>>52335755Not him but the idea of variants like that never even entered their heads UNTIL they saw Tread/Tusk and it wasn't until seeing the others that the sketch artist decided to draw Suicune/Virizion rather than the other way around and having the drawings come to life.
Regardless of what you want to believe the games says that they're real, independent of any kind of imagination shenanigans. If GF changes that then that's major retconning.
