#Emmet does not like Akari to start with and like

[ctrl-alt-em]

Pokemon Legends Arceus has me in a stranglehold. Here are some of my headcanons for Ingo and Akari.

Ingo

Unova

Not actually that old. Disappeared at age 30. He had been in Hisui for three years by the time Akari arrived.

He learned the basics of dragon wrestling from Drayton, their uncle, when he got his axew. This would come in use more than either of them ever expected.

Ingo and Emmet had lived with Drayden since they were 9. Opelucid City is like a second home to them. They had lived in Nimbasa for the first part of their life.

They met Elesa when they were all students at Opelucid Academy and journeyed together. 

They were roommates when they all first moved to Nimbasa City as adults, when Elesa was working as a gym trainer and the brothers were depot agents.

Ingo and Emmet continued to live together.

Ingo and Emmet occasionally babysitted their nephew (technically first cousin once removed), Drayton. 

They would let him challenge the Battle Subway. He was also not pleased with Ingo’s Earthquake strategy.

Ingo disappeared while Drayton was in his first year at the Blueberry Academy.

Ingo disappeared while doing simple maintenance in a tunnel at the end of the day. He had left his pokemon behind to heal. 

Emmet was the one to notice he didn’t return first.

Hisui

Ingo crash-landed high in the Icelands during the first snowstorm of winter. 

He was found by Lady Snealser, who saw some light and investigated, and taken to the Pearl clan.

The Clan decided to let him winter with them. He was nice and a little pathetic.

He found gligar first and a magnezone later. His ability to train and bond with pokemon that he hadn’t been raised with was astounding to the pearl clan.

He cemented his place with them when he protected a group from an alpha Piloswine without hesitation.

He‘s a little weird, talks nonsense a lot of the time, but he’s their mountain cryptid man. 

Lady Sneasler quickly picked him to be her new warden once she was sure the clan liked him too.

When he first got handed a flute, he blew it like a train whistle. His own pokemon and the sneasel kits will come to that sound.

Irida and the other wardens were Not happy when he told them he got pokeballs from the newly arrived Team Galaxy folk during his second summer. Thankfully, his Pokemon were happy with it. He also had several Very large Pokemon that took up a lot of space inside the settlement.

It was the start of his third spring in Hisui when Akari fell from the sky.

He looks older than 33 due to naturally gray hair, living in the mountains with poisonous sneasels for several years, desperately needing a multivitamin, an iron supplement, and a proper bed, wearing a tattered coat and hat, and forgetting his modern hygiene routine.

Akari

Sinnoh 

Akari is a cousin of Dawn’s. 

She spent some time helping out in Rowan’s lab when Lucas left to travel for a bit with Dawn and Barry.

She did a pokemon journey, but preferred exploring and seeing pokemon in their natural habitat. She didn’t end up challenging the League, even though she was a competent trainer.

She studied at Sinnoh’s Lily Academy for a couple years.

Akari was an exchange student to Blueberry Academy. She was a part of the Terarium Club. She had all the pokemon and habitats memorized there. She disappeared before she got to see the club complete their semester project of evolving a Scyther into its historic evolution.

She met Drayton, who was in his second attempt at his second year. She was not impressed by his lax attitude, but liked battling him for fun.

Hisui

Has memory loss similar to Ingo. She does remember notions and concepts, like humans and Pokemon living together, gyms/contests, catching Pokemon techniques, battle techniques, etc. But anything specific, like her own Pokemon or family or gym challenge, is blurry. 

She keeps the outfit she arrived in at the back of her storage bin in her quarters. 

Really enjoys completing research tasks for the Professor. There’s something almost familiar about it…

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

AU where Akari gets raised by Ingo in Hisui from when she was young, but is aware of the future because Ingo remembers bits and pieces and starts regaining his memories. When she's around ten, she accidentally gets transported through space-time and winds up in Gear Station.

Here's the catch! She doesn't end up in a time before Ingo's disappearance. She ends up landing a full year before Ingo goes poof.

Anyways, she accidentally passes by Emmet and, in surprise, says "dad?" To which Emmet promptly does a spit take with his coffee over. Akari quickly realizes that Emmet isn't Ingo and just laughs it off.

Akari: Oh, whoops, haha, sorry, thought you were my dad for a second there, but nah. My dad doesn't wear white. Or smile. Or... *squints* drinks black coffee. Sorry for the mixup! You just look a lot like him.

Emmet, quickly putting the pieces together: ... WAIT. EXCUSE ME?? WHAT.

Akari, walking away: Sorry again! Bye!

Emmet:

Emmet, whipping out his phone: INGO. INGO DO YOU HAVE A SECRET CHILD? INGO WHAT THE FUCK.

[critter-catch-them-all-fella]

Akari and her twin brother are orphans, or at least they were. Rei went missing over a year ago and nobody but her seemed to care. When she wakes up on a beach in ancient Sinnoh, she doesn’t expect to find her lost brother- who has forgotten almost everything. As she helps him remember who he is and they work for the galaxy corps (and Arceus itself), they end up growing to really care for Warden Ingo- who is like Rei and showed up one day without any memories for over two years before he did. When they are kicked out of the galaxy corps, Ingo decides to officially take them in. They live with him for a year before Arceus decides it only needs one of faller now that Akari has helped the others remember- it gives Ingo the choice because he’s the most capable with his memories and Ingo knows he can’t leave a child behind (and especially can’t separate the twins).

Akari and Rei wake up at the gear station with Ingo’s hat, trainer Id and a letter for his twin, Emmet, who he told them to find. Now they have to find him, explain the situation and hope that they will be reunited with Ingo eventually. Emmet has a lot of conflicting feelings about this whole thing but he knows he has to take care of his new niece and nephew to the best of his abilities. They are easy to fall in love with and having some answers after five long years is great- he just wishes Ingo was with them (and that the stories they tell him of Hisui weren't so upsetting).

He also wishes the children would stop trying to fist-fight the wild animals. He reallllly wishes they would stop fist-fighting wild animals.

There are many, many, reasons he is relieved when Ingo finally convinces Arceus to let him go home- one of which is that he’s looking forward to having help with keeping the younger twins out of danger… until Ingo talks them down from chasing and wrestling a giant dragon, only to start fighting it himself.

Aka) Akari and Rei (who are twins) show up in Nimbasa with no family (other than <em>Ingo</em>, apparently) and Emmet does his best to care for them until Ingo finishes the Pokédex and is allowed home.

This was meant to be a one shot. In one day I’ve whetted three chapters 5k words each. There are minimum three more chapters or writes likely more. Brainworms are mysterious beasts and I should maybe wait until I’ve slept to post but idc.

[thecatchat]

Wandering Warden AU

So, this is purely a self indugent story idea that I don't have the time or energy to make into a full fic, but I'd be open to receiving asks about it.

