you posted your reaction to volo but i wanna know. how about the random portrait of laventon in that one house during the main story. bc me personally i had to set my controller down and stare at that for a bit wtf was he Doing there
i saw that and by that point my understanding was just that like yeah legends z a has a free pass to bring up the past in any way it wants and it can hurt me without warning so i just gotta be prepared for anything. like shoot man after the main story i double checked the museum to make sure volo wasn’t there in the flesh. anything can happen man!
but um. you know a thought that popped into my head later on. laventon’s dialogue in pla saying how volo returned to.. personally? talk to laventon? to confess and inform him of important matters and everything? why laventon. i understand why he couldn’t bear to face the protag again but it’s so interesting to think that after having hurt them, the first person volo believes he can turn to and trust in the galaxy team is the kind and humble professor laventon… i don’t even know if we ever see them interact within the story….
laventon mentions he got the sense volo was more invested in their completion of the pokédex than he wanted to let on. that combined with the mention that volo apparently spent time nostalgically staring at laventon’s drawings… i think volo has some hidden but deep respect for laventon. it could just be because he and his work have close ties to the player but like. volo trusts the guy somehow. enough to come crawling back to him probably with shame on his face and tell the truth. we don’t get to see that scene but can you imagine volo, struggling with all his wrongdoings, running to this kindly somewhat older man like some sort of trusted mentor…
ANYWAY. all of this is to say that given that immortal volo is canon now and he clearly has visited lumiose city somewhat recently. i headcanon that that house was his. it’s clearly abandoned now (that new owner has a lot of work to do with cleaning it up lol) but like. volo was there at some point. maybe that portrait of laventon brought some sort of comfort(/pain) to volo. why he left it behind would be another mystery but like. you get what i’m saying right. lumiosian volo. volo with a soft spot for laventon
