The Quest for the Legends

You know, we don't even know if the destroyer is a living being, it could be the planet itself! Or a rock.

How would that make for an interesting story?
"Hey, guys, turns out that the Destroyer is the entire freakin' planet. Soooooo…. Have fun with that."
"Damn, i didn't bring my Black Materia."
"Well, we're screwed."
… The end.

I was just pointing it out, besides, the whole idea of the quest is to stop the legendarys being affected, they aren't trying to stop the destroyer.

It's going to be something easy to see but impossible to guess. Someone who's been there all along, but we would never suspect them. Someone who's been sitting there in the back of our minds, an enigma, a persona, a-
Why did that come out sounding like a Heavy Metal song?

Chaletwo and Molzapart could be collaborating, or one of them tricking the other one, to gather all of the legendaries in one place, then destroy them all at once. Also the Mew theory, just because it's the sort of plot twist one would come to expect.

I don't think Mewtwo2 counts as a legendary.

Waraider is also a plausible idea, btu mostly because we have no idea what he's like. The logic flaw here is that Waraider travels with a herd, which doesn't make him teh most obvious choice for one that could DESTROY US ALL and whatnot.

It could always be one that's been captured, i.e. Hoenn legendary or Suicune/Entei, but I'd think that it would be one that could still be a plot element, and perhaps one we don't think about too much, like one of the Waraider herd besides Waraider, or one of the less-known Color Dragons.

Mewtwo^2 does count as a legendary for the purposes of the War.

For serious? That means that all of the other legendary clones count as well, right? So it could just as well be Raitwo, especially if Trever (I think that's his name, the clone kid) is no longer their registered Trainer…

Yes, all the legendary clones count (though Raitwo, being a Raichu clone and not a legendary one, is hardly relevant). However, it would be a bit hard for one of them to be the Destroyer, considering Rick didn't create them until a few years ago.

My bad, thought it was Raikou. It's been a while.

the destroyer doesn't need all of the legendarys in one place, and he doesn't destroy them, you're saying things that are clearly not true, according to mew/chaletwo.

He wasn't suggesting the Destroyer is trying to do that; he was suggesting maybe Molzapart and Chaletwo are trying to do that.

oh, I thought he was suggesting one of them was the destroyer, and what does that question have to do with the destroyer?

So I thought I had a good idea going…

Mitch tries to pass himself off as older than he actually is, so I thought "what if he doesn't age?"

If the destroyer was a human, they would have to be non-aging, otherwise it wouldn't make sense.

But then I noticed you gave Mitch a backstory from when he was 10 on his character biography page, and I was just like "damn."

Anyone else have any Destroyer-related experiences to share?

I think either Ash or Alan is the destroyer. Probably Alan.

I know neither of them are very old, but I'm thinking more along the lines of a continually reincarnating Destroyer that may or may not even know that they are the Destroyer.

….Isn't the destroyer a Legendary Pokemon? >_>

Or have I been missing something this entire story?

We weren't given any clues about the destroyer, it could be anything.

What if the Destroyer is EVERYTHING?

:O WHAT A TWEEST

It could be May I suppose, if for no other reason than the simple irony that while Mark and Chaletwo couldn't figure out who it was, she was just there the whole time.

But wait! This isn't just a crack theory! May being the Destroyer could represent the destruction of bonds between a pokemon and its trainer.

I swear I think too much about this…

I agree. May could be in the motions of a Heel Face Turn, going to work on the good ship Destroyer.
On a more well-thought-out note, the Destroyer could be more than one thing, working together to suck power out of legendaries.