>>54264221same anon, i guess i can elaborate on this idea a little further
the disk shape of terapagos isn't a coincidence: it's supposed to be a literal disk like a cd or dvd (as in: it stores data and recalls it)
the visions of events shown to characters in both the anime and the games are data being recalled from the akashic records: in liko's case its the past while in heath's case it might potentially be the future (reminder: the akashic records are supposedly accessed by the mind)
additionally, this could mean the time travel demonstrated by the time machine isn't time travel in the literal sense, it's simply recalling data of ancestral/future species from the records on-command (reading from a disk, if you will)
lastly, what about the crystalline rayquaza? or the paradox sightings from the books?
well, remember that the mechanism of the records is regarded as similar to how a hologram is created. the rayquaza was created at a moment where terapagos would've perceived a threat to itself, and the paradox donphans were created when explorers ventured closer to the bottom of area zero (where terapagos resided, its home)
it's possible the crystal rayquaza and the original pardox sightings were holographic projections of pokemon stored within the akashic records, generated as a defense mechanism to ward off intruders
this theory is horribly complicated and autistic as fuck but i think it explains both aspects of time travel and imagination without explicitly being one or the other