So, this is partially inspired by that one post about Ingo having a working arcphone and posting on social media about his adventures in Hisui while Emmet and the rest of the poke-world watches on in major concern. But, instead it's Akari and her arcphone doing that. Ingo does become a repeated feature guest, mostly because the chat loves him. Some information is redacted for magical, timeline stability, plot reasons, so people can't just tell Ingo who he is.

Now here's where the real AU starts, that was just flavoring. Once the post game is finished and arceus is captured, it agrees to send both Akari and Ingo home. Also, Lady Sneasler joins Ingo, because do not separate these two, that's her warden, thank you very much. And to be fair, it does send them farther into the future and out of hisui... but not far enough.

They land in the 1920s era of Kalos. Separated from each other! Like, dude, arceus! How are you this inaccurate! While I don't have many ideas for hijinx regarding Akari, I have plenty for Ingo.

First off, Ingo's memory starts improving with the more familiar technology and attitude towards pokemon, but it's very very spotty. He thinks he was raised by a dragon? Or maybe that was a sibling? He's about 65% confident that the man in whites name is Subway. That's the most confident he is in any name.

Like, he has a pile of names, and a pile of concepts of memories of people, and Reshiram help him, the two won't connect in his brain.

So, he starts researching and trying to find legendary or mythical pokemon to get him home. But uh, 1. Extinct variation of sneasler is very much beside him and very much unwilling to stay in a pokeball. 2. Having the ability to make pokeballs that aren't in any way tracked or registered is not looked kindly upon by any government body that is doing that. 3. Having the ability to make pokeballs that aren't in any way tracked or registered is something every crime syndicate would like to learn how to do.

As the heat intensified on him (metaphorically), he needed to lay low. So, he gets a bunch of fabric and covers Lady Sneasler from head toe, addressing her only as Lady S in public.

As for him, well, he actually didn't have one picked out, but as he stumbled into the next town (escaping another crime syndicate, thank Reshiram that they're all very local), he encounters someone in a white conductor hat. And when they ask his name, he said "Emmet". No idea why, but it feels really right to say? Maybe it's his middle name? But, apparently the person they met is The Social Butterfly and introduced him as Emmet to literally every person in town and by the time they've gone through at least 5, Ingo just accepts the fact that his fake name is Emmet now.

And. He makes some friends in this town, so he hunkers down there for a while longer than normal. Namely, a local celebrity singer with a lot of bird+electric pokemon that Ingo continually keeps accidentally calling Skyla (if he sees the bird pokemon first) or Elsa (if he sees the fashion first). He doesn't consciously realize why he's calling her those two names, BTW.

Anyway, there's no train station here and he does need money so he kind of accidentally(ish) ends up a private investigator for a month? Apparently being able to pick out and follow a person in a crowd combined with hisui survival skills make for an excellent tailing ability. Unfortunately, everything catches up again eventually and he has to keep moving.

Luckily, the next stop is a Circus! The ring master is a bit of a Shady character, but they need a conductor so they can become a traveling Circus. Oh? A person who can instinctively drive a train like he's been doing it every day of his life? Hired! Oh, yah, sure you can bring this Lady S along too.

This is where Arkri and Ingo meet up again. At the Circus, where Ingo is still going by Emmet. Arkri almost has a heart attack (and in the not-so-distant future, so is Emmet, as Arkri streams the reunion), but Ingo thankfully explains.

At this point, Ingo has collected enough evidence and whispers of memories to conclude that he's from Unova. Namely, every. Single. Person. In. The. Circus. Comments on how thick of a Unova accent he has. That and looking through some of the pokemon from there jog small bits of memories. ("Too many" he says when he sees the picture of a Joltic)

Uhh... something something, probably all the crime syndicate people coming together to try and get Ingo, the circus standing by Ingo (also having kicked out the old corrupt ring master by now and kinda following Ingo's lead, he's a very good boss ringleader), and they steal a plane owned by pokemon smugglers to go to Unova.

(Nobody knows that they were planning to steal a plane until a new stream starts. Ingo and Akari are sitting against a metal wall and there's a droning noise in the background. Akari looks over at Ingo and asks "Did we really just steal a plane?"

Ingo: "From smugglers, yes. Yes, we did."

Chat: *loses their minds*

So, uh, not sure what pokemon they encounter in Unova that helps them, but finally. After all the trials they've faced. All the stress and struggle. All the effort put into getting back home. They finally make it to the correct time.

*stream starts and points to a sign that Ingo reads out loud in his Train Conductor Voice* "Today is the xxth of [month], 20xx. Welcome to Alola."

*camera points to the very done expression on Ingo's face* "You'd think legendary pokemon would be a little more accurate."

And that's all I've got. Let me know if you want to learn more about anything specific!

[dragonkeeper19600]

Submas Nutcracker AU because you people roped me into this.

So, since the twins’ sygna suits debuted in Pokémon Masters, I’ve seen a bunch of people drawing both twins as nutcrackers, which makes since because there are a lot of visual similarities between the snazzy conductors’ outfits they wear and the Hussar uniform you usually see on a nutcracker.

However, in the story, there’s only one nutcracker, so I decided Ingo is going to be our nutcracker. Emmet, on the other hand, gets to be Drosselmeier.

As for our main heroine, Akari will be filling in the Marie/Clara role. And before you guys freak out, no, no romance forms between Akari and Ingo here. Their relationship is more of a surrogate father/daughter bond because, you see, in this AU, Akari is an orphan.

Akari spent most of her childhood on the streets, with only her Pokémon, a stray Eevee, for company. Eventually, she was taken in by Cyllene, who in this AU owns a cleaning service that employs several workers. Akari is basically hired out as a cleaner to homes that can’t afford to employ a maid full time. It’s not a great arrangement. Cyllene does not view Akari as a daughter, and while she provides Akari with free meals, room, and board, she doesn’t pay her anything beyond that. Cyllene’s mentality is basically, “If you want to be taken care of, you’d better work.”

Cyllene did let Akari keep Eevee on the grounds that the pseudo 19th century European setting is dangerous, and Akari could use some protection. But the truth is Akari is so busy with work that she doesn’t get much time to train Eevee, so Eevee is pretty weak.

One Christmas Eve, Akari is hired out to the opulent home of Chairman Rose, who’s throwing a massive Christmas party and could use extra staff.

Akari has never been in a party like this, and even though Cyllene has forbidden her from eating any of the food, touching any of the gifts, or speaking to any of the guests, just to be in the midst of this house with all its decorations and splendor leaves her in awe.

However, she does have her work cut out for her. A lot of the guests brought their kids to the party, and these kids are clearly not used to cleaning up after themselves. The worst offender is Chairman Rose’s young ward, Bede, who seems to delight in purposely dropping things for Akari to pick up.

As you might have guessed, Emmet is at this party. But not as a guest. Emmet in this AU is a toy maker, and Chairman Rose hired him to create an elaborate clockwork display for the party.

