#EMMET AND INGO ARE *NOT* REINCARNATIONS OF THE HEROES/PRINCES

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@ingo-ingoing-ingone these are Words and they are For You

The thing heaved cold, sharp breaths from its jagged teeth, condensing into clouds of minuscule crystals that froze the rocks and ground of the cave it had retreat to.

Ah. No.

It was not a thing.

What a mean thing to say.

Even about the same force that had posed the very real threat of freezing his uncle and half the region.

What a mean, mean thing to say.

The Original Dragon's husk let out of its misshapen maw a raucous growl, what remained of its voice coated in disgusting, sorrowful bile, as it turned its large head slightly towards the one intruding in its squalid corner of its wallowing misery, barely perceiving him through its partial blindness and deafness. The man remained immoble, stuck in place, waiting for the horrid sound to cease before doing anything.

Kyurem quieted down, eventually, slowly; the chasm's echo hushed. Emmet swallowed air and bit the corner of his lower lip.

Should he have talked to it? Risked it?

He looked it over, up and down. It was grey. Grey and ice cold, covered in the element it was meant to master, to control, to wield; the element that most hurt its very kind, as much as Dragons and Fairies of old myths. Its arms were small, frail, held tight against its chest, its wings were torn: only their shape remained in the ice that took their place, a frigid afterimage that did not allow for flight.

He swallowed, bit his lip again, exhaled a bit too harsh and loud.

Kyurem roared, and the rocky walls shook so hard with the wave of icy wind escaping its hollow body that they seemed to be on the verge of shattering not unlike glass.

That was his fault. Should have been more careful.

He clicked his tongue softly; after a short while, he clicked it again. He repeated the sound a few more times, always with the same cadence, the same rhythm. To calm it.

When they were much younger Uncle had said that unsocialized Dragons are very much like scared humans: they are aware, somewhere deep within their subconscious, that they're at the top of the food chain, but it doesn't make them feel any safer - if anything, it scares them more.

Kyurem remained where it was, almost crushing itself against the wall as the human approached with slow steps. The repetitive sound didn't quite put it at ease yet, but it worked in keeping its aggression at bay.

He'd never seen it from so up close. He'd never seen it at all, really. Only its individual components after their mitosis, their ripping away. He wondered if it had hurt, or if it had been just like cells dividing in the placenta until twin embryos are formed - natural, painless, quiet.

He wondered how it must have been, when it was right, when it was whole: what a beautiful beast to behold, all scales and fur and vast wings and deep piercing eyes, crests flowing in the winds, tail sparking and blazing, monochromatic shades bursting with red or blue or purple or a vibrant yellow (like the sharp jewel jutting out from its ice muzzle, like its empty cataract-ridden eyes, like Uncle's eyes), the very definition of the word ignition given form and might and life. He wondered how it must have been, before turning into this freezing soulless husk of a corpse.

What a mean thing to say.

What a horrid thing to say.

It was alive. It was not a thing, an empty body, a cryogenic mummy. It was still alive.

From where he was he could not hear what should have been a massive heart beat from within its hunched skeletal chest; it exhaled low rumbling growls that casted freezing clouds near its maw, but it did not seem to inhale at all.

Emmet stopped.

What was he doing?

Just what was he doing?

What was he hoping to achieve?

What was he hoping to get from this?

Kyurem growled after the clicking did not come to signal the human's position to its weakened senses. Its short, weak arms shifted closer to its body, its mutilated tail hit the rocks it had cornered itself against in an angered sway. Its long neck lowered and a veil of frost left its head as it stared at the white blur in the damp chasm, promising a painful end between its jagged fangs.

Emmet looked at it, at those yellow eyes with no iris nor pupil, and found himself starting to cry.

He couldn't figure out why, but he was sobbing. Sobbing louder than he was used to, louder than he should have in front of a half blinded Dragon very much hostile to guests in its den. He couldn't even stop.

He sat down on the cold ground and kept crying.

What would it have been like, being part of a whole? Being part of a single thing? He'd never thought to realize that he already knew that. With time he'd forgotten he used to be a frowny kid who had to remind people he wasn't someone else. With time he'd just stuck to using the same formula out of habit to the point where it was just part of how he talked. Another quirk in a person already full of them. Another quirk between two people already full of them.

