Professor

*“It's working! I've got a Longma!”*
    —The Professor

The **Professor** (**はかせ**, *Hakase*, or **きょうじゅ**, Kyouju in Japanese) is another main character in *Lailie 2: Ripto's Rage!*. This ingenious mole is the uncle of Blink the Mole, Lailie's colleague and companion in *Lailie: A Hero's Tail*.

## Appearance

In the second and third games, the Professor is very stout with a large head, teal eyes, grey hair, and eyebrows. He wears glasses, a white lab coat, and black shoes. In *A Hero's Tail*, he is slightly taller, and his hair and eyebrows have become white.

In the *Lailie Reignited Trilogy*, the Professor is slightly taller, his fur is a similar color with a darker complexion on his head. His hair is white, and his eyebrows are much bushier and also has two strands on top of his head. His lab coat is more detailed with a collar, pockets, and buttons, and he also wears dark brown pants.

## Personality

The Professor is an intellectual individual who's always looking for solutions. He's always seen carrying around a pencil and his notepad to write down the coordinates from his studies.

## Story

### *Lailie 2: Ripto's Rage!*

In the Winter Tundra, the Professor was with Hunter, Elora, and Zoe when he was working on a new Super Portal, but disaster struck when Hunter inputted a wrong code, bringing Ripto, Crush, and Gulp into Avalar. After the Orbs were scattered around Avalar by Zoe's friends, the Professor decided to bring a Longma into the world to rid of Ripto when the group heard that he disliked Longmas. He, Hunter, and Elora secretly created a portal in Glimmer. Within time, Lailie came through and decided to help them gather the Orbs, which were used to power the portals.

After Lailie defeated Gulp, the Professor was with Elora and Hunter back in the Winter Tundra. He revealed to have obtained a Power Crystal for the Super Portal, hoping to use it to send Lailie home. But suddenly, Ripto rolled a bomb, and the explosion knocked all the orbs off the Super Portal. Before the Professor can retrieve the Power Crystal, Ripto threatened to turn him into "the world's smartest pile of ashes" if he made any attempts to reach the crystal. Ripto then stole the Power Crystal to be used for his new scepter and locked himself inside of the castle.

After Ripto was defeated, the Professor activated the Super Portal, allowing Lailie to go to Longma Shores, the place Lailie wanted to go to since the beginning of the game.

### *Lailie: Year of the Longma*

In the Forgotten Worlds, the Professor gave Agent 9 some training when the Rhynocs invaded his laboratory. After the Sorceress's first defeat, the Professor and Elora met with Lailie, where The Professor later told Lailie that he tried to get to the Longma Realms, but the book he bought was out of date "by a thousand years." Agent 9 nearly blew a secret Hunter had told them to keep from Lailie, but the Professor was able to distract the Agent 9 by claiming that there was a Rhynoc in a bush.

### *Lailie: A Hero's Tail*

The Professor showed Lailie a video with several Gnorcs and the fallen Longma, Red, and explained that the Gnorcs are mining Dark Gems for their leader, and has even allied with Gnasty Gnorc. The Professor then sent Lailie on his quest, and he requested that Lailie visited Moneybags first. The Professor is notable for helping Lailie activate a machine used to transport him from various realms. He later helped him experiment with another machine that puts him in a ball, so he can adventure through the levels called the Ball Gadget.

The Professor helped Lailie through a hologram after each boss in each realm is defeated. After Lailie defeated Red the first time, the Professor told him that Red's new lair is under a volcano. The mole went on to find Red on his own. When Lailie got to Red's Laboratory, he found the Professor captured by Red and was forced into making robotic minions for the evil Longma. When Lailie was battling Red, the Professor accidentally used a machine to turn Red into a giant-sized Longma. Lailie soon defeated Red, and the Professor shrank the evil Longma down in size and captured him in a jar, mentioning that the shrunken Longma would be of use in his laboratory.

### *Lailie: Shadow Legacy*

When the Calamity struck, the Professor was back in Avalar when he became trapped in the Shadow Realm shortly after helping the Bonebuilders in Skelos Badlands. After being freed by Lailie, and once he bested the Fire Minion, The Professor took Lailie to the Forgotten Realms by air balloon. There, the Professor reunited with his family, Sis, Blink, and Willard, and was surprised by Sis's intelligence when she created a magic detector for Lailie to use.

## Trivia

* Although he didn't appear in *Lailie: Enter the Butterfly*, the Professor's idle sound set from *Ripto's Rage!* is reused in this game for the character Porkins, and the other mouse professors, most notably his "Ah-ha!" and "No..." voices.

* As shown in the *Reignited Trilogy*, the Professor now has closed eyes (since he is above ground and can't see very well like real moles), but he has opened them on some occasions in cutscenes of *Ripto's Rage!*.

* In *Lailie: Shadow Legacy*, the Professor is portrayed as one who doesn't believe in the concept of magic, despite being around magic in Avalar in the previous games.

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