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coronetspears · 10 months

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Villain Cynthia au dump yippee

everyone is fucked up in their own way, but Cynthia is the only one who’s snapped and decided to do something about her misery

right after becoming champion, Cynthia’s grandmother’s illness became a lot worse, and eventually she passed away. Since Carolina was Cynthia’s only living relative at the time, Cynthia took it extremely hard

it doesn’t help either than Cyrus, her close friend, just stopped talking to her as well a few months prior (he was forming team galactic). Aaaaand to top it off, Diantha dumped her (thank you, mom carnet for that). That also means Cynthia lost Sycamore as well, since he’s related to Diantha and both of them felt weird around each other, especially since Cynthia and Diantha’s breakup was very messy.

Cynthia refused to become too close with her elite four. She’s fine with talking to them and occasionally getting drinks together, but other than work, she doesn’t involve herself with them.

while Cynthia was exploring turnback cave, she had an encounter with Volo, where the two made a deal to take down arceus and create a new world. Instead of the scar over her eye that she got from giratina like in my regular AU, it’s a scar in the shape of arceus’s symbol.

Volo also has the ability to possess Cynthia’s body. It sometimes leads to fights over who gets control

Cynthia’s eyes are a darker, warm grey, whereas Volo’s are more cold and lighter. The eye colors change depending on who’s in control. The difference is noticeable if you’re face to face, but from afar you can barely tell.

Originally, Dawn was supposed to be sent to Hisui, but bc Cynthia and Volo are a huge threat to arceus together, Dawn remained in Sinnoh to stop Volo and Cynthia, while Lucas was sent back in time instead. This caused a split in the timeline.

Cynthia and Cyrus both teamed up after Cynthia tracked him down. Cynthia could cover up Team Galactic’s schemes (to an extent), where Cyrus could provide the tech and resources. Both yearned for a new world, but for different reasons. Plus Cynthia was going to kill god.

In the distortion world, Dawn chose to tag along with Cynthia. Dawn fought Cyrus while Cynthia “fought” Giratina. The satan worm is basically a family heirloom, and Cynthia just said she caught it to hide the fact that it was already in her possession.

I have this showdown in mind where Dawn goes up to spear pillar, seeing Cynthia already up there, about to make a new world. This is after the main game is completed, but Dawn doesn’t win against Cynthia. On spear pillar, they have an argument, where it’s revealed Cynthia was working with Cyrus, but he went off track and did his own thing. I imagine Dawn is upset and says that she won’t let Cynthia destroy the world, to which Cynthia laughs and says “I don’t need to destroy this world. I only need to make a new one. I’m not going to let you stand in the way of everything I’ve dreamed of.” The two begin to fight, and Cynthia tells Dawn about how she lost everything. And wants a world where she can bring back what she lost. I imagine it goes something like this

“You don’t know what it’s like to lose everything.”

“But you have everything, Cynthia. You’re the champion, you have fame and glory. You have your pokémon by your side and friends who would-“

“I don’t have any friends left! They’re all gone. Each and every one of my pokémon have felt the pain that I’ve felt. Being the champion means nothing when you’re sitting on a cold throne with an empty heart.”

It’s at this moment when OGtimeline!Akari’s spirit starts talking face-to-face with Dawn (since before she was basically a voice in Dawn’s head), being like “there’s no other option. You need to take her down.” Unfortunately, Volo becomes aware of Akari’s presence, and takes over Cynthia’s body. Cynthia doesn’t like this, and the two are fighting for control while Dawn watches. Eventually, Dawn (with Akari’s guidance) is fighting Volo (who won the fight for control)

That’s kinda all I got so far lmao

Cynthia is pretty manipulative. She gaslights a lot of people into thinking team galactic isn’t that big of a threat, including the other champions, who are concerned since their own villain teams are much more chaotic.

She also doesn’t feel a lot of emotions. She often suppresses them, and is unaware to hurtful things she may say or do. The fact Volo is an enabler and does not care for others doesn’t help either. Cynthia may say things or sound comforting, but she’s hardly ever genuine.

She has threatened the galactic commanders before. She heard Saturn and Mars talking about how she shouldn’t be with Galactic, and what are even her plans with Cyrus, to which Cynthia responds with her Garchomp up against their throats, telling them “my goals are my own. Know your place, I have no issues with having my Garchomp cut out your throats.”

She also had Jupiter beg for her life once. I mean scary blonde who’s sharing a body with the guy who summoned satan just to meet god, plus in this au she has an alpha Garchomp

A lot of her violent tendencies got worse bc of Volo’s encouragement

Cynthia herself has never murdered someone, but she threatened to. Volo may have also killed a grunt while possessing Cynthia’s body.

When Cynthia isn’t in control, she’s basically taking a back seat in her mind. She can see and is aware of what volo is doing, but can’t really do much to stop it. Volo can feel the physical pain that Cynthia feels if he’s in control, so often he’ll bail and give Cynthia control if she’s injured. He has a lower pain tolerance than Cynthia. However, Volo is mentally stronger than Cynthia. If they’re fighting for control and Volo wins, Cynthia basically blacks out and barely remembers what happens while he takes control

Cynthia has a habit of digging her nails into her arm. This was her strategy for winning her fights with Volo, since bro does not handle physical pain well.

Cynthia gets more unhinged the closer she is to her goal. She becomes much more irritable, and lashes out easily, before going like “sorry, don’t know what happened there haha”

I don’t know whether I want her to succeed and go to her new world, leaving Volo and Arceus behind, making it to her new world before collapsing and dying surrounded by Diantha and her grandma, or flat out dying in her final battle against dawn.

Cynthia wears black and white, with hints of red and gold. Black bc… what’s Cynthia without being a bit emo. White and gold represents arceus, but the black, gold and red also represents Giratina.

And here are the ways other people are traumatized in this au

lance is absolutely exhausted. He’s dealing with team rocket and Red’s disappearance. He also has family issues, since he’s so absorbed in this work, Clair refuses to talk to him.

Steven got badly injured in a cave in while looking for rocks. His dad also forbade him from marrying Wallace. He’s the only one who knows about Cynthia’s plan, and Cynthia offered to take him with her if her plan worked.

Diantha. Oh diantha. Her mom is very manipulative here. Marie solves her problems with money. An example of this is when she payed someone to fake DNA results to make it seem like Adrian Carnet cheated on her and had Sycamore, when it was actually the other way around. This also gives her the appearance of being angelic and kind, since she took in the kid that was the result of an “affair” her ex husband had. She also was verbally and mentally abusive to her kids, but she only was physically abusive to Sycamore, since if Dia had marks people would ask questions, but with Augustine, she could keep him inside and say that he was just very reclusive. Marie also manipulated/threatened Dia into breaking up with Cynthia, using manipulation and threatening to harm Augustine. Diantha is basically a puppet for her mom at this point. She also barely goes to Champion summits since her mom always has Kathi Lee (who usually is pretty chill in my regular au but sucks in this au) schedule something important on the same day. This is bc Marie wants dia’s acting career to come first, and also Cynthia is at these summits. Marie is still a bitch no matter what au. And Diantha was guilt tripped into using her mom’s last name for her stage name, even though her last name is actually Carnet. So every movie she’s in has her as Diantha Garnier instead of Diantha Carnet.

#thenas villain au #champion diantha #champion cynthia #pokemon dawn #champion steven #champion lance #cw abuse #cw death #Cynthia is really going through it

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