As Emmet is about to unravel it, Akari is shunted into another room to clean up a mess, but she’s able to watch through a chink in the door as Emmet dramatically throws off the cloth to reveal a magnificent train table, with a working train rendered in tender loving detail and a perfectly rendered train station that can be opened up like a dollhouse. Clearly, this is something he’s been working on for months.

However, after the initial awe has passed, it doesn’t take long for the kids present to get bored with it. It starts when Roy asks if he can take a ride on the train. Emmet awkwardly explains that’s impossible because the train is way too small. Liza asks if they can take the figures from the station and play with them. Emmet says they can’t because the figurines are fixed to the station, and anyway, they’re too fragile to get played with. Finally, Bede declares that the display is a waste of time because it’s stupid to make a toy that you can’t even play with. Chairman Rose tries to run damage control by asking Emmet flattering questions about how he made something so impressive, but the damage has already been done, and even though he’s trying his best to hide it, Emmet is seriously annoyed.

Akari, watching through the door, is also frustrated. She thinks the display is wonderful, and she can’t believe how unappreciative these kids are. She quickly turns away from the door and gets to work actually cleaning up the mess because she doesn’t want Chairman Rose’s housekeeper, Oleana, to catch her slacking.

However, just as she’s finishing up, the door bursts open and Emmet thunders into the room, fuming about Bede insulting his efforts. Akari was on her hands and knees wiping the floor, and Emmet is so worked up that at first he doesn’t see her staring up at him wide-eyed.

When he does finally notice her, it’s very awkward. He hastily straightens his cravate and apologizes. Akari knows she isn’t supposed to talk to the guests, but she can’t help but speak up, and she meekly tells Emmet that she thought his display was wonderful. She wishes she had the skills to build something like that.

Emmet is cheered by finally meeting a young person who has something nice to say about his creation. He asks her if she’s new, since he’s been to Chairman Rose’s house a few times and never seen her. Akari says she’s temporary help. When Emmet probes her, she ends up confessing her entire situation, how she works for Cyllene for food and lodging and how she doesn’t have a family. But she doesn’t condemn Cyllene at all. On the contrary, because of Cyllene, she no longer has to worry about taking care of Eevee because their next meal is always guaranteed. Sure, the work is hard, but if you want to care for someone, you have to make sacrifices.

Emmet is listening to this speech with his hand on his chin. He seems to be thinking verrrrry deeply about something. Finally, he nods to himself and says that Akari might be the exact type of person he’s been looking for.

Akari is confused. What does he mean by that? Instead of answering, Emmet asks her a question: How would she like a Christmas present?

Akari is flustered. No, she can’t possibly accept that! She’s not a guest; it wouldn’t be appropriate! But Emmet says that’s nonsense. Anyone can receive a gift from anyone on Christmas. So, he pulls out a box he had hidden in his coat. When Akari opens it, she sees it’s a nutcracker in a black and purple conductor’s uniform and wearing a very severe frown. Most kids would find a toy like this to be weird looking, but Akari is beyond grateful to actually have a Christmas present of her own. Emmet tells her that the nutcracker is named Ingo, and she’d better take good care of him because he’s hers now. Akari promises that she will.

Akari gets back to work, keeping the nutcracker in the pocket of her apron so she doesn’t lose it. But Bede seems to take offense at the sight of a maid with a toy and snatches it from her when she’s distracted. He demands to know what Akari is doing with a nutcracker, basically accusing her of stealing it. Akari protests that it was a gift from Emmet. She looks around for Emmet to back her up, but it’s a big house, and she can’t see him anywhere. Bede takes the nutcracker over to a bowl of nuts on the buffet table and starts cracking away, deliberately choosing the biggest and most formidable shells against Akari’s protestations. He’s so rough with the nutcracker that he ends up snapping off the wooden handle on the back. Akari screams, which finally gets the attention of the adults at the party. Chairman Rose hurries over and asks what’s going on. Emmet finally appears and assures Chairman Rose that he gave Akari the nutcracker as a present. Furthermore, he is not pleased that his gift has been broken so quickly. Chairman Rose is eerily calm as he sends Bede up to his room and apologizes to both Akari and Emmet.

Akari, however, is in tears as she takes the broken nutcracker and runs out of the room. Not only is she upset that her gift, the only Christmas gift she’s ever had, was broken mere minutes after she got it, but she’s terrified that her outburst at the party will cause Cyllene to fire her. She apologizes to the nutcracker for being unable to take care of it and wraps the handkerchief from her head around its torso as if it were a bandage.

The party runs late, and when it’s finally over, Akari and the rest of the staff are stuck cleaning so the house will be clean on Christmas morning. It takes so long that it’s almost midnight by the time Oleana tells her she can go home for the night, but Akari is so afraid of facing Cyllene that she stalls in the main hall after the other servants have retired for the night. She sits by the tree, only intending to rest for a few minutes, but the night has been so hectic that are falls asleep.

She’s soon woken up by the clock chiming midnight. And that’s when our villain appears.

(To be continued…)

[ghostypetrainer]

Something that got talked about on the discord that I haven't brought up here is the summer camp AU. No time-travel, no amnesia. Just summer camp. Ingo and Emmet used to go to it every year, but Emmet was never as enthusiastic about it as Ingo was. He stopped going around middle school, but Ingo kept it up and eventually became a counselor when he was old enough.

So every summer, Ingo packs his bags and heads to Sinnoh to spend a month and a half working at the sleepaway summer camp there. Lian, Sabi, Akari and Rei are all campers, whereas most everyone else from Hisui is in some kind of position at the Camp, with Kamado running the show. Irida and Adaman are in charge of the two main cabins. Irida just barely is old enough to be a counselor herself after attending the camp for years.

(Lucas and Dawn also attend the camp. They are not related to Akari and Rei in any way. Yes, they're pretty sure.)

(Barry's there too.)

Nobody at the camp really associates counselor Ingo with Subway Boss Ingo, mostly because Ingo just likes to get in touch with his wild side so to speak while at camp. They have cabins for the counselors to sleep in? Oh, that's quite alright. He'll just pitch his tent.

(He's not alone though. Gaeric also does this.)

All of the Noble Pokemon hang around at the camp as well... they're rare variants that the camp takes care of, and they help out around the camp. Sneasler is very attached to Ingo, and sometimes likes to use him as a babysitter. Some things truly never change. Since Ingo leaves all of his Unovan Pokemon with Emmet to help at the Battle Subway, the first year he starts working at the camp afterwards he doesn't have any with him... until he finds an injured Gligar who he nurses back to health and oh. Well. He has another Pokemon now.

(He keeps doing this until he has another full team of six. Whoops.)

