#me still kicking my legs and giggling like an idiot waiting for the future plotline where it all becomes clear even all these months later

[scarredsands]

Headcanon - Registeel

Saya found Registeel out in Orre's deserts after a trip to the Outskirt Stand with Mags. The discovery happened after Saya noticed a red, pulsating glow below the sands - light emitting from the Registeel's eyes.

For one reason or another, Registeel became attached to Saya after it was unearthed from the sands. In a way, it was almost like it was in the sand waiting for her to pass by, as they had been dormant prior to that, according to them. Saya had passed those very dunes many times on the way to the station, but something that particular night had made the titanic golem awaken.

Registeel hasn't communicated to Saya directly yet. Instead, it communicates to her via their eyes, glowing in a way that is indicative of morse code. Short pulsations of light combined with long pulsations gets the message across. Saya was lucky enough to actually know morse, as it was something her grandfather taught her for fun whenever The Under would experience rolling blackouts to pass the time.

Saya has affectionately begun to call them 'Regis', a shortened nickname of Registeel. Whenever she needs to communicate back to them and is unable/doesn't want to speak, she'll tap on its body or on any hard surface around her. Regis' body is hollow, yet the steel its made up of is tougher than any metal or steel she's ever seen. The hollowness was off-putting and bizarre to her at first, but she's long since gotten used to it.

She isn't sure still why Registeel has taken a particular shine to her. In a way, it's further cemented her belief and passion in training steel-types, strengthening her drive further to become a formidable steel master. At the same time, it's strange and perplexing. She feels no connection towards the legendary, in terms of being tethered at the soul. It also hasn't communicated with her telepathically, and she is unable to communicate in the same way to it via her thoughts.

Though Registeel is often not far from Saya's side, either burrowed beneath the shifting sands and following along as she rides into the deserts, or awaiting her return in her League chambers, it's not a pokemon officially registered to her. In fact, Saya hasn't technically 'caught' it in a ball. At this point it may as well be her pokemon, but it isn't official yet.

These days, she spends a lot of time soul searching and chasing any conceivable reason for Registeel's choice out in the deserts. She has been upfront and asked why it made that choice, only to be met with non-answers. Even Registeel isn't sure why it awoke in that moment.

Despite that, Regis has become a valuable ally and friend to Saya. She's trained next to it silently among the dunes, trying to gain an understanding through physical training, and has spent mornings before sunrise meditating with it for their combined mental training. Nothing has become clear yet to either of them, but this physical and mental training has become formative for Saya. It has helped her inwardly, and has also helped her come to a form of understanding and peace with herself, oddly enough.

Saya isn't sure if she'll ever find an answer, or if there even is one at this point. Maybe it's all just a coincidence, or... perhaps the answer is simply yet to be seen.