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RESTORATION. There's a distinct feeling that comes along with the knowledge that the world is about to die; you've experienced it once already, and you can feel it again now - another of those sensations that permeates your body clear through, shaking you to your core, and Arceus... Arceus doesn't hesitate. There's another burst of light, almost blinding as it shoots upward and splits into a myriad streaks of light coursing down toward the earth; it's almost beautiful in its impending destructiveness, though perhaps it isn't something that can be fully appreciated with the knowledge of what it's about to cause. All those people, all those Pokémon, reset to what they once were - to say nothing of yourselves. And then, suddenly and sharply, the world stops. Not the world. The universe. It isn't the first time you've felt time and space simply stop - but instead of the stagnation of the reset or the Distortion World, there's something very deliberate-seeming about this; it doesn't feel like stagnation so much as it does protection, keeping the world in stasis until something can be done. Exactly what that something is...well, it's difficult to say. But one thing is certain: even if they can't be seen or properly felt, Dialga and Palkia are certainly here, and it seems that for the time being at least, they're with you. Arceus shrieks out another of those primal roars, the sound harsh and agitated; the remnants of the incomplete Judgement remain bright and hovering above you, above everything. A reminder, perhaps, of everything that's at stake; after all, no one can defy the Creator forever. The frozen timespace doesn't seem to have affected you, nor Cyrus or his Commanders; you're all still capable of acting for yourselves while Judgement is stalled out. Exactly what that entails has yet to be seen. Best of luck to you. |
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[...]
it's been a difficult time for most of us involved. The past several years. Arceus included.
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[.....]
I mean, I know I said some stuff about it, and I stand by most of that, but I don't want it to die or anything.
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It takes more than that to kill a god. I'm not certain that they die... If they do, it hasn't happened within our collective recorded memory.
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[.....okay then]
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[So there's that.]
It's capable of creating more of the other deities you've seen, you know. Allegedly. So things aren't taken out of balance in the event that one of them is captured.
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I understand the practicality, but that seems a little bit callous.
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Do people capture gods very often around here?
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[So, kind of like Candice and Big Blinky over there.]
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[well damn they should've tried harder to get a god or two to travel with them]
What happens when the human dies, they just don't have a job anymore?
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It would be significant to you, however, from the sound of it...? Not that you're the same as they are, but I imagine the circumstances would be similar in some ways.
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[The reaction is pretty immediate; he shifts uneasily, glancing quickly over at the others.]
You have to understand, I'm originally from the human afterlife. That wasn't something I ever had to think about with the friends I made before Sinnoh.
[.....he looks again, longer this time.]
It would be significant.
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Most Pokémon are going to outlive us. It's just a fact; our partners will be with us for as long as we live, but barring an accident or something unfortunate happening, we can't promise them that in return.
It seems cruel, in a way.
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[He stoops a little, to run a hand along Cat Janet's head.]
Maybe it is a little cruel. Not really on the human's part, I think, just...in general. But a Pokemon must know what they're getting into, when they start.
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[THAT'S UNFATHOMABLY DEPRESSING??]
...I suppose they do, however.
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[His voice is particularly hollow as he says that.]
If a Pokemon really wanted, they could just live in the woods with other Pokemon their whole lives and never worry about it. The region's pretty wild, isn't it? Might never have to see a single human. [.....] Other than that, nothing to be done about it.
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[...]
Granted, our concept of the afterlife is a bit different as well. Obviously speaking.
[Given that you like the ghosts and all.]
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[It's entirely different from a world where he could carry right on seeing his deceased human friends as if nothing had happened. Maybe that's a little selfish. But lots of humans wanted to stay themselves too, right?]
...but our afterlife is cruel. So maybe it's still a little better here.
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...It may not be capable of answering in a way that you or any of the others will understand; I've never spoken to it, personally. But it's possible a better afterlife does exist... There's a god of death in another region, known as Yveltal.
It would likely know better than any of us would.
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That's so different from what I'm used to.
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But I guess it makes sense. Gods where I'm from are... more metaphysical in nature.
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[That's...a thought, certainly. Michael hasn't understood the eldritch noises of Dialga, Palkia, or Arceus any better than anyone else, but they seem to be outliers among the gods in that.]
That's...good to know, thank you. [.....] I've been trying to reform our afterlife, you know. Had this whole legal challenge going. But that was a long shot to begin with, and I...may have already cheated a little bit. Anything goes wrong from here, we've got nowhere left to run.