[davepetacreates]

lady vespiquen and warden akari of the pearl clan, from my gay chicken trainwreck au, more context under the cut (warning: long post). there are two versions here because one is overly denoised and i thought it looked cool.

so, i decided to keep vespiquen as akaris lady in the pearl clan, because a) i think it's really interesting, the implications that akari is a little traveler around all of hisui with her dad ingo at what. age eleven when she meets this little combee.

there are whispers, at first, and the pearl clan is appalled at how the combee takes to her. it's not even a noble yet (when the old lady vespiquen's warden died in a run in with the alpha snorlax, it literally died of grief, leaving this little combee behind.) and it's already making warden like connections? and not only that, but to a girl who literally fell from the sky as a toddler and was found by sheer luck when ingo noticed her in the snow he was trying to clear with Flamethrower (honestly a miracle she didn't die).

and then it got even more controversial when an outsider, volo, came through to help evolve the combee. with *candies*. which akari hadn't known would be a problem, she was just sharing them with combee when it suddenly evolved, but that caused some to doubt that she was really destined to be lady vespiquen's warden?

in addition, this meant the numbers were off, and the pearl clan had one more warden than the diamond clan. this would have been a problem, but...

cue emmet. falls from the sky, discovered when sabi is doing her monthly check in with the shunned noble, zoroark (who ostracized himself when one of the diamond clan turned on him and killed his warden) to make sure their line is doing okay, and she realizes she should do it early. she doesn't know who this man she sees in the vision is but she knows he needs help.

so she does her check in early and lo and behold that's. that's a nearly dead guy isn't it. she asks lord zoroark if she can have braviary take him to the diamond clan for healing. zoroark grants it out of an understanding that they will be the best creatures to help him and he really can't do much.

he then decides to follow emmet to the diamond clans camp. almost gets killed but hey, he's strong and fearful. he can scare any pokemon off easy if he doesn't want to battle. and then he gets there and he sees a lot of himself in emmets lostness, his fear, his grief. he adopts emmet as his warden right then and there and so now emmet is a member of the diamond clan.

and now there are three faller wardens. there's those who take it to be a gift from sinnoh and those who take it as malintent, but no matter what, they're treated *differently*. that is, until the fourth faller arrives, the nobles start going into frenzies, and elesa reminds emmet and ingo of their pasts - and volo tries to ask arceus to reset it all, they fucked up (even though isn't this how it was supposed to go?)

and arceus denies them. once elesa finishes the Pokedex the rest of the fallers will be sent back. but for now, volo and elesa are the only ones who remember where they came from, and volo is the only one who can go back.

[egginfroggin]

To the Anon who sent me an ask requesting more little Emmet content: I am so sorry, I started to answer and then Tumblr ate it when I tried to save it to my drafts.

That being said, here is the requested content:

After Emmet gets shrunk from Rift energy, Arceus quickly sees the issue with this situation and tampers with its mark on him -- rather than a subtle mark that designates their connection, visible only to the Nobles and Legendaries, Arceus adjusts it so that most pokemon are able to see that Emmet is Arceus's Chosen, and will leave him alone accordingly. This doesn't always work, but it helps make sure that the Staravias don't try to peck his eyes out, at least. Its effect is flaky when it comes to Paras.

As a continuation of the above point, this makes it slightly worse in some cases, as the frenzied Nobles can see his designation plain as day. Due to Giratina's wrath being the source of their frenzy, this makes them pursue him with single-minded intent. Additionally, some alphas choose to ignore Emmet's mark and all it entails.

Typhlosion mothers Emmet already, but she truly leans into her broodiness in this variant. Do Not Touch. Emotional support fire weasel will bite.

Akari and Rei are well aware of the fact that Emmet is possibly not supposed to look like this, but they frequently forget about this during the process of Sibling Adoption.

The Ride Pokemon (which are considered Nobles in most, if not all, of my works) are very, very protective of this little bean chosen by Arceus. He is tiny! He must be protected!

Jubilife generally treats Emmet more warmly than they do in the original fic. Most people don't know about the theory that Emmet is, in fact, a grown adult who somehow got shrunk. Those who do know about that theory nevertheless treat him more gently because he is still physically, and to some extent mentally, still a child in a very unfortunate situation.

This does not stop a sort of banishment from occurring during the red sky, but rather than chucking the boy out on his ear, Kamado outright orders Akari and Rei to go with him.

(They would go anyway; even if they were to be ostracized, by this point Emmet is their tiny brother, and they would be willing to deal with it)

Palina is not happy with the fact that the Galaxy Team is okay with this tiny child running around fixing problems.

Emmet and Vessa get along great, frankly, once they get past Vessa staring him dead in the eyes and telling him that he is a mess and his soul is blinding and wrong. After that, hijinks ensue.

Emmet is not above using his cute little face and big, shiny eyes to manipulate Akari and Rei into giving him sweets.

Akari and Rei hate distortions with a passion because they're dangerous, but also because whenever they show up, Emmet just up and freaking runs into them and then they have to go drag him back. It's exhausting.

Emmet is very good at escaping whatever measures are instated to keep him contained.

Due to Emmet's tininess, things like stun spore and sleep powder affect him more severely. He will catch a whiff of sleep powder, sneeze, and get verrrry sleepy verrrrry fast.

Akari and Rei learn sign language very fast because it is the only way to tell what the heck Emmet is saying without writing utensils, and in the field, writeable dirt is not common, nor is sand, and they don't usually carry around much spare paper.

On the plus side, Emmet can get tuckered out pretty quickly due to the aforementioned tininess, and he's not very good and pushing on after that point.

On the down side, Emmet can get tuckered out pretty quickly due to the aforementioned tininess, and he's not very good at pushing on after that point.

So, that's all for the moment! I hope this answered your question if you're seeing this, Anon, and that you have a good day. ^^

[astrocassette]

fuck it i'm reposting caleb's ref sheet to add a little bio + full story summary

caleb elloway (they/he)

a casual trainer who works at a quilt shop in nimbasa

a pretty lighthearted + easygoing guy, on the quiet side + shy, but is also goofy + enjoys making people laugh. they can be awkward at times, but try to make up for it with politeness + sincerity

❤️: hard rock + metal, quilting + sewing, horror fiction, rpgs, casual battling, retro aesthetics

❌: driving, cooking, large bodies of water, waking up early, bitter foods, the competitive circuit

more character notes can be found on their toyhouse profile

and now, story summary under the cut

so!

as it says, caleb's originally from (an) earth like this irl one! they fell asleep on the metro on their way back home from visiting friends, and woke up on the nimbasa subway. the earth they're from doesn't have pokemon, even as a franchise, so they've got NO idea wtf is going on

ingo + emmet find them incredibly confused + speaking no known language with a phone map that doesn't match the world, rightly figure maybe dimensional shenanigans are about, and take them to the interpol. while a case is opened up for caleb, the nimbasa trio adopts them as a sort of interdimensional exchange student, showing them around, and then helping them get their footing in the pokemon world when the interpol isn't able to find a way to get them back home.

