POV: Youre Professor Magnolia, Just Trying To Research Your Groundbreaking Study Of The Dynamax Phenomenon,

POV: you’re professor Magnolia, just trying to research your groundbreaking study of the dynamax phenomenon, when the baffoon known as the chairman walks in with a small unidentified god and asks you for first time parenting advice.

Let’s talk about one of my many eternatus AUs. I don’t have a proper name for this AU, but in my notes I have it listed as “Rose gets a big ol’ dose of being a good dad”.

the AU starts out back when the dynamax phenomenon is still only just been discovered. Professor Magnolia is working with macro cosmos to develop the dynamax bands along with other related tech. So of course Rose has amassed a large number of wishing stars. And put most of them in a secure room for storage.

Now in case you don’t know, I personally headcanon that eternatus can be be built from wishing stars like zygarde is built from cells. So by leaving a ton of wishing stars in container Rose unintentionally creates a perfect scenario for eternatus to revive. Inevitably does in fact eternatus revive, and the sudden influx of energy this releases knocks out the security cams in the storage room. This triggers a security alarm, and the room goes into lock down.

Meanwhile, eternatus is attempting to reform its entire body. Problem is that while there were enough wishing stars to revive eternatus, there is not enough for eternatus to reconstruct itself at full size. It realizes this after temporarily becoming an unstable version of canon eternatus (think eternatus, but melting). So eternatus settles into a form it can sustain with its current number of wishing stars. That form happens to be a small baby eternatus.

At this point chairman Rose arrives along with security. Rose was anticipating intruders trying to steal the wishing stars, or possibly the aftermath of the wishing stars having a volitile reaction to something. Instead Rose finds the container that used to hold wishing stars seemingly exploided from the inside out, and a pokemon that his pokedex can’t identify. So while security tries to figure out what happened, Rose is tasked with taking care of eternatus. Oleana is the one who figures out that eternatus what happened to the wishing stars. She puts 2 and 2 together after finding out that pointing a power spot detector at eternatus causes the detector to go haywire. Rose then realizes that he unintentionally caused eternatus to exist and to take on full responsibility for its welfare.

Rose then realizes that he has no clue how to care for a previously undiscovered legendary and goes to professor Magnolia for help.

From there the AU is about Rose raising eternatus, adopting Bede, and taking on a bit of a father role for Leon. Basically instead of becoming a villain, Rose becomes everyone’s dad.

the conflict comes with Rose being aware that people with bad intentions would 100% take advantage of eternatus (who has been growing a lot in the past years), and so Rose is trying to balance his family time with Bede, his work responsibilities, and keeping Eternatus from being found by the public/an evil organization from finding out about it’s existence. Unfortunately for Rose, Sordward and Shielbert find out about eternatus.

Random notes

Rose first meets Leon due to eternatus wandering off and then running into Leon. Eternatus is usually skittish around strangers, but instantly warmed up to the future champion.

Bede specializes in fairy types because of growing up training with eternatus. 

If you’re wondering why Rose looks different in the drawing from how he looks in game, it’s because I loosely based his look off of a poster of a younger Rose you can find in spikemuth.

Bonus:

Ready for a hot take? Time doesn't avoid using the fierce deity mask "because it's evil" as it is in fact not evil. It's just that when the fierce deity got sealed into the mask he was 100% done with everything and decided that he was just gonna sleep for the rest of eternity. Except people keep waking him up every time his mask is worn to fight eldritch abominations or whatever and he is not pleasant when he is rudely awoken. He's not always filled with the rage of 1000 suns, he just is whenever someone disturbs his napping.

Time avoids using the mask because

A) the diety's anger at being woken up gets super imposed onto Time whenever he wears it, and it's hard to think straight through the intensity of the god's outrage.

B) the feirce diety's body is just as unhappy about being awake as the god is, so fighting with the mask on both feels incredibly powerful and intensely exhausting at the same time. As in it feels like he could lift a mountain but at the same time his eyelids are just so heavy and if he stops moving he's pretty sure he'll fall asleep on his feet.

C) Time wants to respect the diety's wish to rest. The hero of time does owe the god for helping him defeat Majora after all, it's the least he can do.

D) the fierce deity can be petty about being woken up. The god is not above waking Time up at unholy hours of the night for months after using the mask.

The hero of Legend in thigh highs, part 2 electric boogaloo.

He's kinda sweet when he's sleepy. Don't tell him that though, he'll bite your head off for the offence of insinuating that he can be nice.

Sefu is having a crisis over finding a living wild pokemon that has been extinct for 100 millions years. And so am i

The new legendaries may be fascinating, sure. But can we please talk about the fact that there are pokemon that should be extinct just waltzing around in the crown tundra????? How? Why????

Au where when Rose first revived eternatus it said "aw heck nah" and escaped to the slumbering weald. The Protagonist, intrigued by the weird noises they can hear coming from what is in essence their back yard, goes to investigate. (Don't try to tell me the player as a child never went into that forest. It is literally in their backyard.)

So Victor/Gloria meets eternatus and the child wins the legendary over with some extra tasty snacks and just how much of an inocent bean they are, so Eternatus just decides that "idk what form of being this is, but it is now my job to protecc this smol with my life".

Their mom isn't even surprised anymore when the kid brings eternatus home. Leon just about has a heart attack.

Have another one of my many eternatus centric AUs:

Eternatus is resurrected, either by Rose or just on its own. The legendary disguises itself as a human child. Eternatus then meets Leon and Hop and our intrepid bro duo immediately imprint on the legendary in disguise, bring them back to their house, and ask their mom "can we keep them????".

She agrees to take on another chaotic child for some reason.