>>56935416Yes, and a split did occur at some point, we don't know when or how because it's not relevant. Then these two timelines cross at a later point, which is what happens when you meet the professor at the lake.
The event that is described in the professor's notes in the AZ underdepth is NOT that event that you, the player, sees. It's ANOTHER timeline that the game timeline crossed with once. There, the prof only got the white book, without giving their Scarlet/Violet book away. We know this because the book was made to be the key to shut down the time machine, and (You) did use that book to do so. But that didn't quite work, so the AI robot takes a book and fucks off into he machine. The book disappears - and even does so from the title screen to reflect this.
Then you meet the professor at the lake in Kitakami, and they DO give the child (in this case, the MC of the game) their book. When that professor goes back to where they come from, the book is gone forever. It cannot be made key to the time machine in their future. Also, the book appears on the titlescreen again, to show you that it's the professor's book. (
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This is NOT the event that creates or splits timelines or whatever. The timelines have been seperate before that. Both timelines have a seperate past and future.
>It's like you think they're two wholly separate timelines, which wouldn't be a separate timeline but a separate universe.Maybe, but the game calls them timelines. I use the exact same words the game uses cause I follow game canon and nothing else.
>Though of course the complexities of space-time are beyond count... It's possible that our encounter might not even be occurring in a timeline connected to my own. >I am researching methods to catch Pokémon that live in different timelines, so I might transport them to the present day in my own timeline. If the game used the word "universe(s)" instead, I would do the same. But it doesn't. I don't write fanfics. Complain to GF.
