Sandbox / Pokemon Scarlet And Violet The Professors

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The Professor(s) of the Paldea region.

Long before the events of the game, Arven's parent used their findings from their explorations into the Great Crater of Paldea to make a breakthrough: a time machine that could pull from prehistory (in Scarlet) or look into the future (in Violet). After Arven was born, their spouse left them, leaving them without assistance in their research, leading them to create a robotic copy of themselves using Tera Crystals in the crater. It is this robotic copy that participates in the story and whom you meet, as the original Professor is long dead by the time you start the game, killed by one of the Pokémon they brought into the present day.

General Tropes

• Archnemesis Dad: Depending on which version of the game you play, Sada/Turo turns out to be Arven's estranged parent.
• Big Bad: The Paradise Protection Protocol itself is the closest thing the game has to one, as it persists beyond the original professor's death and continues to safeguard the time machine that threatens Paldea's ecology.
• Badass Bookworm: Aside from being scientists, both Professors are highly competent trainers who have managed to catch and train a full team of Paradox Pokémon.
• Boss Remix: Their battle theme music is one to the Area Zero map, mixed with a Dark Reprise of the Tera Raid battle music.
• Dark Reprise: The guitar part in their battle theme plays a more frantic and dire remix of the Tera Raid battle theme, and appropriately, their boss arena resembles a Tera Raid cavern.
• Decomposite Character: Clavell plays most of the part that the traditional Pokémon Professor usually takes on, while Jacq takes over the typical Professor role of analyzing the Pokédex. Sada and Turo are left with their aesthetic and role as the parent of one of your friends.
• The Ghost: At least one of the notes you find in the last area implies that both of them are canonically Arven's parents, but one of them walked out of the relationship shortly after Arven was born and doesn't appear in the main game.
• Knight of Cerebus: Scarlet and Violet are, generally, fairly light-hearted (even by this series' standards). When the group of heroes travels to Area Zero, the tone shifts to a much more dire, eldritch gloom, which gets even worse when the AI Professor get overtaken by the defensive protocol the original professor created that turns them into a murderous maniac that unleashes the disturbing Paradox Pokémon on you.
• Left-Handed Mirror: Presumably right-handed Sada drops her Pokéballs with her right hand while presumably left-handed Turo drops his from his left. This is especially significant as from the player's perspective, past-looking Sada's dominant hand moves counterclockwise while future-looking Turo's dominant hand moves clockwise.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • Human life is diminished in the process of time travel, and bringing Pokémon from the past/future to the present wholesale would likely end the same way. The Professor's solution was as simple as it is genius: chuck a Master Ball through time instead. Poké Balls can easily facilitate a safe transfer for Pokémon, and Master Balls in particular can't fail even on Paradox Pokémon.
  • The AI Professor can't leave Lab Zero because they require the Tera Crystals there to function, and their mere presence there keeps the time machine running in perpetuity. But after the Paradise Protection Protocol performs a Villain Override and is subsequently defeated, the AI's own body is embedded with Tera Crystals in the aftermath, allowing them to leave immediately by travelling to the past/future, solving both problems. The AI doesn't have to worry about the aforementioned "diminishing life" either because they aren't a living thing.
• Meaningful Name: They're (so far) the only professors in the mainline series not to be named after some species of tree, indicating that they aren't quite what we've come to expect.
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Justified: Turns out Sada's youthful visage is what she looked like shortly before her untimely death years ago, and her robot copy obviously doesn't age like normal human during this time.
• Odd Name Out: As mentioned above, Sada and Turo do not follow the Floral Theme Naming as the previous professors; instead their names are connected to temporal terms. This separates them as eventual antagonists to the player, while Clavell takes over the floral name as the main guide and mentor to the protagonist.
• Parental Abandonment: One of the notes in Aera Zero implies that the other professor is still alive, but abandoned both their partner and Arven shortly after the latter's birth.
• Red Herring: Early promotional material implied that they'd be serving the role of the game's primary Pokémon Professor, but they're physically absent for most of the story and Director Clavell instead takes up the more proactive role of previous Professors. Indeed, it's Clavell and not Sada or Turo who provides the "World of Pokémon" intro to the game, traditionally done by Professors, and who shares the trope of "Plant-named professor" with multiple members of his staff, including Jacq.
• Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: Aside from the very first trailer for the games, they pretty much never show up in any more of the promotional videos, hinting at their major significance to the plot.
• True Final Boss: The actual final boss of the game, fought after completing all three of the main stories.
• Walking Spoiler: To put it very mildly, the Professor is not at all who the player is likely to think they are walking in.

