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Professor Kukui (Pokemon)

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Almost let the cat out of the bag accidentally but Eri luckily caught on there, and oof, that's unfortunate to overhear when she's so excited about the idea 😵‍💫

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The worst part about it is the fact that he is canonically capable of saying the most out of pocket things without even flinching because he does it MULTIPLE TIMES. (Battle royal cutscene giving me whiplash every time i replay one of the four alola games)

He'd throw in a reference and just continue on as normal while watching the double take with the same amount of amusement as a gengar does after spooking someone

And he would absolutely do it to annoy Mo as revenge for the near constant almost outing a certain feral luchador

Burnet meanwhile enables him and shows him even more vines.

Liking Alola in 2024 is great until it dawns on you that Kukui would say "hawk tuah" and not know the meaning of it and wanting to fit in, but Lillie does and can't say anything about it because she knows it would be really awkward and only knows it because Moon and Guzma won't stop repeating it

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Liking Alola in 2024 is great until it dawns on you that Kukui would say "hawk tuah" and not know the meaning of it and wanting to fit in, but Lillie does and can't say anything about it because she knows it would be really awkward and only knows it because Moon and Guzma won't stop repeating it

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I got a notification about how far I walked despite the fact that A) I havent gone outside in almost a week because I've been too busy having Ouchie Leggies & 8 hour afternoon naps and B) I didnt take my phone with me when i went to the dentist because it was next to my bed on. charge.

Then this happens...

Love the man but he really is pushing his luck because I can and will evolve my shiny meltan by christmas out of spite if these shenanigans continue

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Edit: I should specify that this is for if he weren't married, or if he were polyamorous. We know he wouldn't break his wife's heart

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Guzma seems to be around 21 or 22 based on how oddly specific alola can be at times (e.g cant be a trial captain if you're 20 or older & Plumeria specifically saying that Lusamine was the only adult to see Guzma as a strong trainer) and it fits with the fact that he's the boss of a bunch of fellow rejects that are pretty much all teenagers.

Kukui you could put basically anywhere between 21 and 25 and it would work since he's definitely younger than most of the other Regional Profs and just far enough into his 20s to still get called "Young Kukui" by Hala. I'd put him at 23/24 due to the anime having him wearing the lab coat when Guzma lashed out meaning he had already gotten his title in that version of their story and the popularity of a certain luchador in all of Alola's different depictions needed to be factored in on top of it since Kukui studied in Kanto not Alola

Even if Guzma is supposed to be the same age as Professor Kukui I doubt either of them are older than their mid-twenties.

Even if Kukui has a doctorate according to the Pokemon manga you could graduate from college at age 6 if yer smart enough so...

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For as much shit as i (privately) give the local kids due to experiencing more than 12 overstimulation meltdowns due to screeching children in the past 3 years after going most of my life with only 1 or 2 every few years due to being a very indoorsy autism creature

One of the 4 is loud but not a dog whistle squealer and we found out he's moving soon and earlier on got confirmation that he has ADHD so I'm a bit more tolerant since he's a good kid who just puts the hyperactivity in ADHD a bit too much

He also gets bullied by the squealers a lot cuz they are bratty kids

Anyway!

I recently got some Pokémon cards cuz I'm a gremlin that likes to collect things and am finally in a position where i can occasionally indulge the crow braincell and my autistic ass forgot to brain to mouth filter while the kid's mother stopped by for a quick chat not long after i opened my first elite trainer box cuz she mentioned he struggles with making friends due to being seen as weird (due to being neurospicy we all know this story too well) and i ended up piping up about how she could probably get him to talk to me about Pokémon as a last resort since we both liked Pokémon and were both neurospicy (granted its opposite ends of the spectrum)

Fast forward a few days to today and ive completely forgotten this interaction happened cuz i had a dentist appointment and some strong painkillers

8:20am theres a knock on the door and it turns out that it was the kid coming over to drop of a little stack of Pokémon cards for me since his mother obviously mentioned it to him and had wanted him to do a little organisation of his cards before they moved

I decided to keep these cards separate from my tiny collection so they dont get lost as the collection grows since im planning to treat myself to 3 more elite trainer boxes this Christmas and organise my cards in small stacks based on the card type (item, trainer, energy etc)

The funny thing? I never mentioned which mons were my favourites and Bulu is my favourite of the four Tapus due to it's lore (Koko and Fini are a close tied second due to their shinies) so it's pure chance that a Tapu Bulu GX was in the stack

Hopefully life treats the kid better cuz secondary school bullying is nasty around here if you aren't one of the "in crowd" with being neurodivergent resulting in it being even worse and he's already had some shit due to bullies going way too far

Might see if i can find some new Bluetooth headphones before the end of this month to replace my 8 year old pair though because the footballs hitting fences and all the squealing is very unpleasant for me due to my sensitive hearing and i quite like the idea of not having to deal with yet another set of 4 overstim meltdowns this summer

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"This reminds me of the time I broke my back!"

