>>54787996>Sure, if you ignore it, which is exactly why that’s obviously not the case. Why not? Everything surrounding paradox Pokemon alludes to them being fake cryptids that never actually existed. There's no feasible explanation as to why things like Wake and Leaves exist if they didn't come from the professor, as Heath explicitly says in his book that they were made up.
If we can rule out time travel, and can agree that we're dealing with the dream world, then as you said, Heath is an unbiased researcher that has no real notions of seeing any specific kind of Pokemon, and the future Paradox designs with their LED light eyes just make no sense for him to come up...therefore, no matter what kind of situation we're in, Heath simply can't make up the paradox Pokemon.
So...then what? Terapagos put the Pokemon there as a joke, then got rid of them after? The dream world is some space connected through time and someone dropped the paradox Pokemon there and then removed them afterwards, including the explicitly fake Leaves/Wake?
Trying to physically put the Paradox Pokemon in the crater makes no sense, or involves plot devices we aren't privy to. Saying there were no Pokemon in the crater at all during Heath's expedition fits all of the established plot points, except...
>verything Heath wrote about ended up being wholly true and factualThis is the only real outlier, that maybe Heath wasn't a fraud and tried his best to give a genuine report.
Going over the book again, the last page says that the treasure of area zero is still out there, meaning whatever Heath or the people of Heath's time found wasn't good enough to be treasure, making the trip kind of a waste. Is it possible that the backers funding the book were the ones who made up the Paradox Pokemon so the book would sell, making Heath take the fall publicly? The fact is we don't have the full details of the expedition, and as the other anon said, that's what we're getting to the bottom of.
