#but i am also thinking abt ingo and emmet i think this is also them

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

i love when you have a pair or group of characters in any situation and people look at them and go "ah this one is clearly The Normal One. unlike these other people" and then they proceed to prove them immediately and passionately wrong

[peachy-doodles]

ohhh you guys rly liked submas portal crossover damb.... well i will def have to draw them talking to P-body and Atlus then :]

also at @moothebloo​ ‘s tags: YES the co-op robots as siblings youre SO right idk why i never realised that they 100% have a sibling dynamic. why else would they drop the other into death pits and constantly shoot each other with lasers and fuck with each other if not because of the cain instinct....its so obvious and i am a FOOL.

pls enjoy the thoughts i was sharing with my friend whilst i was doodling the piece. abt them meeting glados kshgskhgs :

but i think if emmet or ingo ever met wheatley they would hate his ass KSHGKGHS american on brit violence </3

wheatley: oh, so you two work on the chube then, eh? emmet: im sorry. the what. wheatley: y’know! the... train tunnels! all that underground buisness? ingo: if you ever call the subway “the chube” again i will personally rip you off of that rail and drop you down the nearest pit myself. wheatley: blimey! alright mate, no need to get violent!

i think they would make perfect co-op partners and solve all the tests with as little mistakes as possible or as little amount of damage to themselves as possible (until glados puts more turrets in to fuck with them) and that would piss glados right off because as we all know and have seen from the co-op mode she lives for the drama and would try and seperate them every given chance but it would just Not work because whatever she says to them they have probably already said worse to each other under the guise of brotherly banter skghskghskh <3

[furiouskettle]

So there’s been a LOT of fics about Ingo going back home, or Emmet going to the past, and i’ve definitely been inspired a bit by Detours...

but what if Rei got teleported to the future instead of either of them?

I’m no writer, and i only have so much comic juice (and i havent even played Arceus) so i’m not gonna polish these any further... but i wanted to share it anyway. more thoughts and even messier scribbles under the cut!

Some ideas, most of them copypasted from me and my friend’s chats, ordered approximately in chronological order. (C= me, Y=friend)

 Rei is fully convinced the train is some sort of horrible alpha pokemon nightmare beast the first time he sees it.

Y: he hears it coming and is like "oh shit oh fuck is it a steelix???? oh god i've only ever seen the one akari brought back to pasture i can't confront one oh god oh no" and then it's a train and he's just "THIS IS WORSE SOMEHOW???"

Y: this poor child is going to have a heart attack

Emmet doesn’t consider Rei a legitimate lead at first- he’s hardly the first kid to try and find the missing subway master in the subway...

Y: on the one hand rei probs doesn't know about the Time Travel and ancestors/descendants of people he knows on the other him just awkwardly trying to convince himself "ah they must be... related..." before Emmet is like "8> no shit sherlock"

(i think im leaning towards no idea abt time travel)

C: man tho. like. rei saying that ingo never said anything abt a brother would sting emmet So Much Y: like i imagine even with rei saying he's got amnesia it would still hurt in that way where he knows it's illogical but surely he would remember. surely. C: and like. rei wouldnt know that ingo vaguely remembers but also its funny that rei would mention that ingo remembers So Many Train Phrases despite never saying what a train IS Y: rei, genuinely never more confused in his life: well at least one thing makes more sense now

Y: rei starts asking all these weird questions about extremely simple terminology and emmet suspects the kid is fucking with him but every answer he gives rei is so earnestly like "80 OH MAN I GET IT NOW" C: and like. then the kid namedrops hisui, and like. idk how good emmet's history is so either it's like. "where?" or "why are you using the outdated name" Y: i honestly imagine he'd just be like "that's not a station on this line. where did you get on" and they go in circles on that for a bit Y: eventually he says he's from Jubilife and Emmet goes "that is verrrry far away. you did not come here by train" and rei is like "i said that!!!! many times!!!!!!"

I feel it might take a while for it to sink in for rei just how far away from home he is, both geographically and chronologically.

C: also im just imagining rei just sitting politely w a cup of tea in the breakroom and some kinda vending machine snack emmet got him fbjfvgcd ill prolly have to add the electric type leader lady to the au mix just so emmet won't go too hard on rei

Y: rei explicitly says his thick layered clothes are to protect him better against pokemon attacks so i imagine elesa finding him a nice outfit (bc emmet would not care) and he's just internally sweating "aaa i'm so exposed aaaaa" C: get him a denim jacket tough material might make him feel a bit better Y: at his most powerful in a Joutfit C:no pokemon will get him now Y: i'm basically imagining him piecing together "wait akari is from here????" based purely on seeing T-shirts and going "oh damn i remember that stupid outfit"

Y: also i am imagining emmet being very focused on the ingo side of things and kind of treating poor rei as an afterthought but eventually rei just breaks down bc he's a kid and he's scared and he wants to go home Y: emmet is not the subtle or assuring type but he can use the reminder that there's more than one reason to figure this out

