♡ferniiluna♡

ok ok so.

in continuation from what i previously said about the roles and basic overview of the plot combinations. i’m just going to. talk. and keep talking about it

in terms of how to implement the mystery dungeon aspect. i’m thinking george really wanted to be on an exploration team but does not have the confidence. in the original timeline lorraine stumbles upon him and convinces him to join the guild. but marty messes this up, being where he should not be, and lorraine tells marty instead that *he* should join and poor amnesiac marty is like… mmkay? sure ig. might help me remember who i was.

anyway she falls in love with him, the new recruit, but one of the few things marty remembers is he has a girlfriend (though no other details) so that ends up being why he rejects lorraine, being that he is not aware she’s his mother (he isn’t even aware he’s in the past).

marty finds george moping outside about wanting to join but not being able to and is like yo. it’s so easy you literally just walk in there and sign up. i’ll go w you if you want.

so while marty takes the role of the player, the partner’s role kind of gets split up between george and doc. doc is who will eventually go with him to hidden land. but george is the one who is actually invested in this exploration team stuff, and is the wimpy partner so to speak for this part of the story.

marty starts trying to set up george and lorraine specifically to get lorraine to stop hitting on him, but this gets repeatedly thwarted by 1955 biff and his cronies who take the role of team skull. the sort of mostly low stakes pmd2 stuff keeps happening here.

then the time gears start getting stolen. and i sort of touched on this in my other post. eventually jennifer gets arrested and is being brought back to the future when doc and marty get kidnapped and brought there too. etc etc. george and lorraine get sidelined for a bit.

i think marty would finish getting his parents together after they get back from the future but before hidden land and temporal tower. he finds out who he was (though still doesn’t remember atp), and once they’re back jennifer finds out what he’s done and is like. hidden land can wait. please go make sure you will exist to save the world in the first place jesus christ marty…

and then the final leg of the main pmd2 plot with clara as dialga and doc and marty having to save her :)

anyway. other side notes. i cant think of anyone other than 1985 biff taking dusknoir’s role in the story. also strickland would be chatot. no two ways about it.

i also got to thinking about how the future would change after all this, because obviously in bttf there are big changes but they’re all centered on marty’s life. bur this would be preventing an apocalypse, so the changes would be huge. you go from fighting to survive to… a normal, happy life. and i have to think about marty’s band and needles and how that would change too.

i reckon he and his band still played music together, but it was done infrequently due to little downtime and the quality of the music wasn’t great because the instruments were kind of beaten up. also they’d be hard to cart around or justify keeping when you’re more concerned about fending off corrupted, desperate pokemon and feeding yourself than playing music.