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Dave nodded slowly. He supposed if you had to have a god, the world playing out to the furthest degree possible as if there weren't one but maybe he can wave a magic wand to prevent a catastrophe now and then might be about the best you could fucking hope for. "Dave's Radiance can make shields...

Well, that was certainly one way of doing it. Create the world, then leave it alone unless you really have to. Problem of evil: God doesn't do anything about it because mortals should know how to handle themselves. Sure. "What happens if you wake up and, you know, something horrific has...

Mia cocked her head. "If you get behind something else, you shouldn't have to end the attraction to make it hit it." Arceus wasn't giving much of a straight answer about how he used his powers, huh. Dave rolled his eyes. "I mean, sure, you can define demigod to include literally everyone, but...

Arceus turned toward Mia instead, and Dave exhaled slowly, his heart still racing. Protector, huh. "What do you mean, power behind perspective, desires can manifest by power and will alone?" Maybe that just meant shit like Dark Matter, this notion of vague negative thoughts congealing into some...

"Yeah, hating the game is what I'm doing, thanks," Dave said. Something about Arceus's expression and demeanor had changed, a shift that made his hackles rise and the Poochyena brain scream at him. He stayed rooted on the spot, claws digging into the floor. "Jesus, you think I'm here to ask you...

"Oh, even better, you've got guests running around the world deciding to murder people, only not doing it because you tell them not to, and now you're preparing some kind of grand heroic sacrifice that'll leave fuck-all to stop them, I guess. I feel much better, thanks." Dave took a deep...

The silence was deafening. Dave's heart hammered as Arceus's expression changed and he descended fully to the ground, staring down at him with that creepy mouthless face. "Well, I don't think there's all that much of a practical difference between you personally deciding to kill someone, or a...

"Well, whether you like the title or not." Dave clenched his jaw, narrowing his eyes at Arceus. "Look, we're all very grateful you told Maple not to murder us and all, but the fact you apparently get to just decide who lives or dies on Cibus is pretty fucked, by my standards. It's cool you...

Huh. This was all pretty trippy. God as weird too-powerful child having to learn to be civilized from mortals was at least original. Imagine an actual god being raised by some fucking lunatics. "Right. So there were planets before that just developed on their own, or that you created by...

A baby god, acting on instinct. Wow, that was not terribly reassuring. As a former father of a toddler Dave would not trust a toddler to wield any degree of power not filtered through whatever the parents were willing to do to shut them up. "Hold on, you found intelligent life, and they taught...

"Huh." A world that was like theirs but didn't have Pokémon? How did that work? Surely if there were no Pokémon the point of divergence would be far too early to... what the hell. Was this just the world's weirdest coincidence? Judging by Mia's frown, she was thinking about the same thing. Maybe...

"Figure of speech," Dave said dismissively, and was about to drop that off-hand quip. But no, Pine? This was interesting, actually. "Big feature of the biggest religion in my world is the deity taking mortal form just so he can get himself lengthily tortured and killed, and this somehow enables...

Dave jumped and took a step back as the Arceus materialized out of the light. Dave was truly tiny next to him, and the Poochyena brain infuriatingly recommended running before he beat that part of his brain into submission. But of course the supposed deity then opened with some sort of an...

"Hello? Anybody there?" he called, stepping closer to it. "Arceus?"

By the time Dave woke up, Shadow was gone, at least for now. Mia was gone too, which wasn't great for his heart, but at least she'd only wandered as far as the guild library. He hadn't spent a lot of time thinking about Arceus since they'd finally confirmed the guy even existed. His texting'd...

Reviewed another chapter of the envy of eden.

Noticing their names feel very Bouba-like, as in Bouba vs. Kiki. Appropriate! Having some Amara feelings again. Huh, this seems unusually considerate for Hilda. Neat! Not an interpretation I've seen before but it's a fun one. Also, it's interesting she seemingly feels Amara's upcoming death...

Everything about this continued to be deeply infuriating. Dave gritted his teeth. "Look, the only reason we're even talking about this is sad magic puppy over there rambling and overdramatizing shit that doesn't even mean anything. I'm fucking fine." Shadow looked back at him, timidly. He gave...

Dave gave a brief, irritated eyeroll. "Cool. If that's what he wanted to tell me, consider it received." He paused, glaring at the other Poochyena, daring him to disappear in a puff of smoke, echoing my job here is done. Predictably, he did not. Of course. Shadow had been hugging Owen for far...

As Owen pulled Shadow into a hug, Shadow returned it, clutching him tightly in his paws. And Dave... felt it, a strange indirect sensation of a warm, weighty squeeze that pulled at something in his chest. The fuck? He blinked, looking away. The tightness in his chest didn't fade. He looked back...