>>53324272The first wave of DLC was described as a school trip.
>In Part 1: The Teal Mask, a school trip will take you to the land of Kitakami, where you’ll be joining an outdoors study opportunity held jointly between your academy and another school. So our friends are all bound to be part of it. Who knows maybe even the Team Star crew will be there to some extent. They're students too.
But wave 2 just says
>In Part 2: The Indigo Disk, you’ll be traveling to Blueberry Academy, a sister school of your own academy, as an exchange student. Get ready to meet new Pokémon and people beyond the borders of the Paldea region!and our friends may not all get the exchange student status. Maybe. But for the second DLC it might just be us.
But I'd be shocked if Nemona, Arven, and Penny aren't part of the first DLC in Kitakami.