#they knew very well that the paradox pokémon wouldn’t be able to peacefully coexist with the rest of the living beings in modern-day paldea

[goldensunset]

sada and turo are fascinating characters for the obvious reasons and it definitely drives me crazy thinking about how they were willing to do a bunch of insane and dangerous things for the sake of bringing about paradise on earth, but i don’t think we acknowledge enough the fact that their idea of ‘paradise’ consists of a bunch of dinosaurs and robots running around. no world peace, no sociopolitical movements, no bringing back long-lost people. they straight up just wanted to play with cool toys they read about in picture books and that ended up driving them insane. they’re so funny

#now i knowww i’m sure it’s more complex than that #like the real implication here is that both of them are on the whole dissatisfied with the present age #sada is like ‘reject modernity embrace tradition’ and turo is like ‘PROGRESS PROGRESS PROGRESS’ to a reckless degree #i think their end goal was really to let the modern world be entirely reshaped into that old/new image #they knew very well that the paradox pokémon wouldn’t be able to peacefully coexist with the rest of the living beings in modern-day paldea #that destruction was foreseen #they saw it as a feature and not a bug #they WANTED that. they wanted to violently raze the world as it was to the ground and have their research byproducts create a new one #sparing only themselves and their son #(au where they succeeded but the paradox mons get way out of control and kill arven too. and then the prof experiences Regret.) #basically this is all to say i think the professors knew full well what they were doing and there was a lot of subtext in there #making them truly and genuinely insane people who still cling to the notion of a good cause #BUT. on the surface it looks like yaaay dinosaurs :) woah cool robots! :0 #literally just a pair of kids in preschool reading picture books and developing hyperfixations #so i think it’s funny #pokémon #scarlet and violet #sv spoilers