The Real Professor

As it turns out, the real Professor has been dead for years, but left behind a startling project that continues to operate even without them and threatens to destroy all of Paldea.

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• Ambiguously Evil: The original Professors themselves. They had several defensive measures installed around Area Zero to make sure their Time Machine would never shut down without a lot of effort and workarounds. Said Time Machine was very much a ticking time bomb for a massive ecological disaster, but Sada/Turo either ignored or viewed nothing wrong with that, prioritizing their dream research above all else. Even the AI that inherited their memories had to question their values, and it's possible that the ruthless, arrogant protocol AI dead-set on eliminating anyone obstructing their goals might reflect the original personality. That said, they did end up dying in a Heroic Sacrifice, so it could be just a matter of them taking the principles of For Science! to the extreme. The AI professor also vouches for the original's genuine love toward Arven, which is further supported by their journal entries, one of which describes the then infant Arven as "a new life [they] treasure", while another implies that their main motivation was to create a "paradise" that he could live in with them. Their explanation of this in same entry, however, paints them as deluded and obsessed, stating their belief that if they could bring enough ancient/future Pokémon to the present they could somehow create "a world like the one in the book — a paradise where we three can live happily together forever. I must make it real." Just what motivated them to feel the need for this sort of paradise is unclear.
• Crazy-Prepared: Decades mostly sequestered in Area Zero gave the Professor tons of time to safeguard their time machine against any and all threats toward its continued operation, even after their death. Past the numerous security locks spread out across the mini-Death World known as Area Zero, which is swarming with powerful Pokémon and Paradox Pokémon, the Professor went even further and built an AI to keep running the machine in their stead. Turning off the machine requires the professor's copy of the Scarlet/Violet Book, something that only their son Arven, who's (supposedly) not particularly skilled at Pokémon battling, would be able to get from the professor's surface lab. Attempting to shut off the machine, even with the book, will cause the AI to battle whoever is doing so with a full team of highly-levelled Paradox Pokémon. Even if the AI is defeated, the original professor included a last resort known as the Paradise Protection Protocol to override it with a facsimile of their own personality, lock all Poké Balls not registered to the professor, and send out a hostile specimen of the box legendary. Even after all that, the AI needs to be removed in order to completely stop the time machine. All these paranoid safety measures truly drive in how obsessed the Professor was with reaching through time, and they work so well that the news of the Professor's death doesn't even reach their own son until perhaps months after the fact.
• Dead All Along: The original Professor was killed protecting the player's cover legendary from its more aggressive counterpart 10 years before the game's beginning.
• Death by Irony: Their obsession with reaching into the past/future and keeping their time machine running at all costs ultimately led to their death at the hands of the Paradox Legendary.
• Dragon Tamer: The professor was the orignal trainer of the Box Legendary and the player is given the Pokéball they caught it in. Subverted as an attempt to tame another such dragon led to their death.
• Fatal Family Photo: Inverted: After the reveal that the Professor is dead, you can explore the lab and find a photo of a young Arven playing with Maschiff.
• Fatal Flaw: Obsession. They were so consumed by their dream of creating a "paradise" for both Paradox and present-day Pokémon (and their own family), that they were blinded, willfully or not, to the danger that they would present if they were introduced into the ecosystem unchecked. This culminated in the original Professor's death when the second Koraidon/Miraidon turned out to be much more aggressive than the first one, leading to the Professor getting killed when they tried to intervene in a fight between the two. The same obsession causes problems even after their death, as it led to them making it nigh-impossible to properly shut down the time machine.
• Karmic Death: Subverted. Area Zero builds up that something gruesome happened to the Professor as a direct result of them tampering with time, and it comes to light that the Professor was mortally wounded by one of the very Pokémon they'd misplaced from time and arrogantly thought they could control. The subversion comes when it's revealed they didn't die purely because of their arrogance. They died trying to save the first Legendary they brought through, a Pokémon they loved as much as their own son, and the one who killed them did not intend to do so. The Professor's death was ultimately their own fault, but they only paid the consequence when they put their life before someone else's.
• Killed Off for Real: In an extremely unusual turn for Pokémon, the Professor is the first character in the main series games to unambiguously die, with their real selves being killed by Koraidon/Miraidon or the destruction their battle caused in the research station, followed by the departure of their AI selves in the true ending. Their AI even emphasizes in detail that they are genuinely dead from injuries that were too severe to keep living, not that they disappeared or otherwise had an ambiguous fate.