caleb has to grapple with the language barrier (learning galarian from scratch) and culture shock for a while, plus mounting guilt as they slowly realize they prefer the pokemon world to their earth, but have no way to let their loved ones know what happened and that they're okay (they eventually come to terms with it, but it takes a couple years)

in between language lessons, they hang out a lot with new friends (the nimbasa trio + a whole host of ocs i am slowly drawing), and pretty much everyone encourages them to give training a try. so they do! they do their own little gym run, and earn a few badges before tapping out and heading back to nimbasa, content with being a mid-strength trainer.

as they get further settled in, they pick quilting back up, and after showing a few projects to the local quilt shop, get hired there! they make friends with many old ladies + the shop sewaddle and gain a reputation amongst the regulars for having a good color sense.

there's a good stretch of just peaceful life for them, happily working, getting to know ingo + emmet + elesa + various ocs better as their language skills improve, and traveling around the region in their spare time. they even nearly start building a romance with ingo, but this gets interrupted when the interpol find another person from earth in hoenn, and caleb ventures abroad to meet them + see the region! they extend the trip to see a little bit of johto, but that gets cut short when ingo goes missing.

it takes over a year, but caleb + emmet manage to get to hisui with the help of a celebi, and are able to find ingo! but, arceus is miffed at their meddling and removes celebi from the premises, stranding the three of them in the past for a couple years. during this time, the events of legends arceus happen, with caleb + emmet joining ingo as npcs. ingo does what he does in canon, emmet helps laventon with the pokedex + manages the training grounds with ingo, and caleb apprentices at the clothier's in jubilife!

i'm still working out how the three of them factor into the canon storyline of pla and how big a role i want them to play, but they for sure join the wider party of people supporting akari. and, post-rift-fixing, caleb does get together with ingo :]

that's everything i've written out so far (my document is so fucking big. this is as concise a post as i could make it lmao), but i'm considering bringing in elesa with jirachi for the post-game of pla, and i do intend to get everyone back to the future

if you read all this, god damn, i appreciate it!! if you found this interesting and want more, here's the tag i've got going for this au!

[kelpiemomma]

One person liked the au comment so here it is:

Concept: people from the rift aren't uncommon. Jubilife and the clans frequently find them and bring them in. In fact, they even fall with all their memories in tact. They know who they are, how they came to be where they went, and where they came from. They know what they were dropped in Hisui to do. The problem is that after some time, some sooner and some later, their memories begin to fade. They remember who they are but they start to think they've always lived in Hisui. They came across with the rest of the jubilife residents, or they were accepted into the clan when they were young and grew up with them. All their memories of where they came warp to suit were they are now. Ingo is one of very few that still knows he is not where he needs to be due to Emmet- he knows there is someone that looks like him that is supposed to be with him, but he is not here. He keeps a hold of his coat and hat because they help remind him to remember something.

Rolling around in my head that, for some reason, Akari is the last to fall. They get a few people a month - one time twenty different people fell at the same time, as if Almighty Sinnoh was desperate that maybe many people would succeed where one couldn't - but their memories were the fastest to flee. They managed to get a lot done, but within the month they could barely recall where they came from.

Akari falls from the rift and after she does the color changes. She's there for a month- memories in tact, no new fallers. Two months- memories in tact, no new fallers. Everyone takes a breath, thinks maybe this is it. Maybe she's The One.

And the memory loss isn't something most people in jubilife bring up. It's depressing, because these people had homes and families and now they are lost in time and memory. Rei fumbles a couple times, mentions "before, when (name) was still helping" or "before (name) forgot." and Akari asks them about the things Rei mentioned but they don't remember. And that's weird but she doesn't think anything of it at first.

Except then things start getting fuzzy. It's after she takes care of Electrode, after she's met and befriended Ingo, after everyone thought she was in the clear. She starts forgetting things. Where she was going. Who she was supposed to meet. More than once Volo has found her and returned her to a campsite, because despite him wanting desperately to meet and defeat Arceus, to be noticed by the god, there is something uncanny and uncomfortable and frightening about people he knew and genuinely cared for forgetting themselves.

Akari struggles to hold on to her memory, lasting longer than the others, but it does fade. It falls to pieces. She stops leaving the village, helping care for the pokemon in the pastures. She doesn't understand why Rei and Laventon, who have always welcomed her so warmly and been so friendly since she first arrived and apprenticed with Marie, are suddenly so sad to see her. Why they don't discuss their research with her like they used to.

And Ingo arrives one day and Akari thinks he looks like a nice person, she may have to go and chat with him. Sure the frown is a little severe but something tells her he'd be comforting...

Except then he walks over to her, greets her, and asks why she hasn't been by for so long. And she's confused, because sure she has her Typhlosion (that she can't remember training) and a lot of the pokemon in the pasture are very affectionate towards her, but she's never been out of Jubilife village. It's scary out there! Wild pokemon are dangerous! (Even though her partner could easily one-shot many of them...)

And it's Ingo who realizes something is incredibly wrong. Because he remembers Akari, how excited she was to learn more about pokemon, how she loved getting rides from Sneasler and Wyrdeer over the highlands, how she delighted in making Melli feel bad for bullying her.

And Ingo realizes she's not the first to stop showing up in the highlands, he just wasn't as attached to anyone else. There are faces he recognizes in the village, faces of people who - at one point - were filling the Pokedex, were exploring the territory, were helping the nobles. Akari was not the first, he just wasn't close enough to any of the others to take notice that their disappearance from the Highlands wasn't retirement or injury, it was something worse.

And he excuses himself, heads back home, and stares at himself in the mirror, because something is off. Something has always been off but now he knows. now there is proof. And he tries to think about who he might be, why he knows something he is pretty certain he shouldn't. And decides the best vourse of action, to figure out what's going on, is to stop sitting around as a warden. He's going to calm the last noble. He's going to figure this out so whatever has happened will stop and people can go back home.

[sleepy-shinx]

Fellow submas fans what are your favorite reunion scenarios

And I want to hear two things from y’all:

1. Your favorite way to imagine the reunion happening in your head

2. Your favorite reunion scene in a currently existing fanfiction (AND TELL ME THE FIC/LINK IT SO I CAN READ IT IF I HAVEN’T ALREADY)

My response to prompt 1 turned longer than expected so I��m putting it under the read more, but my answer to 2 is fucking @dittolicous’s fic ‘the only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it’ I swear to god it’s the most delicious submas fic I’ve ever read I have reread it so many times purely for the reunion alone but then I get sucked into the rest because it’s just a beautiful story and all of the characterization is my absolute favorite and. It. Is. AMAZING.

HERE’S THE LINK. READ IT.

Anyway my answer to #1 is below the cut- it’s long- it got away from me- I would love for y’all to read it but if you don’t it’s chill and I’d still love to hear your own thoughts on my prompts-

For me for #1 I LOVE the idea of Ingo getting his memories back but somehow the reunion is still a surprise for both him and Emmet. The way I have it play out in my head is a whole story that could hypothetically be a fanfiction if it weren’t for the fact that I have very few details lined out and also that takes effort.

