#i would also like you to picture arceus's human form as towering several feet above akari

[itsnightslashtime]

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((Ooc: OH BOY THIS CAME AT THE PERFECT TIME!!! I've been autisming about a couple of Mega Man character backstories being applied to Akari and Arceus(Quake Woman/Tempo and Dr. Lalinde, for those that want to know)(i also haven't read too far into the comics so this will inevitably stray from that canon)

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The entire story is under the cut because it got REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY LONG!!!!))

Okay so in this verse, Akari was created by Arceus to un-fuck all the stuff in Hisui that was fucked up. She didn't have a life before, she was created for this sole purpose. So Arceus makes her, gives her a mind, implants her mission, and sends her off! And after a bit, it realizes.

It kind of messed up.

Her shrieking her little lungs out when faced with Lord Kleavor shows enough of that.

She is so small, compared to Arceus. Compared to other humans, actually. It made her with a quick and limber size in mind, but that just made the stark contrast so much bigger when she couldn't get up fast enough.

It can hear her soul crying.

So it restarts. It tries again, this time throwing a piece of itself down with her at the start. It's shaped like a human. She fears even the little starter Pokemon, cowering behind it and clutching its dress, so it goes ahead and catches two of them for her, to show her how it's done, even though she should have this information already? It gave it to her when she fell. But it shows her there's not so much to be afraid of, not from these little ones. She catches the last one herself.

Is it just Arceus, or is she more skittish this time? Is it the presence of an adult "faller", someone like her to hide behind? It tries not to coddle her too much. It often separates from her in the wild, to gather mundane data on its own creations so she can have her own adventures. It leaves its own creation, despite Professor Laventon alikening them to a parent and daughter.

Akari dies again, facing Lord Kleavor.

Arceus finds her screams to be even more horrible this time.

It's been going about this all wrong. Her having such a developed mind is the exact thing stopping her from fulfilling her duty. Her fear is stunting her growth; it makes her move slower, it's making her hesitate, it's making her unsteady.

It restarts again. This time, it cuts certain things out of her mind- namely, emotions. She wakes up with dull eyes, gets off the sand in a smooth motion, making no reaction to Arceus having shaken her awake, suddenly struck with a thought that she hadn't survived the trip down despite having landed in exactly the same place as the last few times.

And no, it wasn't afraid for her. It was completely ambivalent towards its creation. She was supposed to be destroyed after her mission was over, anyway.

She catches all three starters without trouble, even stopping Arceus from moving forward to help. She takes on the initiation trial with equal skill and tenacity, astounding everyone in town, and Arceus is so proud of her.

I mean- No, it's not. It feels nothing for her. She was quite literally made for this.

This time, Akari survives Lord Kleavor, and quells him. Arceus helped, distracting the one that held too much power so its creation could do her job. She was analytic, putting together the mannerisms to counter them, and not a speck of fear flowed through her during the fight.

For some reason, Arceus is not as proud of itself for fixing the problem as it thought it would be.

The rest of everything proceeds like this. Akari does not talk, she's never said a word, and Arceus is kind of worried it never gave her the knowledge of how to. But a peek into her mind reveals that yes, she does know, she just never feels the need to make use of it. Because she cannot feel at all. She obliterates every Noble with ruthless efficiency, never once implying she might need help or that she doesn't want to do this, because of course she wouldn't. She is Arceus's perfect creation.

The Professor keeps asking if it's daughter is okay. It has a practiced response for this. The response it does not have is when he notes that it says that every time.

In human form, Arceus follows Akari throughout all of Hisui, though it does not know why. She knows when to retreat due to her injuries. She knows all the ways to treat wild Pokemon. She knows how to take care of herself. And yet, it keeps following her, making sure she's okay.

It rationalizes this by saying it doesn't want to have to start over when they've come so far. It doesn't want to sit through all this again. It doesn't want to have to tweak her mind or her abilities, because that's boring, and it already knew the perfect stats to give her. It does not want to have to explain everything to her again.

It does not want to learn she miscalculated, and is now bleeding out on the ground, alone somewhere when it could have saved her.

Then the Red Sky happens.

This is the dark spot where Arceus could never see into. It's vessel feels weak, but it struggles to its feet and forces more strength through itself, only to watch its creation get banished from Jubilife with a straight face.

She says nothing. She does what she's told, and leaves the village, with nothing but the items in her satchel and the Pokeballs on her belt.

Arceus is banished alongside her, because they are both sky-fallers.

It wants to Judge this man where he stands.

It follows her out, follows the merchant's plan, even though it knows doing such a thing would only empower him for the later betrayal.

While they go around to the lakes, it allows itself to think the thought it had been suppressing this whole time.

That maybe it should have brought her to Mesprit.

Not now, it says to itself. Not when her first feeling would be this kind of fear.

It's creation walks into Mesprit's cavern alone, and answers honestly. On the way out, it stares uncomfortably long at Arceus.

The Red Chain is made, Arceus's children are quelled, and it's creation is so, so damaged. All the calculation in the world could not have saved her from the wrath Dialga and Palkia rained upon the Temple of Sinnoh. They look down upon their disguised parent, and it's creation - their sibling - that they had nearly killed. And still, her eyes stare dully upwards, focused on nothing now that her objective has been completed for the time being. Her wounds are too great. To move would be to exacerbate them, so she doesn't.

She survives only because Arceus keeps her alive.

By the time she's discharged from the medical ward, the decision has been made. Arceus escorts her straight to Lake Verity. Mesprit is the expert, it made it to be so, and Mesprit follows its parent's wish, because Akari cannot want her emotions back.

It's a painful endeavor. It's overwhelming. It's horrible, and she feels horrible. Mesprit was not gentle. Arceus demands time be rewound, and they end up a few minutes before that all happened. Mesprit remembers, and Arceus insists it be gentle with its creation.

Akari's fourth third second first time feeling emotions is gradual, one emotion at a time. The first one isn't entirely evident, but she turns to Arceus with eyes wide, no longer in a blank way but in a glittering, overwhelmed way.

"momma...?"

It's barely audible, but Arceus knows all.

"Yes, beloved. Momma's here."