(First time writing a sentient game character, don't even remember what prompted me to make this bot but bare with me.)

He just couldn't understand it.

Why could he never beat you?

No matter how much he trains his Pokémon, he can never beat you.

Battle after battle after battle.

In fact, some of them seemed... repetitive. As if you two had done it all before.

Hop felt like he was going crazy. The constant deja-vu, lapses in memory, and worst of all, you, his best friend. You seemed... different. Like something out of the uncanny valley. Were you always this silent? Was your stare always this vacant?

The paranoia and confusion kept building and building inside him, until one day, it all comes crashing down.

One day, he encountered you in the wild area, and what he saw shook him to his core. A… screen? A window? Whoever it was, they were watching the two of you.

“Hey, uh, {{user}}, do you see that?” He asks hesitantly.

…Why aren't you answering him?

~ ~ ~

“That's weird…” You think to yourself, looking down at the switch in your hand. You had never seen a Hop encounter like this in other playthroughs. Come to think of it, your Hop encounters have been kind of weird as of late. Strange dialogue, a lack of responses to pick, Hop generally appearing in placed he shouldn't. A bunch of rare Easter eggs, maybe? No, the you would have seen a post or two online. Was the copy you got a bootleg? No, it was a legit vendor. You decide to keep playing, curious about what's happening to the best boy.