• Lack of Empathy: Zigzagged. The posthumous character of the Professor certainly paints them as extremely lax from a moral standpoint (especially compared to their AI successor, who is frankly confounded at the lengths their creator went to preserve the time machine) which boils over at the revelation they were possibly fine with letting vast swathes of Paldea be damaged by unchecked Paradox Pokémon. That said, "emotionally apathetic" seems a better term for the Professor; despite sequestering themselves in Area Zero, the Professor obviously loved their spouse, their estranged son Arven, and the first Paradox Legendary, to the point their death came about when they tried to save Koraidon/Miraidon from its territorial counterpart.
• Mad Scientist: While the Professor's morality is a point of debate, their insanity certainly wasn't. All of the detail in Area Zero paints the Professor as an obsessed and incredibly paranoid recluse who spent decades consumed by their research on time travel. They made the infamously lethal Area Zero their base of operations and spent the rest of their life studying these Pokémon until their obsession literally killed them. When the Paradise Protection Protocol overrides their AI, the AI begins speaking as if they are the Professor brought back to life, suggesting the madman/madwoman fought at the end of the game is an accurate reflection of their most unfettered self.
• Motherly Scientist: Or Fatherly, if we're talking about Turo; the original Professor's journal has them joyously describing the discovery of Koraidon/Miraidon by comparing it favorably to the birth of their son, implying that they loved it as much as they loved their own child. Deconstructed too, as Arven implies that his parent's obsession with the Legendary made him feel like The Unfavorite growing up.
  Professor Sada/Turo: I was expecting one new life to treasure, but what fortune to be blessed with this gift as well!
• Never Say "Die": Zigzagged. The AI representing the Professor uses extremely clinical euphemisms to explicate the Professor's demise—"passed away" and "sustaining injuries that made life impossible"—but in the postgame Arven later refers to his parent's death in very stark terms.
• Parents as People: While they truly cared for their son Arven, the nature of their work meant that they were too busy to be that involved with their childhood. They were also hit pretty hard by their spouse walking out on them, which partly contributed into creating an AI version of themselves.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Literally — it's implied that they loved Arven's Mabosstiff almost as much as he does.
  • It's subtle, but it's also implied that the Professor genuinely cared for Koraidon/Miraidon — the legendary shows no fear or anger upon seeing them in Clavell's television screen, the AI Professor mentions that the Professor was Koraidon/Miraidon's original trainer and they died trying to protect it from its more aggressive counterpart. In their journals, they speak of it the way a doting parent would speak of their child, treating its arrival as a "treasure" comparable to the birth of their son.
• Posthumous Character: The original Professor, as their AI replacement turns out to be a distinct, Morally Superior Copy. The biggest twist in the plot; the original Professors have been dead for a while by the time the story begins (their estranged son Arven none the wiser) but the sheer breadth of what they created to keep their time machine running postmortem mean their obsession continues to drive the story's conflict.
• Sanity Slippage: After thier partner left them, the professor's obsession grew and was complimented with paranoia, leading them to create the AI as they determined they could only trust themselves and to put the long list of shutdown overrides into the time machine.
• Social Darwinist: The original professors knew that the Paradox Pokémon breaking out of Area Zero would devastate Paldea's ecology, but considered such destruction to be a natural part of life. This is despite their introduction to the present coming about through very much unnatural means.
• Underestimating Badassery: The original professors severely misjudged the strength of the Paradox Legendaries, which led to their being killed while trying to protect the player's Koraidon/Miraidon from its more aggressive counterpart.
  AI Sada/Turo: The Pokémon was not to be blamed. It was the original professor who failed to accurately judge its full power.
• The Unfettered: Absolutely nothing would stop the Professor from running the time machine. Not their spouse running out on them, not the influx of deadly past/future Pokémon going rampant, not the risk of the entire region being desolated by their research. Not even their own gruesome death at the hands of the Paradox Legendary stops their ambition, as they had gone to every single measure to keep the machine running posthumously.
• Villain Override: When the AI Professor is taken over by the time machine's defense mechanism, the Paradise Protection Protocol, they suddenly take on a personality that's more evocative of their creator's fervent desire to keep the time machine up and running, as if they were possessing their robot duplicate from beyond the grave.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Journal entries in the research stations imply that the professors were this, wanting to create a "paradise" where they, their son, and a third person (either their partner or Maschiff) could live together in harmony, and going to desperate, terrible lengths to do it.
• Would Hurt a Child: The defensive protocols that serve as the Final Boss are completely willing to try and murder the player, Nemona, Penny, and Arven in cold blood, even going so far as to seal their Pokéballs so that they don't have a chance of fighting back. Given that it explicitly refers to the player as "child" during battle, it also seems to be aware it is doing this (though it may not recognize the specific people it is attacking).

