#akari and rei adopted him as the weird uncle

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

This a weird idea, but it came into my head that Rei would sneak with Ingo, Akari, their Pokémon, and the Hisuian Zoroark Pack to the Future. It's not one I expect would happen, but Rei not wanting to be separated from what he sees as his Family is interesting. Rei could even hide in the LONG Fur that way he wouldn't be noticed, and he could stay with the Pack until Ingo realizes that Rei snuck with them and just take him home and introduce him to Emmet.

I know it may not be Canon to Zoroark Pack Ingo and Akari (My name for it), but I thought it would be fun to say out loud.

It is fun! You're right that it's not canon to the AU, but it's a really fun branch of it. I think this would be the branch where Ingo would be more involved and who Rei would consider his father figure, as opposed to Laventon who would fill that role in the main branch of the AU.

In the main branch of the AU, Rei sticks around and becomes the one to complete the Pokédex for Professor Laventon, having learned to be just as good with Pokémon as his "Uncle Ingo" was. While Ingo ultimately fixed the rift and subdued the frenzies of the Noble Pokémon, that little protagonist adventure actually had nothing to do with the Pokédex, so it ultimately fell on the people Ingo had personally taught in the art of battle and interacting with Pokémon. He essentially is the sole reason the Survey Corps had any competency at all.

In the branch where Rei sees Ingo as his dad I can imagine Ingo still being very wary about separating Rei from Jubilife. The kid still grew up in the village and had many people there who deeply cared for him. Rei of course wouldn't have it and I can seethings still happening the same way in the main branch, except a couple years later Rei shows up on Ingo's doorstep like Sup! Hey dad I also caught the Almighty Sinnohs for that book I helped Laventon make and decided since I was done with that, I'd rather be wherever you are. :)

Ingo's like. EMMET. DO WE HAVE ANOTHER SET OF ADOPTION PAPERS? YEAH I'M GONNA NEED THEM AGAIN.

[h0wdyydee]

i caved in the ingo brainrot won (+bonus akari)

[ghostypetrainer]

Akari does not get reincarnated in the ultra space ver of the reincarnation au bc at some point after Nobori’s memories of his time in Hisui come back he’s just like. wait a fucking minute. I can already cross through dimensions. do you think I can go back in time too. and emmet shrugs like damn I don’t see why not.

Emmet and Elesa accompany Nobori on a trip back to Ultra Megalopolis, where he gets his recon corps gear retrofitted for time travel (once he explains why he wants that) and then it’s a road trip back in time to Hisui. They can’t just leave Ingo’s adopted niece there!! They wormhole straight into the middle of Jubilife Village. Everyone takes one look at Emmet and freaks out even more than they did when the literal wormhole opened up in the middle of their village like WARDEN INGO???

Emmet: No, I am Emmet. Ingo is my brother!

And Professor Laventon and Rei who came out to see what the commotion was feel so bad that they’re going to have to break the bad news to Emmet that his brother died... until Akari comes back from a survey mission with Ingo’s Alakazam in tow and it takes one look at Nobori and realizes that’s it’s trainer??? and all of sudden, all of Ingo’s Pokemon are there and just shoving themselves into this weird blue kid.

Akari, squinting: wait... Uncle Ingo!?

Nobori: hey. I came back for you.

(and now Akari has also thrown herself at him. She doesn’t know why her uncle looks so different now, but he came back for her, and that’s the most important part.)

[hard-technology-rock]

been thinking a lot about my warden emmet au (also known as "emmet gets eeby deebied instead of ingo") where i basically just go ham on hammering in the truth vs ideals differences

obligatory bl/nkshippers dni you guys make me uncomfortable 💚

some thoughts / random hcs under the cut:

emmet still joins the pearl clan and becomes sneasler's warden, but he and the clan have a slightly different dynamic: where ingo was sort of a loner even after becoming warden, emmet at least tries to make friends with people to try and ease the aching loneliness in his heart

he still does the point-and-call thing, as well as make So Many Train References that he doesn't get

emmet and melli are aggressively frenemies. every time they see the other they Have to stop and have a passive-aggressive insult battle for at least five minutes. they are like 5 seconds from throwing hands with the other at any given moment. however they are each other's most frequent source of human interaction and they've spilled secrets to each other that they have told NO ONE else.

emmet is in his mid to late 20s. he does not remember this but he gets offended when people assume he's in his 40s-50s.

melli calls him an old man specifically because he knows it angers emmet. when he eventually finds out emmet's younger than him (only barely), he is So Fucking Shocked

emmet only wears his hat- he keeps his coat folded up and safe. sure, it's what he was wearing when he was found, and is the only thing besides his name and hat that he has from Before, but, truthfully, it's only a coat.

