#have this word vomit of my scattered thoughts going 1000 miles a minute

[jolynejay]

Very interesting what ScaVio might imply for Legends Arceus. People cannot return to their original world from being displaced in space-time.

Heck, likely even the pla distortions function on a similar level to that, meaning that either:

(a) if the pokemon/ items are displaced in space-time, they will never return to their original place and would rather appear somewhere else or even in the Distortion World. OR

(b) if the distortions are future and past overlapping for a moment on a single timeline, then the pokemon exist there naturally and by catching them you actively rip them from their time to bring them into the past.

(either way this makes PokeBalls even more powerful and fascinating as they already are, but i digress.)

but this also means that Rei/Akari and Ingo will never be able to return to the present by means of either human intervention or even by the power of the creation trio and their master. The ability to correctly place a person in a specific time and place with everything about that person intact just falls outside of their jurisdiction. As much as we like to call Arceus capital G god, Arceus is still a pokemon - it is still limited in its domain. (in that way the creation quartet is more like the greek gods as they are a reflection of human nature with all its flaws).

The only exception to this is possibly Celebi who is innately able to time travel and seems to exist on some level outside the natural order of space-time as the Voice of the Forest.

However, Celebi as described in the games (not the anime) is said to only appear in peaceful times and even then rarely interferes with the world beyond leaving behind a mysterious egg when "disappearing deep into the forest" (potentially signifying the end of its life cycle and being reborn by reverting back to its egg and starting anew). So, honestly the chances of getting Celebi to actually help you might be extremely close to zero. (putting wholly aside that you'd first have to find a Celebi bc I don't think there ever is a guarantee that there even is one around at any specific point in time?)

So, yeah Rei/Akari and Ingo are very likely stuck in Hisui times forever.

(though i do like the idea that Emmet made a deal with Sada/Turo to get sent back in time at some point, knowing he could never come back, by tracking a mechanical signal in the past which turns out to be MCs Arcphone. and the twins have to grapple with the fact that they are not from the same world/timeline and also goodness suddenly there is an age gap between these twins. and they go on to become unova's legendary heroes which also means they will eventually split again because of their developed differences. which is just a+ angst and tragedy and i thrive off of it but shhhhh that's another story)