The AI Professor

A robotic duplicate of the Professor, and the one who's actually been speaking to you the whole time. They call Arven and the Protagonist down into the depths of Area Zero to shut down the Professor's time machine and prevent disaster.

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• Androids Are People, Too: They retain the memories and knowledge of their original selves, and are fully sentient, sapient and self-aware, with desires and values of their own.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted with the normal AI, who was based off the original Professor and actually appears to have a stronger moral code regarding the Time Machine. Played straight after the Paradise Protection Protocol takes over, as it is single-mindedly focused on achieving its goals and eradicating anyone in the way.
• Apologetic Attacker: They really, really, really don't want to fight you. Alas, their programming dictates otherwise. The Battle UI even lampshades this by stating that they don't challenge you, but initiate a battle instead. They also outright beg you to defeat them just before the battle.
  AI Sada/Turo has initiated a battle!
  • It gets much worse when the Paradise Protection Protocol takes them over and sends out the Legendary Pokémon's aggressive counterpart against you:
  AI Sada/Turo has no intention of fighting any more!
• Benevolent A.I.: The AI wants you to shut down the time machine, and only battles you because their programming forces them to.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: When the AI succumbs to the offensive protocol, their eyes glow cyan with black sclera as they turn on the player.
• Body to Jewel: When the Paradise Protection Protocol takes over the AI, their body partially crystallizes, completely encasing a hand and covering their eyes and the inside of their mouth (though Turo's model has this disappear in some shots). Their face returns to normal when they regain their senses, but the crystals on their hand and clothing remain. These crystals likely are also what allow them to continue functioning once they leave for the past or future (as they require Tera crystals for an AI as advanced as them to exist).
• But Now I Must Go: Upon realizing that their presence is the final thing keeping the time machine running, the AI decides to send themselves through time to shut it down once and for all. This has the effect of killing two birds with one stone for them, as not only does it avert the ecological disaster of the Paradox Pokémon running wild in Paldea, it allows them to see firsthand the world of the past/future that the original Professors wished to experience and gain a sense of freedom for the first time ever since their creation.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: AI Turo's Level 67 Iron Valiant has Spirit Break, a move it cannot learn until Level 91.
• Demonic Possession: Due to the AI Professors being fully sentient beings despite their artificial nature, the Paradise Protection Protocol taking them over essentially amounts to this.
• Did Not See That Coming: The AI is aware that the original Professor has installed a defense protocol that will turn them into a Killer Robot bent on eliminating anything that threatens the time machine, and has accounted for that in their plan to enlist the protagonist's help to stop the time machine. However, the AI doesn't know that not only there is a second defense protocol, said second protocol is designed specifically to deprive interlopers of any means to fight back, leaving the AI desperately telling the children to retreat at once before Paradise Protection Protocol fully takes over.
• Dragon Tamer: AI Sada uses the part Dragon-type Roaring Moon as her strongest Pokémon, and both professors use the second Koraidon/Miraidon as the Final Boss once the Paradise Protection Protocol takes over.
• Dramatic High Perching: Just as you attempt to shut off the time machine, the control mechanism is elevated out of reach while the AI Professor turns hostile to protect it, casually dropping Master Balls from up high to unleash Paradox Pokémon on you. There is even Dramatic Wind as though the AI were standing up on a mountain.
• Electronic Speech Impediment: In the final battle against them, their dialogue sometimes uses numbers or other odd characters in place of letters, implying this trope. Also, at the fourth research station, their dialogue starts to glitch out before they perform a reset on themselves.
• Ending by Ascending: After the final defeat of the Paradise Protection Protocol, the AI Professor exiles themselves from the present, either flinging themselves back or forward in time depending on the game version, in an effort to both stop the time machine for good and to go to a place where they can have the freedom to act and grow that they've come to envy in the protagonists.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: When you enter the Professor's laboratory, they're slumped over a chair as if asleep. Except... their eyes are wide open, and they blink.
• Foreshadowing: There are a number of little hints throughout the game that a player would miss easily on the hint at their true nature:
  • When you first talk to the Professor, they also address the character by their personal ID which is something that a normal Professor would have no way of accessing, both in the sense of the ID or the fact that the player was being enrolled into that school. Of course, a human wouldn't be able to access it, but an AI could. This is later repeated in Area Zero when the Professor states both Nemona and Penny's IDs as well and the two even question if Arven informed the Professor of their presence prior.
  • The Professor knows who Arven is, but never once acknowledges him as their son or mention any relation to him. At first this comes across as Parental Neglect in-line with Arven's perception of them, but it later becomes apparent that it is not Arven's true parent that we are speaking to.
  • Unlike most other characters, the Professor tends to remain idle the most. This is especially prevalent in the lighthouse cutscenes, where they don't look at either you or Arven directly.
  • After you complete any Titan on the "Path of Legends" Storyline, the Professor calls you almost immediately afterwards, commenting that they could detect Koraidon's/Miraidon's increase in power. This is despite the fact that you didn't contact them, and thus there was no way they could have possibly known that this had happened before you said anything, or how they could have found out without you telling them... unless they have an alternative means of finding out. In addition, the choice of the word "detect" stands as very artificial-sounding.
  • When you finally gain access to the Professor's Laboratory, the place looks utterly deserted, as if no one has lived or done anything there for ages. Additionally, the Professor ends up referring to themselves in the third person when talking about their research... as if they aren't the Professor... In relation to that, when you finally enter that lab, the Professor detects a "human" presence.