so what he wears is almost identical to ingo minus the coat and shoes. emmet (begrudgingly) put on boots that were better suited for climbing/walking

as i mentioned earlier, emmet tries to be friendly to everyone because he has a aching loneliness. he knows that its probably from Before, and he's admitted to someone (probably irida or melli) that he belives its because he used to spend most of his time around someone, and isnt used to being away from them for so long, but he has no idea who, or what they meant to him. despite his best efforts, that aching loneliness never stops.

emmet doesn't try to remember his past. it would be nice to, yes, but he thinks that the memories will come in their own time. if they don't, well... that's why he is trying so hard to build a new life in hisui

emmet talks more! his sentences are weirdly phrased and sometimes have a weird cadence, like he's unused to speaking in long sentences (because he is), but he's trying. he also talks a little louder

"i think i used to have a partner. we were verrry close, even if it accidentally shocked me frequently. despite looking like a creature of the water, it used lightning with ease."

"i am also beginning to recall a man who looked like me. he used to be called stoic, even though he was very outgoing. he wore black where i would wear white. i remember him being verrry loud. i wonder who he was?"

Jacked Emmet

ok he's not that buff but he's definitely stronger than he was when he was a subway boss

rei AND akari reverse adopt him as an uncle. good luck ingo your little brother is returning with TWO niblings

they're also the main reason he gets his memories back. they convince him that he should know the full truth of who he was instead of just blindly moving foward and also make him admit to himself that he's just. not happy in hisui

emmet gives irida a hug goodbye when he tells her he's leaving. she Definitely Does Not almost cry she Does Not (she is actively fighting tears)

emmet also says bye to melli it is about as awkward as you would expect. melli is just shocked emmet is giving him a personal goodbye. he even gets a weird, extremely awkward half-hug half-back-pat from emmet which just gives melli Even Worse whiplash

emmet, regaining his memories: i am emmet. i abandoned my boy. I Abandoned My Boy!!! (the boy is ingo and elesa. you can pry nimbasa trio as siblings from my cold robotic hands)

this hurts bc in my mind emmet runs into ingo before he fully regains his memory. there is a very vivid scene where ingo hugs his younger twin after like ??? a few years ?? idk the timeline is fucked up. but ingo hugs his brother and emmet, extremely touch adverse to people he doesn't know, tenses. and there's an internal battle where he doesn't know who this is but getting a hug feels like coming home.

but emmet is truth. and emmet does not know who this strange man with his face and a black coat is. so he carefully pries ingo's hands off him and says with a smile "please do not touch the conductor!" and ingo is obviously Devastated

it's okay though eventually emmet shows up outside ingo's door and before ingo can even process who's there emmet is tackling him

i have this happening even in "canon" but even though emmet's coat is in significantly better shape its still a little fucked up so he gets a new uniform. where ingo's coat is white emmet's coat is black :》 can you tell im a big fan of black accented emmet

also in my "canon" but emmet is kept a ""secret"" until elesa ingo and emmet are all emotionally ready to face the press bc that is a LOT of emotions to work through especially on emmets side when he realizes everyone he knew in hisui is long dead. also they want to wait for emmet's new uniform to be finished before they announce he's back

that's the main stuff lol i might post some ficlets/drabbles later though!!!! and it would mean a lot to me if you reblogged this and gave your thoughts in the tags :》

[hard-technology-rock]

soo i saw your post about the emmett and melli interactions

and now im just thinking about how emmett would interact with other characters like rei, akari, irida, etc

i know you already mentioned rei and akari reverse adopting him as their uncle and now im imagining that the second they saw him both were immediately like, yup he’s our uncle now, no questions asked without even saying word to each other

oh they definitely see him and simultaneously go Yeah that's our uncle now. they only look at each other to confirm that they have the same plan to fix this sad old-looking guy.

emmets got a weird relationship with irida. she's like. she kind of reminds him of elesa in a way? but obviously he doesn't remember so she just makes him homesick in a way he can't describe. but besides that, he thinks she's a good leader, with a lot of potential. she's one of the people he's closer to within the clan, and while irida cares for all her clan members, and objectively isn't really that close with emmet compared to those around the settlement more often, she does check on him once a month or so. she finds him strange, but in an endearing way. she does fret about him a lot because she still remembers him being brought to the settlement!

rei and akari kind of just force their friendship onto emmet and he's used to this from like everyone he knows so he just accepts it. they kind of fall into a rhythm of them telling emmet stories of home and working to get emmets memories back, and emmet showing them Cool Stuff He Found and vice versa. and then when tbeure ready to leave they push him into his realization that hes just not thriving in hisui. theure everytjing to me <3