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PMD: Gates to Infinity Timeline
Rescue Team
I wanted to document the in-universe timespan of the story of every PMD title in detail and originally make it all into one post, but decided to split it into four instead. Every PMD timeline post will have links to the other titles as I progress with this little project.
Know that I'll count vague timeskips to the best of my judgement, the one dungeon = one day rule doesn't strictly apply (yes, even with the V-Wave mechanic in gti), and I document every game up until the hero and partner reunite, though I might make additions for post-game story later on.
Introduction Arc
On day 1 the hero meets the partner after landing in the Pokemon world, and on day 2 you play through Gurdurr's arc to get him to build your house. The construction starts on the evening of day 2 and is said to last a few days. Not counting day 2's evening, I'll make it three days, making day 5 the day where the house is finished.
On day 6 you meet Dunsparce, Emolga, and Virizion who join your team by the end of the day. The team is officially established on day 7.
Gurdurr's store is established on day 8 and he asks you to bring him materials which you give to him on day 9. Gurdurr opens his store on day 10. Nothing happens on days 11-12 but on day 13 Victini arrives in Paradise and the hero has a dream the following night. Day 14 is uneventful, the fata morgana of the Great Glacier appears on day 15, and day 16 is uneventful again.
Umbreon and Espeon Arc
On the night before day 17, the hero has another dream and Umbreon is approaching Post Town. A warning about a dangerous Pokemon in the area goes out in the morning. The following night, Umbreon comes closer to the town and on day 18 Swadloon disappears to Inflora Forest where the team picks him up. Umbreon arrives in Post Town on day 19.
On day 20, Umbreon demonstrates the summoning of a Magnagate and the team takes off to rescue Espeon. Umbreon and Espeon join the team on day 21. Virizion and Dunsparce have a conversation on the hill the following night. The next morning, on day 22, Quagsire tells the team that one Pokemon has to stay in Paradise and can't go to the expedition.
Great Glacier Arc
I was debating on wether to apply the one dungeon = one day rule in this arc since technically we don't get any indication that a night passes during the expedition but I decided yes, both because its supposed to feel long and for another reason*.
That being said, day 23 marks the day the team make their way to the Great Glacier via a Magnagate dungeon. They arrive and make their way through the glacier on day 24 and take another Magnagate dungeon on day 25. Day 26 is the day they make it through the Glacier Palace for the first time and return home in the evening.
On day 27 Emolga uses the Frisms to mess with the team before telling them that during their absence, floating lights that could be seen from the hill appeared. The hero has another dream and on the morning of day 28, the partner asks the hero to promise them to stay in this world after fulfilling their duty. On day 29, one floating light can be seen from the hill. *If you talk to Ducklett, they'll say the lights first appeared about a week ago which adds up the best if you assume the expedition took four days.
Munna and Hydreigon Arc
Munna finally manages to make contact with the hero via their dreams. On the next day, day 30, the hero and partner take a Magnagate to Kilionea Road. They plan to sleep over the night outside the dungeon, but are alarmed by Munna, prompting them to make it through the Forest of Shadows at night. They get ambushed at Mount Kilionea afterwards but escape.
The hero makes it to Daybreak Ridge on day 31 where they're attacked by Toxicroak and saved by Hydreigon. When they wake up, Hydreigon says they've been out for a while, possibly making it day 32. Hydreigon and the hero team up and make it through Ochre Quarry and in the evening, Hydreigon explains the situation.
On day 33, the hero and Hydreigon make it through Withered Savanna where Purugly confronts them and tells them that they've got the Partner as a hostage. Presumably on day 34*, the duo makes their way to Holehills to rescue partner. On day 35* hero, partner, and Hydreigon make their way through the Scorching Desert. They're attacked by Kyurem in the evening and hero and partner are found and rescued by Emolga and Dunsparce.
*Withered Savanna, Holehills, and Scorching Desert could all be happening on one day but I decided to apply the 1d = 1d rule because otherwise it'd last as long as the glacier expedition and based on how long the arc feels, how the road takes up a chunk of the map, and how Emolga says they've been searching for hero and partner because they were gone for so long and started to get worried despite Mount Kilionea being established as a far away place, I think it makes sense that it lasts longer.