They'd called them together, every single time. To the world they were a two-headed eight-limbed beast, with four eyes and four ears and two noses and two mouths and twenty fingers. Sometimes they had thought, in their childish ignorance - more or less bitterly depending on the occasion - that it was almost no different from if they'd been conjoined, or a single anatomy with a starkly split mind. Their names melted together with the conjugation joining them. The order in which they were pronounced mattered little if nothing at all: they were dolls sewn from a single larger one, statuettes made with wax melted from one big candle.

He was one of a pair, one of a whole. His existence demanded a second body with a second label, for to be himself alone seemed almost nonsensical. There is always two heroes and one kingdom; there is always one dragon and two parts. The twin princes of Unova. Eldest and youngest. Youngest and eldest. The Original Dragon. Zekrom and Reshiram. Reshiram and Zekrom.

The Multi Line. The Double Line. The Single Line.

It's always two, one, one. One, one, two.

What was zero, then?

There was the vacancy of the throne and there was the husk of the Dragon. What was zero, then, for something as stupid as a subway?

He kept sobbing and couldn't stop.

The Pokémon was quiet before him. It merely stared thoughtlessly at the miserable lump of a man sniffling mere meters away from its body, curled upon himself, hiding in his own shoulders. What could a cadaver even think, after all?

What a mean thing to say.

It was alive still.

Stupidly, not thinking, maybe guided by something he did not want to acknowledge, Emmet scooted closer, closer, closer, until his head laid slightly against the skeletal arm. He noticed only somewhere far in the back of his mind that the Dragon had allowed him to do such an incomprehensibly foolish thing.

It was cold, of course. Cold, rough, scraping his skin. Harsh to lean on. It was terribly uncomfortable, and he could feel his forehead freezing into a horrid migraine from the chill, but he did not move. He was crying still, louder than he should have. He raised his head a little and bumped it somewhere a little less bony. He thought his tears would freeze against the icy carapace and lock him to it, like a dumb kid licking a lamppost in winter; instead, they seemed to warm it ever so slightly.

He did not realize Kyurem had sat down.

It looked away, into the nothingness, the grey walls of rock of its hiding spot away from the entire world. Emmet listened to the silence around them.

Oh.

He could hear it now.

Weak and slow, although his ear was right on the side of the vast frigid chest, but he could hear it now.

A heartbeat.

He timed it mentally.

It pulsed inside the hollowed body slowly.

So, so slowly.

"Maybe," he whispered, softly, so softly, "We should get out of here."

Kyurem rumbled, but did not growl.

They did not move; they wallowed in their shared infernal loneliness of incompletion for a little longer, sitting on the cold ground.

He wondered, when he finally stood and carefully laid his hands under its jaw as Uncle had taught them to do, to lead it slowly outside of that cave in which it desired to be left to rot, if it was allowing him to do so and following him because of some phantom of a memory. He wondered if the heroes of old had ever held in their hands its massive head back when the beast was whole and healthy, with vibrant eyes and polished scales and voluminous fur. Legends talked about how beloved by them it used to be and vice versa, to the point where it could not choose to favor one over the other; it wasn't silly to presume it must have gotten to enjoy, even briefly, the affordable luxury of affection.

He had no clue what to do once it would have been outside, honestly. He could not just catch it. He could not just let it follow him to the nearest town or city. He could not just release it in the wildnerness - not after seeing what damage it could be capable of.

Its head was heavy in his palms. It was cold, and trembled with every step. It inhaled in spurts, short quick breaths. It walked slowly, heavily, higher and higher; it walked out of the chasm.

A cloud of frost left its maw with a low growl, hitting him square in the chest and making him shiver violently.

Kyurem yanked its muzzled head away from him, stumbling back, away from the human. Its hollowed yellow eyes swayed to attempt focusing on something and seemed to fail; it gave another growl, its tone a confused mess of indiscernible emotions, and climbed back down, trudging along as it struggled to carry its own forcibly deformed shell of a body down, down, down, back into the depths of the earth, to disappear forever from the rest of the world out of spite, out of anger, out of a mourning melancholy that would have eaten it from the inside if it had still had anything left withing itself to give.

Emmet watched it without following. The stomping of its clawed feet grew weaker, weaker, weaker, like a slow waning heartbeat, until he could not hear it anymore.

It was warm outside. Just a little bit. He could feel the sun warming him on his back.

The light caught the corner of his eye and burned.

He needed to get back to the station.

It would have been a little cooler.

It would have been a little darker.

He never liked summer anyways.

