>>57182879>so i wonder if the implication was that she caught them dueing practice drills at the academy or somethingHard to say. Carmine attended Bloober School long before we met her, so there was nothing stopping her from picking Toucannon and Scrafty up sooner if she wanted to. Did she overlook them because she didn't like the idea of even foreign Pokemon tainting her precious Kitikami, or is their presence in the Safari Zone purely coincidental and she picked them up during her world tour with Briar?
It's not exactly stated which Regions she and Briar explored while researching the Tera phenomenon in the time gap between Teal Mask and Indigo Disk, but I think we can make a pretty solid inference:
Alola is an American Region like Unova pretty much halfway between Japan and the continental United States. It's a Region where the light of interdimensional crystals bring out hidden superpowers in Pokemon. There's no shortage of Pikipek to be found there, especially outside of Kukui's house.
Bloober School is off the coast of Unova, and across the ocean from N'yark, just north of Paldea would be the Kalos Region, where rare stones touched by the light of AZ's Weapon cause Pokemon to transform and change Type. Scraggy can be encountered roving in gangs on Route 5, right outside of Lumiose City and just up the road from Sycamore's Lab.
I don't believe in coincidences.