But essentially Volo’s still being a bitch but after a talk with Akari, Arceus realizes some of the mistakes it made with bringing her into Hisui with no prior warning and forcing her to tackle everything alone, so it approaches her and Ingo to request their help in stopping Volo once and for all, returning both of their memories at the same time. It also promises to send them help, but does not elaborate on what the help will exactly look like. It does say that it will call on them for assistance once it has chosen those who will join them. It also says that if they are successful in their endeavors, they will be rewarded with one favor from the God.

Naturally after getting his memories back Ingo’s a whole mess of grief but having committed to staying in Hisui for the time being he has no choice but to stay. In this, Akari is Dawn the DPP protag and Arceus gave her a false memory of what her name was when she was sent to Hisui. She’s also not doing super great after getting her memories back but not as bad as Ingo who was there longer than her (I’ve settled on 4 years for Ingo and 1.5 years for Dawn)

However, Arceus may have seemed like it was still deciding who to send when it spoke to them, but it already knew exactly who to send.

And it involved righting the wrongs committed by Volo and Giratina with the space-time distortions.

Cut to modern day Unova! Emmet is a wreck in his brother’s absense, but he’s doing better than he was in the first couple years. Things have changed for those Ingo left behind; Elesa and Skyla start dating while he’s gone in this fic, and I like to imagine that Iris becomes Champion in his absense (specifically because Hil(da/bert) were still missing, so Unova technically had no Champion and Alder had fully retired from the battling scene. This was leading to complications in getting clearance to branch out the search for Ingo to other regions and Iris, fully sick of it, challenges the League herself and Drayden calls in a favor from Alder to get her a ‘Champion’ to battle. And she ends up being one of Unova’s best Champions in many different ways! Also I imagine the events of BW2 absolutely happened except Rosa/Nate decided not to challenge the Elite Four. Oh god that was quite a tangent uh)

And then one night four years after his disappearance (and like two weeks after Arceus asks Ingo and Dawn for their help), Emmet and Elesa both have the same very weird dream.

In which Arceus asks them both for their assistance, because shit’s going down in ancient Sinnoh and it needs more human help in getting it to stop. It does NOT tell them why EXACTLY they specifically are being asked, just that there IS a specific reason it’s asking them of all people and that they won’t regret going. It gives them two days to think and decide, also offering them the reward of a favor if they succeed.

This gives the two of them time to not only decide, but also TELL THEIR LOVED ONES THAT THIS IS HAPPENING

Emmet’s initially hesitant about doing it, but the favor seals the deal for him. With no context to what Arceus is doing at this point, he is determined to try to use the favor he will receive from the God to get Ingo back. He doesn’t really tell anyone except Elesa, not wanting to get anyone’s hopes up in case Arceus is unable to help, but deep down he hopes that if NOTHING else he will at least get closure.

Elesa was down from the start, she has no reason to say no and the favor is very enticing. For reasons.

(Cute side note I only have Elesa’s favor decided on. And she asks Arceus to ensure that on her and Skyla’s wedding day, the weather will be absolutely perfect. Perfect temperature, partly cloudy, slight breeze. Just exactly what they need for a beautiful wedding. And Arceus gifts her a pen that it tells her to write the date down with once it is decided upon and it will make sure it happens.)

(I also think that up until that point the two of them had absolutely talked about getting married but Elesa wasn’t ready because she had decided years ago that if she ever got married she wanted the twins to walk her down the aisle (bad relationship with her parents) and. yeah)

Anyway! They were instructed to go to Sinnoh if they decided to go and so Skyla flies them there (she doesn’t stay in Sinnoh, it was made quite clear that Emmet and Elesa would potentially be gone for a couple months (and they are)). They go up Mount Coronet and climb The Stairs into Arceus’s domain to meet with Arceus in the flesh this time.

Where, before sending them to Hisui, it tells them a story. About a man named Volo, who wished to remake the world so no one would suffer, so he manipulated Giratina into doing his bidding and started ripping tears open in space-time. Creating space-time distortions, and eventually even the rift above Mount Coronet.

It also says that when were opened, usually they connected Hisui to the modern world, and usually, the rift openings that were much smaller in the modern day than in Hisui, would open in areas far enough away from human civilization to prevent humans from being sucked through them.

With one notable exception.

Arceus reveals that four years ago, one particular distortion opened in the Hisuian Icelands that connected specifically to the subway tunnels underneath Nimbasa City.

And Emmet and Elesa understand instantly.

Both are a mess at this point, Emmet much more so. He hadn’t expected to get answers right off the bat. But there’s the terror rising in his heart of if his brother was dropped into unfamiliar, freezing cold territory 200 years in the past, would he have survived that???

He asks Arceus with a choked voice if his brother is still alive.

Arceus responds by calling Ingo into its domain, having called upon him prior to this to ‘ensure that those it was sending to the past would have someone to guide them through the unfamiliar time and place’.

Leaving the twins open to having a truly glorious, loud, and extremely emotional surprise reunion.

(Aside from knowing it wanted to send Ingo and Dawn’s loved ones back to be reunited with them, Arceus thought it would be VERY funny to have a team of six humans like humans have teams of six Pokemon. Barry and Lucas end up being the other two sent back to Hisui, to reunite with Dawn.)

I have not a lot of details about the meat of this story figured out. The vague outline is Emmet having separation anxiety, Elesa feeling like a weight is lifted off of her shoulders because she no longer has to grieve Ingo while simultaneously keep Emmet going despite his own heavier grief, Ingo having serious identity issues and feeling inadequate because he forgot Emmet while his brother grieved him so heavily, so he doesn’t talk to him about his own trauma and grief and ends up having a mental breakdown eventually that Emmet helps him through, and Volo has found some other legendary from another region that he’s using to try and remake the world again. I haven’t decided which one.

And then once Volo is beat they go home, both twins firmly convinced that their reunion was Arceus granting them their favors early as ya know, Emmet wanted his brother back and Ingo wanted his FAMILY back. Arceus catches on to this and promptly informs them that no, that was part of its plan from the beginning, that it was merely righting a wrong it should have righted long before then, and that their favors are still very much available to them. They do not use them at that time, since they did not expect to still have the favors, and they did not have anything else in mind.

(Elesa asks for her aforementioned one on the spot. At this point she’s so excited to have a much more serious conversation with Skyla about their future, and with her best friend alive and safely home, she’s finally ready for the next step.)

All the weary time travelers are returned to modern Sinnoh. Skyla hops on her plane the moment Elesa calls. They all go to Twinleaf town, Unovans included while they wait for Skyla. Dawn reunites with her Mom.

Skyla is fucking ecstatic when she sees Ingo’s alive, and they fly home to Unova after saying goodbye to Dawn, Barry, Lucas, and Johanna. They specifically fly to Opelucid, thinking Uncle Drayden’s house is a better place for Ingo to readjust to the modern day than their apartment in the middle of bustling Nimbasa City.