- Kukui teaching The Kids about Alpha Pokémon and their increased aggression

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WE ALREADY DID PROFESSOR SYCAMORE SO IT'S TIME FOR:

✨⭐"DOES THIS CHARACTER KNOW WHAT SEX IS?" THURSDAY⭐✨

THIS WEEK: PROFESSOR KUKUI (POKéMON)

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I swear my favourite brand of family drama involvement is "I only got mentioned cuz I dont give a fuck about the bitch"

One of my (disowned) siblings is trynna use the results of her only achievement in life (2 kids) to emotionally blackmail people in the family yet again while I was MIA for about 6 hours yesterday afternoon/evening due to feelin woozy after almost fainting within the first 5 minutes of leaving the dentist.

As usual no one has a spine against her and then the whole "family loyalty" thing gets thrown in and I'm mentioned in the "well at least one of you has a shred of loyalty" side of the argument while my ass is in bed half eavesdropping half trynna go back to sleep cuz it was like 6am and i have priorities.

Its purely the fact that my dumb ass is immune to that specific blackmail due to being an autistic rat that has no interest in being around children and had literally disowned her prior to this drama because I don't like my maternal siblings due to them somehow all being assholes (derogatory) with the exception of Little Miss Cant See My Kids Then's younger twin brother cuz we actually have some things in common EXCLUSIVELY with each other land are a pair of sarcastic bastards when together. (Plus i tell him where mum keeps the biscuits)

I'd still absolutely turn traitor if offered shelter, a FUCK TON of pancakes and dragons.

Don't judge me. Im a simple man who'd rather get The Good Shit than another encore of Crotch Fruit Withholding every 6 months.

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"they have such an strange effect on me" usually something lowkey relationshippy/heathenly

I've been rewatching season 6 xisuma for funsies (currently on episode 737: Where did all the water go?) and in early 2025 I'm supposed to be getting a new pc to replace the shitty lil one that died Summer of 2022

AND NOW I'M PLANNING OUT THE FULL REORGANIZATION OF MY ROOM TO RELOCATE SOME TECH TO MAKE ROOM FOR A LITTLE TABLE THAT I DON'T HAVE PICKED OUT YET TO SIT NEXT TO MY DESK SO THE PC TOWER DOESNT BREAK MY POOR LIL CORNER DESK

WHY IS IT ONLY XISUMA'S EPISODES FROM OLDER SEASONS THAT MAKE ME WILLINGLY PRODUCTIVE?!

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I was talking to one of my friends about Doc's shenanigans and my friend responded with this absolute gem

"they call him Doc bc its his catchphrase, and Warner Bros will descend on Hermitcraft if they address him by his real name, Bugs Bunny"

The follow up response after learning about the season 6 portal shenanigans was

"this is just proving that Doc is indeed Bugs Bunny"

By my friend's logic The Goat is The Chaos Bnuuy and now I understand why we've been friends for the past 11 years

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So thats what kukui's been doing for the past 8 years-

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Soooooo

Hes in MCC

Reckon the Mega Derp button will need to be booped before the halfway mark?

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Just realised a mildly annoying thing about the Alola games...

And yes its kukui related. Specifically royal.

Could one make the argument that The Masked Royal is a Battle Facility Leader in all but name due to how he works?

BFLs have that whole "only fought if you have an x amount win streak" thing going on on top of being the final boss of a win streak. Royal has that same requirement set but its way more restrictive than lets say Palmer.

Royal required a 5 win streak in the Master Rank of the Battle Royal then, like Palmer, he resets the streak when defeated while also being the final trainer of the entire list. He also if i remember correctly is the only one of the 51 to have the "Pro Wrestler" Trainer Class.

He's not listed as a BFL canonically to my knowledge but WOULD he be counted as the Dome's leader and by extension unofficially a BFL through following the requirements the canon BFLs have?