Well, first off, it's like I said - for recording your progress and possibly predicting the ways you might develop in future, or what things you need to pay more attention to. Part of it's medical - what parts of your body you need to treat with some care, what's in danger of being injured more easily, things like that. Also, since you're Fighting type-- it's closer to the way humans normally develop than most types - excluding Normal, of course - so it's among the easiest Enlightened types to document and examine. [Small nervous chuckle] Am I making it sound creepy again?
W-What I mean is like... [He makes a small helpless gesture] As a researcher, it's my duty to learn as much as I can, about Enlightened and Pokemon too, so it can be of help to future generations, or other people right now. And the more information you have, the better! Some great discoveries came from small, insignificant pieces of data-- well, not directly of course, but still. It's never like you have this huge discovery or invention to suddenly stumble upon, it's all ideas born from processing all those little things you learn during your research. A-Also, I think it would be good for me to tackle something easier at first, before going into the mechanics of other types. Like your Dark.
Anyway, that's part of it! Another part is... [He frowns a little, unsure how you'll react] Well, the other part is kind of... documenting precedents. That's not really to do with why I need your measurements-- more like part of why I'm taking an interest in it in general... Even if I'd rather not to, not for this.
[He frowns again, and looks at you a little helplessly]
What that means is... Sometimes, there are difficulties. Unexpected reactions to normal stimuli, sicknesses, evolution processes that weren't given proper attention and went the wrong way, problems with adaptation to the changes being Enlightened brings, lack of mental readiness... I mean, a lot of that stuff is present in humans enough already, but since Enlightened are different, and relatively recent we have... much less information on things like this and we don't know how to treat them or what to do in some cases. So...
[He looks away]
... I really don't want any of that to happen to you or miss Mari. To any of us, of course. But-- if it does, and if we find some way out of it, it's always better to know how and what exactly helped, or why there was a problem in the first place.
[Well. This finished much more depressingly than it started]
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W-What I mean is like... [He makes a small helpless gesture] As a researcher, it's my duty to learn as much as I can, about Enlightened and Pokemon too, so it can be of help to future generations, or other people right now. And the more information you have, the better! Some great discoveries came from small, insignificant pieces of data-- well, not directly of course, but still. It's never like you have this huge discovery or invention to suddenly stumble upon, it's all ideas born from processing all those little things you learn during your research. A-Also, I think it would be good for me to tackle something easier at first, before going into the mechanics of other types. Like your Dark.
Anyway, that's part of it! Another part is... [He frowns a little, unsure how you'll react] Well, the other part is kind of... documenting precedents. That's not really to do with why I need your measurements-- more like part of why I'm taking an interest in it in general... Even if I'd rather not to, not for this.
[He frowns again, and looks at you a little helplessly]
What that means is... Sometimes, there are difficulties. Unexpected reactions to normal stimuli, sicknesses, evolution processes that weren't given proper attention and went the wrong way, problems with adaptation to the changes being Enlightened brings, lack of mental readiness... I mean, a lot of that stuff is present in humans enough already, but since Enlightened are different, and relatively recent we have... much less information on things like this and we don't know how to treat them or what to do in some cases. So...
[He looks away]
... I really don't want any of that to happen to you or miss Mari. To any of us, of course. But-- if it does, and if we find some way out of it, it's always better to know how and what exactly helped, or why there was a problem in the first place.
[Well. This finished much more depressingly than it started]