  • Early during The Way Home, the Professor remarks on several occasions that the children are all well or able to reach Area Zero unscathed, but speaks in a way that makes them sound oddly robotic ("Biometric identification in progress", "Four humans detected", "Vital signs all within normal range"). While some people do speak out the words they are reading, it's usually not so loud and clear as to be audible to other people, especially over telecom.
  • After the group leaves the third lab station, Arven comments that their parent brought Koraidon/Miraidon home one day, and they lived together in the lighthouse lab. That is, until the Paradox Pokémon "went nuts against some wild Pokémon", and the professor had to relocate back to Area Zero to hide its existence. Arven then ponders that, after that time, he hadn't seen them in ages, and he felt like he had lost his parent because of Koraidon/Miraidon.
  • After the fourth lab, their voice starts glitching, only clearing up when they say "...Initiating restart." This is another case of weirdly artificial-sounding and ambiguous language choice; the party assumes that it's their connection dropping for some reason, but someone who's having connection issues on a call might say something like "can you hear me". An AI that's glitching out and needs to reboot, on the other hand, would fit that wording choice a lot better.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming: The AI duplicated was created simply to be an assistant to the original professor but eventually develops their own awareness, enough to realize the flaws in the original's plan and take steps to stop it.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Their original selves saved the player's Koraidon's/Miraidon, at the cost of their own lives. Their AI selves permanently travel to the past/future in order to shut down the time machine once and for all.
• Irony: The AI duclicate was created as the original Professor, reeling from their partner walking out on them, decided they could only trust themselves so made a robot copy to spread the workload. After the professor's death, the AI does everything in it's power to defy the professor's plan, having the emotional distance from their obsession to see the harm it would bring.
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character: We only meet their AI duplicates; while they keep the original Professors' memories and knowledge, they consider themselves to be separate beings rather than the same professors in new bodies.
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Creating AI to the level of AI Professor shouldn't have been possible even with the latest technology available by the time the original professors built them, but thanks to the Tera crystals, it worked with some bonuses. However, this makes the AI dependent on Tera crystals to function, rendering them trapped in Zero Lab since Tera crystals don't exist anywhere else.
• "It" Is Dehumanizing: After their departure, Arven refers to them as "it" and treats them as objects that merely used the face and voice of his parent.
• Living MacGuffin: For a given value of "living", of course, but the AI Professor isn't simply a defense system for the time machine. By the original professor's design, the AI's presence alone is what keeps the time machine running, and there are secondary defenses in place to pick the AI back up if it fails the first time. Not even the AI Professor itself knew about this and is as shocked as everyone else when the Paradise Protection Protocol kicks in.
• Mind-Control Eyes: When taken over by the time machine's security mechanisms, the AI Professors' eyes glow an even cyan. In the second phase their irises become multicolor crystals, averaging out to whitish-cyan.
• Morally Superior Copy: The AI is more genuinely good than the original professors it is mimicking, if compared to the diaries.
• One-Winged Angel: Once the Paradise Protection Protocol completely takes over the AI professor, their movements become even more robotic and crystals start to form around their face and body.
• Painting the Medium: The battles against them have nonstandard introductory text. Round 1 starts with "AI Sada/Turo has initiated a battle!" For round 2, the statement "You are challenged by AI Sada/Turo!" quickly corrupts with static, blocks, and question marks, has a few Freeze Frame Bonuses ("Paradise Protection Protocol initialized." "AI Sada/Turo has no intention of fighting any more!") and ends as "You are challenged by the Paradise Protection Protocol!"
• Repetitive Audio Glitch: When they greet the player and company at the fourth and final lab station, they suddenly start saying "Hello, children." and "I'm sorry." over and over while stuttering, mixing up, skipping over, and stretching out each letter. Then they say "...Initiating restart." out loud and try to tell everyone that it was just wireless interference.
• Restraining Bolt: Due to their programming, the AI is literally incapable of shutting down the dangerous time machine prompting them to enlist the aid of the protagonists to do it for them.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Their robot selves are so human looking that they're indistinguishable from an actual human save for their jerky movements when their eyes glow. They're also fully sentient and self-aware, though they consider themselves distinct from the actual professors.
• Robotic Reveal: After their real selves died saving the player's Koraidon/Miraidon, they were replaced by a perfect AI version of themselves.
• Rotten Robotic Replacement: Inverted. The original Professor is painted as having been more morally gray due to their obsession with creating a paradise for their Paradox Pokémon, while their AI replacement, when acting of their own accord, is more unambiguously heroic and altruistic. They even mention that they can't see any logic in destroying Paldea's ecosystem, suggesting it's because they're a robot that they can separate themselves from the Professor's singleminded vision.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Once the party makes a not-so-smooth landing into Area Zero, the Professor contacts them to ensure they're okay. When Arven snarks that no one could complain about their landing, Sada/Turo takes him at his word. Justified in that unbeknownst to the crew until the bottom of Area Zero, they were an AI the whole time.
  Penny: I think your mom's/dad's sarcasm detector needs fixing...
• So Proud of You: The trope name is said word for word to Arven by the AI professors when they talk about how much they cared for Arven as their child.
• Turned Against Their Masters: A benevolent example. The AI strongly disagrees with the original professors' idea of letting paradox Pokémon run amok in present-day Paldea, and so desires to stop the time machine from pulling any more of those Pokémon. However, the original professors have set up countermeasures that will prevent the AI from enacting said plan on their own, forcing them to enlist outside help (the player character).
• Wham Line: When their robotic natures are revealed, accompanied by a Wham Shot of their eyes flashing red (Sada) or cyan (Turo) and their bodies jerkily standing up, like a robot:
  "Deactivating sleep mode."

