okay okay okay
I know I focused a lot on Timeline 21 because hell yeah angsty time that’s my jam
BUT, there’s Timeline 20, exactly the same thing happens as Timeline 21 except Daniel actually comes to term with his sister and friends no longer existing and everyone but him forgetting about them.
Timeline 20 Daniel goes on to become a YA author and basically writes about what exactly happened during his travels, his friends, the Legendaries, the Paladins and becoming Champions of the Legendaries, all the works.
Best seller author.
But also, sorry but I can’t NOT go without angst, when he first came back home after watching everyone disappear, he set up a little like, grave site area in their name along with the Pokemon that have also died (because, again, this is still a Pokemon Nuzlocke thing don’t @ me fam)
I mean, of course Paul and Dawn don’t know about the little, grave site area that Daniel puts up, because it’s very hidden. Like, Daniel actually has it set up pretty close to the actual place where they battled Prof. Brush and co.
When Daniel gets older, he moves out and gets his own place and each year, he visits the graves of his sister and friends (and their Pokemon) and just you know, talk to them. Tell them everything that’s been going on in his life, the success of his book tour, how he’s seen so many people cosplay as the character--who were p much BASED off of them.
He misses them, of course he misses them. He wished there was a way to get them back, but he knows that the Legendaries would not have that. They spared him, they let him live, which, not fair at all but it is what it is. He took it in stride and made the best of it. He essentially spread the word about the Legendaries through his stories after myths and tales about the Legendaries fell silent for centuries.
Timeline 20 Daniel is doing so much better. He’s at peace.














