Regressor Cyrus Headcannons
This is all for pre-game Cyrus, I'm currently playing through Shining Pearl and hopefully will do a replay of Platinum so after that I'll hopefully do some for post-game.
-At first Cyrus does not care for regression at all. Ultimately, he sees it as something that breaks his perfect persona self that he's been living and wants to uphold.
-Eventually he came to see it as something to dread, it would usually halt any plans he'd had for the day as it would be harder to execute basic tasks which would only frustrate him further and more than once he had come just too close to snapping and yelling out at someone who had rubbed him the wrong way for his own comfort, so in those times he would retreat to his office for the rest of the day to attempt to do paperwork instead.
-Over time it becomes much harder to deal with as it turns out that in the muddled space that he finds himself in during these times, that forcing himself to continue going on and trying to keep up the perfect leader persona would only serve to remind him of the standards his parents would hold him to when he was younger which only sent him spiraling into an internal conflict between the hatred he holds for his regression and the emotional instability of his younger headspace that this causes.
-More often than not this ends in a breakdown and ends in crashing and burning
-Of the commanders, Jupiter is the one to find out about his regression. She is the most dedicated to Cyrus and therefore noticed the small changes in demeanor far before anyone else did. The slight way that he'd become more distant from the group and would close himself off more than usual.
-She eventually pieced it all together when she went to deliver some reports to him and found him in that in between state where he was pushing off his regression and nearly at his breaking point.
-She basically just helps him through it, helping him calm down and staying with him until he was back into a big enough headspace to talk about what happened.
-Cyrus (unsurprisingly) still does not allow himself to be open emotionally even after what had just happened but after talking with Jupiter, he comes to be a bit more accepting towards his regression.
-The whole situation makes him realize that when he had a safe environment to regress and work through it, that there was no bad end to it. He didn't end up having a meltdown afterwards, and so he and Jupiter come to an agreement
-Any time where he felt that he needed to regress he would find her or contact her in some way and she would keep anyone from going into his office or attempting to reach him for the time that he needs.
-Cyrus doesn't fall into a young enough headspace to need someone watching over him at all times and he still does not wish to have anyone aside from his Pokemon to be around him during this time.
-Because of this, Jupiter doesn't act as a caregiver towards him, for the most part she will continue about her day and check in on him to bring him food and make sure that he is okay.
-All in all, he eventually comes to begrudgingly accept that this does help him overall in keeping up his persona of the emotionless leader outside of his regression








