#yea volo is there

[rottingfairy01]

The council will decide your fate.

(srry for low quality pic, my phone sucks.)

[phantasmaltrain]

based on that one twitter trend going around

[sixoclocker]

chapter 2 of the arceus arc prediction for pokemon masters is that volo is about to pull up in his outfit and call it an arc suit

[volosdarling]

[loki-ioki]

Summer swimsuit Geeta i drew to go with Volo's + a quick doodle that i did not spend that much time on

[patokascribbles]

i joked that Volo is the type of person to try to get you into his pyramid scheme because i know nothing about the guy, but what my friend @creator-kami told me about so here

[deadrlngers]

only 3 types of ocs in my bee gee three roster. cuntress, swamp creature and mango

[sexysilverstrider]

this is 1.5k words. knowing my past fics and how stupidly stubbornly dedicated i am this will be 10k words. even more

[feliciadraws]

Thank you very much @goldensunset for these wonderful tags 🤣

[cryptids-lobelia-garden]

OKAY here we are, all caught up! For now. I don’t have any buffer or anything really specific planned for the next few days. Wish me luck. So! This one is set probably like.. three-ish months? Into Volo getting pulled into the agency/under Eclipse’s wing? So yeah, Eclipse hasn’t done anything super serious yet, just messed with his head.

Warnings: ngl I have No Idea what to tag this one.

Whumpee having Issues, that are only being exacerbated by whumper, who isn’t hurting him physically quite yet but he sure isn’t good for Whumpee’s mental or emotional state. Emotional hurt no comfort I guess is what this is. You know when you look back at something really shitty you did and go “…oooohh no.” Yeah it’s that, that’s what this is

Anyway uh. I’m not super happy with how it turned out, this scene is supposed to come in between some other stuff whenever I actually pull everything together, BUT!!!! At least the first draft is written! So I can edit it and string it together with other stuff later!

But yeah, the context this needs is by this point, he’s aware that what he was trying (subjugate Arceus and rewrite history) was never going to work out, and he’s been a little aimless since then, not sure he has a purpose. And this is him kinda finding one!

(Poor guy has a traumatization arc at the same time as his redemption arc 😔 wish him luck he’s gonna need it)

Day 3: Shame

“GIRATINA!! STRIKE THEM DOWN!!!”

Volo sighs as he watches it play out. Again, again.

Four teenagers, twenty four Pokémon, and two gods; one present, one absent.

One teenager blinded by a dream of a world without suffering, the other three fighting for the right to exist.

Six Pokémon against eighteen, and then the playing field is leveled by the help of a god, but still the three teenagers won.

Three siblings, one angry, one upset, one cynical, watching as their flute changes into one that can summon Arceus, and one teenager, alone in the world, angry at the god he’d worshipped for abandoning him in every single time of need. Angry at the god who had helped him for failing.

He had lashed out, and now he was completely and utterly alone.

Three siblings finding their way back to the home they had protected while one teenager grieves the life he never got to live. Three siblings chasing their dreams and meeting their goals while one teenager is lost, stuck with nowhere else to go but away. But he can’t go away, because Hisui is his home. His broken, pain-filled home, full of the memories of his people.

They have everything, and he is left alone.

Three siblings growing up and becoming champions of their region, one teenager finding a strange device and traveling to another time.

To another dimension.

Would things have been different, had I not done all this? Would I have more than just myself, my Pokémon, and Eclipse to rely on?

He scrolls back in time.

Three siblings and one teenager meeting for the first time. A Pokémon battle, and two of the siblings became fast friends with the teenager.

And a few months later, he betrays them for nothing but a chance at a plan that never would have worked in the first place.

“GIRATINA!! STRIKE THEM DOWN!!!”

..He turns his holocomputer off and lays in bed, staring up at the ceiling.

..maybe Eclipse is right. I deserve to hurt for what I put those three through.

We were all teenagers, but I was older. They were 15. I was an adult. I should’ve known better- I tried to KILL them.

And my actions indirectly killed so many more..

He lets his eyes slip closed.

..I’m lucky I have Eclipse. At least he won’t hurt me, despite the fact that I deserve it. Not like so many of the others in this place would.

..I wonder if things would be different, had I called it all off.

