UNNAMED BLUE ROSECHU: Yes, sir. We will have it ready in a few minutes.
SIMON: Huh. Forget Wild’s dating education class, I ought to ask that cutie out.
SIMON: You know what, Sandy? I think I will move here. I have only a few possessions. A breeze for me.
SANDY: A good choice. CWCville is a great city with very supportive communities, and a safe space.
SIMON: Hmm… how are you doing in school?
SANDY: Oh, silly uncle. I’ve only just started. After evolving, and everyone teaching me this and that, I filled an application, I got placed in the fourth grade. Basic handwriting is easy; Zapina taught me. My first day in October was nice. Math was copable.
SIMON: Well, in my digs, I’ve found more than a dozen gold nuggets; after selling them, I rented a comfy place in town. I hold on to the Quick Ball I was caught in to remember that no matter what in my life, it can only get better in my life. Plus, it’s easier to store things in than a bulky backpack.
Caption: 15 minutes later…
UNNAMED BLUE ROSECHU: Your fossil has been revived. This is a new Pokemon you’ve uncovered.
UNNAMED BLUE ROSECHU: I’ve contacted Professor Cedar; it has been dubbed Bananasaur. We’ve 3D-scanned it and got some vitals. We would greatly appreciate one or two more for further research; please consider a day care center. Here you go.
Here we meet this blue Rosechu scientist who, despite Chris’s love of all things EHP, has never been given much characterization - she may as well be a human - she doesn’t even have a name (“Unnamed Blue Rosechu” is a pretty unwieldy name, I’m just going to call her “Marjorie” from here on out.) Marjorie works in Pokemon fossil restoration, working under CWCville’s very own Pokemon Professor “Professor Cedar”, one of very few EHPs we’ve ever seen to hold a steady job. She has a distinctively orange Raichu tail. This might just be because she’s on the job, but she’s also one of very few EHPs to regularly wear a full set of clothes. Her elemental typing is unclear, but it’s possible she’s a Water/Electric-Type like Bubbles, just without the Marril tail. Simon is attracted to her, and thinks about asking her out, a plot thread that’s not expanded upon any further. Neither Simon nor Marjorie reappear in Sonichu 12, despite Simon expressing interest in returning to CWCville.
Speaking of, Simon, since his brother-in-law and niece are no longer out for his blood, realizes nothing’s keeping him from Virginia. He did have a place in West Virginia, rented out with the money he made from selling the things he dug up, but he’s okay with uprooting his life to be closer to family, despite the fact that he probably won’t be able to do as much digging far away from the mountains. He keeps Evan’s Quick Ball as a reminder of how far he’s come after leaving his control. Sandy also talks about entering the fourth grade, which was alluded to in Sonichu 10 (I can’t believe Chris got that continuity right.)
CWCville’s Pokemon Professor, in line with the tradition that most Pokemon Professors take their names from trees, is dubbed Cedar, and little is known about them. In fact, their role as Professor would seemingly be usurped in April 2019, when Chris would take umbrage with the fact that Trickie’s Rosechu’s Story implied that Cole Smithey was a Pokemon Professor, so Chris changed it so that “Professor Cole” was fired for doing poor work and he was replaced by one “Cindy Zapbud”, a Professor named after the fictional electric flower Rosechu loves. Presumably, Prof Zapbud also replaced Prof Cedar, assuming that Zapbud isn’t a rename of Cedar (it’s more likely Chris forgot mentioning the Cedar character, seeing how little presence they have in the story, and assumed the position was open when creating the Zapbud character.)
Here, we’re introduced to the concept of the Bananasaur for the first time in the story. The fossil Simon found didn’t contain any of the twenty-five currently known fossil Pokemon, but something totally new, and so much worse. Marjorie recommends dropping the thing off at a Pokemon Day Care to breed it with a Ditto to make further specimens for research, something that would be followed up on.
