#and then he gets to go though the carousel of doctors just being like idk man. you look normal. have you considered you maybe just suck.

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Well, Kamado already is like "yeah we might have to kill them if this doesn't end soon. Just in case they're the ones causing it." So at some point he seems to have just stopped caring that Ingo wasn't his, though he'd probably kill Akari first since he can do whatever the fuck he wants with her and the clans can't really say shit about it. And then if killing Akari doesn't work would he kill Ingo too.

In a fic where he orders only Ingo's leg(s) be broken, it could be that the commanders asked for leniency on Akari's behalf, and rightfully said that she'd be too scared to cause problems after that. Iirc he'd easily kept hold of her too, even though she was flailing all over the place, so it's not like he'd need help subduing her if she put up a fight. This could be right after he gets back from seeing the frenzied gods, since he literally catches them in the act of trying to escape in OoP. He'd already be freaked out and more paranoid then ever like he is in the fic, but he just takes it a step further. He can't risk them getting away, not if they're the key to stopping this. What's a little leg breaking in the face of the looming possibility that he might have to kill them both? Correct me if I'm off the mark, but it kinda seems like at this point in the fic he has stopped thinking about possible clan fallout if he goes through with killing Ingo. If he took a second to think about it he might care more, but he's got paranoia blinders on.

In a fic where he breaks one on accident by jumping off the cliffs once he gets to a safe height, does he just ride around in Lady Sneasler's basket? Sure Cabala could probably fashion something like crutches, but he's got an handy ride already at his side. Plus, if he's got stress fractures in his other leg too, which is likely, crutches could exacerbate them. Best to keep him off it. He'd still want to do his job though, so he could do it while traveling with his noble.

As for chronic psychosomatic pain/nerve processing fuckery, perhaps it stays with him when he goes back to Unova. Emmet gets to be horrified that Ingo is occasionally in near debilitating pain and just powers through it without letting anyone know.

YEAH THAT'S TRUE. i guess i was thinking of like, an even more divergent version where he decides to do it before anything else happens, but if he's already in the middle of his seeing-god-induced paranoia spiral and just saw them try to escape then yeah breaking his leg would actually seem very reasonable. he mentions that some of his captains feel an "undue attachment" to akari which could even be another justification for why he chooses ingo, not akari: at least all the people who care what happens to ingo are (he thinks) far away and not an immediate problem. if he injures akari that seriously cyllene will not be happy, and at this point in time he's still hopeful that he can convince her that the murder idea is a necessary course of action, which will get significantly harder if he pisses her off now.

conversely, he knows akari well enough (since he acknowledges that she's "kind and helpful to a fault") to know that he doesn't actually need to hurt her physically—seeing someone else injured in a way that can be blamed on her will deter her just as effectively. so if he just has beni keep ingo out of the cell when he throws akari back in, and makes her watch from the other side of the bars while they do it...

re: other scenarios, i imagine they'd weaken over a long period of time and then he'd break one doing something really stupid and uneventful like, yeah, jumping five feet to the ground or something. which calaba would probably grump about. how long have we known about stress fractures for? does she think this is a completely isolated incident. only man she's ever met who can survive a faceoff with a frenzied alpha but breaks a leg falling off a ledge shorter than he is. i can't imagine riding around in a basket is very conducive to correct healing though, like it'd be all folded up and jostled around that doesn't sound good. really the best thing would be for him to Stay Off It but he has a JOB

and oh yeah it's for sure permanent. ngl i'm imagining this as some kind of pladoption postcanon event and akari's the one who rats him out, as part of an ongoing debate where akari's like "if you're in pain all the time that's probably bad i think" but ingo insists this is just how having a body and aging is, he's fine it's normal it's just a thing you gotta Learn To Live With, so she just has to be like :/ that doesn't sound right but i don't know enough about humans or aging to refute it. and then she brings it up when they're home bc he's visibly having a bad day and emmet sides with her and she is VINDICATED. which she cant actually be that happy about bc it also means there IS in fact something very wrong with him