>>53718911>Why else would he go there?Maybe because he was just impatient and just wanted to confront his parent, not just because he was worried about their wellbeing.
You do make a lot of sense though. It doesn't seem likely that Arven would go down into Area Zero, get attacked by some wacky paradox pokemon, and not attract the attention of their parent. Even if they were nuts, that's a stretch - So him getting attacked was probably after their death.
But maybe up until that point, Arven was purposefully trying to distance himself from Area Zero and his estranged parent. And in the meantime, the AI was running the time machine, as it was meant to do, and had no need to reach out to Arven or Calvell, only until it had a developed a moral conscious over the ecological dangers present.
The fact that the AI is modeled after the professor makes it more likely that the professor died without realizing the extent of the environmental risks. The AI shares the same opinion about destruction being a normal course of life, but like the professor, neither really comprehended the possibility that the barrier into Area Zero could be breached and threaten all of Paldea. I think that if the professor was alive at that point in time, they would've came to the same realization. The fact that the AI doesn't understand the professor's logic implies that the professor never had a chance to address the revelation that this project was not just localized disruption.
But when the environmental risks became apparent, the inherent moral beliefs of the professor that were the framework of the AI finally overcame its programming, and made it finally act to put a stop to this runaway experiment. In the end, the AI can only speculate as to what the original actually thought and if they had actually meant to threaten all of Paldea.
I think that's poetic: both the AI and Arven struggle with not being able to understand what was going through the professor's mind.
