#time gears

Words cannot describe what this song emotionally means to me. The music itself is so etherial and beautiful, but this is a song that's been with me through so many years.

The only logical explanation I can come up with is that whoever made them didn't intend for their removal to stop time in the area in which they were made and decided it was safer to just leave them.

Keaton: Based on our records, things largely stay the same which helps mask the Time Gears. They'd hardly be hidden if you could tell where they were due to large, gaping time holes or what-have-you.

As some of you may know, both Galaxies Above and the Glitch AU hit 10 chapters last Tuesday (I already made a post to celebrate my milestone here)! And coincidentally on the same day! When I realized the parallels, I asked @volcanicbakemeat, the creator of the Glitch AU if they wanted to do a collab showcasing both our characters and stories; and as you can see they said yes. Volcanic drew the sketch on the left, and then I digitized it as seen on the right. It was interesting to collab with you!

For anyone that hasn’t read the Glitch AU, I highly recommend taking a look! The chapters are a bit shorter than they are in Galaxies Above, but the characters are really lovable (Volcanic likes using pokemon that no one else seems to consider most of the time, which is nice) and they have an original plot! So if you like pokemon mystery dungeon, go ahead and take a peak at their story.

Some of my headcanons about how Team Galaxy and Team Eventide would interact with each other under the cut!

Item Type: Celestial Object

Function: Regulate the flow of time

Source: Fragment(s) of Dialga

Description & History:  The time gears are mysterious artifacts that appear in the folklore of many cultures across time and space. They are believed to regulate the flow of time in a region of the world. Supposedly, on inhabited worlds, there is more than one Time Gear.  

Some cultures believe exclusively in the Time Gears, others only in Dialga, and others who believe in both, who reconcile these beliefs with a tale: The Lord of Time (Dialga) is a real tangible entity, a being tasked with the responsibility of controlling the flow of time throughout the universe and across dimensions, and is itself the living embodiment of time. But Dialga cannot be everywhere at once, it cannot be in every nook and cranny and strange dimension at all times, nor does it want to be, and constantly being pulled to all corners and planes of the universe to control unwinding time and time that has gone out of control, is exhausting, especially in an ever-expanding universe (thanks, Palkia). A long, long, long, time ago, Dialga decided to splinter off fragments of its power into devices called the Time Gears, pieces of itself that would be placed in all corners and planes of the universe. There, these magical devices would regulate the flow of time in Dialga’s stead, and immune to all destruction except for by Dialga or Arceus. Dialga focused on regions of space-time with its own celestial bodies, such as planets and stars, black holes and nebulae, and so on.

There are, of course, other versions of this story in other worlds and cultures, one where the Children of Dialga, the Celebis (who have the power to travel across times and timelines), discovered a future where time had stopped because of the death of Dialga. Upon hearing this story, Dialga chose to take precautions and split its power into the Time Gears, ensuring that time would always flow even in its death in some bleak future.

Other stories still tell many variations of Dialga and the Time Gears, stories spun a thousand and one different ways for a thousand and one worlds.

But why are there three? One tale tells of Dialga’s uncertainty in the face of its own death, wanting extra insurance that the time of worlds where others lived, continued to function even in its absence. Another tale tells of an ancient villain, who sought to bring about the End of Time and found for himself the Spear of Arceus, a legendary weapon made from the body of Arceus (see: The Spear of Arceus) that is said to shatter even celestial objects. This villain found Earth’s only Time Gear, summoning Dialga—some claim that Dialga was slain in this conflict but was rebirthed in due time by the forces of the universe, and others still claim that Dialga was never slain and instead brought divine judgement upon the villain who had so foolishly tried to slay Time. But in each of these stories, they all agree on one thing: Dialga couldn’t risk another incident, and decided to give Earth additional Time Gears just incase.

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Needed to create a Time Gears pattern for a Pokemon OC I was asked to draw. I'm posting the pattern here for everyone to use. Free for personal use. No credit is necessary. Just never claim to have drawn something that you didn't draw. Fan art only. Pokemon is owned by Nintendo.