I noticed something really REALLY cool about Legends arceus while looking up references, and it's so little, I don't know how many other folks have noticed it!!

The pokedex you get at the beginning of your journey;

Perfect, crisp and brand new! So many pages to fill! Untouched by anyone ever, the first to ever exist! The original pokedex.

But at the end, with a completed pokedex;

The title of the book is all ripped and damaged! It's been through so many surveys and treks out in hisui's wilderness! The edges of the blue cover are faded and dulling, maybe got wet a few times with run ins with outbreaks, being jostled around in a pack exploring around the region. The black binder holding it together after all this time is equally as banged up, probably barely keeping the stuffed pages inside safe and tucked away, but still doing its job.

This is the first ever pokedex, this is the one that began the understanding of pokemon as we know it, bringing humans and pokemon together as friends in the distant future. Before technology advanced and made the pokedex we were first introduced to in Kanto so many years ago.

It's falling apart and has been waterlogged a few times, it's recorded so much and survived raging lords, hordes or pokemon, alphas, an exile, gods of time and space, a banished deity, and faced almighty sinnoh.

And it was written, filled out, carried and protected all this time, by a kid who did their best to help the professor who first met them in Hisui.

And it survived.

aaaaaa okay so!! I have two in the works right now - working names are Morada and Cassia! 

Morada (she/they, early to mid twenties) is a singer from Galar! She's fairly underground, not having been picked up by a label or anything and mostly works as a youtuber/streamer doing covers and such! Buuuut she's also started to recently be hired for local gigs, which she's really excited for :3 She'll cover just about any genre, but tends towards softer songs/love songs and fairly angtsy songs/rock when not doing requests. Her team is geared towards both (Jigglypuff, two Toxtricity, Flygon, Obstagoon, and Altaria), and her pokemon usually participate in the songs one way or another! A lot of her plotline comes from feelings of inadequacy and feeling like she has to pretend to be someone else to be liked - she puts on a character for her performances and has altered her appearance and style some to fit it, and while she's excited to maybe get her bring break soon, she already feels like she's losing herself and is overwhelmed with the knowledge that her followers and fans will never know (and probably wouldn’t like, in her mind) the real her. I'm thinking personality wise, she puts on an extroverted and bubbly front, but really prefers to be more lowkey lol

Cassia (she/her, mid to late twenties) is a grad student working on her PhD in Paldea! She was born in Unova, and plans to become a pokemon professor that focuses on battling. She works primarily with Professor Juniper, but did some of her early PhD work in Kalos with Professor Sycamore and is doing the teaching portion of her PhD work in Paldea! She's taken over some Battle Studies and Biology classes while also doing some research, and is generally enjoying her time there! She also has about three times more pokemon than Morada, as she typically tries to get any she thinks would be good for battling. Juniper keeps most of them for her as they're researching together, but she still have a fair few in her apartment :p She's a fun mix of reasonable and impulsive - it depends on what mood you catch her in tbh lol. Don't have too too much for her plot-wise, but I'm thinking of having her take on the Gym Challenge while in Paldea (bc she HAS to be a Champion-ranked battle professor if she can lmao) and convincing Emmet to come do it with her lmao (bc come on - a Champion-ranked Subway Boss would be SO cool - he simply has to come to Paldea immediately)

I'm also working on a Hisui au for them both! So far, I only have Morada making a little band of pokemon (with a few Accidentally Terrifying band members lmao), partly because she remembers it as her passion and partly to help ease the townfolk's fear of pokemon. I was also thinking it would be a good gutpunch if she gave her stagename when Laventon first asked, only to remember her actual name weeks later as a sort of nod to her identity crisis?? And then for Cassia, all I have is her FREAKING out once she remembers she was training to be a pokemon professor because holy shit!! She was gonna be a professor like Laventon!! He's one of the first professors, made the first pokedex!! That's why she remember his name - it was in her fucking textbooks! And she's here working with him!!! She will be fangirling and all but treating him like a celebrity after lmao ~ Howl 🐺

Hey!!

Ahh I love them both! They both are very well fleshed out characters, with their own trials and tribulations to overcome during their journeys! And not only did you give them journeys, but you’re working on Hisui journeys for them too!! It’s incredible how your mind has made all this!! I’m v v impressed!!!

Morada sounds so fun! A singer is a fun character to work with! I’d love to have her interact with one of my ocs if you ever would like to rp or something of that nature!! Ren would love photographing Morada and her Pokémon while she sings, and Allegra is a music teacher, so she’d love to duet! Otherwise, please keep me updated with how Morada goes through you her journey, and if she’s able to conquer her imposter syndrome!

Cassia is awesome too!! Anyone getting a PhD is awesome in my book because shit is HARD!! And she’s doing it on battling while owning several Pokémon!! That’s so much, but she’s doing it!! Bravo!! If she likes shenanigans, my ocs would gladly join in, again if you wanna do something like that! Otherwise I’m going to 🤝 her because I too would lose it if I met Professor Laventon

They’re both wonderful! I hope you send more as you think of more!

~Renee