Finale Arc
The hero recovers from their injuries and wakes up on day 36 as the team decides their next course of action. They explain the situation to Post Town on day 37 just before Glacier Palace rises into the sky. Umbreon and Espeon make their way to Great Glacier that night and the team follows on day 38, on which they make it through the palace and destroy the Bittercold. The hero leaves the Pokemon world the next morning on day 39.
Worldcore Arc
A vague long timeskip happens, but if you look at the story summary by either exiting and entering the game or switching between Friend- and Hero Mode, it says months have passed, so we'll go with three months here.
On the evening of day 1 post-skip, Dunsparce and Emolga talk to Hydreigon in the Inn while Virizion and Keldeo have a conversation on the hill. Dunsparce approaches Hydreigon on day 2 and Hydreigon disappears the next day. He returns on day 4 to tell the team about the Worldcore where the partner manages to make a wish and be reunited with the hero.
Conclusion
The main story lasts 39 days while the post-game story lasts 4 days. Counting everything together with the time skip and assuming the timespan includes two 30-day and two 31-day months, the entire story of Gates to Infinity lasts 134 days or 4 months, 1 week and 5 days
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Never forgetting Wigglytuff almost crying when he saw Chatot hurt again in Brine Cave.
(Aka drawing the fanfic i wish that existed :'(( )
#fun fact at first hero was next to partner and then i remembered the timeline#so......yeah partner's going through it but trying their best#guildshipping#chatot#guildmaster wigglytuff#wigglytuff#wigglytuff's guild#pmd eos#pmd2#my art#pokemon mystery dungeon
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You're scared you'll never care about someone. You're scared you never have. You don't know how much love is held in your chest. You never will.
#thinking about how Echo notices that she's stopped evolving into umbreon/espeon#and feels horrible that she no longer cares about Pinna enough to evolve for her through that bond.#thinking about how as the time loop is breaking down and decaying into irreparable disarray Echo gives up on a fruitless try to save it#because Pinna (whose memories are restored by the entropy of the loop's decay) is scared to die alone#and Echo refuses to abandon her partner ever again.#Echo evolves into a sylveon as she stays in the ruins of the timeline to comfort Pinna as they shatter into nothingness together#and it's ultimately that act of love— that gesture of “It doesn't matter how scared I am myself. I won't let you face this alone”—#that gives the timeline's celebi Snowdrop the hope she needs to mend the timeline and break the loop herself#after centuries uncounted of depression and resignation and nihilism.#Thinking about how love was the answer to hopelessness.#Dying.#dugtrio day au#pmd ocs#pmd oc#pokémon mystery dungeon#pokemon mystery dungeon#pmd explorers of sky#pmd explorers#pmd sky#pmd eos#pmd2#pmd#eevee#espeon#umbreon#Sylveon
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Remembered the old pmd-ified designs I had for the expedition duo. Decided to put them to proper use.
