A weird exchange with Ms. Raifort has some players convinced she will be a future Pokemon Scarlet and Violet villain. Though she serves as a mere history teacher in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, interactions with Ms. Raifort suggest she has some underlying motives that may come to fruition later on.
As the history teacher at the academy, Ms. Raifort initially lectures the player on the history of the Great Crater and Area Zero. In future lessons and friendship-based interactions, this branches out into the overarching history of the entire Paldea region - including the origins of the Ruinous Quartet. Ms. Raifort greatly prefers the old over the new and will eventually ask the player to show her each member of the Ruinous Quartet - a process which entails unsealing their shrines and unleashing them upon the region. Though she is intimately familiar with Paldea's history and the power of the ruinous Pokemon, she nonetheless stands by this request.
What has players convinced Ms. Raifort has ill intent comes from a combination of her dialogue and the TM she hands the player upon showing her all four members of the Ruinous Quartet. As shared to Reddit by user A-Bored-Man, Raifort speaks of how she wished to go searching for the four Pokemon herself in order to make them her own, but that the player should do so instead as they are pure of heart. Once the player catches the new Pokemon Scarlet and Violet legendaries, Raifort proceeds to reward them with the TM for Nasty Plot.
As was the case when Medali Gym Leader Larry handed the player the TM for Facade earlier in the game, the TM for Nasty Plot may also serve to provide insight into Raifort's underlying motives. While Larry is a tired, overworked businessman who wishes the player never has to hide their true self behind a facade, Raifort has ill intentions that go unrecognized due to her trustworthy position as a teacher at the academy. Whether this underlying plot point will be developed in the future remains to be seen, though rumors have been swirling for months that the Ruinous Quartet may feature prominently if the next generation of Pokemon games are inspired by China - the place where the Quartet originated from.
While Ms. Raifort's strange dialogue may be left as an undeveloped plot point, it nonetheless creates a lot of intrigue. Why is she so obsessed with the Quartet in particular, so much so that she wants to release them from their sealed shrines? And why does she provide the player with the TM for Nasty Plot at the end of the quest line? The answers to these questions may come with time.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet are available for Nintendo Switch.