I wish I could go back and stop it. But that would only create a paradox involving the Agency itself. It would only make everything worse, might actually break reality as a whole..

He rolls over, curling up on his side and hiding in the plush blankets.

..Maybe, if I hadn’t been born, the world would be better off.

Thousands dead, tens of thousands hurt, and SO MANY displaced throughout time and space.. All because of a dream that could never have worked.

I need to help them. It’s my fault they’re lost, after all.

I can’t bring back the dead.

But I can at least help the living.

[transslyblue]

I realized I should probably follow up on this post to mention another thing I found funny about Gale.

He fuckin died!!! When I went back before ending act one to harpies!!!

I was wondering why I was taking necrotic damage until I saw him. Just laying there. Dude, you are so smart but the harpies bested you?

Well. Then the panic set in during the cutscene when he explains his little pouch. I almost legit died from the necrotic damage and just bright him back with my own scroll and he was upset I didn't want to use his??

Been playing Baldurs Gate 3 for the better part of the day, and man. I just love Gale. Dude is so awkward

[patriamrealm]

I saw the Akari Arceus aspect, and it's very cute! Love that Akari gets to have a little buddy. Having the fourth starter option as God would be cool. In the au, what are the others' reactions? Does any of them get more suspicious of Akari? Does Volo recognise her new cool looks? Does he start screaming yelling crying etc when he finds out? I'm very curious over the degree of mental breakdown he'll have over this situation. Thanks!

Oh yea it would be really fun, especially since absolutly no one would have a clue what pokemon fraction Arceus is. Not even Akari.

Which would be an issue, Akari and a strange person just fall from the rift and later Akari gains aspects of said pokemon when only the Wardens are supposed to be able to do that? There's a lot of extra distrust from Kamado especially early on.

Though I can see someone, maybe Ingo, comparing fraction Arceus to a deerling he vaguely recalls some merchant guild member describe years ago.

With a conclusion that Arceus is most likely just some regional varient, ancient extinct evolution, or far future evolution of a deerling the total fear and mystery surrounding it fades to normal levels of distrust in Akari and her partner. Especially when it get's it's own entry in the pokedex

Volo on the other hand, likely still has his suspicions.

Upon realizing though, ohh I can see him absolutely loosing it. Maybe even thinking that if he killed Akari and captured Arceus then he would inherit it's favor thus it's aspects and power.

[volosdarling]

WINTER VALENTINE

[ewitsrin]

fuck you it's autistic infodumping time pokemon legends arceus spoilers under the cut

Volo is, for all intensive purposes, a complete idiot. Like. A TOTAL dumbass. A charming, manipulative dumbass, but a dumbass all the same.

Let's go over the easiest thing to point out first; If Arceus wasn't going to show up for the MC, its chosen hero, until they had "sought out all Pokémon", then it obviously wouldn't have shown up for this random blonde twink who decided that complete and utter global wide genocide was the solution to his problems. Even if he had won and gotten all of the plates and played the flute, Arceus would have taken one look at who was trying to summon it and went "wow okay, no." Why would God go "fuck, my literal child hero got defeated. guess i gotta bend to the will of this batshit insane dude with a shitty hairstyle and destroy everything i created." when it could just. Not do that.

Secondarily, by helping the MC in order to manipulate them into doing what he wanted later on, bro was basically giving them a loaded gun to use against him later. He's inadvertently the reason they managed to create the red chain, which eventually lead to them catching a literal God of their own. By the time he gets to the point where he betrays them, he has basically played a part in giving them access to 2 Gods and 3 Mythical, God-Like beings. Even if he wasn't expecting them to use them in the final fight, they'd still have the ability to whip them out whenever they so pleased. He might of had Giratina, but now they have access to two of Arceus's favored children *and* the lake guardians. Bro did not think that through.

Finally, and might I add, another obvious point; he. he could have just. not revealed his big plan to the MC prior to taking the plates? like. if he said "may I see the plates? I have an idea!" they probably would have handed them over. maybe not, but telling them that he was about to kill them and everyone that they loved before at least trying that was. not very smart. him being completely and utterly confident in his ability to defeat them as well despite the revelation of his true intentions was also not smart. he watched this kid blaze through the whole region, befriend gods, and tame gigantic beasts, and thought "no yeah my demon worm has this in the BAG." like ok sweetie. whatever you say.

tldr volo is a big dummy. also i haven't actually replayed the game in a while so maybe i got some things inconsistent but uhhh. yea.

