Lykios

Lykios
Lykios's Verse character
First appearance	New World
First date	February 16, 2025
Created by	OracleLykios
Information
Full name	Lykios Arcanilyn Orichalcum
Alias	"Legend," "The Oracle," "The Storyteller," "Aurora Velvet"
Species	Ninetales
Gender	Male
Orientation	Straight-ish
Main Kinks	Impregnation, Incest, Pleasure Dom, interspecies relations
Sexual Position	Top-leaning
Occupation	Author, contracted Waiter
Spouse	Luna Orichalcum
Children	Arkanos, Ashe, Arayna, Vesta, Loki
Relatives	None living
Origin	Baram, home dimension

General Information

Lykios Arcanilyn Orichalcum is a Ninetales from an alternate dimension, one home to only Pokémon (the same universe as the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series), who arrived in the Plaisir universe after a portal accidentally opened during a clash with his firstborn son, Arkanos. Well over three thousand years old, Lykios is effectively immortal, though not invincible. He is charged by the Arceus of his home dimension with keeping the mythical "Book of Legends," a book that "... chronicles all that Has Happened, Happens, and Will Happen." He made his way to Café Plaisir through the help of Rion Solaris, a government trainer, and the "Helping Hands" charity as a cover, a group that assists wild Pokémon in integrating into society post-Liberation. Once there, he took up the idea of assisting as a day-contracted waiter, in exchange for being allowed to live in one of the penthouse suites until he can get a more permanent living condition.

Writing & The Book of Legends

The Book of Legends is a magical artifact that takes the form of an exquisite, leatherbound tome with Lykios's crest design (seen on his right shoulder) on the cover. Tied to the world it inhabits, when any person writes in said world, those words appear in the Book. Though this could lead to Lykios (or another) knowing everything that happens in the world, it is incomprehensible to outright read if one is not privy to its secrets, or is unpracticed in its usage, even if they do know what it can do, as its words take the form of a cipher after a short time. Even Lykios has great difficulty parsing and reading things that happened little more than a day ago, and must take intimate time to study it to break the "cipher." Additionally, it's been known to drive weaker-minded individuals mad upon attempts to steal it, punishing them for attempting to see beyond the Fourth Wall.

However, these are all safeguards Lykios himself has placed upon it during his tenure as its keeper, as writing directly into the Book can alter Reality itself, with none but the author any wiser of the changes made, save for perhaps a small feeling that something was wrong at the back of their mind, a feeling Lykios has likened to deja vu. Lykios and a small pawful of others he has trained do not need direct access to the Book to make small changes either, a feat Lykios refers to as "Writing." For example, while fairly new to the world, Loki Wrote a cup of coffee into existence for Vesta, even though he had never heard of the drink until Vesta told him about it a few moments earlier. Lykios, in another instance, once managed to win a fight fifteen-to-one by simply Writing over the attacks that hit him, though the extensive use in that encounter left him nearly bedridden for several days, as the changes they can make are limited by the strength of their Aura.

Lykios's Tribe & Early Life

Lykios's tribe was a secluded, xenophobic, fox-supremacist tribe of Ninetales - with a very small amount of other fox Pokémon living there as well - that hoarded knowledge and secrets. Lykios despised this, and once he left swore an oath to never prevent the seeking of knowledge. Once he left his tribe, he never looked back until the tribe's slow, painful death ended abruptly due to an avalanche. He spent many, many years shaking off his mental conditioning, though will still occasionally make fox-supremacist remarks, does not believe them and uses them as a way to joke about it upbringing.

When he was one hundred fifty-three years old, his life would permanently change. A human, bold and mischievous, grabbed his tail, and in his youthful rage and pride he laid a far-too-powerful curse upon the human, to be "reborn as the the most pathetic thing he could think of being" - which, incidentally, took the form of a Gastly. However, the human's partner Gardevoir jumped between them and took the brunt of the Curse, the strength of the curse killing the Gardevoir as the human fled. It was this incident which caused Arceus to charge him with the keeping of the Book of Legends: "... I felt a more fitting punishment did not exist - instead of my own power, I was now entrusted with the control of the power of a demigod. What a fine punishment, what a perfect way to teach me how to control my own power, by giving me far too much."

This tale would become a source of great strife for a human-turned-Charmander far in the future, but that's a story for a different time and place.

Children

Lykios has far too many children to list - being an immortal fox with a breeding fetish tends to result in quite a few - but the ones he had a direct paw in raising are rather few and far between.

Loki is his most recent child, born from an unknown mother due to ink spilling onto the Book during his second-most recent fight with Arkanos and rewriting his (and everyone's) memories. Still a Vulpix and freshly of-age, Loki is the second child he has taught to use their powers.

Vesta is another one - though he did not directly train Vesta in his power's use, as Vesta is from an alternate future - that has been living with him for the past few years after traveling back in time.

However, the most prominent of his children - and the most dangerous - is Arkanos.

Father & Son

Born to Lykios and his first mate Glacia, Arkanos is the only surviving child of the pair's first three litters together. Due to the fact he was simply so happy to have a living child, coupled with his parents not being excellent role models and having no idea how to raise a child, Arkanos was raised with Lykios's knowledge and power. Despite seeing warning signs that Arkanos was headed down a dark path, Lykios ignored them and told himself that he was overreacting and that the problems were ones he'd iron out later.

Lykios calls this his greatest mistake, and it's a hard thing to argue with.

Lykios, unquestionably, created a monster. A demigod with no respect for his powers, believing that by their very nature they should be worshipped as gods. The sole saving grace is that all Arkanos ever learned how to Write were small changes, as the "deeper training" i.e. how to do more than simply make things appear and make more than highly susceptible suggestions was saved for "when he was ready." Fortunately for the world, he was never ready.

When Arkanos was in his late teens, he rebelled against his father. Decrying the "chains which bind them" and declaring his intent to become a true god, Arkanos attempted to steal the Book and make off with it, causing the pair to get into a bloody, drawn out fight that ended with them both halfway across Yveltal's threshold. In that fight, Arkanos wrote in his blood, and inscribed his only addition to the Book before fleeing for his life.

"The only fangs that shall end the other shall be those of Lykios or Arkanos."

The only beings that can permanently kill the other are themselves. Their powers, spells, everything will not work, and their final fight - should they ever come to it - will be a brutal, bloody repeat of the affair that began their feud that looks no different than two wild animals biting and scratching at the other.