Arcturus Porter I

> "[...] Vic, what is it? [...] ...Vic... I've felt the same ever since I first met you. [...] I love you too Vic."
>
> - Arcturus understanding and accepting Victoria's confession in the final episode of MPQL

## Basic Info

### Nicknames

Arcy (by Victoria)
Arca (by Samu)
Humongous Terminator Daddy (by Amelia, when he has the Terminator Armor on)

### Relatives

Divinity (creator)
Victoria Daisy (apparent future wife)
Melody Harmadale (daughter)
Primarch Porters (sons)
Primarch Porters' legions (descendants-in-law)
His descendants

### Voice Actors

Rory Max Kaplan (English; young)
Tom Wayland (English; older)
James Earl Jones (English; mecha & in fully-sealed Terminator Armor)

### Wish

Same as Victoria's (Magical Warrior wish)

## Status

### Affiliation

Galaxy Team (Expedition and Magical Warrior branches; formerly)

### Occupation

Pokémon Trainer
Hero

## Biographal Infomation

### Age

10 (Unknown amount of MPQL episodes)
30 (appearancewise starting from unknown MPQL episode onwards)
2000 (S1-S4)
2001 (S5-S8)

## Magic Information

### Harmony/Cutie Mark

An electric blue Poké Ball bordered in gold with two curled lines extending from it

### Upgraded?

Yes

**Arcturus Porter I** (Japanese: **ポーター新** *Pourtaa Arata* is one of the main characters of *Magical Pokémon Quest Legends*, and a supporting character of *Jim and Ellie's Magical Adventure* and its sequels. He is the ancestor of all Porters.

## Bio

### Appearance

**Arcturus** has electric blue eyes and matching neck-length hair. His Harmony Mark is a cyan Poké Ball bordered in gold with two curled lines extending from it.

As a civilian in season 1, he wears (WIP).

As seen in Seasons 4-11, he wears an electric blue shirt with a white pocket, white pants, and electric blue and white sneakers. Usually, however, he's seen wearing his Terminator Armor without the helmet on, though he will have his helmet on when it comes to combat, and his modern-day clothing is worn inside the suit.

As a **magical warrior**, his hat disappears. He has a long tailcoat-like bright cyan, long-sleeved collared militaristic-style jacket with gold buttons, a small azure blue bowtie, lighter cyan cuffs, and teal shoulderpads. Under the jacket is a white dress shirt. He has cyan dress pants and men's styled black platform dress shoes as well was a pair of ice blue fairy wings on his back. His hair and eyes don't change, however.

### Personality

#### **Magical Pokémon Quest Legends**

During his childhood, Arcturus was proud and mischievous, yet gentle. Despite already aspiring to be a "true gentleman", he lacked manners and mostly behaved like a normal child. His creator having no time to see him due to Her role in watching over the Multiverse, and his fellow boys ostracizing him because of his status left Arcturus somewhat lonely. While at first, Arcturus didn't have his future strength of will. However, he did have the kindness and courage to immediately jump to Victoria's rescue (which is when they developed hidden feelings after Victoria returned the favor and started living in the same orphanage together). First and foremost, Arcturus strives to become his definition of a "true gentleman" as he carries his Porter name with pride, never betraying the code of conduct he has set for himself and will treat any fellow human with respect unless they prove evil.

Arcturus also possesses a fierce inner strength and the drive to face and overcome conflict, which Ksendras calls an "explosive power". That drive, fueled by his affection for his friends and loved ones, enabled him to overcome the direst situations.

As a gentleman, Arcturus is also kind and positive. He has a mindset where he tries to imagine the consequences his actions would have on other people, even if they appear to be enemies. He is gentle and sympathetic, feeling pain even as he vanquishes a zombified person. Despite his skill in fighting, he will never seriously harm a person without a valid reason. His courteous nature as well as his mental fortitude and ability to withstand fear and pain is the main reason Aaron decides to aid him on his journey. Arcturus has always had an impulse to save others during his life.

