#speaking of pokemon violet i will die for arven

[sairitaikutsu]

when i told my bf i bought new games to play during christmas break he said i would get a new hyperfixation (it takes two) and he was right i got a new hyperfixation (pokemon violet)

[xurkitrainer]

My completely disorganized thoughts about the AI professor. Im only gonna refer back to Turo since i only played violet.

I dont think the AI ever planned on going through the time machine. That was a last minute decision it made after the paradise protection protocol (PPP) happened. It didnt know about the PPP.

Turo chose not to tell AI about PPP. It has all of Turo's knowledge and thoughts, and yet it didnt know about PPP. Turo made sure it didnt know. Even though the mechanism he put in place for PPP to lock all pokeballs except those by the professor wasnt exactly hidden, it was in a note on a desk in the very same room the AI had to stay in. Im wondering why Turo would prevent AI from knowing about it. Maybe to ensure absolutely nothing could possibly stop it?

The amount of precautions Turo took to ensure nothing could stop the time machine... well, its obvious when the AI says "was keeping the time machine running truly all the professor cared about?" I think the answer there is, yes. That is all he cared about. He made sure the AI could battle better than anyone else, he made sure the time machine could only be activated by his personal copy of the violet book, he made sure the time machine could be reactivated if, for whatever reason, the AI wasnt able to protect it, he made sure that the AI could be completely overrun by an entirely different program in such an event, he made sure it could be reactivated over and over again as long as the AI was there. I wouldnt doubt it if Turo purposefully didnt tell AI about PPP because he may have thought about the slightest possibility of the AI going against his wishes, so he wanted to ensure that itll work out the way he wanted it to no matter what.

AI Turo wouldnt have gone through the time machine if it werent for PPP. It only made that decision because it realized that PPP would still be active along with the machine if it stayed. AI wanted to stay. Even if it did want to see the future world, i think it wouldve prioritized staying in present paldea. I think AI cared more for Arven than Turo did.

I think the AI never processed its own feelings until we meet it. It clearly intended to speak to Arven about the entire situation, probably one-on-one. It wanted to reconcile with him. I fully believe that when it says "your father truly loved you", it actually meant it was itself who loved Arven as its own son, and it just wasnt capable of seeing its own feelings as anything outside of Turo. Not that i think Turo stopped caring entirely, but he definitely didnt care as much as the AI thought he did, or shouldve. But Turo was the only other person it interacted with, other than the player and Clavell, and then later on the friend group. AI only knew about people from information and memories from Turo. It doesnt know how to properly normally communicate, and it tries its best to act normal about everything thats happening, especially when Arven tries to speak to it directly, and even more especially when it glitches out. It was trying to find a good time to tell Arven about Turo's death. It wanted to turn off the time machine to save paldea, even if it meant going against what Turo wanted, because it cared for the region. It knew what was best for the people there, and it definitely wasnt future pokemon destroying everything. It knew Arven was still out there, mostly alone.

Its yearn to see the future comes from Turo. But its not what the AI really wanted for itself. And then theres the issue of the AI itself and how it functions. It tells us that its kept active by the tera energy all throughout the lab and then says thats why it cant leave the lab. And it knows this. Going through the time machine had no guarantee of keeping it active. Maybe it could see the future world, for a little bit, but ultimately it would die without the tera energy. And it is well aware of this. It wanted to stay with us, with Arven, but couldnt because if it did, it would put everyone in danger. So it made sure the time machine could never be activated again by going through the machine and taking the violet book with it, shutting the whole thing down permanently. It tells us that there is no way back through the machine, that a person who goes to the future would not be able to come back, but i think its doubly true for the AI since not only would it be stuck in the future, it would also just be dead. Of course, it wouldnt just tell everyone that, especially not Arven. It tried its best to reassure Arven despite the circumstances, so it wouldnt just straight up tell him that now it has to die to save everyone. It would at least allow Arven to believe his last connection to his father is still alive, somewhere in some other time, and be able to move on better.