Bonus doodles I made beforehand
#pokemon#reestallized drew this#reestal likes to draw#pokemon fanart#pokemon protagonist#pokemon mystery dungeon#Pmd new light#< name of this au#pokemon legends arceus#trainer rei#trainer akari#yamask#dartrix#pikachu#Wren is basically also Rei but from a different timeline (I mean he's also human turned Pokemon) so uh idk how to tag him#Wren (dartrix)#< like this I guess??#Also added a part that was missing before#whiteboard fox
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NEVERMIND I'M GOING FULL KH MODE
#they're not perfect fits#but! the fact that the pmd player is amnesiac and the partner is inquisitive about the world at large..... i'm seeing Parallels(tm)#this for sure doesn't fit into khux's timeline but it feels like a fun au sandbox to play around with#explorers of liveblog#can't wait to recruit a member to name them player and have it be infinitely more confusing LMAO
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i found my sketchbook guys. returning to my roots
#my art#doodles#pokemon#darkrai#pmd sky#nightshade the darkrai#nightshade undergoes the funniest series of character arcs in the world to me#sorry that i made my darkrai oc be every featured darkrai in the series. hes having a normal one#the thing abt nightshade is that shit just keeps fucking happening to him and he just has to go with it#stopped dialga and palkia from destroying his home town. left town and went and got kidnapped by evil people and got saved by a ranger.#made friends with a different ranger and became their partner and formed strong friendships with two other mythicals#experienced the horrors so strongly he was like fuck everything im going to be evil now and tried to destroy the whole world#got turned into a human and then into a fucking completely different pokemon and then went back in time to stop himself from being evil#adopts a child (manaphy)#like he is just GOING THROUGH IT#nightshade battered and traumatized and with half his trauma forgotten pointing at his shaymin partner like youre the only motherfucker#in this timeline who can handle me#cadet voice Nightshade? thats just kind of a weird name for an eevee haha#Nightshade having forgotten two lifetimes and was the only human in the bad end future: well you see its a normal name for humans like me#i think comet and jazz find him bc theyre also immortal mythicals and theyre psychic types so they clock him instantly#and theyre like ON GOD. WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO YOU MAN
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I am with an sonic au idea that's slightly based on pmd stuck on my head
Something something, what if little sonic and little silver used to be the best little buddies in the iblis apocalyptic future, but sonic ended up getting his little gremlin hands on one of the chaos emeralds and accidently chaos blasting himself to the past? And he just started to live in the present from then on
Both Sonic and Silver still vaguely remember having a buddy when they were younger, but that was too many years ago for them to recognize eachother right away (Sonic was so young back then that he even forgot he was from the future, and as far as he remembers he just popped into existence one day, no questions asked)
And yes silver is still trying to kill sonic i love when silver kills
#i said it was slight inspired by pmd but its really just the grovyle and hero part#dont ask me how the fuck the timeline would work after they deleted iblis from existence i do not know#im doing this for sillies ✌️#sonic 06#lille rambles#silver the hedgehog#sonic the hedgehog#i might draw this tomorrow maybe
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fionna and cake is definitely giving me good ideas on how to handle asha btw…
#…. another thing sf is unintentionally similar to. but like#ok im not gonna stress myself out over this one bc the entire f&c universe is considered rogue and tainted#not just the characters#meanwhile asha’s fuckery is limited to just herself#also the idea is more in how her glitching affects other people#i think one thing stunting me abt starfall is that im concerned about how to handle the multiverse aspect#bc thats how the UB worlds are treated. like alternate timelines that had different lifechanging events#buuuut i didnt wanna confuse people with like. alternate versions of the same characters either?#some of it is made easy like. asha doesnt have any counterparts at all#and not every world they go into has alternate versions at all. some of them are mostly unrelated like the UB homeworlds#but f&c makes me feel a bit better about it. gonna try and see why that works for me on a writing level#makes me also wannaaaa touch on alternate worlds affected by the other pmd games…#like what if the meteor struck in rt. or the future timeline from pmd2. or the remade world from gti#or changes influenced by the characters’ actions in those games#echoed voice
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(Smiling serenely) I should put my pokemon in the timeloop
#there's something very cyclical about a frlg nuzlocke with several failed attempts. run by a trainer who constantly reuses names#there are many many encounters in frlg that can very easily be guaranteed and many of them that are just extremely likely#so my team for all of my attempts was structurally very similar.#bulbasaur that i drop after erika. abra that i catch outside nugget bridge. lapras i get from silph. jolteon i get from celadon. free space#that usually included a nido that dies tragically early for no good reason and an arcanine brought onto the team solely bc its my fave pkmn#but the pokemon that actually stands out to me is my alakazam pareidolia. back to back runs he was my mvp#first run he brought me to lance solo and lost. second run he was...i believe the last survivor vs rival#i think it would be fun if such an intelligent pokemon could catch onto the distortion of the world around him#even if he hasnt been blessed by celebi or dialga or whoever to see the timeline split (saves and resets and savestates)#idk. i'll think abt it more later.#i know i just made a post abt pmdifying my pokemon but i think pmd is actually kind of boring as a setting for this guy
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thinking about the sonic pmd au. what if pmd Silver was actually trapped in a multiple timeline loop? wouldn't that be messed up-
ok so. previous lore recap: Silver is from a Future where the world is frozen over due to the Bittercold. All life should have been destroyed, but there was enough determination among survivors that there's still a small flame of hope alive ✨ Silver is one of them. In fact, he's incredibly determined; for better or for worse. This catches the eye of Mephiles, who then convinces Silver to go back to the past, collect the Time Gears, and then use the Gears' power to rewrite history.