They are absolutely correct, but that doesn’t stop the breakdown Ingo has when he finally comes to terms with the fact that he’s home and can rest and not have to worry about his safety in the wilderness with angry wild Pokemon constantly posing threats to his well-being.

But he has his family by his side, who are more than happy to help him through it :3

[waywardstation]

definitely doesn't fit in the narrative of your whole narrative but I just had a random thought:

When your Dawn/Akari returns home, even if she's not the Champ will give a lot of media attention. Especially if circumstances are leaked/shown.

I just had this image of Emmet watching some media covering from Sinnoh, hearing about the return of this Girl that went missing that returned, and as he catches himself thinking how it would be if his brother would show up like this he does show up like this. Either seen on a photo in a newspaper or shyly trying to avoid the camera as they try to make the best picture of him.

Or he watches the news and spits out his coffee when seeing his brother and hearing how he came back in time with this girl in the news.

Honestly the reaction for this must be hilarious! At this point they haven't figured out its Subway Boss Ingo yet but Emmet is gonna change that.

and by chance someone had filmed Emmet spitting out his coffee and considering its more positive content it has become a meme all over Unova beloved by everyone.

Oh yes it will give lots of attention! If anything, lots of people would know because Lucas, as the champion, would care a lot that his friend has gone missing. Her mom would also make a huge deal of it even without that helping too.

If it would get televised, I do wonder how much of Ingo the media would actually get to see at first. Because he would definitely still be at the hospital at this point, going by my narrative. I wonder if it would be reasonable for the earliest sources to report him as just a man still being identified (no memory, no wallet/ID, maybe not conscious, in a region that probably doesn’t recognize him as well).

Emmet sees something about the story somewhere — at least someone who went missing was found. A man was found too — too bad it’s not Ingo, but Ingo wouldn’t be all the way over in Sinnoh. Then he sees a photo/video that was eventually taken by the news. Or maybe there was a section where the man was awake enough to identify himself with what little he remembered. NO WAY.

Then before he can even figure out how to get over there, he starts getting drowned in calls, and messages and emails fill his inbox forwarding the segment.

Maybe Elesa is there to see him faint. Maybe whoever he was battling in the battle subway witnesses him shut down the battle and send the train back to the station, shouting the whole time. Maybe customers at a store see him choke on his drink at a restaurant and accidentally dine and dash (he comes back and pays for it later haha).

[dubb0-g0ldfe11]

Art of my Pokemon legends Arceus oc

This is her first outfit/look

And this is her second outfit/look (I couldn't decide which one I'd liked more so here's both)

Idk what to name her so feel free to leave some suggestions.

Here's some info about her

She's Ingo's and Emmet's niece (her mom is Ingo and Emmet's half sister from here father's side, no the twins do not know about her, but her mother vaguely knows about them but other than that does not much about them)

She got isekeid to hisui when she was 18 and stayed there until she was 21 (she takes the place of Akari/Rei as ths MC)

She got married at 19 and has a son but her husband got scared of ✨commitment✨ and left hisui leaving her to fend for herself when she just gave birth

She got exiled from Jubilife village when the sky turned red when she was 5 weeks pregnant but she didn't find out she was pregnant until a month after she was exiled

She nearly died when giving birth but luckily Pesselle and Warden Calaba found her/where kidnapped by the pack Zoroarks that she befriended back when she first got into hisui

She was brought into Pearl clan and was placed under ingo's care and stayed in Pearl clan until her and Ingo's brother's found them and bought them back home with her son and the zoroark pack she befriended decided to follow her to the present day because they saw her as one of their own

Anyways here her Pokemon team!

Aphrodite! The alpha and pack leader of the pack of zoroarks that decided to follow to the present day

Crystal! Aphrodite son!

Bluey! Her starter before she got isekeid in Hisui

Freddy! She raised him when he was just a little teddiursa!

Hawkeye! Similar to Freddy, she raised him when he was just a little Rufflet!

And lastly Jade! She actually saved/rescued Jade from Team Rocket when she was first starting off in her Pokemon journey! And is VERY PROTECTIVE of her trainer when they first got isekeid to hisui and absolutely does NOT trust ANYONE besides her trainer and her family

I might draw her son later. So stay tooned!

[critter-catch-them-all-fella]

I may or may not ever actually finish this but here’s the proof of concept/sketch for a drawing idea I had for my rainworld submas au.

The concept is basically that Ingo and Emmet are part of a tribe of Scavengers living in the tunnel systems under the iterator Tao (and/ or between the two iterators Reshiram and Zekrom). The tribe is lead by the elite Elesa and the brothers, who grew up there on their own before the tribe moved in, serve as guides for all friendly and intelligent creatures, making sure they get to shelter. Even the local wildlife has learned (for the most part) that they don’t make for good prey and fight back well. They tamed the only two lantern mice to get washed down there, Ingo finding and taming his first but Emmet following close behind. They use electric spears, as does, Elesa and Elesa even has a small centipede as closed to tamed as one can get that she uses to recharge them when needed.

Ingo’s disappearance arc happens when part of the tunnel collapses as the rain is starting to flood everything and he gets washed all the way to the outskirts of another iterator, Arceus. He is found my a colony of slugcats who are puzzled by him because there aren’t really any scavenger tribes in the area- just three of the largest slugcat factions to exist (taking over the scavenger’s niche and “sponsored” by their iterator liking them). These slugs are the counterparts to the pearl and diamond clans and the galaxy team, the clans argue over wether the “god made” slugcat is the one that taught slugcats how to travel great distances for food and resources or if it’s the one that taught them how to make use of the cycles ( but both exist actually). Ingo does his best to survive, lost and confused and missing some memories until a scavenger from another tribe that lives somewhat close to Ingo’s is washed up (Rei/Akari) and they quest to get help unlocking this iterator’s train system with the help of the slugcats and the messengers of the iterator.

Once they get access to the train system Ingo is eventually able to get them both back to their original places.

They also maybe get the train systems between the iterators of the local group working again, allowing slugcats and scavengers to safely travel and trade more but I haven’t decided how that would happen so idk.

[nekoanything]

**This is my personal opinion**

As everyone knows, Pokemon BW has different content from past generations. The main characters Touya(Hilbert) and Touko(Hilda) are children who have grown up to be about 16-18 years old. When compared to the characters from generations 1-4, their ages will be About 10-13 years, Interesting game content, very good soundtrack. rival characters Cheren and Bel(Bianca) N (he is in every position in the game) have good character development. gym leaders are starting to play a bigger role, as well as the ending scene, making it a great game and a memorable one for top in many people's hearts.

I think the game won't remake BW any time soon because they brought a lot of Pokemon BW into the game and a lot of Pokemon SV. It seems too deliberate. But if game freak will make legend like PLA before remake BW, I think it's very worth doing.

remake BW , I can always wait, 1 year, 2 years, 10 years, many years, I can always wait.

