#I just. hyperzoom onto the healing part rn for this stuff

[b4kuch1n]

Okay but can we discuss the general overall theme of all of your Hop comics which tends to boil down to how Hop is Not Okay™️? I love that the fandom is realizing the boys growing conditions living under the weight of Leon (beautiful disaster that he is) is harmful in terms of the pressure. However I love your professed/lecturer/engineer spin you’ve taken on his future because it actually adds substance behind his very vague “I think I’m gonna be a Pokémon Professor!!”

haha Hop and Leon’s relationship hits me a bit hard, because they definitely love each other a lot, but at the core of it I don’t think they know each other very well until post-game? it happens with family members who have only ever been nice to you, but who you don’t get to just. see living their lives. it’s much easier to make up what your loved ones think about you (and thus put pressure on yourself) when you don’t really have that approximation of how they are in your head, y’know? 

it probably doesn’t help that Leon seems to think of Hop as The baby brother. or, well, doesn’t seem like he thinks about it too much, he just. acts around Hop how he’s been acting around Hop. it’s a common thing (which I have lived through and try not to do to my siblings), but there can be that break when you actually get to know your family and just. start registering them as their own person. you like them for who they are, not just because they’re your family. I really want to see Leon and Hop get to that point, which is why I keep returning to post-game stuff and future!Hop haha... but again, no more than what the boy deserves anyway! 

I do kind of take some issues with pokemon’s handwavy ‘professor’ as ‘support’ beside a trainer, so this is just a chance for me to try and flesh it out in a way that feels better to me. and I am very much about Hop finding his own footing, a big part of which of course is actually thinking about what he does, and also I am still a bit enamored with the tech wiz archetype I still haven’t outgrown my 13yo soul... I’m glad you like the stuff I make up haha!!