[fairymint]

"....oh, simply jokes upon which that I am familiar. Clearly a mistake." My, my! To be so defensive over a comparison and a hypothetical! Consider, that he is not moving a muscle, beyond speaking, at this rate. "I'll stop talking." Much Better, hm?~

"...the fuck did you just call me?" DK growls, fur flaring up around his shoulders as he squints at the blonde bozo traipsing across his path.

A rough snort of air leaves him rising up on his legs to tower over the other...mainly to show- just what a little MANLET the other was compared to him. "Use what? Go ahead - I DARE you...fuckin'prick."

[nami-moittli]

Diasomnia time!

Yes, Lilia is a cheater. Anyway-

Noivern is just a given, and I’m not entirely sure what Gliscor is, I’m sure that it’s obvious, but it’s bat-like enough for me and suits him better than something Crowbat or smth. Grimmsnarl is both a dark type and fairy type, plus it does fit him well so yea. Both Tinkaton and Bewear are cute yet could easily kill you. Also I saw a cute fanart of Lilia with a Tinkaton once, so I had to give him one. Kangaskhan bc Lilia is also a parent and Sneasler bc I wanted to give Lilia a Hisuan pkmn and I thought Sneasler fit him

Thoughts: electric and fairy pkmn. Along with normal and fighting types bc of the half-human thing and him being a guard for Malleus. Zebstrika bc equestrian club (and also that fanart of Sebek calling his Zebstrika a Unovian Rapidash?? I love him and that fanart) Manectric bc electric plus it just suited him. Mawile bc I wanted a fairy type and idk. Just wanted to give him another fairy type. Granbull bc it’s a fairy type that doesn’t look like one and I thought that it just reminded me of him!! Gallade, like I said, is bc of the fact that Sebek is one of Mal’s guards, and finally he has an Eevee that still hasn’t evolved yet. It just doesn’t want to choose!

Some pretty easy picks for him. Musharna and Shiinotic due to his narcolepsy, Galarian Rapidash bc of equestrian club, Aegislash bc just like Sebek, Silver’s one of Mal’s guards (plus Silv is partially based on the sword that kills Maleficent, or at least, is theorized to be) and Floette bc fairy type and it gives me his vibes. I will say that I’d want it to have a purple flower (though I do not think those exist in canon pkmn) bc I associate three different twst characters with the same flower, and so each of them has to have a different coloration of the flower, and Silver gets the purple poppy. Driftloon is there bc I’ve seen people give him one and I think it’s a funny idea, so I gave him one too

Malleus actually hates us/j

But fr, I once saw someone give him 12 pkmn, and, yeah. Mal would be the kind to do that. I did only give him 11 tho! So, not as bad! (Unless he pulls a Volo and has Giratina pull out it’s original form, then yeah, 12 pkmn, but oh well-)

My thoughts: d r a g o n & legendaries. + Porygon bc of his tomodatchi. Oh and Florges bc of Maleficent’s thorn + queen stuff. And I like to associate Mal with black poppies, but again, I don’t think that coloration exists in pkmn? Just imagine, okay? (Maybe I should’ve given Ortho a white Flebebe lol) Cresselia Does Not want to be on Mal’s team I feel. Maybe if this AU had an actual plot line then I’d be able to say that during Malleus’s rampage, Cresselia changes teams. The only other thing I have to say is that I chose Zekrom bc 1) lightning and 2) Zekrom’s theme is ideals. So, yeah. Plus color coding! How wonderful it worked out that way!

As a bonus, I did give everyone else a legendary too, for again, hypothetical plot line reasons

Yuu would have Reshiram, representing truth and inversing Malleus’s Zekrom, Lilia has Lunala bc of the fae of the night thing, it suits him, and I once saw someone give him one. Zacian for Silver bc 1) again, he’s probably based on the sword and 2) he matches with Sebek’s Zamazenta. Also, I once saw someone say that they hc Sebek to be partially based off of the shield, and I Love That?? So yeah. (This is also why I didn’t give Cresselia to Silver instead of Malleus)

Anyway, yeah.