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Most of the internet: eternatus is super evil! It can probably possess people!!

Me: eternatus did nothing wrong ever, and I'm going to make so many AUs about this smol bean.

This is a scene from an AU idea I have. Maybe someday I'll post a quick explanation of it.

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I have two ideas on this:

One possibility is that Rose had been collecting a large amount of wishing stars in hopes of running experiments on them. It was known that wishing stars emit energy, so maybe he was trying to see if there was a way to use them as a renewable energy source. Eventually Rose would have accidentally stockpiled enough of what are literally pieces of eternatus' body for it to reconstruct itself. One moment it's a pile of wishing stars, the next they're glowing and clumping together untill poof: you now have one realy sickly looking god.

Another possibility focuses on how Rose owns the galar mines. If I understood the lore correctly, then the glowing gems all over the caves are used for fuel. Not only that, but considering how much time Bede spends hunting for wishing stars in the mines its more than likely there are a lot of them down there. Maybe while excavating a new tunnel the miners open up a sealed cavern with a hibernating Eternatus within. It would probably look similar to the cocoons of yeveltal and Xerneas. Something like that would get reported, so Rose would come to investigate.

Here’s a question I don’t think I’ve seen any theories on yet - just how did Rose even find Eternatus in the first place?

So are we not going to talk about the fact that you can eat what is probably eternatus' flesh?

Im not joking around. I seriously want to talk about this.

If you have no sweet clue what in arceus' name I'm talking about;

This stuff clearly imbues the food with eternatus' power, and I don't remember anything that can do that except a literal hunk of eternatus' flesh. And you can cook with this in game. It also bears an unsettling resemblance to the red crystalline substance (membrane?) connecting eternatus' horns.

While we are on the topic, what about dynamax candies? They apear to be made of the same substance.

So are we not going to talk about the fact that you can eat what is probably eternatus' flesh?

So I've been studying eternatus' anatomy and realized a few things:

1) the clear walls between the ribs are definitely an elastic membrane, would probably feel a bit like latex to the touch. (Realized this bc the membrane isn't flat like it would be if it was crystalline, it is concave like fabric pulled over a frame). This brings up a question about the membrane connecting its horns. I always thought they were the same.... tissue? substance? But the horn membrane looks more rigid.

2) there are freaking divots in its spine???? How the heck haven't I noticed that before?

3) the way its back spikes line up when it's moving makes me think it used to have a membrane connecting them, a little similar to spinosaurus.

4) the way it moves reminds me of aquatic mammals... now I have the image of eternatus with fins, flippers, and a whale tail...

5) eternatus is far more heavily based off of eastern long dragons than western dragons. This brings the long whip like structures on its shoulders further into question... just what are they?

6) eternatus' back legs actually make slightly more sense knowing that it is an eastern dragon, some traditional art of long dragons have similar hind legs.

7) those strange whip like structures on eternatus' shoulders... I still don't know what they are. When I first saw eternatus I thought that they were wings. But after watching eternatus move in camp I'm not so sure. They don't move like wings would, they act more like tendrils.

Also the way it moves its head makes it look like it's super curious and that's frigging adorable.

Ok so Larkin has an eternatus named Majora on his team, yeah? And when I first got Majora this whole ass eldritch space dragon was terrified of literally everything and everyone.

Well, there was one exception though...

For some reason these two instantly bonded

SO-

Have a kitsune with her eldritch cosmos dragon.

Decided to make a reference for Larkin!

He/him

Challenger number: 602

A really soft boy

Just really loves his pokemon

Usual curry rank: copperajah - charizard

more in depth character info under the cut!

Backstory

Larkin is the adoptive brother of Leon and Hop! Also both of the podswick moms are his moms because they are a lesbian couple. Larkin has always been extremely camera shy as well as weary of strangers, so the media doesn't really know much about him. Larkin learned his cooking skills from his moms, and can often be found helping around the kitchen. As kids, Hop was the defacto leader and would come up with plans to get up to shenanigans while Larkin would just be along for the ride.

Hop honestly could have convinced Leon to endorse him years ago, but Hop wanted to wait until Larkin was ready so they could set out on their gym challenge together. That's not to say Leon hadn't seen Larkin's potential. Larkin had always been really good with pokemon, but didn't have the self confidence that he could be a pokemon trainer for a long time, basically up until roughly a year before the events of the game. Leon was absolutely ecstatic when Larkin asked for a pokemon of his own, which lead to leon bringing the three starts for larkin and Hop.

To quickly sum up Larkin's personality, he's shy, quiet, easily startled, very kind, and would honestly rather spend time with pokemon than people. He's just a really soft smol bean of sweetness and wholesomeness.

Team

Zeph'vatan - female, naive, thoroughly cunning.

Helps larkin out when he gets flustered.

"Larkin protected me when I was smol, so now that I am tol I protecc Larkin."

Nadik'fae - female, sassy, mischievous.

Enjoys being dramatic and trouncing her opponents.

Messes with Bede every time she sees him.

Pi - male, relaxed, altert to sounds.

Doesn't know how he got here, but honestly adores Larkin, so he's happy.

