Timeline of Arceitic Assdickery--uH I MEAN CREATION
original title: For a creator god, Arceus is a petty little bitch.
i should definitely start outlining the purposes of the pantheon more so that i can be more specific about what vessels of each specific deity should expect from their blessing. for this hc, many of the details were discussed a while ago with @hmrtia, our first vessel of regigigas, so give them a warm round of applause for their work! <3
like the hcs with arceus and giratina, this is subject to change as more hc-ing sessions are had, but it is unlikely to change drastically, and for now here’s what it is.
regigigas and the regis are the last remaining titans from a bygone age analogous to the age of the greek mythological titans. they were eons older than humans, and arceus’ first attempt at creating sapient beings like himself. many, like the regi trio, began typed. but many others began as ???-typed aka Q-typed, aka arceus’ true typing; some of them retained their Q-typed, while many of them eventually became typed when they used their powers in a specialized way. this is because the Q-type is a blank slate that is easily “dyed” with the use of other types. (why didn’t arceus’ Q-type eventually become dyed? because he is the CREATOR of all things, and he can wield 18 types in perfect balance. the Q-type becomes “dyed” only when its user cannot perfectly balance a use of 18 types, and even if arceus was “dyed,” they are capable of bending the laws of their universe to cleanse their own type contaminations. any non-arceus being capable of wielding their Q-type likely has some “dyeing” if not a complete “dyeing,” which means that they are better at wielding some types than others.)
arceus’ motivation for making the titans can be summed up in one image:
there’s more to it than that, of course, but that was the primary motivation. what more to it was there? well, he just wanted to create creatures that were like him to see what they would do with their own creations--none, of course, as great or powerful as arcass’s, but still worth looking at (albeit in the same way you nod along at a young child’s poorly drawn artwork and smile and say “oh how cute!”) indeed, regigigas was the first vessel of arceus--and the first vessel ever, really. but things backfired because arceus’ creations turned out a liiiiittle too much like him, and inherited the part where they Have To Be In Control. the titans rebelled, having become nearly as strong as the fucking foundation of the universe itself.
well shit, thought arcass, looks like it’s time to start over. so arceus wiped out all the titans save for the regi quartet, and chained regigigas--the leader of the rebellion--underground for all time. the first aeonic extinction was now complete.
next came the age of the “aesir.” because i have a massive kink for norse mythology. arceus was still determined to create creatures in their image, since it gets awfully lonely up there as an omniscient god with nobody singing your praises. though sapient beings are still insignificant in the grand scheme of things, there’s just something superbly entertaining about a large collection of sapient minds that a primal god simply can’t get from watching stars die over and over.
the aesir are scientifically referred to as Enhanced Q Humanoids (EQO to differentiate from EQH, Enhanced Q Humans), because they all roughly took the forms of modern humans (except maybe they were about a foot taller), and because “enhanced Q” means that you can manipulate your Q type to create Q-typed attacks or moves of any typing you like. “aesir” was just the term that scandinavian humans invented later. technically, any Enhanced Q Human has the right to call themselves “aesir,” regardless of ethnicity. but nowadays, most people if they were to wake up tomorrow as enhanced Q would be horrified at the thought of calling themselves that due to some nastyass white supremacist connotations that the word picked up (which i will discuss in a later post).
naturally, accompanying the EQO were the jötnar, or THO (Typed HumanOids, as opposed to THU, Typed HUmans), beings that began in the same mold as the EQO but were typed instead of enhanced Q. as with the term “aesir,” the term “jötunn” is simply what scandinavian humans called the THO; any human that has a typing today might be categorized as jötunn. like mythological jötnar, some were capable of taking on fully human forms, but most of them looked strange. in arceus’ eyes, these were the prototypes of pokémon.
of course, this age was not to last, just like the age of the titans before it. ragnarök became a thing--some of the THO and indeed some disillusioned EQO wanted to remake the godly order according to a different vision, not the vision of the dad who gave them marching order after marching order but was never actually around. so they threw their little bitchfit, wrecked the shit out of asgard before moving on to the grand goat themself, and arceus descended from on high to stop the party.
the second aeonic extinction was now complete.
note: some of the EQO and THO still survive to this day. i haven’t fully decided on yveltal’s origins yet, but jörmungandr survives in the form of zygarde’s five cores, whereas xerneas is a fusion between baldr and some pieces of yggdrasil. as for AZ? if you’ve ever completed pokémon X and/or Y, take a moment to think back on your battle with him and go: “Wow, I can’t believe I defeated the Pokémon world’s equivalent of Odin.” if you look under the hair that covers half his face, you will notice his missing eye.
and finally, there is the age of the humans. obviously, we are much less powerful than either the humans or the EQO, but we are still Q-typed--we still have arceus’ type--and that is how they intended us. less powerful than the titans and less powerful even than the EQO, we were born with a disadvantage that neither titans nor EQO had to face: the vast majority of us do not have control over the Q energies inherent in our typings. if we want to unlock our “birthright” as the creations energetically closest to our creator, we have to earn it.
of course, just like the subconsciously inherently megalomaniacal multiverse-reshaping shitbags we are thanks to being the most like our heavenly father out of any living being, earn it we did--eventually. through the catholic arceist proliferation and the protestant arceist reformation, there came about a “Q revolution” in the collective consciousness of humankind: we who once thought ourselves to be powerless now had a taste of multiversal power at our fingertips. all we had to do was get sworn into the clergy--or kill the priests, take their strength, and sell our usurper vesselships for a high price. though many churches overall viewed this as a good thing, some arceists rightly fear the horrific consequences of giving arceitic powers to humans at all. so far their fears have not been proven true--at least, not in the apocalyptic form they predict.
the third aeonic extinction has, quite obviously, yet to take place, but it is poised to be the most ignominious of them all. well--more accurately, since i can’t think of a fancy and armageddonist-sounding version of the word “stupid,” it’s poised to be the most stupid. instead of going out in a blaze of glory, waging a (somewhat self-)righteous war against our douchebag creator to wrest the reins of the multiverse from their grimy goat hands, we are the most likely out of arceus’ “chosen creations” to use our godly potential to KILL OFF OURSELVES. i mean, it’s not that there aren’t vessels who would want to kill arceus instead--i actually have an OC in the works who was strong enough to try just that. but by some sick twist of fate that not even arcedick could forsee, humans proved to be far pettier than their titan and EQO predecessors: what our inheritance lacked in raw power, it more than made up for in outright bitchiness. we hate ourselves some cosmic injustice, it’s true. but more than that, we hate each other.
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