>>54910999Anon, I'm unsure if you understand what a causal loop is. Everything in the story until Briar does whatever she does in order to prove Heath's records to be true is instrumental to the plot and needs to happen. The professor is inspired by the Paradox Book, and from the information we have, got the idea to create a time machine through occulture. The game didn't say what periods of time the pokemon were strictly pulled from, and if anything imaginationfags claim that it can only be set to 1 period of time even though the occulture suggests several paradox mons are from different points in time. Hell, if the professor really wanted the Paradox Pokemon, they could've just set the machine to 200 years ago and snatched all of them anyways.
The point is, getting the idea from the magazines doesn't make them legitimate. Realistically if the story winds up being a causal loop, all of that is necessary to the plot anyways because it's already determined to happen. It's not going to fully make sense because Event A doesn't occur without Event C, and everything inbetween are influenced by Event C.
