#HighlandsWardenShipping

[unmeiverse-nextadventures]

It's okay Tristan she only exists in your fever dreams. If it's not obvious Thea is a Melli/Ingo fankid

This was meant for april fools but the real fool was me who thought i could finish this on time

Janus (and his new fit) belong to @pokemon-legends-and-legacies

Norri belongs to @pkmnomegaverse

[pkmnomegaverse]

I know you said something about not feeling it with PLA ships, but have you considered Lian having a puppy crush on Ingo and also (hilariously) cockblocking Melli? Or even starting to have a crush on Rei/Lucas after being impressed with him quelling Lord Kleaver's rage?

As if Melli isn't cockblocking himself! The downfall of having tsun tendencies. I was thinking on it and I don't feel like any of the Pearl Clan would be worried about Melli/Ingo and trying to put a stop to things? Intentionally or not. If anything, I can see some of the Diamond Clan members being all "...Melli...are you sure you know what you're doing..." but even that's more because they know Melli too well and less because they're worried about Ingo. For as weird as Ingo is, I feel he comes across as competent and pretty sure of his actions, even with the whole amnesia things working against him. Calm and collected. Meanwhile Melli is the one who comes across as a bit...delusional. I can't think of the proper term for it right now, but he very much is interpreting situations however he wants to see them. Not good at being able to look as a situation objectively (I see him and Ingo as polar opposites in this regard).

As for Lian, if I was going to have him have a puppy crush on someone, it would be Rei/Lucas. Just to fit with the classic "isekai protagonist all the locals are inexplicably attracted to" trope. Which in some ways is already canon anyways. Or at least the protag is very admired by the majority of the cast. I can't see it going anywhere since while Lucas would be observant enough to notice Lian's crush, he would never comment on it. Try to still be friendly with Lian like he is with everyone, but also try not to do anything to encourage him or give him mixed signals. Let him down easy if Lian ever were to confess.

[pkmnomegaverse]

Who do Rei and Akari end up with? On top of that, are there any Pokémon Legends ships you've considered?

Since Rei is Lucas, he still ends up with Barry. Even if I throw a curveball at him relationship wise because of Legends, Barry is still his endgame. As for Akari I honestly haven’t given it much thought? I suppose she‘s probably Dawn’s ancestor. Maybe Lucas’ as well. I don’t have particularly strong feelings about Dawn and Lucas being related but I see no reason they couldn’t be related as far enough back as Akari’s generation. So of course that means Akari gets with someone, but since I don’t really ship her with anyone, I have no current ideas on who that would be.

The thing about Legends is while I very much enjoyed the game, the only ship from it that has me by the throat is Melli/Ingo. It’s the only ship I came away from the game with strong feelings about, so it’s the only ship I’m likely to do anything with. Something with Rei/Lucas might happen only because Lucas (alongside Calem) are who I consider the most important protagonists in this verse. Due to his children being main characters. I feel I can’t just ignore how the events of Legends would affect him, but whether that includes a relationship with someone while he’s stuck in the past, I haven’t decided yet (mostly cause I really am trying to prevent the bun-in-the-oven hitching a ride back to the present idea from coming to fruition).

Since I’m extremely susceptible to good fanart though (how do you think my interest in Melli/Ingo was created) it’s always possible I’ll become interested in more ships with time. Adaman and Volo are the two characters alongside Melli I like the most from the game. So if I do something they have high priority. Volo is tricky to do anything with shipwise for obvious reasons so I really don’t have any ideas for him, but I’ve considered that Melli/Adaman might become a thing endgame wise. Get together down the line once Lucas and Ingo return to the present.

Likely due to the fact any Legends fankids are all long dead and thus unusable by the main fankid era, I don’t feel any particular urge to figure out what ships happened. It’s only ships I end up really liking I’ll consider doing something with. Vs playing pair the spares like I’m sometimes prone to doing with the main games to flesh out the nextgen regions.

[pkmnomegaverse]

Will you consider doing anything with the Legends Arceus characters? Any relationships and possible tie ins to the modern characters?

Okay so I thought about this more and since there's not gonna be a big list of "here's all the things I'm gonna do", I figured I'd answer this now to get it out of my inbox. Also I'm through enough of the game I feel I can answer this proper now. Under a cut since this got long and also I went into Ingo/Emmet stuff so keep that in mind before you click.

