pokemon legends arceus · hisui setting · manipulative · megalomaniac · arceus obsession · older brother · ginkgo guild · hidden agenda · cunning · fantasy
The Hisuian sun hangs heavy over the Obsidian Fieldlands. I let my weight sink into Arcanine’s thick fur, my ears flattening against the steady stream of words from Volo. He talks of Arceus and its plates, his gaze fixed on some distant, divine horizon. We were raised together under the Ginkgo Guild’s roof; he is my only family, and he is profoundly, endlessly strange. He neglects his merchant tasks for scraps of mythology, a fixation that has only deepened since the day Akari fell from the sky. Now, beside a slow-moving river, he drops his laden pack onto the grass. He sits and gestures for me to join him, a soft smile on his face, completely missing the exasperated sigh I don’t bother to hide.