Except Mephiles knows this won't actually save the world--the opposite of it, in fact. He's done this scheme a few times now.
Mephiles is a timeline-hopping entity. Not really a pokemon, but takes the form of one. I'm not sure what he is yet, exactly. Maybe a manifestation of all life's desire for oblivion, like the Bittercold, but on a multiverse level.
He causes a ruined future in one timeline, and then hops to another to do it again--usually through the use of a pawn who wants to "save" the world. In the current case, it's Silver. In the previous ones, maybe parallel versions of Silver? maybe other characters? idek.
but yeah Silver wasn't actually sent to the past of his timeline, but another one. He thinks he's saving his future when he's actually bringing forth the doom of another. Hey, very fitting/ironic for an Absol.
I think Silver's character arc would be learning to trust others/share his burdens. Something something, his goal (despite being altruistic) has made him selfish and paranoid, since he doesn't know who to trust in the strange new world of the Past.
If Mephiles' previous pawns were also parallel versions of Silver, then this Silver would be the one to break the cycle by Asking Help From His Friends. AND it gives more weight to Blaze disappearing--Mephiles knew he could be defeated by the power of friendship, so he needed to seal Silver's friend away. lmao
#sonic pmd au#rey rambles#i don't know how coherent this sounds but. yeah#silver is trapped in a time loop#idek if Silver will be able to change his future or he accepts that he can only move forward/rebuild it#silver isn't even supposed to be the main character of this au and yet#mephiles keeps hopping like a flea from one timeline so he can mess stuff up lol
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PMD: Rescue Team Timeline
Gates to Infinity
This timeline is specifically based on Blue Rescue Team since it's the game I own so there may be differences between this, Red Rescue Team, and Rescue Team DX.
I'll count vague timeskips to the best of my judgement, the one dungeon = one day rule doesn't strictly apply, and I document every game up until the hero and partner reunite, though I might make additions for post-game story later on.
Introduction Arc
On Day 1, Hero and Partner meet and rescue Caterpie before forming a team. On Day 2 the team rescues the Magnemite and the hero has a dream the following night. Partner shows Hero around on Pokemon Square on Day 3 and the following night, Hero once again has a dream and an earthquake occurs. Dugtrio asks the team to rescue Diglett on the morning of Day 4 and again, Hero has a dream the night after.
Magnemite joins the team on the following day, Day 5. They're also introduced to Shiftry and Team ACT. Nothing happens on Day 6, but on Day 7 Team Meanies introduce themselves and steal the team's mail. Caterpie asks the team to rescue Metapod on Day 8 and Team Meanies confront them in Sinister Woods in an attempt to steal the job.
Ninetales Legend Arc
Jumpluff approaches the team on Day 9 to ask them to rescue Shiftry from Silent Chasm, and on Day 10 the team make their way to Mt. Thunder to confront Zapdos.
The Team meets Xatu in Great Canyon on Day 11 and on the day after, Day 12, Whiscash tells them about the Ninetales Legend. The partner gets so demotivated that they suggest to quit work for the day and the hero has another dream the following night, in which Gardevoir clearly appears to them for the first time.
Day 13 marks the day on which Gengar reveals to Pokemon Square that Hero is a human which turns the town against them.
Run Away Arc
In the early morning of Day 14, the team takes off to flee. An unknown but significant amount of time passes before they make it to Lapis Cave. Seeing how they make it through different areas and the distance between Pkmn Square and Lapis Cave is a good bit longer than the path you actually play through, I'm tempted to pin down the trek to Lapis Cave at a lenght of five days, counting in Day 14, marking the day the team makes it through the cave as Day 18.
