>>54822041>The professors were utterly obsessed with the Scarlet/Violet Book.Exactly, but there is very little detail of the Pokemon described in the book itself. Meanwhile, Occulture is the place where the design and aspect of them being from the past/future come from with the prof. keeping issues of the magazine in their lab for reference.
>It was the entire reason for their research and constructing the time machineIt's also why Briar is dead set on proving the Scarlet/Violet book as "true." The keyword here is that it's her "dream." They strongly imply she's going to get confirmation bias'd by Terapagos' dream ability.
>>54822066>They then took their knowledge of these trios, and turned Heath’s Artist’s one drawing, into three distinct Pokémon that match their respective Trio’s.Bingo. That's the relationship between the paradoxes we see and the sketch in Heath's book. The professor saw them as they appeared in Occulture which is going to be the final nail in the coffin for timetravelbros.