>>54833640Concepts like this can be confusing, especially when you bring in factors like fate or predestination. Sometimes in time loops, everything is already predetermined. If someone is meant to die, you can trying to prevent that death 1000 times, but it will always find a way to happen. If the professor is fated to find those pokemon, they will always find them.
From this point, paradoxes can become extremely convoluted and I could list many possible scenarios that happened for our current situation to occur. We need more details from the Indigo Disk to surmise what exactly happened at this point.
I post pretty infrequently in these threads, but I always try to suggest people look into or watch the movie Predestination, as it presents a very interesting paradoxical loop and does a very good job with the concept. The main character, Ethan Hawke, is a time traveler with no explainable origin. He just exists. He is his own mother and father, and he is also the mass murdering time traveler he is attempting to stop. Everything that is happening and is real, but by all known laws he should not exist. At some point he probably had a real mother and father, but we are so far into the loop that those origins no longer exist or discoverable. Hopefully that makes sense, the last bit is the most important to my rambling.