He left.

[ultimate-submas-tournament]

AUs in the running!

(Not in bracket order) (Going to be slowly updated over time as I send out more messages and get more responses)

But first! The tagging system!

🐶 Ingo or Emmet are something non human (like a cretur, ghost, pokemon or some other non human thing)

🔥 This AU features intense emotions that may not be suitable for people who are looking for a more easy going experience (sometimes people can’t handle strong angst or horror- and that’s totally okay! This tag is to show that this AU may not be for them)

📚 This AU has a comic or fic you can read! (Purely organizational tag)

Every AU is tagged by the author according to what they think is best. Use these tags as guidelines when looking for new AUs and not as hard and fast rules.

And now… The AUs!

1) 🐶🔥📚Submas FaeU (Faerie AU) by @blueisquitetired 

2) 🔥📚 Submas Conjoined AU by @ingo-ingoing-ingone 

3) TRAIN OF THOUGHT AU by @waywardstation

4) 🐶 Ghost Worm Au by @blaiddraws 

5) 🐶🔥📚Placeholder AU by @blaiddraws 

6)🔥📚Heroes and Villains AU by @the-digital-pen and @ace-trainguys

7) 🔥 📚DAD INGO au by @a-stone-slab

8) 📚The Human Illusion AU by @raisans-art

9) 🔥📚Foxfall AU by @aenor-llelo

10) 🐶🔥📚Zoroark possession AU by @ghostypetrainer

11) 🔥📚 Reincarnation AU by @ghostypetrainer

12) 🐶🔥Magnus archives au by @jester-writing

13) 🐶📚Legendary Hosts AU by @toriistorii

14) 📚Typed Humans AU  by @toriistorii

15) 🔥 Clean Slate AU by @kurixta

16) 🔥📚 Ticket for Four AU by @ticket-for-four

17) 🐶🔥📚Misfits AU by @hehe-hoho-ohno

18) 🐶🔥📚Steven Universe Submas au by @squidthesquidd

19) 🐶Liminal Station AU (aka ENA AU) by @liminal-station

20) System!Emmet AU by @fighter-spirits

21) 🐶🔥📚Team Conductors: PMD AU by @teamconductors

22) 📚Fractured Memories in the Wild AU (Breath of the Wild AU) by @krakengoggles

23) 🔥📚Under the City Streets AU (Over the Garden Wall AU) by @coramatus

24) 🔥📚The Issue With Stealing? You could lose your arm AU by @spacenewzwastaken

25) 🐶🔥Gargoyles crossover au by @regular-samdragon

26) Legends: Kyurem AU by @pixelga1axy

27) 🐶📚TMI AU by @drag0n0fbutt3r

28) 🐶🔥📚Risk of Rain 2 crossover AU by @fourphoenixfeathers

29) 🔥📚Ei AU by @fourphoenixfeathers

30) 🐶🔥📚Pokemon Aspects Au by @patriamrealm

31) 🐶🔥📚Emmet's PMD Adventure AU by @fandom-soda-writings

32) 📚Cowboy Submas AU by @caramel-caracal

33) 🔥WELCOME HOME SUBMAS AU by @crowfonder

34) 🐶Mechanical Errors AU by @marchy-emmet

35) 🐶🔥📚Fractured Sky AU by @inkinary

36) 🔥MC Ingo AU by @peacheenie

37) 🐶🔥📚Ultrabeast!Emmet AU by @papier-ciseaux

38) 🐶🔥📚Masking AU by @entity9silvergen

39) 🐶🔥Submas Animated for Terror AU by @shadowfear-art

40) 📚Twin Princes AU by @aur0raaura

41) 🐶📚Transfer Error AU by @rosebloodcat

42) 📚Breakmas Au (Aka Team Break Submas AU) by @choochooboss

43) 🐶Submas plushies AU by @choochooboss

44) 🔥📚BotW: Trainmen Edition au by @thesilentgothitelle

45) 🐶🔥📚Veritas Detective AU by @wormhole2anywhere

46) Lost in distortion AU by @celebeatz

47) 🔥📚Injury Share AU by @waters-turn

48) 🔥📚The Black Coat AU by RyleeSheep

49) 🐶📚TW: Table by @raynavan

[ultimate-submas-tournament]

OKAY SO HERE'S THE BRACKETS FOR ROUND ONE

Voting will start next weekish. Stay tuned.

