voice testing/considering a game maybe eventually

[overcame]

I don't think...

[guh]

Even though you assure me I would return to Michina in time - and I believe it, I know it is possible....

I don't think I'm comfortable with the idea of going to some of these places.

[UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR]

My place is with the people of Michina, and its magical creatures. One person can be of great help, like a single drop of rain, but some of these places are too strange for me to even imagine.

So much has been accomplished in the future.

[sort of in awe, sort of apprehensive, sort of just (unsure).]

Comments

/crashes into

[loveandrage]

[MAGICAL CREATURES, EH???]

Are you talking about demons, hee-human?

[overcame]

Eh?

[wait

what]

I don't think so...how are you speaking the language of humans...?

[loveandrage]

We always could, ho!

[common primal tongue and all that]

[overcame]

...Then you are not like the magical creatures I know. I was told that I would see strange and unfamiliar things beyond my own world...I guess you are one of those things.

[loveandrage]

[He's not sure what to feel about this. Strange and unfamiliar....OH WELL.]

...That's right, ho! I'm Black Frost, the warrior of love and rage!

[overcame]

[..."Love and rage"?]

It is an honor to meet you, Black Frost. Though I am an outsider here, I hope we can meet on good terms.

I am Damos of Michina.

[loveandrage]

As long as you don't hurt my fell-ho demons, we're cool!

[DOHOHOHO Frost family seal of approval.]

the hee-ho puns auuuuuuugh

[overcame]

[...ahahaha.]

I don't think I could hurt another being if I tried. Some might call it a weakness...

i think they're pretty cool

[loveandrage]

Ho? You're kinda different for a hee-human.

[aka not likely to survive in the smt world. but that's okay.]

[will_be_god]

One who knows personally the Original One; that from which all the universe sprang...

Perhaps you may offer insight.

[overcame]

[STRANGER DANGER

that is some forehead

I mean HELLO THERE]

I do know Arceus. Can I help you somehow?

[will_be_god]

[well those are some eyebrows]

I seek knowledge of that one. I am a...perhaps you may call me a scholar of myth. And I wish to know the truth behind those stories. Certainly we know that Arceus exists and that it is the creator of the universe. But yet there is much we do not know about that which we herald as a god.

[overcame]

I hope that doesn't mean you have had trouble from humans before. We are a kind capable of incredible things, but sometimes we fail to understand what is beyond our reach.

[overcame]

[at least they look middling decent on me

on a girl these would be downright scary]

My people have had stories about Arceus long before I was born. I believe that they are true, from what I know about it, having met it personally. What would you like to know about?

[will_be_god]

Its motivations, for one. What does it seek from its creation?

[overcame]

Motivations?

[What a strange question!]

I have never thought of its motivations. It came before all other things, and existed alone in the universe. Would it need a reason to advance creation with its powers, if that was the only action it could take?

[will_be_god]

Perhaps not. But once that creation gave rise to sentient life, there must be the question of responsibility.

[overcame]

What do you mean?

[will_be_god]

Is it merely a builder, leaving those who inhabit its creation to our own devices by design? Or does it see itself as a ruler, one to merit that worship?

[overcame]

In all the time I spent with Arceus, it never asked for worship. Only the freedom to trust, and be trusted.

I think that it is a being much like any other, with a heart that can be spoken to, and gifted with power beyond our imagining.

[will_be_god]

So it takes no responsibility for what it has unleashed.

....see now I have to headcanon the entire goddamn belief system of Michina WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

[overcame]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.

[what, does he...think existence is a bad thing? is he a poke-gnostic?]

He's done that to me a few times since the belief systems of the Pokemon world are rather vague

[will_be_god]

Consider a parent charged with rearing a child. The parent must guide the child, shape them. If they do not, the child will almost certainly come to ill.

Now, widen that to a universal scale. It is the duty of a creator to take responsibility for what it has created, else it come to ill as we have.

I love picking at mythology and spirituality

[overcame]

[ooc: but I'm a little afraid of getting too headcanony because I want to app him to a game eventually. It should be okay as long as it doesn't contradict anything, but...]

"As we have"?

Oh yes

[will_be_god]

Look around you. The world is drowned in hatred and violence. We turn away because we distract ourselves with our own selfish happinesses and delude ourselves that we are safe because we find that niche in a tiny corner, away from all that consumes the world.

We are ignorant savages, and Arceus has permitted that to occur.