>>57135378>which throws off the timeline horribleThat doesn't really matter when the whole point is that they got plucked from her timeline. Whatever direction her life took in the future became irrelevant the moment she got spirited away. Arceus kidnapped her when she was 15yo, thats all that matters.
It is also worth mentioning that she is not just someone with some experience with battling/Pokemon, she was isekai'd for the explicit purpose of stopping the creation trio. There is only one trainer with experience doing that.
That being said, of course Dawn and Akari are not the same, in the sense that Dawn and Lucas are also not the same. One is the Sinnoh Champion and the other is a researcher assistant. Who is who dependents on who you are playing as.