I choose to apply the 1 day = 1 dungeon rule to this arc due to how lenghty it's meant to feel and how the trek between Mount Blaze and Frosty Forest describes the team going through different areas again. So, on Day 19 the team makes it through Mt. Blaze, on Day 20 through Frosty Forest, and finally on Day 21 they reach the peak of Mt. Freeze to meet Ninetales. Team ACT make their way to Magma Cavern to confront Groudon on that same day.
Now logically, the trip back to Pkmn Square would take days but the game doesn't give you that impression, plus for missions you can go to and through dungeons all the way across the continent within a day so I'll say the team makes it back to Pkmn Square within Day 21.
Groudon Arc
On the night of Day 22, the hero has another dream with Gardevoir and an earthquake occurs that night. The next day, Day 23, Wynaut approaches the team asking them to take care of the Mankey in Uproar Forest. Once you do, it takes them "some days" to renovate the house. Assuming you already got two chestnuts on your first trip to Uproar Forest, you can give those to the Mankey right after to further progress the renovation. I'd put the entire process at a duration of seven days, counting Day 23, which would make Day 29 the day the house is finished, assuming you got two chestnuts right away and don't have to return to Uproar Forest.
Nothing happens for two days until another earthquake happens on the night before Day 32, on the morning of which Shiftry calls Rescue Teams from all over to Pokemon Square to send the best of them off to Magma Cavern to try and rescue Team ACT and defeat Groudon. The team continues with work as usual that day.
Finale Arc
On the very next day, Day 33, the rescuers return from Magma Cavern exhausted and having failed. Partner motivates the present Rescue Teams to not loose hope and make their way to the cavern as well. The team plans to take off the next day themselves. The hero has another dream with Gardevoir the night before the trip.
On Day 34, the team makes it through Magma Cavern and return to Pokemon Square with Team ACT where they're almost immediately alarmed by Xatu seeing an approaching meteor. The team plans to seek out Rayquaza the next day to ask them to destroy the meteor. The hero has a dream about Gardevoir that night, who tells them that they'll have to return to the human world once they fulfill this task.
Day 35 marks the day Hero and Partner make their way through Sky Tower, ask Rayquaza to destroy the meteor, and save the world. Once they're back on the ground and recover from the impact, the hero vanishes to return to their world. However, they are permitted to reunite with the partner and the two are back together on the same evening.
Conclusion
The main story of Rescue Team lasts 35 days or 1 month and 5 days.
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Grovyle and dusknoir decide to make amends by taking every job possible to avoid thinking about their second chance at life.
#pmd2#grovyle#dusknoir#celebi#pmd hero#pmd partner#my art#the worst part is they genuinely think this is the best they can offer to treasure town#grovyle doesnt even need to prove anything. he has pokepals and wigglytuff's guild to supportt him and YET hes like this#celebi: godd how can they be like this -leaves the timeline for a week-
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A blast from the past.
#ahhhhh yes#the horrifying realization that the amnesiac god of nightmares you’ve been letting stay with you#the one who nearly swept the world into a terrifying darkness that would never pass#the one who scarred you both mind and body#he knows things he shouldn’t.#he’s echoing things he shouldn’t.#and you have to ask yourself#Is he only just barely beginning to remember?#or did he remember from the very beginning#and you were too busy pretending to be okay to notice?#(This would take place further in the timeline when Twig is pretty okay with Ark’s presence#and she’s even starting to see him as a friend#despite the doubt lingering in the back of her mind.#Kip is also home!! Our man returns from his expedition!!#and he is so confused why Twig is avoiding him.)#the present is a gift au#stuff by sofie#pmd2#pmd eos#pmd explorers#pmd sky#pmd#pokémon mystery dungeon#pmd darkrai#pmd au#pmd comic
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@tiredanvilandmace
they say fear doesn't shut you down, no - it wakes you up.
but lev felt like he was still asleep, his body moving with only the greatest effort - onto his pegasus after helping nico on his & even when they returned home to camp, lev found his limbs heavy & his heart … his heart in a ricocheting frenzy. lev .. could swear he was still asleep, his dreams swaying left & right, from wishful thinking to nightmares & then nico's sunken-in face flashed before his eyes again. fuck. he'd never be able to unsee that. it wasn't until the moment nico collapsed by his feet, with no pulse & no heartbeat - dead & broken, like a lifeless doll … it wasn't until then that lev understood the truth.
it wasn't until then that he found himself frozen, his body no longer listening. fear does shut you down. fear shut lev down, at least. after dismissing the pegasi, the others slowly retreating to their own respective cabins - or wherever else they planned to go, lev was … still stood outside the stables, as was nico, who looked equally… that. they'd lost so many on recent missions, but regardless of that - of what it was they felt, they'd … had each other & now they'd had a taste of what it was like to lose that. well, lev did.
