so i just had a thought.
hyperspace lumiose can manifest pretty much anything the mind can conceive of. valuable items, clothing, pokemon, people, you can even talk to the dead. and things from hyperspace lumiose can cross the portals into the real world with no adverse effects or anything. so my thinking is, can you bring back the dead using this? it's not just a thing in darkrai's pocket of hyperspace, you talk to a lady's dead husband in a regular hyperspace zone. and the dead husband gives you a letter with some true real-world information that his wife explicitly did not know, which indicates that this isn't some kind of "oh it's not the real person, just someone's memories of a person" situation. this is apparently the actual person kicking around in hyperspace totally alive. this opens up so many possibilities
With dream logic you kinda have a blank check for it to work however you want it to.
For example, how can we really know if the information that composes Hyperspace Lumiose is all strictly contemporary? The dead husband wasn’t alive when Darkrai came to Lumiose, sure… but he
did live in Lumiose, so that information
was there at some point. The physical body that contained that information is also still present, albeit decaying, in the Wild Zone 4 cemetery. Does the brain have to be intact and alive for Darkrai’s out-of-control power to draw from it, or could we say that one’s memories are like a fingerprint on the brain’s neural pathways, and can be extrapolated by Darkrai’s dream matrix?
Moreover, the man clearly died with unfinished business and regret, and we know that genuine ghosts exist in the Pokémon world. So this could potentially go beyond even the physical body — is the man’s spirit still around? Can
that be read and reproduced by Darkrai’s power? Does it even need to be a reproduction, or could his actual spirit have just got caught up in the dimensional folds somehow?
Another idea that’s common with ghosts is that objects can be imprinted with their regrets. Perhaps the objects that were near/involved with the man’s death contain enough of his lingering feelings to influence the composition of Hyperspace?
Similarly, I think the possibility if bringing back the dead could also be interpreted in whatever way one wants. It could be that if you took AZ or the dead husband out of Hyperspace, they would indeed persist and you would have effectively circumvented death by creating a clone of the deceased. Or maybe the “rules” are different for people than they are for Pokémon.
Maybe it has something to do with whether or not the entity leaving Hyperspace has a will of their own. AZ and the dead husband are both dead, so it could be surmised (assuming that we’re not dealing with any true ghosts here) that dead brains can’t think for themselves, whereas any wild Pokémon you happen to take with you are recreations of wild Pokémon that are still alive, and are thus reproduced with more of a will, with which they can determine that they wish to join you as a partner.
Then again, the way that the dead husband introduces himself, by saying “I would do it myself, but I’m afraid that certain circumstances prevent me from doing so” makes me suspect that Hyperspace-generated people are produced with some kind of intrinsic, reflexive inclination, some inexplicable conviction, to simply not question the nature of their existence and to not seek to leave or alter it.
It’s all very, in a word, nebulous. (As it should be, I feel.)