Ingo Brackets

Bracket 1

📚Fractured Memories in the Wild AU (Breath of the Wild AU) by @krakengoggles

Vs

 🐶🔥Gargoyles crossover au by @regular-samdragon

Bracket 2

🔥 📚DAD INGO au by @a-stone-slab

Vs

🐶🔥📚Masking AU by @entity9silvergen

Bracket 3

📚Typed Humans AU  by @toriistorii

Vs

🔥📚BotW: Trainmen Edition au by @thesilentgothitelle

Bracket 4

🐶📚TMI AU by @drag0n0fbutt3r

Vs

🔥📚Injury Share AU by @waters-turn

Bracket 5

🔥WELCOME HOME SUBMAS AU by @crowfonder

Vs

🐶📚TW: Table by @raynavan

Bracket 6

🔥 📚Heroes and Villains AU by @the-digital-pen and @ace-trainguys 

Vs

🐶🔥📚Fractured Sky AU by @inkinary

Bracket 7

🐶🔥📚Submas FaeU by @blueisquitetired 

Vs

📚Twin Princes AU by @aur0raaura

Bracket 8

🐶🔥📚Team Conductors: PMD AU by @teamconductors

Vs

📚Breakmas Au (Aka Team Break Submas AU) by @choochooboss

Bracket 9

🔥📚Under the City Streets AU (Over the Garden Wall AU) by @coramatus

Vs

🔥MC Ingo AU by @peacheenie

Bracket 10

🔥 📚 Reincarnation AU by @ghostypetrainer

Vs

 📚Cowboy Submas AU by @caramel-caracal

Bracket 11

🐶 🔥 📚Zoroark possession AU by @ghostypetrainer

Vs

🐶🔥📚Pokemon Aspects Au by @patriamrealm

Bracket 12

🐶 Ghost Worm Au by @blaiddraws

vs

🐶📚Transfer Error AU by @rosebloodcat

Bracket 13

Black and White Ingo

Vs

Warden Ingo

Vs

Masters Ingo

Vs

Manga Ingo

Vs

Anime Ingo

Vs

Fanon Ingo

Emmet Brackets

Bracket 1

System!Emmet AU by @fighter-spirits

Vs

🔥📚The Issue With Stealing? You could lose your arm AU by @spacenewzwastaken

Bracket 2

🐶🔥Magnus archives au by @jester-writing

Vs

🐶🔥📚Veritas Detective AU by @wormhole2anywhere

Bracket 3

Legends: Kyurem AU by @pixelga1axy

Vs

Lost in distortion AU by @celebeatz

Bracket 4

🐶🔥📚Misfits AU by @hehe-hoho-ohno

Vs

🐶🔥📚Emmet's PMD Adventure AU by @fandom-soda-writings

Bracket 5

🔥Clean Slate AU by @kurixta

Vs

🔥📚Ticket for Four AU by @ticket-for-four

Bracket 6

🐶🔥📚Ultrabeast!Emmet AU by @papier-ciseaux

Vs

🔥📚The Black Coat AU by RyleeSheep

Bracket 7

🐶📚Legendary Hosts AU by @toriistorii

Vs

🐶Mechanical Errors AU by @marchy-emmet

Bracket 8

🔥 📚Foxfall AU by @aenor-llelo

Vs

🐶Liminal Station AU (aka ENA AU) by @liminal-station

Bracket 9

🐶🔥📚Steven Universe Submas au by @squidthesquidd

Vs

🐶Submas plushies AU by @choochooboss

Bracket 10

🐶🔥📚Risk of Rain 2 crossover AU by @fourphoenixfeathers

Vs

🐶🔥Submas Animated for Terror AU by @shadowfear-art

Bracket 11

TRAIN OF THOUGHT AU by @waywardstation

Vs

📚The Human Illusion AU by @raisans-art

Bracket 12

🔥 📚 Submas Conjoined AU by @ingo-ingoing-ingone 

Vs

 🔥 📚Placeholder AU by @blaiddraws 

Bracket 13

Black and White Emmet

Vs

Masters Emmet

Vs

Manga Emmet

Vs

Anime Emmet

Vs

Fanon Emmet

Fusion Bracket

🔥📚Submas Conjoined AU by @ingo-ingoing-ingone 

Vs

🐶Liminal Station AU (aka ENA AU) by @liminal-station

Vs

🔥📚Ei AU by @fourphoenixfeathers