If really remake BW, please really remake it. Don't remake it like BDSP. If you remake it like that, don't do it because I'm very disappointed :(

I don't remember many details (I haven't played in a long time). But I really like the story. During the 4th and 5th gens, the development team seemed very intent on making games.

BW says that there is a legend of Unova, two heroes are brothers, older brother chooses the truth. younger brother chooses ideals

Reshiram, Zekrom, Kyurem, these 3 Pokemon were once the same thing (Pokedex says that Kyurem eats humans, but I don't know if it really does…)

BW2 says that Touya(Hilbert) and Touko(Hilda) disappeared for 2 years. Where did they go? because they was looking for N or were they transported to another dimension? like Teru(Rei) and Shou(Akari).The theory is that these 2 people might actually be Kouki(Lucas) and Hikari(Dawn).

Nobori(Ingo) is sent to Hisui. So where did Kudari(Emmet) go? is he in Unova or was he sent to another dimension like Nobori(Ingo)?

I keep thinking There are many suspicious things. game freak to solve the problem!!! I want to know!!!

[lain-synthwired]

Omori X Submas AU lore dump basically

So I am horrendously brainrotted on this AU and have thought of two names for it like "Red Hands" or "Fading Memories", rn it's just Omori x Submas.

Anyways, for all who want to see/read my horrendous amount of lore dumping thrown in for flavor go right ahead.

Also! No shipping. I don't ship anyone in this AU, everything is purely platonic and familial. Just thought I should say that.

Real World Character analysis section:

Ingo: A man who's shut himself off from the world for six years. Doing online work and using his paychecks to do grocery deliveries to his house. He's basically decyaed from grief and never even thought about leaving, until Akari knocks on the door.

He and Akari will most likely have their own Master post together. Even though Akari is in here, there is soooo much more.

Real world Volo: As said before he (kind of) takes the spot of Hero. Obviously everyone is very different and is really only Hero because he has his sister Cynthia.

Volo in this AU works as a traveling merchant for a pokemart, basically being a traveling PokeMart for those who lose their way or need a quick buy. He also does deliveries as well

He cares for everyone deeply, like an older brother would yet falls short when having to calm down people or keep his emotions in check. Usually very quick to snap at people being complete assholes to his friends.

Real world Cynthia: She's a person who wasn't exactly close with Emmet, yet since he was friends with Volo, Akari and Elesa she was happy to be his and Ingos friend too. Yet when the incident happened she didn't properly register it all and is pretty much stuck in the state of Bargaining and "I don't even think I'm grieving right."

Cynthia herself is the cool big sister #2 to Akari. When Akari had to stay with Elesa during the five/six years Ingo locked himself away, Cynthia was usually always available to have Akari with her. Elesa really needed it. Gave Volo opportunities to get Akari learning about mythology too.

She's also a bit short tempered like her older brother (runs in the family I guess) and is also super protective of Akari and her friends.

Real world Elesa: She is the anger of grief. She isn't her normal confident self that Ingo remembers. In the story she is the one to replace Aubrey and she's just as, if not more angry then Aubrey was.

As in Omori, it takes a while for Ingo or anyone to get through to Elesa which the person getting through to her was Akari. Elesa is full of rage and anger for the world still moving on even after Emmets death, while she and Akari were left behind to cope on their own.

She is not forgiving of Ingo for basically abandoning her and everyone else when they needed each other most. She's angry that he wouldn't even pick up a phone call from the one he called his "beloved daughter" (Akari) and is angry.

Real world Akari: Basically Ingos daughter. She is the one to knock on the door and get Ingo to come outside, she is the one who helped Ingo cover up what happened and she was the one most lost in it all.

Akari had repressed all her feelings, pretending she doesn't feel the pain nor that the incident had much of an effect on her. (which would start up something similar to the church scene with Kel and Aubreys argument to be Elesa and Akari arguing in Elesas gym about Emmet)

She was eleven when the incident happened and brought up the idea to frame it was a su**de. She didn't mean to make the idea, she was eleven and scared. But Ingo, who was desperate and saw her jump rope in the yard, went along with it.

Akari is a big part of Ingos own denial of the truth and is a big reason he stays so close to her in the real world. Which made his mind split her existence in headspace in three.

Headspace Characters + differences:

Nobori: The twenty something Ingo before the incident. Basically looks like his normal self, yet had been made to repress and hide the truth, just like Omori. Nobori is not necessarily malicious, only doing what he was created to do. Protect Ingo.

Headspace Volo: A very laid back and relaxed friend, someone who loves mythology and teaching his younger friend Akari about all the mysticisms the world has to offer in books and text.

Ingo remembers Volo as a very caring older brother to Akari and everyone, almost to a fault. Obviously, headspaces portrail of him is very wrong as this is how Volo was before the incident. When Emmet was alive.

Headspace Cynthia: Also laid back but the best friend of Elesa, the two girls of the group being very close to each other and having basically an unbreakable bond. Even if some bad things happen, they mended it. If only that was how it was in the real world.

Headspace Elesa: A very confident, uplifting and caring woman of the group. Very upbeat mom friend vibes and a very motherly figure to those in headspace itself. That's how Ingo remembers Elesa, if only Elesa remembered him in the same good light.

Headspace Akari: A very gentle girl, Ingos precious daughter basically. He loves her with all his heart and remembers her and her smile. How energetic and happy she was, how she treated everyone kindly. A firey spirit that was infectious. He wishes he hadn't abandoned her, even if he didn't know what to do. She always finds the truth. Always. No matter how hard he tries to hide it. The gentle daughter will always find the path.

Headspace Emmet: In headspace, he's the same as ever. Always taking care of his brothers adopted daughter and friends. Yet, Emmet always brings his brother to the path. Emmet knows that his brother has one fear he has yet to overcome. He hopes that with Akari, the two will overcome it together.

Blackspace Characters (technically):

Stranger: A shadowy version of Akari, yet a version that shows her real world counterpart more. A part that shows Ingos grief more and how much he worries what happened to her, what happened to his daughter. After all these years, she still tries and help him through everything.

Darkai/HellEmmet: Darkai is very curcial to this all, being seen as a malicious pokemon often, he means not to harm Ingo. Darkai only hopes to push Ingo to accept, to have him and Akari tell the truth, to overcome his fears about acceptance. Helping Ingo learn acceptance/forgiveness is not a necessary part of healing, the truth is necessary. Forgiveness is not.

Copycat/ScyllAkari: ScyllAkari is what the name implies. This version of Akari takes over the role of Abbi (plus giving her a bigger one) as a vengeful yet mournful creature. This is based on Scylla herself in mythology, not based on any extension of Scylla from the Odyssey. Only Odyssey version so yay. Akari is made into this due to how Ingo couldn't cope with seeing her fear and sadness during the incident.