dear_mun | headcanon birthday time~

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

...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.]

Are you saying that Lugia created telepathic communication?

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

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

...

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

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

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

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

[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!

[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.]

Edited (Explanations rarely occur to it.) 2013-10-31 02:45 (UTC)

...yes well...

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

[Contemplative tail flick.]

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

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

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.

[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.]

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.

[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.

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

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.]

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

[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?

Edited (Ahaha WHOOP copy/pasted too high.) 2013-12-05 19:35 (UTC)

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?

[Arceus stares long in awe. It's never heard a story of itself in such detail.]

Yes! I do not know what gods are, but you speak of the fate of intention and the fate of incident, and the reconciler and inciters of spirit! I only made Mew, and in being with you I realized that if things are not as I know them, then it is a world the reconciler connected to mine. I do not know of thousand, either, but my arms were removed from me as I was, and none are on me as this.

[Metaphorical...oh, don't you wish?]

Oh, so you really had a thousand arms? That's fascinating! What took them from you? And...am I correct in assuming that "as I was" means that the same thing is what caused your amnesia?

[Hold on a sec, Arceus is struggling to find the words. Remembering so far back is hard.]

...When we were...there, when there was emptiness, we didn't have this.

[Arceus raises one of its front legs in an attempt to gesture to itself. So, like, didn't have eyes or flesh or any of those inhibiting annoyances.]

Giratina, the reconciler, made an overlapping realm and went there and took physical form and died. That was our first encounter with...matter? And we wanted more. So my children used my arms.

[So 'as I was' meaning 'not long after I got a body' and the stuff of the universe boils down to being Arceus's flesh. Glad you asked, Jira?]

That's odd. There've been reliable sightings of Giratina as recently as a few years ago. It's certainly not dead...

Yes. It died in...

[Arceus trails off. It's strange enough, thinking of things as separate from each other, never mind being separate. But it'd help in talking.]

...One realm and came to life in another, called the Distortion World.

headcanon birthday time~

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

Perfectly fine!

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Hahahaha well he's also very literal

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sorry, was without internet

'Tis fine! And wow, precisely a month.

hahaha eep.

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