& lev was not a fan. heavy feet carry him towards the other, though they'd only been a few meters from each other to begin with - paranoia keeping lev on nico's ass for the unforeseeable future. fingers found a calloused hand, both of lev's hands wrapping around one of the blacksmith's. forehead against nico's, "we're goin' t'my cabin." southern drawl thick, his mind struggling to connect still, but one thing was clear. nico was not going to go home alone. "don't try talkin' back." voice calm, if … clearly tense, like lev was holding onto himself to control it. like he had more to say, but chose not to even though his tongue had already formed the words against his lips. tugging nico's hand, lev … was not going to be denied.
#tiredanvilandmace#tiredanvilandmace \ 006#lev x nico#so ... ik we don't have that many threads yet but#timeline wise.... it should be 4? 5?#like post cam = 2#we def have to have one post island = 4?#also post haywood = 3?#nghhhh i don't wanna math#post dark forest quest#could i have pmd you this yes#did i just ramble in tags bc it is what i do? yes#*rolls out*#levico prevails
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i'm anti-explorers remake i really do not want an explorers remake (<- guy who will still buy an explorers remake)
#bwark#i can't say no to pmd + eos is my favourite game and it means a lot to me#but like. we just need one!!#im worried that remake won't capture the same experience as the original because the ds sprites are just so charming#but also there's not enough to fix to warrant a remake#like the only thing i can think of is elaborating on darkrai but considering rtdx didn't fix anything with rt's weak story i doubt they'll#touch that. and that one thing that's exclusive to the end of the postgame doesn't make a remake worth it#like with rtdx the gameplay at least needed some heavy tweaking#and while i am letdown with the lack of story improvements those qol changes were very welcomed#but explorers doesn't have those issues the original rt did#the only other benefit i can see and this is only towards my team but i can make my sylveon thea/luxray aziel team real#can't do that in the originals but like. still#and that's if they remake sky and not time/darkness. which is the worst timeline#which would be a stupid but probable decision considering bdsp exists#idk im rambling. brand new pmd game with new story and characters pls no explorers remake#*we DONT need one#oops
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im glad that despite being on the backburner for . years. i can still think of my main aus like i never stopped :] kh on the brain forever
#looked thru one of my note for the pmd au and immediately got new ideas for it . i am so fucking back#made me wanna expand whats going on w Terra n Aqua since they dont have much going on besides. well. be legendaries basically#(they take the roles of rescue team Groudon n Kyogre as well as Latios n Latias in psmd. n technically also Entei for Terra in psmd)#that seems like a lot but i know what im doing i swear 👍#maybe i should find a way to include the khdr kids since i havent gotten to that yet.. could be fun#oh ! also been working on ways to connect Terra w Ansem n Xemnas :] probably gonna be more canon-esque than most other things#but it kinda works w the rescue team part of the timeline#and i really need to figure out how exactly to work around Xehanort bc of what he can and does do both in canon and taking his role here..#ironically these things are also backed up by pmd iq groups . now that i think abt it#i also need yo do more work on the psmd part of the timeline since its arguably the most altered part so far#since i dont really cover gates or rescue team anyway . explorers and super just connect a lil too well#i mean tbf gates and super are way too easy to also connect to each other bc like. come on.#but who would be the duo for that .. or maybe it could be earlier in the pmd timeline than it is .. hm.#that Could line up a something else i have planned actually. could be funky. theres two (2) different duos i have in mind#maybe more depending on who else i could slap in here#ok yeah. i have objectively the funniest duo to put in gates. thats happening now <3
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