>>44030225I had a similar idea, anon.
The professor has an assistant, or rather a student who is working on their doctorate.
The assistant is the main "rival".
The professor wants to research the legendary pokemon, who is associated with forms (I'll get on to this).
The region is based in greece, with a heavy theme on ancient greek philosophy.
I've been thinking perhaps basing it on some atlantis type theme, which explains why the region is so unexplored; in this case, the other legendary made the region invisible.
Anyways, the first legend of "forms" explains why pokemon can use transform into things like mewtwo and genesect, and other artificial pokemon.
For example, how does ditto get the genetic information of the other pokemon, and get their moveset?
Because ditto is able to access the forms (platonic ideals), and these platonic ideals/forms are constructed by the legendary.
This explains evolution as well, and why new regional variants can arise, and so on.
Basically, beings can only exist in the forms created by the legendary. A mon can evolve or transform or whatever based on the work of this pokemon.
The assistant is the bigbad and wants to get control of the form pokemon so as to force it to make an ideal form for him. I haven't decided what the form would be; I haven't played SM/USUM but from what I know it may be like Lusamine merging with that ultra beast. Except in this case, it's just the assistant becoming an ideal being.
Because of this, it explains why the evil team is able to get away so often. Because the assistant is controlling them and pretends to fuck up, and let them get away.
It explains why they are always one step ahead.
I'm thinking they take the Spartan society model. So gym leaders are the heads of the cities, with the upper class having their own "slaves". And the team is made up of "slaves", so maybe something to do with liberty or democracy, or some such shit.
The assistant is manipulating them but they think he's helping
