#pokemon legends arceus spoilers

ruiyuki reblogged

★ 【あすてろid】「純白の凍土」 ☆ ⊳ pokemon legends: arceus ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me on twitter

#ooooooooo #this is lovely #wowowowow #breathtaking!!!#good s h i t #i hate him (affectionate)#but also #i hate him (derogatory)#pokemon legends arceus spoilers

ruiyuki reblogged

hydrachea

The fact that Arceus talked to us directly and that Dialga and Palkia both got to speak through Adaman and Irida makes Giratina not uttering a single word through Volo an absolute travesty. In this essay I will mostly go off.

All three of the main, non-banished Sinnoh trio have proven now to be perfectly articulate in human speech - with a slight tendency to go all Shakespeare on us for Arceus, because it’s Arceus. It’s not limited to them either, the Lake Guardians are also capable of completely fluent telepathy and even Shaymin demonstrated it in its movie. There’s virtually no reason for Giratina not to be able to do the same thing. You could argue that in the Distortion World, it didn’t get to live alongside humans enough to learn their language… But it’s been shown to be able to observe the human world from its own, and to monitor it pretty attentively even. So that argument hardly works. Especially granted that it already understands when humans talk to it, as demonstrated by both Volo and Cynthia.

Now onto possession. Dialga and Palkia didn’t outright take over Adaman and Irida, just spoke to them through telepathy to be able to reach the rest of the humans present - most likely because their connection to the leaders of the clans that worshipped them (though mistakenly) made that possible. Giratina is another story though. It’s violent, especially at the time the game takes place, and hellbent on revenge. Had it wanted to say anything through Volo I imagine it wouldn’t have wasted time being gentle on his mind - it would plain have taken it over, possibly causing some damage in the process. It rarely does anything without causing damage, as seen when it started seemingly unintentionally warping the world rescuing its siblings from Cyrus in Platinum.

Dialga and Palkia only spoke up to assist the protagonist and lead them to quell the other frenzied deity. It’s a goddamn shame Giratina didn’t get the opportunity to talk for the opposite reason, to bring doubt and shake the humans’ faith in Arceus. If just because we finally could have gotten to hear what “it was banished for its violence” referred to, from the victim of that banishment itself since it took place even before Legends and the statement can’t refer to its actions in the game.

And with the serious talk and thoughts out of the way, I’ll forever mourn my dream concept of a possessed Volo. Not because I want to give a reason why he was completely unhinged when he fought at the Spear Pillar, that was all him, but because it’d have made the threat both him and Giratina posed even greater. Really displaying what you can get for biting off more than you can chew and meddling with something as dangerous (he calls it eldritch, and that can’t not make me think) as Giratina. I’d have loved for it to display the same level of agency it had in Platinum and merely use Volo to get to Arceus, tossing his free will aside as soon as it stopped being useful and making him a puppet to achieve its goal.

I don’t really want to use that concept to make Volo sympathetic - more to hammer down one decisive time, in a game that hasn’t stopped reminding us of it, how scary pokemon can be.

ruiyuki