#unfortunately the moves just pass through him meaning he can't heroically shield akari from them

[hydrachea]

I’ve known this blog for a few days but if I had a penny for every thought you gave me I’d be rich. The Posessed!Volo AU especially, HoLy shietttt!?¿!!?

I saw the ’Laventon experiments w/Volo’ asks and that made me think of all the abilities that Volo would remain with permanently. I LOVE the crack idea that he uncontrollably phases through things and the Mirror traveling? Glorious. I personally hc that he regains his ’typing’, particularly that Giratina’s presence kinda modified his body and now he’s a literal Ghost-type lmao. A Snorlax about to bodyslam his has absolutely no effect and Lucario’s Close Combat passes harmlessly. Dark Pulse would obliterate him tho.

Also I like to think all the ”Heavy ball throwing at Volo” -art comes from the fact ppl want to test if he can be captured (and thinking that Yes, he can be, is hilarious)

Then he lets Akari catch him so no one else can. Also now he is always with her (and has a convinient private place to sulk/plan).

It’s 3:30 AM. I have to sleep now sorry for the nightly ramble that has 50/50 chance of making any sense in the morning.

((Btw if I make possible art/content of this AU in the future, is there a specific tag you want me to add?))

Possessed!Volo

Let me preface this by saying I woke up to your message and it gave me warm fuzzies all morning. I'm so happy you've been enjoying my thoughts and that it's inspired you! And please never apologize for incoherent rambles or any kind of rambles, I love them dearly!

If you ever want to make any sort of content for it, I use "possessed volo au" as a tag to compile the stuff relating to it on my blog - and feel more than free to @ me or DM me your stuff! I'd love to see it!!

Now! For thoughts! I hadn't thought of any long-term consequences aside from his ability to travel to the distortion world (first manifesting as "glitching"), but the typing is interesting! Especially considering that with his whole "phasing through things" deal, it can be justified - Normal and Fighting type moves just phase through him like he used to phase through things himself. Not all moves do, that would be unfair, but the types Giratina is immune to are fair game. It's a very surprising moment when it first happens, and neither he nor Akari are even sure what it was, but she convinces him to let Laventon do some tests and it confirms that he's somehow immune to both those types of moves from pokemon - Laventon speculating (correctly) that it's due to Giratina's influence on his body.

I still don't think he can be captured, since in PLA pokeballs work through wild pokemon's ability to change their own size (which... hoo boy, I'm not working out the implications of that so I'm not giving Volo that ability). A nice alternative inspired by something @feroluce came up with is that in lieu of being captured, he can come into the distortion world from wherever he is as long as there's a reflective surface nearby, and come out wherever Akari is through a pocket mirror she always carries with her. Not quite sending him out to battle with a pokeball, but still a link he chooses to have with her and nobody else.

(That won't stop Rei and Akari from throwing balls at him to mess with him, or Laventon from studying him like he's another page of the pokedex. But it's ok.)