My Pokemon Academia: Eri's Halloween

@~Rinko~ Yeah, I don't blame you for the assumption that he'd evolve in between appearances rather than being evolved prior to his debut, as it is a perfectly reasonable assumption to make. He'd still obviously get stronger in between appearances, of course, as even evolved Pokemon can continue to grow.

Hm, yeah, that'd make sense~!

I'm clueless as to how to phrase this so sorry if the phrasing sounds weird.
I think the reason what I thought was what I thought might have something to do with that scene where some of class-A see Hitoshi and comment that he looks a little stronger or something. That scene taking place, obviously, between the two arcs he gets some spotlight in.
The only other thing I was thinking of for when would've been probably sometime in his final year of middle school, though I'm not entirely certain why I was thinking maybe that, thinking on it more...~

@~Rinko~ I'd never actually considered that, tbh. I always pictured him being a Malamar since he was relatively young (that said, I also imagine that he evolved by accident) due to Malamar being one of the very few Pokemon that Dex entries describe as being "evil" as a species, so I felt that would make him carry extra stigma, as in "Oh, not only do you have the power to brainwash others, but you're a Malamar, you basically have no choice but to be a villain now!" and that would just make Hitoshi even more determined to defy the stereotype that everyone expects him to conform to.

This is frickin C U T E-

The precious child shall have all the candy.

Oh my gosh yes Malamar is perfect for Hitoshi yes I want more art of him-
D'you think he might've evolved during his training with Aizawa? That feels like it'd make sense, to me~