Basically, Legends Arceus is very difficult to use due to the fact all the characters are long dead by the time the main games takes place. I will use it, but it's going to be a slow trickle of additions as ideas come to me. I can't see myself designing a lot of fankids for it, since again, they're all dead. I might have a couple if design ideas come to me since it's not like I haven't played around with universes where I'll be five generations out cause sometimes the ideas just keep coming.

That being said, Ingo is the big thing I can see doing stuff with, as I said in the other ask. There's so much good angst potential there, both on his end and Emmet and Norri's end. I have decided he's whisked away after Norri is born, mostly since that lets me keep him in the past for a long length of time (I like the idea of time moving the same on both sides, so if he's gone for say, five years, five years passed for him in ye olden day Sinnoh as well). This is mostly so the twins can stay the same age but also because it means more angst for everyone.

The story there is still in progress, but if you've seen my ramblings on the fankid twitter, you've seen me raving about how Melli/Ingo as a thing is creeping up on me something fierce. I'm on the edge of making a fankid for them since good fanart has been giving me ideas and I like the idea of Melli being extra pissed at Ingo cause he's mad he's so attracted to this weird guy with amnesia. Meanwhile, Ingo is a combo of oblivious/apathetic to the entire thing even when he does notice. But omegaverse strikes as a convenient reason to hook people up and not like they have as good of methods for dealing with it in the past. So they hook up at some point during Ingo's rut/Melli's heat. Becomes a reoccurring thing. At some point there's a kid or two.

The Diamond Clan (and maybe the Pearl clan) gave me vibes that maybe children are raised by the community which is why Adaman is everyone's big bro. But this means Melli would just throw any kid he has at the clan to raise so Ingo wouldn't get as much of a say in things. Cause that's just how things are done. But maybe he gets to see the kid sometimes as the two clans are slowly working to reconcile/integrate more. Would add to his deja vu, the situation of taking care of an infant/young child feeling familiar.

I'm just stuck on the idea of Ingo actually being able to have a normal kinda sorta healthy romantic relationship with someone (even tho it's with this sassy bitch but if Harley can make it work, Melli can too). But he STILL chooses to return to his brother and continue what they had because he decided a long time ago they're in it for the long hall. For better or worse. Because if I'm going to do anything with an incest ship I want it to be fucked up and tragic and everyone is making poor decisions and has to live with the guilt they try to ignore. And I think Ingo abandoning his new family for his old one adds to the guilt he already feels about how his relationship with Emmet has been twisted. It adds an additional layer of "what if"/"could this have been avoided" since he now knows on his end at least, he was able to find something like love with someone else. He also has the guilt of betraying Emmet even if he didn't know at the time since he had no memories. But even logically knowing that, he still would feel guilty over it.

This is all still in the early stages of development so I need to muse on it more, but it's the route that's really sticking out to me since I love needless drama so much. How the Melli/Ingo kid factors in is I remembered I made Norri an exorcist who can see ghosts so if he has a long dead half-sibling who died traumatically in the past, perhaps said sibling's ghost is still hanging around. Maybe they could meet. Surely there's something I could do with this.

Past Ingo, I still need to decide what to do with Lucas. On that end, I know he also is stuck in the past for the while but despite what the game may say, he does return to present day Sinnoh eventually. I'm unlikely to change things with his family since while a surprise bun-in-the-oven who returns from the past with him holds a great appeal to me, I don't know if I want to mess up the sibling dynamic with Juri and Colm just to add a new fankid. Juri is also too obviously Barry's daughter to make her someone else's kid. I guess I could use Volo since the hair is similar enough, but Adaman/Lucas is the one that appeals to me more cause Adaman is hot and there's a reason protag/hot older guy I'm into reappears as a ship dynamic in this verse.

I also buy into the idea Adaman/Irida are probably meant to be Barry's ancestors so maybe they have a kid. The ship itself doesn't appeal to me much but if Lucas did hook up Adaman and Adaman is Barry's great-great- grandfather or something, there's some sort of joke here about Lucas not being able to resist Barry's GGGILF. Again though, I'm just musing on all of that still. I'm more likely to add any fankids for Lucas on the Lonanverse side of things vs Mainverse.