I have a cute headcanon about Arceus I wanna share! He wants to get close to humanity but because of his status as LITERAL GOD, he feels that he can’t
I have a very similar headcanon that hundreds of years ago Arceus really, really wanted to interact with humanity but every time he would come down to observe them, they feared him and would run away.
So he started disguising himself as a human so he could walk amongst them and talk to them and learn about what exactly it is that humans normally do. Stuff like making food and clothing and learning about their connections with their Pokémon partners and family, things he wasn't all familiar with.
The only downside is that while humans couldn't tell that he was a Pokémon, other Pokémon could, and they would be wary and suspicious of him which also sometimes led the humans to suspect that something was off about this stranger.
And he himself being a Pokémon means that he can understand them in a way humans can't, which is also very odd.
He still, on occasion, comes down in the form of a human but most people and Pokémon are too busy going about their lives to really pick up on the subtle clues that give away his true identity.













