#abt drayton finding a familiar face and ingo finding a familiar presence

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Another one of the Pearl clan members Drayton was friends with was the very own muppet man himself, Ingo! Ingo had found him shortly after his zoroark parents were killed and since Ingo didn’t believe in the stigma against hisuian zorua and zoroark he had took Drayton to Lady Sneasler’s den to be taken care of until he could take care of himself as Drayton was a really young zorua when his zoroark parents were killed, he would sometimes shift to be a Sneasel to try and playfully trick Lady Sneasler but she knew how many children she had, although as time went on she had started seeing Drayton as one of her own as well! (Drayton collecting parents like Pokemon fr lol)

To say Drayton was surprised to see ingo in Nimbasa City at Gear Station well he was visiting Lacey was an understatement! He really wants to talk to ingo about hisui, knowing there’s someone else who knows about ancient sinnoh makes him really excited! But….hes not sure if Ingo remembers hisui as he knows ingo had memory issues in hisui about where he came from and such so now Drayton is afraid that Ingo has forgotten about hisui, he hasn’t but Drayton doesn’t know that and Drayton is too worried to bring it up to ingo so….he just doesn’t…~Drayton angst anon💛

Ough,, Sneasler taking in Drayton and treating it like one of her kids🥹 that's so cute bcxmbx

But y'know abt Ingo too, if the word got out from Opelucid abt a strange white Zorua, dyou think Ingo would think it's specifically Drayton or just a random Hisuian Zorua?? Or maybe it really was just a normal Unovan Zorua, just w white fur, bc ofc, he really hasn't seen it yet

Since he got back, he's still trying to recover, Emmet and Elesa are taking care of him, but y'know imagine once he hears news abt the strange Zorua, he's there remembering this one Zorua that used to follow him and Sneasler around

But imagine tho when Drayton went to Nimbasa w the others to visit Lacey, they met the subway masters, and ofc for Ingo, looking at Drayton, there was just smth so so familiar abt him that he can't point out what, and that bothered him for the entire day

Once they got home, Emmet asked him what's been gnawing at him, and the he asks abt Drayton. Emmet said he's Drayden's grandson, Ingo just found out really, ofc, he wasn't updated w a lot of things now, he's still kinda recovering, taking things slow, but damn was he really gone that long that Drayden's son has a child now? Still, why did Drayton seem so familiar to him, he just met the boy, not officially really, as he and his friends already went off before Emmet could challenge them to a battle