do all of this in practice and explain it without, y’know, having had needed formal education, you don’t necessarily need to have had a formal education or a degree or anything. That’s just kind of the general view of it. Obviously there are places and positions where you do need to be able to produce a degree, but that’s individually based on the basis of, like, the company in question or the school or whatever.
So Loch’s family was Breeders and Daycare workers and have been for like. All of their family history. His surname, Kahu, even means ‘caretaker.’ They took on an occupational surname–as I recall, surnames aren’t common in native Hawaiian naming conventions(which reminds me that i need to change Loch’s birthname because he should probably have one of those really long and detailed names and just be Ua for short,) and they took on their surname long ago for the sake of, y’know, the…mainlanders to put it nicely. why am I putting it nicely? idk. they were invaders. don’t ask me for too much history i’m still VERY BAD AT THAT. Besides, they were typically associated with the term anyway, because, like I said, it’s an occupational surname.
MOVING ON Loch’s family has been breeders for forever, and he was raised the same. As a result of that and expectations leading to a lot of personal study and personal experience, Loch became very knowledgeable about Pokémon biology, not just breeding patterns and such. This heavily influenced his love for crossbreeds and variations, which you can see heavily reblogged onto this blog at times.
As stated earlier, one doesn’t need to have official school credentials to be able to be recognized for their work in the Pokémon world if they, y’know, produce work. Loch joined the Aether Foundation and, obviously, just started as a regular employee, working heavily in the conservation area.
Loch’s only real personal interaction with Lusamine was what landed him a spot down in the basement(and, y;know, because his record stated his dependent tendencies and his eagerness to please and such. So clearly he’d be a good sheep/canon fodder/scapegoat and be able to keep a secret and just take the blame should something go wrong and still do his best to work for them as they desired. Like i’ve said before, Loch basically has a big neon sign over him that says “EASILY TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.”
So in the conservation area, obviously they have to make sure Pokémon don’t go breeding recklessly. Medications are usually applied shortly after they arrive in the Paradise to ensure they don’t go making eggs or anything crazy. Keeps hormones and populations in check as needed and lets them ensure all is well with the Pokémon before they go about their business.
Well, now and then timing isn’t right and some Pokémon didn’t get their medications in time and hey where’d that egg come from isn’t it weird how they just appear like that sometimes?
Obviously the Aether Foundation isn’t fucking PETA and isn’t gonna go killing eggs just because they weren’t meant to be there so the Conservation area staff had to attend to the egg. No big deal since they had to care for baby Pokémon anyway and all. It happens. Loch, of course, felt a little spark in him at something he knew lots about and eagerly jumped in to help caring for the egg, displaying all manner of breeder knowledge and being the one heavily in charge when things started to go wrong or things seemed off with the egg.
And those things happened often. Loch didn’t voice his suspicion as he didn’t want to seem like he was smarter than some of the scientists around for the suggestion(well, kinda, he does actually rather like being a bit of a knowitall) and not to mention the chances of such were slim so he didn’t blame them for not thinking of it… .
But one day the egg hatched into a semi-healthy crossbreed. I never decided what Pokémon it was crossbred between, but Loch, of course, rushed in to ensure it lived and grew to be healthier, shyly displaying his knowledge in the process. Of course, when lusamine came around to check out the new addition to her lovely Pokémon family, the uncommon sight and the knowledgeable little fucker leading its care caught her attention. Mostly the Pokémon, of course.
When it was old enough, she said she would be taking it for her own care. Hybrid children often don’t live that long, even in captivity, so that Loch was able to get it to reach a stage where it was stable was an impressive display of his knowledge on the matter. Loch was okay with this, since he’d passed hybridized Pokémon off to trainers before, and politely and hesitantly and with her permission gave her instructions on how to ensure its best care, not that he thought in any way she would have trouble caring for it!! But he knew how much she loved Pokémon and she seemed okay with his sharing his knowledge with her.
Of course, one little display of biological know-how doesn’t get somebody to be an un-diploma’d scientist. Obviously he helped out in other areas. But his personal knowledge and skill used in practice combined with his attitude and personality and semi-reclusiveness(being that he was pretty much only friends with Hyde when he was in Aether, though he knew others, though not very well) meant he wouldn’t be terrible at keeping a secret.
And so they brought him down to the labs where he would be helping with some of the more…complicated aspects of Pokémon conservation and sciences and the like. No need to worry, they’d teach him anything he didn’t quite understand while he was there! He’d also be helping with some…additional projects that he’d likely be good at handling. He could surely handle the workload…don’t want to disappoint the President, now do we? She’s put so much trust in you, so come along with us to the labs below… .
…Did that explain everything? I feel like I got off track, but.
TL;DR: in my view of the Pokémon world schooling isn’t completely necessary for all the same things it is irl(obviously if you wanna be a doctor you’re gonna wanna go to school!! But not so much for some scientists) if you can prove your knowledge practically. Loch was able to do so at the Aether Foundation, which led to them making him a scientist to help out with work down there, Ultra Beast studies, and stabilization of Type: Full since he did have practical knowledge of hybrids and chimeras and was able to keep one alive for a good while.
Lusamine probably froze it. /shrug emoji) it’s beauty and uniqueness will be appreciated and salvaged forever… .
