headcanon birthday time~

[nobodys_king]

You knew I had high standards when you met me.

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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?

[weatheredwheel]

[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?]

[nobodys_king]

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?

[weatheredwheel]

[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?]

[nobodys_king]

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

[weatheredwheel]

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.