headcanon birthday time~

[nobodys_king]

You knew I had high standards when you met me.

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I'm pretty amused that "haay it's my birthday" manifested in a Legendary swarm.

[weatheredwheel]

[Arceus raises its head, straightens. It found it hard to.]

...I've heard what man has named me. You don't need to tell me that. Lugia, though...yes, the name you gave my moon child...it gave you speech, and gave a way of speaking to those who didn't. I hope to hear what I sound like - it would help me know me.

[Arceus, giving you more internal organs than eyes, a brain, and a heart would be a very bad idea. Only so much room for...well. Spoilers.]

He's that kind of guy. Legendary pokemon are his passion, after all.

[nobodys_king]

Mmm, I see. So you know the name Arceus, and have some idea of what is what.

I've studied Lugia for most of my life and I'd never heard that before. Speech?

Should meet 3rd movie professor guy. Or maybe not.

[weatheredwheel]

[What is...what. Arceus blinks. The people it met often wanted more thorough tellings, with names and emotions and reasons. Things...thing is thing. It's that simple. But when its name is said, Arceus stiffens and its eyes widen and its thoughts come clipped and tight...but it soon relaxes, not hearing it again.]

Sounds. A speaking language. Words. Before my moon child we only moved - there were no thoughts, or what was there was what we saw or wanted to see. When my warming child tore out the eyes of my age children and banished them, my moon and scare children made words like this for them and you!

[And Arceus stamps its foot a couple times, making two little dots next to each other. Look, Jiri, at all a one-word question got you! Probably a truckload of others.]

That would be great.

[nobodys_king]

Tore...out the eyes? Age children...?

...I'm sorry; could you be more direct?

[weatheredwheel]

[Maybe...maybe saying their names won't hurt them as much as it did...and it does want to see them again.]

My moon child, Lugia. My warming child, Reshiram. My age children, Regirock, Regice, Registeel...though Registeel is a making of man's. My scare child, Raikou.

[nobodys_king]

Then...what are the eyes? I still don't quite follow you.

[weatheredwheel]

...Eyes were eyes. They had them and my warming child took them. I told you that because you wanted to know about Lugia, who gave them a way to talk because they couldn't see.

[Conversations with Arceus tend to be weird and sparse on specifics, so Jirarudan is in good company! Or at least common.]

He doesn't tend to pick up on subtlety very well

[nobodys_king]

Are you saying that Lugia created telepathic communication?

Perfectly fine!

[weatheredwheel]

And spoken words and what I'm told is called Morse code and braille. Yes.

[nobodys_king]

...But those were invented by humans. Morse code and Braille. They're both named for their inventors.

[weatheredwheel]

...

[Oh my god Jira you just shattered Arceus' nonchalant surety of everything.]

I don't understand. I, I was told...!

Hahahaha well he's also very literal

[nobodys_king]

[He doesn't notice much in others very often, but Arceus's distress is plain]

W-well, perhaps it inspired them to do so...!

1/2

[weatheredwheel]

[Arceus wonders if this is what the Flygon felt. Why it spoke like this. This, this hurt without burning! Its eyes tear up and it jerks back a step.]

B-but it's still n-not what I know!

2/2

[weatheredwheel]

[Then something occurs to it and it slows its panic. Stands still.]

...The Flygon spoke of games that meant this and games that meant that, even if the same word was used...and Cadence told me she came from another world and there was a boy man named Shaun who was a man and not my child...the inventors are from another world, then! I understand!

[Crisis ended! Congratulations, Arceus! You will now be an example in a psychology textbook under 'rationalization.' Absurd. Also, asking what Arceus understands is an option. It probably won't explain otherwise.]

[nobodys_king]

...yes well...

It's...only normal to feel strange when things aren't what you know. I suppose...

[weatheredwheel]

[Contemplative tail flick.]

Strange...so that's what this is called. Oh thank you. What is inspired?

[Yeah, Arceus...can change moods rather quick.]

[nobodys_king]

Inspired is...well, it's...

[he's really not used to explaining things]

It's when there's a spark inside you. Not an electrical spark, but a newly awakened light.

[weatheredwheel]

[Most people aren't used to answering the sorts of questions Arceus asks. Common company in spades!]

...Awakened. Like when the world was made. I hope I can feel inspired and know when I am. Is what's inside me a light too?

[No, Arceus. It's a lot more dangerous.]

[nobodys_king]

In a way. It's not a literal light, but when you behold the first light of day...it's the same sort of feeling, as if the sun was rising inside you.

[weatheredwheel]

[Arceus wags its tail. It doesn't know the word for warm, but it likes (or that word...its meaning, anyway) the sun. The first light, though...its eyes widen and it jumps in place. Excite!]

Then I did! Oh thank you! I'm glad to have met you and wish you cake.

sorry, was without internet

[nobodys_king]

I'm honoured to have met you. Will you remain for a bit?

'Tis fine! And wow, precisely a month.

[weatheredwheel]

Cadence said that true friends share an unbreakable bond that can hold from any distance. That's what we can be so we won't leave and be gone!

[Wow a second true friend this is amazing! Briefly Arceus wonders how many someone can have.]

hahaha eep.

[nobodys_king]

That sounds wonderful. So, since you seem to lack your ordinary wisdom, I'm available to teach you. Should we start with your legends?

[weatheredwheel]

[Lacks enough wisdom to not know what lack and wisdom are. Arceus wiggles a little because it enjoys hearing about itself, long as its given name isn't spoken. Sounds wonderful, though...phrase memorized for impending application of careless misuse.]

I was told I'm called the one who breathed alone and that I made everything. What can you tell me of me?

[nobodys_king]

Well...it's said that you created the universe. That you were born from a formless egg and brought about all creation. You birthed the gods of time, space, and antimatter to maintain what you had built, as well as the trio that brought about emotion, knowledge, and willpower. I'm...not sure if those attributes existed before them. Perhaps those three simply regulate them as well.

Anyway, you're said to have created the universe with a thousand arms, though that's likely metaphorical. Um...likely a story made up to explain your abilities.

Is any of this sounding familiar?