OKAY SO hilda the series but make it PMD - aka Hilda randomly wakes up as a pokemon (mountain king deja vu time) with no memories of where she came from except that she was human originally. and then is found by two aspiring explorers and, after teaming up for an adventure, decide to form an exploration team together. idk I think there’s a nice parallel to the show to be had in here with Frida + David helping Hilda adjust to the pokemon world and Hilda being the one to give them that little push to finally sign up to be an exploration team. the partner character in PMD EOS starts off as this really ambitious wannabe explorer who’s fascinated by the unknown …but is also too nervous to even set foot near the guild so I think splitting their personality into Frida (ambition) and David (fear) works pretty well. also David is the one who found the relic fragment bc it’s a cool rock so of course. the entire game's plot happens bc of that so everyone say thank u David

I haven’t thought much else out so far but I’m leaninggg towards Astrid replacing grovyle as the time gear thief - she was willing to sacrifice herself for Johanna in the show so I think that could be stretched into doing so to fix time and make a better future for the world. So my working idea is that her and Hilda teamed up in the future and travelled back to try and fix things together.

The only change I’d make is that instead of Hilda’s memories getting erased by accident when they travelled to the past, it would be Astrid’s doing (after all she has form w this hahaha). She’d be content with her own life being erased when the future is changed, but couldn’t possibly let the same thing happen to Hilda. So when they travelled back in time to finish their mission, she erased Hilda’s memories in the hopes that leaving her in the past and making her forget her role in this scheme would spare her the same fate…didn’t quite go to plan though

Astrid and Phinium are both shiny shaymin btw - I figured mythical Pokémon would be a good stand-in for fairies in the pokemon world, 'cause of how the PMD world treats mythicals/legendaries as a folklore thing. If I was gonna go deep into this I’m leaning towards the Fairy Entity replacing dusknoir as the pokemon trying to stop them from changing the future. (lbr hilda doesn’t have any characters evil enough for me to slander them by giving them dusknoir’s role lmao.) I think I’d write primal dialga out of this and just make it that the Fairy Entity rules over the dying future much like the fairy isle and doesn’t appreciate anyone escaping or trying to undo the damage. maybe

Phinium kinda fills Celebi's role..? He's helping Astrid fix the future. true to the spirit of season 3 I think he'd also go back to the past at some point & meet Lydia along the way, then when the Fairy Entity starts tracking them down they both flee back to the future, leaving their little one behind so she can have a better life in the past. In my head I have Phinium as a shiny sky-forme shaymin and lydia as a leafeon

Alsoo I wanted to put david's marra and kelly in here as a misdreavus and banette respectively and have them kinda fill Team Skull's role in the story but I didn't have the energy to draw them on top of all this i'm sorry :'))