Another bit of timeline weirdness relating to Heath's expedition and the referenced legendary trios: it occurred 200 years before the main games, but the Beasts' origin story (the burning of the Brass Tower) is listed as being only 150 years before the Johto games.
honestly kind of think Gamefreak also forgot about it. There's some wiggle room if we start throwing around "approximate" times instead of exact times, but I don't think SV really can be that far in the future since that'd probably age out a large portion of the cast and I doubt they're gonna do that.
Although, I suppose if we want to try explaining it away... the drawings being a fusion could be an in-universe coincidence. There's no guarantee the survey team, even if it had been 100 years ago instead, had necessarily heard about the Beasts or Musketeers. It's already a bit odd that they drew this "merged" beast but is producing desperate parts. & the paradoxes we get in Indigo Disk could in fact be relatively recent, either based on "our" perceptions or the Professor's. We see these weird beast drawings and interpreted them as something different, and then a domino effect happens...something to that effect.
Another theory: The Terastal Phenomenon placed the "knowledge" (or at least their appearance) of the Beasts & Justices into the artists head. Because, timeline aside, it is odd that the artist thought the best way to represent their idea was by merging a Legendary Trio. Also, though they said the drawing Paradox was imagined, if it was purposely a merging of a Trio I feel they would have also mentioned it. But no, all it said was "
The size and ferocity/compactness and cruelty of the strange Pokémon that dwell in Area Zero's lower reaches tickled the artist's imagination, prompting this sketch of what other species that inhabit these depths might look like".
While I hold the belief that the Paradox Pokemon aren't from the past/future but a creation of one's vision of it (whether it be the Professor or the Expedition Team), I also do believe the Terastal Phenomenon does have some time warping power (or, because its imagined that it can, it does). So when the artist was thinking of what Pokemon to draw to represent the "size and ferocity/compactness and cruelty" of a Paradox Pokemon, something to "WOW" whoever looked at it, the Terastal Phenomenon "tickled" the artist's imagination with the images of the Beasts/Justices, Pokemon that either didn't exist or very few people even knew about, and unconsciously took parts of them apart and made the Imagined Paradox drawing. When they were done they probably thought "huh, who is that Pokemon? Well whatever it is it certainly looks like what I was thinking!".
And, while at that time the Paradox Legendary Trio wouldn't exist as no one would know that was what was drawn (thus the Terastal Phenomenon couldn't create them), jump to the present and no doubt the Professor who examined the Scarlet/Violet Book page-by-page would go "hey, that looks like a combination of the Beasts of Johto/Justices of Unova", and with that the Terastal Phenomenon had the Pokemon it could work on. As
R_N said in another response: a feedback loop (which is what a paradox is).
Walking Wake and Raging Bolt could just be the versions of the beasts that were alive pre-resurrection
Even if you don't believe they were canines of some kind, I highly doubt their original forms were dinosaurs, kind of feel those would stand out. (This is neither here nor there, though I like the theory they were just the original Eeveelutions; a group which would make sense what they would become but still relatively ordinary Pokemon that no one would remember what they were).
As for why Generations showed them as canines, feel that was a sneaky callback to their beta designs (as well as obscuring what Pokemon they originally were, let some things remain a mystery).
Someone else here had a very similar theory
Yeah but that would require people to read my posts and I'm getting a sneaky suspicion no one does. *looks at the several posts about the "Fairy Feather finally existing" even though I made that joke already*
All this Paradox poke talk made me realize that the time machine is just a gacha
So what you're saying is that the Professor AI was REALLY lucky that when battling us they not only pulled different Paradox Pokemon each time but their sixth Pokemon was the one with 590. Professor AI should play the lottery.
This means that when the area loads, you can see Flutter Mane flicker into existence, if you have Ghost 3 Encounter the whole area is barren(because all the spawns were replaced and then deleted), and shiny hunting is hilarious.
Oh yeah I saw a video of someone hunting the Flutter Manes. The ideal is you do it in the day time after popping a sanwich then just stand around waiting for the Flutter Mane to constantly spawn and despawn until the shiny remains
It is very funny.
