>>52127555Book Fanfiction brought to life. It was supposed to be that they WERE future and past mons, but because of the ccpp (Time travel bad because there was no history except the current history) they had to be "not really from the past or future". Gamefreak is chasing the chinese wulan so they did it.
Side note: for some reason, either because empathetic abstraction was culled out of them or their culture just be like that, the chinese really don't like non humanoid creatures. Every game with monster creatures has slowly had their monsters slowly morphed into humanoids or not released at all. So if you're wondering why there are more and more humanoid pokemon, look no further.