Yet Arcturus can feel righteous fury at the evilness of his foes and will conduct justice by vanquishing them. He admitted that his reason for fighting Ksendras is not just for the safety of the Multiverse, but also to avenge his loved ones that the Angels of the Apocalypse had killed. Moreover, he does not pity truly despicable individuals he is not familiar with. Sometimes, though, he can be stubborn as well as impulsive and reckless. Being teased on his hidden crush on Victoria will even mean getting a direct insult from him.

#### **Jim and Ellie's Magical Adventure**

From thousands and thousands of years to today, Arcturus is now a cynical, disagreeable individual whose primary concern was gaining enough money to preserve himself and his family's life (example: he sometimes gives Jim some money for him to take care of his wife and daughter). Arcturus's loyal side is still present, he demonstrated his bravery and loyalty then soon after, Arcturus became loyal to GDI. Aside from his seemingly self-centered ways, he, like his descendant Jim, was very loyal to his friends, and a good man despite being considerably short-tempered and inactive than he once was, having lost most of his responsibility, gentleness, nobility, and kindness. Arcturus is otherwise nice to his descendants, the Daisies and their friends. His penchant for befriending people and Pokemon is still present, notably with the appearance of his new Pokémon Clark the Slaking (who accompanied him as a co-pilot), and his tendency to approach the locals first and communicate with them, overall being the one to deal business with them.

Arcturus's goofy side is present, and he is somewhat frequent failures at blending with the local culture and his struggle at battling is a constant source of humor. Moreover, his boastful nature leads him to occasional goofs, such as pretending to know how to use an electric stove only to ridicule himself, not knowing that he did end up destroying an electric kitchen stove once. He often makes crude jokes, racist insults (mostly towards Slavs) and crass/inappropriate humor (only to be cut off before he can finish). He usually insults both his sons and his descendants (especially their friends) because he's afraid they'll turn out like his son Horus.

Arcturus is also improved all over the years as he learns about new things in the Multiverse, which is why he can use most technologies, controlling vehicles/aircraft and using weapons. Although, some of the technologies that he may don't know how to use and led him to frustration, cases like being ended up destroying an electric kitchen stove once because not only he got frustrated, he also finds it way too difficult for him to use.

Arcturus's final wife, Mary, described him as someone who had no patience for speeches or memorials and was allergic to politics, ideologies and suspicious of causes. However, according to Mary, he also hated bullies and could never stand down when confronted with them, and when he took on a difficult mission, he was never interested in knowing the odds of success. As Mary recognized, Arcturus's first instinct was always to run when things got hard, but that he never ran far and always came back and stepped up again, knowing that there was a time to run and a time to make a stand.

On top of that, Arcturus is also extremely arrogant with an insane amount of pride in his own unique nature, and how he is a flawless being who never makes any mistakes, often shifting the blame onto others. He loudly complains about how nearly everyone apart from himself exists on varying spectrums of incompetence, such as when he blames the entire state of Galar on Magnus and Jim. In addition, he is also extremely hypocritical and will often go to extreme lengths to appear as infallible, even backtracking over things he previously said and denying or ignoring that he said them, such as when he forgave Magnus (slightly) for what he did. Often when he endorses something or someone terrible unknowingly, he will refuse to retract his compliment even when presented with large amounts of evidence that said thing is objectively awful and will try to justify such negative aspects as reasonable; unwilling to admit he had made a mistake.

After the final episode of Season 8, Arcturus regained his old self back upon reuniting with Victoria in the afterlife, though starting from "Memories in the Mist!", he is shown to slowly be regaining his past personality due to his (brief) reunion with her.

### Relationships

* **Victoria Daisy**: He has a hidden crush on her. He is shown to miss her a lot after season 1, but is lucky he got a child from her.
* **Melody Harmadale**: He loves his only girl very much. After a (brief due to her wish) reunion at the Spirit World in Season 9, the two of them and Victoria finally become a happy family.
* **Primarch Porters**: His first 20 sons. They, along with Adrien Porter, are also Melody Harmadale's brothers.
* **Jim Porter**: His main descendant.
* **Team Rocket**: His nemesis because of the trio's presence. Arcturus refers to them as "completely unnecessary" and a bunch of "\*bleep\*ed-up BDSM enthusiasts."

