>>56977599Unless explicitly contradicted in-game, they are in fact canon. We know this to be true because in the canon, Lusamine, Mohn, Faba and Wicke all worked at Aether as younger scientists and Lusamine states in-game she is 42, leaving Wicke free to be 43 and of Lusamine's era. Just as the folk stories added to Sinnoh texts told the same stories as the explicit fiction contained in teraleak minus the explicit details (there were pokémon that married people", "Then I will not kill you. Hoever, I desire your beautiful mane, so ask that you become my wife"), where character details emerge that aren't directly corrected by the release concerning them or are in fact supported by them by the games and franchise in concert means they can only be canon, as even characterisations of OC NPC's need SOME base level of canonical backstory to present the character as part of the world.