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Professor Fennel

Role

Expedition lead. The human face of the research initiative. Your narrative anchor throughout the game β€” quest giver, home base, the person who believes in you and the expedition.

Character

Warm, genuinely curious, easy to trust. Competent and experienced. She arrived in good faith and believes the expedition is what it claims to be. No hidden agenda.

The Edge

When the truth comes out β€” Rocket’s history, what Silph Co. unknowingly enabled, what the expedition was walking into β€” there’s a sharpness to her reaction. Not corruption. The precise anger of someone who realises they were used as cover for something they’d never have agreed to.

Function

Her goodness makes the darker history stand in sharper contrast. Her reaction to the truth is one of the emotionally honest moments of the late game.

Her research background (consciousness, cognition, unusual PokΓ©mon mental states) makes her well-suited to engage with questions about Porygon-3’s experience β€” not just its threat level.