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@eternal1990 No problem at all! The Pokemon wiki seems to have mislabeled him since I would consider him more of an 'antagonist' during certain parts of the story rather than a villain. He isn't evil, even though he does act a bit...overly aggressive when he's upset. He is my dear boy too though.

@erazon Exactly, and I often see this with Giratina too. People portray him as an evil creature akin to the devil and the distortion world is 'hell' when that's really not the case. Arceus and Giratina may take some inspiration from God and Satan but they're not at all 1:1 recreations.

We may not know much about Arceus but he doesn't seem to be an omnipotent, perfect being. He gets upset, he makes mistakes and he has to make the tough choices for the ultimate greater good. There just seems to be a preconceived notion that because he is the creator deity he must be perfect when he's not. I'd compare him more to a Greek god as far as being a flawed deity.

@clearprincessturtle Big agree, I just think that the way he was written is somewhat...unlikable?

Like, we know he's not evil or anything, but with how intense his anger is and his destruction of the village without regard for the safety of the people he cares about...it may cause some people to not have a lot of sympathy for him.

I'm not one of those people, but I can understand why others may think differently.

@sinoffalsejudgement Yeah you pretty much hit the nail on the head right there with how I feel about Arceus's portrayal in most media he's in (which also is few and far between, so it leaves his motives up to interpretation a Lot).

With the movie in particular, they immediately introduce Arceus as being a vengeful being bent on destruction.

Which like, ok, they did a similar thing with Darkrai before showing how misunderstood it is by humans and how it's really good at heart. M10 does this by showing Darkrai's actions are not to hurt, but to help. And we get a sequence where Darkrai is actually fighting the oncoming threats of Dialga and Palkia, where we get to see its true nature.

But with Arceus he's introduced as a threat, and then shows he's a threat by attacking the city and his children. We get glimpses of Arceus being heroic through flashbacks, but these flashbacks are so short and ultimately don't really help paint Arceus in a better light since we remember how violent he is now.

The whole movie is about getting Arceus to come back to his senses and he really doesn't do anything heroic to redeem himself. Ash and his friends have to be the ones to snap Arceus out of hiss rage. It just doesn't really portray Arceus as being as caring as I think they want the audience to see him as.

I do enjoy M12 as a whole, but man the way Arceus is written just makes him seem very unlikeable, as I said before. And that's just the movie, the games just leave him as being very mysterious with little to no lore about him at all. He's barely in legends and his motives in it are left up to interpretation.

It's no problem, it's something I've wanted to rant about too lmao.

Even with all that being said, I think most people just kinda hate Arceus because he didn't do anything about Ingo getting sent to Hisui. Which I think is really silly and kinda dumb. But I can also admit he isn't really the best portrayed character in general either, so I can understand if people don't really like him that much on that basis.

So that's why I am taking him into my own hands and offering you a nice, well-meaning, somewhat silly dad with a dad bod Arceus for y'all to enjoy 💛

absolutely!! here's the link to my spotify playlist for her!

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okay so fun fact the bitter snow universe is actually geocentric - everything in the profane realm of the cosmos is orbiting around the planet (ki) because ki exists at the point where ri ni’n rooted into the profane realm when she grew and that everything in the profane realm kind of rippled out from there. so like you have ki and then the sun/moon, the stars, other divine manifestations hanging out as celestial bodies - eg char malách’s primary manifestation is as a bunch of fiery nebulas that are known on ki as a constellation (the ‘nine songbirds’), etc - along with normal stars and planets and assorted accretions of matter spinning in their own little systems but also all ultimately circling around ki. and trillions of miles out around the outskirts of the universe there’s... squirmy crawling unpleasant cosmic things. scavengers and parasites eking out a living on the very edges of reality. 

so i think the flat earther crackpot conspiracy-equivalent here is the heliocentric model of the universe ALKJSDFJKL

there are Some arguments about the shape of the planet but i think it’s like. a genuine debate. which scholars take seriously because well we know it has some curvature but is it a sphere, is it a dome, is it roughly flat and we just haven’t found the edges yet, were the abralians right and is it bird-shaped? etc. so like yes eugene might be a flat earther but if he is it’s because that’s what he was taught in school as a child gkjsjkd it’s got a much different vibe 

as far as education goes i think like... north of ingvarr, the whole hvassjarn peninsula plus like arendelle invests pretty heavily into public education. ingvarr prizes intellectualism as highly as it prizes martial ability and joining the battalion also means you’re getting a rigorous formal education; quintonia is one of the magical capitals of the world and has had a very strong culture of scholarship and intellectualism at least since amaranta’s time and of course under rosalia - rosalia does not approve of hoarding information or knowledge and i think has really pushed the quintonian parliament to invest even more in education because she’ll be damned if she lets ignorance take root in her country jskdflkg. and this sort of cultural attitude trickles up through the rest of the peninsula as well.

elsewhere - in corona’s corner of the continent and throughout a lot of the central plains i think it varies a lot more widely and education tends to be more of a pay for play. corona i think of as having public schoolhouses for all young children but then once you hit your teens you either get an apprenticeship or your parents pay for you to continue schooling and only really wealthy, aristocratic people (or people like cass who get sponsored by someone) get to receive a formal education past the age of about fifteen or so; equis, eldora, vinovia, astros, pittsford, hudor, i think all of them have fairly similar systems where education gets more and more expensive and exclusive the older you get. pre-conquest saporia and modern day marne both had/have cultures that really strongly emphasize practical skill-building in your childhood and youth and then have deep pools of knowledge and learning that are freely available but concentrated in cities, so if you want to learn mathematics or arts or literature or poetry or alchemy or philosophy and so on you need to travel to the nearest city to do so. so like Over All in these regions - most kids are learning basic things like how to read, rudimentary history if they’re lucky, life skills like sewing and cooking (unless they’re wealthy enough to have servants to do those things for them), dipping their toes into mathematics but, like, the average commoner is going around with an elementary school equivalent level of education, unless their parents were rich enough to put them through more schooling. so there’s some big disparities. 

(Please enlarge to see the whole picture!! Its insufferably big and I didn’t want to lose any details!)

STVBB 2020 - Prompt 1: Menagerie!

From left to right of the dancers ~ Varsha , Dyna , Reala , Address , Irielle , Erazon

Elf holding the piece - Rhyvis

Cats from left to right - Emayla , Almaeth