headcanon birthday time~

[nobodys_king]

You knew I had high standards when you met me.

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[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.