Mew - mild, takes plenty of siestas.

Likes to nap on larkin's shoulders, in his hood, etc.

Is honestly just realy excited to be going on an adventure.

Loves to greet new people, which often leads to a lot of people gawking, because, you know, random kid walking around with a god.

Cuddle Pup - female, timid, alert to sounds.

Was a little unimpressed by larkin at first, warmed up to him.

Acts all tough but is really just a big softy.

Majora - naughty, mischievous

Is honestly afraid of everything

Has anxiety, Larkin is their therapy human

Their mischievous side didn't appear until they bonded with Larkin.

Fun facts about Larkin!

His outfit and overall style is inspired by zacian.

I know that there is a story behind why I chose the number 602, I just can't remember for the life of me why I chose that number. Ironic, considering that I distinctly remember spending time overthinking it waaaay too much.

Originally I was planning for Larkin to have a more mischievous personality, instead I got the human embodiment of a sobble.

Rose finding Eternatus, probably.

Update: I can confirm that eternatus' horn membrane is elastic.

So I've been studying eternatus' anatomy and realized a few things:

1) the clear walls between the ribs are definitely an elastic membrane, would probably feel a bit like latex to the touch. (Realized this bc the membrane isn't flat like it would be if it was crystalline, it is concave like fabric pulled over a frame). This brings up a question about the membrane connecting its horns. I always thought they were the same.... tissue? substance? But the horn membrane looks more rigid.

2) there are freaking divots in its spine???? How the heck haven't I noticed that before?

3) the way its back spikes line up when it's moving makes me think it used to have a membrane connecting them, a little similar to spinosaurus.

4) the way it moves reminds me of aquatic mammals... now I have the image of eternatus with fins, flippers, and a whale tail...

5) eternatus is far more heavily based off of eastern long dragons than western dragons. This brings the long whip like structures on its shoulders further into question... just what are they?

6) eternatus' back legs actually make slightly more sense knowing that it is an eastern dragon, some traditional art of long dragons have similar hind legs.

7) those strange whip like structures on eternatus' shoulders... I still don't know what they are. When I first saw eternatus I thought that they were wings. But after watching eternatus move in camp I'm not so sure. They don't move like wings would, they act more like tendrils.

Also the way it moves its head makes it look like it's super curious and that's frigging adorable.

So I was camping with eternatus when I noticed that it stretches the membrane between it's horns for it's "angry" animation.

So I guess that means eternatus uses that big face shield thing for expression?

Hey, so you know how eternamax eternatus is a giant hand?? Well, uhmm, I may have a cursed bit of evidence to the contrary.

So when you throw a pokeball at eternatus it opens it's "finger tips" and then closes in on the pokeball, clearly trying to investigate it. Eternatus then appears to recognize what it is and freak out. This means that eternatus uses it's "fingers" to see.

In conclusion, the fingers are not actually fingers they are either eyes or heads. Have a nice day!

so a while back I mentioned to @bl00diedhell​ that I believe that the eternatus we see in game is not complete. so I drew some concepts for what a complete eternatus could look like.

more info about each concept under the cut!

the first concept was me treating eternatus as a skeleton and trying to construct musculature onto it. I made it by taking a screen shot of eternatus and then drawing over it, which is why that drawing looks different from the other two. I then threw a galaxy overlay on it because why not.

the second concept I tried to make something that looked more natural than concept 1, yet was still recognizably eternatus. I ended up going with an exposed skeleton/bone armor design.

the third design was me just doing whatever I wanted to in the name of artistic licence. 

Ok so @hattricks responded to one of my posts with this

And that resonated with me on a spiritual level.

So, uhm,

Untitled eternatus game

I'm particularly proud of these so I thought I would post them. These are for the header image and Icon for the ask eternatus blog.

Why do majora and cuddle pup get along so well? Was it because of rng or what?

I honestly don't know. My best guess is that I was playing with the two of them when I first added majora to the team. From experiments I have done I'm pretty sure that having two pokemon play with the poketoy together has a chance to improve their relationship. However it normally only raises it a tiny bit, while Majora and Cuddle pup instantly bonded. So I'm not sure.

I kinda want to post about my various eternatus centric swsh AUs. But like, do I make a drawing for each? Just make a massive text post? Idk

Idk whether to just wait for someone to ask about the darkest day and darkest day 2.0 on the eternatus ask blog, just info dump about my theories on this blog, or both.

1) thank you for reminding me of eternal flower floette!

2) OH FLIP HOW DID I NOT NOTICE THAT THEY HAVE THE SAME COLOR SCHEME???

me trying to figure out the correlation between eternal floette & eternatus

Hi. So I was minding my own business when my brain threw this thought at me:

"If Majora the eternatus and Cuddle Pup somehow had a kid, what would they look like?"

So uh yeah I had to draw

Most of these are just recolors because I couldn't decide on just one color pallet. I also made a single design for an eternatus with ninetales traits.

I know it not really obvious from the profile drawings, but the vulpix are supposed to be really glowy. So I made the sketch above to try and make that more obvious.

There should be more fics about eternatus, where eternatus ISN'T evil.