Did someone already do this with Ingo and Magolor or...

Hisuian Zorua & Hisuian Zoroark Figure by Kotobukiya, from Pokémon Legends: Arceus

Warden Ingo from Pokémon Legends: Arceus at Sakura-Con 2024

@vero-valzer as Warden Ingo

Thought going for the black and white photo with vignette like in the Jubilife Village photography studio might be a fun spin on this selfie! (Also just... y'know, black and white on the nose symbolism.)

Jubilife Village (Complete) // Pokémon Legends: Arceus (2022)

Volo's favorite words to hear from Akari besides, "I love you, Volo." are, "Never forget that you're mine."

The possessiveness has a profound effect on his heart.

Volo and Giratina

Unbeknown to most who knew him, Volo hailed from an old, wealthy family based in western Hisui. He grew up surrounded by old Hisuian faith, raised to believe not only in deities of time and space, but an overarching god referred to as (among many other names) Arceus. While the old faith was not necessarily uncommon among Volo’s generation, belief in Arceus had been declining across the region for many decades, largely oweing to the influx of individuals and clans arriving to Hisui from other Japanese regions.

Volo took a keen interest in Hisuian legends from a young age, which his family initially encouraged. His ancestry stretched back to the most ancient of Hisuian peoples, and so his family had at their disposition an array of records, relics, and artefacts ranging from centuries to over a millennia old. He was fascinated not only by Arcues and the governers of space and time, but by the banished deity of blights, destruction, and chaos, known now as Giratina.

The old Hisuian faith rarely distinguished the creation trio by their names; this is a more modern development. Instead, these deities were viewed principally as three of Arceus’s one thousand ‘arms’, which it had used to shape the universe. Each deity was an extension of Arceus’s will rather than independent being in its own right.

The legend followed that, before the universe was formed, Giratina’s purpose had always been to warp and destroy - to erase what Arceus was not satisfied with, so that it could be reshaped anew. Once the universe had been molded as Arceus chose, it cut off this third, violent arm, sealing it away in an abandoned realm. Volo became preoccupied with this myth in early adulthood, to the point of questioning and unpicking it. If Arceus had banished this violent arm, why did destruction persist in the current world? If Girtaina could destroy where Arceus could create, did this not make them opposites, and thereby equals?

And thus Volo grew to entertain an alternate interpretation of the mythos: that Giratina was not a subservient arm of Arceus, but a god in equal opposition, which presided over a distorted realm of its own. Even as a purely theoretical concept, it was impossibly blasphemous, and Volo’s views met with outrage. But he was too curious and too contrary to relent, even in the face of his family’s horror. He was ostracised by his local community, who believed him corrupted and turned to madness by Giratina itself, and his family ultimately cast him out.

Volo took to wandering Hisui in the years thereafter, never settling anywhere. He kept his family origins a secret, taking on the guise of a Ginkgo merchant, but continued to delve into Hisuian legends . Being cut off from his family only deepened his conviction in his own beliefs. He fixated increasingly on Giratina, convinced that it was his mirror, and that their fates were somehow twinned together. He had been treated as an extension of his family, not an individual, not an equal - just as Giratina had been branded as a mere arm of Arceus. He’d stood against his parents, his ‘creators’, and been banished for it. He was as Giratina was.

And so he set out to find it. There were places in Hisui where alternate realms lay a little too close together - he’d read about them in his family’s ancient records, and he had all the time in the world to seek them out. If he could only commune with Giratina, speak with it, then he might finally find what he was looking for - a being which understood him perfectly.

As requested by matoimech a coord inspired by Pokemon #215 Hisuian Sneasel

So my niece is playing Legends Arceus. I played with her recently, and Volo showed up and apparently she hates him and asked why he kept appearing.

I immediately started cackling.

I asked her if she REALLY wanted to know, because then she'd know things about the ending. She's 7 and gets spoilers all the time by watching things out of order, so I figured nbd (in other words, don't @ me for telling her).

She REALLY REALLY wanted to know. Then she was PSYCHED to learn he was the bad guy!! Usually, she plays the game with her dad and she's so excited to (try to) keep it a secret from him. She's all conspirator-y about it, too, giving me meaningful looks like we're keeping a grand secret otherwise known only to god.

LEGENDSアルセウスのヒナツさん

ROUND 1 PART 2

Edgelords of the Day 85 & 86:

Volo & Giratina

From: Pokémon Legends: Arceus

I can’t get this scenario out of my head where Hisui!Ingo comes across this little blind girl (who’s probably around 11-12) that dropped out of the sky one day just like him and Akira, she’s lost some of her memories too and he just… adopts her. that’s his kid now. Akira adores her and treats her like a little sister. Lady Sneasler is like “my kit had another kit!!! score!!!”.

meanwhile, back in Unova, her twin sister has been frantically looking for her and aggressively pesters any adult willing to listen for answers on where the hell her sister went.

when Ingo gets sent back, he’s a little sad bc he misses his kids and slowly gets back to work. but a few months later, there’s his little girl who’s smiling so brightly next to her twin and the girls proceed to WIPE THE FLOOR WITH THEM and Ingo couldn’t be prouder. :)

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Jubilife Village (Developing) // Pokémon Legends: Arceus (2022)

Now that I've established the groundwork for my alternate universe and introduced the protagonists, my current goal for this blog is to complete Act I of my Legends: Arceus story, 'What Once We Were', which is Wieldershipping (Volo x Akari) centric.

(Some of you may be wondering, "Shouldn't that be 'What We Once Were' instead?" There's a reason for this!)

Here's the summary:

Akari had been relatively certain that, regarding Volo, if their paths were to ever cross again, it would not be in this manner. Following his betrayal and then defeat at Mount Coronet’s peak, Volo made his true sentiments towards her unmistakably clear; he utterly despised Akari for earning the grace of Arceus, for destroying any hope of the perfect world he envisioned manifesting into reality. And yet, here he is before her, on his hands and knees, gazing at the woman he once disdainfully referred to as "outsider" with what can only be described as reverence...

I hope this has managed to pique someone's interest!