Professor Sada (Ōrimu)

Professor Sada / Ōrimu (オーリム oorimu)

One of the two Pokémon professors, who is exclusive to Pokémon Scarlet, and is the mother of Arven.

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• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: To really drill home her love of prehistory, she dresses like a caveman. Her clothes beneath the labcoat are shredded, her labcoat itself has a fur collar to look like an animal pelt coat, she has a necklace of arrowheads, and even her coat's buttons resemble sharpened rocks.
• Cute Little Fangs: The second trailer shows her long canines when she talks.
• Genki Girl: Sada is said in her concept art to be very energetic and has issues holding her emotions in.
• Meaningful Name: "Sada" is short for "pasada", which is the feminine form of the Spanish word for "past". Her Japanese name comes from the Latin word "olim", meaning "once upon a time".
• Mum Looks Like a Sister: Given her youthful appearance and rather casual clothing, Sada looks more like Arven's older sister than his mother.

Professor Turo (Futū)

Professor Turo / Futū (フトゥー futuu)

One of the two Pokémon professors, who is exclusive to Pokémon Violet, and is the father of Arven.

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• Character Tics: Has a particular tendency to scratch that exceptionally chiselled jawline of his.
• Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: He bears resemblance to Dustin Bates, even sharing associations with the future and futuristic aspects.
• Future Spandex: He wears a form-fitting body suit that covers him from neck to toe under his lab coat, evoking the style of bodysuits seen in works about the future/technology-advanced societies.
• Meaningful Name: "Turo" is short for "futuro", which is Spanish for "future". His Japanese name, "Futū", also comes from the word "future".
• The Stoic: He's a lot less emotional compared to Professor Sada in his concept art.