### Etymology

* His English name **Arcturus** comes from a red giant star in the Northern Hemisphere of Earth's sky and the brightest star in the constellation Boötes (the herdsman).
* His Japanese name **Arata** means "fresh" or "new," a subtle reference to the fact that he was the first Porter who was "freshly" created by the Divinity. While not used for him, other kanji for the name can also mean "uncultivated field," also referring to the fact he was created by Her as the first Porter.

## Magical Abilities

Arcturus is a Fighting Elemental; as a result, he can deliver magically superpowered kicks and punches. He has greatly enhanced strength, but as a result, does not have as much speed or agility. He is also a very skilled swordsfighter.

## Magical Warrior

Arcturus is a Fighting Elemental whose Element of Harmony is Loyalty. His theme color is electric blue, and his weapon is a spear.

### Transformation

Arcturus holds his Harmony Gem and shouts "Miracle Engage!", causing the Gem to glow and activate. He then puts the Harmony Gem close to his Power Necklace and as soon as the Necklace activates as well, the screen is engulfed in a white light.

## Pokémon

* Oshawott (Samu; partner Pokémon; deceased after MPQL and reincarnated as Jim)
* Slaking (Clark; future)

## Trivia

* As a running gag, a troublemaking travelling companion of the main full-time cast will often pretend to make her Arcturus Porter I and Victoria Daisy dolls kiss each other, much to the disgust of Nanette and Jim. Arcturus, however, will always get triggered when he sees the troublemaker trying to make fun of him, which even once ended up with *Bonnie in Season 6* being responsible for nearly turning him into a witch.
* Arcturus is a huge fan of *Saturday Night Live*, a show he got hooked on after discovering TVs and electronic devices. This isn't the case in MPQL, however, since TVs don't exist and other modern technology didn't exist back then.
* It is said that Victoria's death is the reason behind Arcturus's future status and behavior. This theory was confirmed in "Memories in the Mist!", an episode of Season 7.
	+ This is also seen when Arcturus cries every time anyone mentions Victoria.
* Arcturus is racist, but only towards Slavs. He does seem to have a slight prejudice towards reformed villains, but will quickly get over it once he gets to know them.
* Arcturus and Victoria are the only main human characters in JEMA to at least not be born to human parents, since they were both created by the Divinity.
* It can be implied that Arcturus and Victoria briefly got married when they kissed in the MPQL finale, even though no marriage fantasies appeared at all in the episode.
* Along with Jim, he is one of the most foul-mouthed characters in the entire series. He doesn't swear much in MPQL, but does in JEMA as an adult (which is always bleeped).
* His sons are all named after various constellations, and Arcturus himself is named after a star as well.
* At some point when his sons and Melody (who's still physically 12) became adults, Arcturus developed an urge of committing suicide to see Victoria in desperation, but was always unable to do it. This is finally averted in the Season 8 finale, where both he *and* Princess Ellie die due to a blast from Eternatus. Seeing his Heroic Sacrifice as important to the Multiverse's history, only the Princess of Galar gets revived by Mew after the battle.
* He never insults Melody and Sanguinius, because the former is his only daughter and the latter sacrificed himself for him.
* He appears in a lot of flashbacks in Season 9.
* Due to unknown reasons, Arcturus is never seen putting on/taking off his armor onscreen.
* Instead of magically creating him in space, the Divinity created him and Victoria as babies in the orphanage they lived at until they were 10. The staff had even noticed them appearing one day out of nowhere.
* Coincidentally, Jim in the present day is both his direct descendant *and* his Oshawott Samu reincarnated.
* Arcturus's purification attacks work unorthodoxly and require physical contact due to his power being superhuman strength.
* He has so many berserk buttons due to him being a jerk that a famous one that started with a different character ended up becoming a commonly running gag.