Y: i imagine him (rei) getting super claustrophobic in crowds just like. oh god there's so many people. there's so many strangers and he's so small and lost and how is he ever supposed to find a way--

[puppy-pokemon]

so i finally read @blueisquitetired‘s new fic and its making my brain...go feral. HAHAHAHAJHBSDVFGSDJFG uh anyways i KNOW this isn’t gonna happen but my brain kept thinking abt how funny it’d be since like. ingo’s the only person in the clans who isn’t scared shitless by zoroarks. maybe he offers a ricecake first idfk you can tell when i started getting tired while drawing this LMAOO also i like the hc of laventon teaching ingo celestic since like..he would speak galarian too. but just imagine they’ve never met here idfk it ruins the joke

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[PANEL 1] Emmet: [Galarian] Hello! I am Emmet and I’m looking for my brother Ingo! We are twins so he looks like me, except he frowns. He usually wears black. Have you seen him? I’ve been looking for him for a verrrrry long time! So please tell me if you have! I miss him verrry much!! Arezu: [Celestic] OMG IT’S SO CREEPY!!

[PANEL 2] Adaman: [Celestic] Warden Ingo, I’ve heard you’re amicable with the Zoruas. There’s been one wandering the Mirelands, do you think you can do something about it? Ingo: [Celestic] Ah. I’ll see what I can do.

[PANEL 3] Ingo: [Thinking] Hmm... This IS the illusion they usually take around me, though a bit roughed up... but why is it so clear now? Why are they in the Mirelands? Are they perhaps in need of assistance and are looking for me? (And why do i feel so disgusting for calling them a Zoroark?)

[PANEL 4] Ingo: [Celestic] Hello! It appears you have been derailed from the Icelands. Are you in need of assistance?

[PANEL 5] Emmet: [Galarian] omg Ingo it’s really you I’ve been looking for you for 3 years and I needed help getting here but I finally found you I have Freight and Tiny you two come out we found him also I can’t understand you you’re speaking a different language I didn’t know you were bilingual -- I’m still verrry happy to see you though!

[PANEL 6] Ingo: [Celestic] ALMIGHTY SINNOH [Galarian] SOMEONE ELSE SPEAKS GALARIAN?? Emmet: [Galarian] Yup!

[alcordraws]

peeks into the room nervously. hi its me the guy who drew the comic i have. wiggles. questions, cuz i Cant Stop Thinking Abt This AU. head injuries can be super wonky and im not gonna pretend to be an expert on them (havent even looked anything up recently, so my knowledge is super bare bones) but does ingo's state improve with time? how permanent are his issues with long term and short term memory loss, do u think? how bad IS his short term memory loss, on that note? it looks like from ur art they at least get different clothes, which probably means either galaxy team or one of the clans helps them out, so are they still living with mama zoroark out in the Wilds? if they get shzooped back to their present time, do they regain their og ages + does ingos Brain Heal from Traumatic Head Injury?

sorry uh. that this is so much. u dont have to answer, feel free to ignore this if u want, i am just excited :]

hello yes i love questions!! :D I am also not an expert on head injuries, I just like the idea of Ingo's amnesia from PLA and wanted to incorporate it here somehow. In this case, he has trouble holding onto information and easily loses his train of thought if he doesn't focus, and on occasion will forget what he's saying in the middle of a sentence (based on my own experience with adhd). He has to retrace his thoughts to figure out what he was trying to say, but luckily Emmet is already fluent in Ingo so he can typically help him out. With time, he's able to retain memories better, but it's difficult for him to recall memories from before they fell into the rift (on occasion, this makes Emmet feel like he's talking to a total stranger and sometimes emotions are Too Big for both of them in their tiny bodies so it can feel. Overwhelming for both of them). They both still live in the wild with mama zoroark, however, she'll sneak into the village to get things for them. There's already bad blood between zoroark and most humans since zoroark are seen as malevolent creatures. She also doesn't think that the humans would readily accept these odd children from nowhere since they don't act much like most of the humans she's observed. This is half because they are adults in tiny bodies (and Ingo's brain damage) and half they are neurodivergent, which wasn't as well understand back then. If they are sent back to their OG time, yes they get their normal ages back, and Ingo's memory loss gets better but there are still some holes here and there that he just won't get back. Hopefully this long and rambly answer is somewhat coherent, i am. Very excited about this au!!

[sporesgalaxy]

god i have 1 million half formed ideas in my head and i just never get around to them.

Here's some rambling abt the relationships that people have with Scrangle in my brain. Specifically Prof. Laventon, Rei, and Emmet.

Laventon: is honestly a little scared of Scrangle in some ways bc he witnessed some of the earliest most unfiltered Eldritch Horror Talk. But he also he witnessed this

Laventon: This is a proper pickle indeed. Do you think you'll be able to survive on your own?

Scrangle: [opens eyes again] Of course I--!

Scrangle: [They pale, and then look at their tiny hands again. They look around wildly, at the world around them, which is huge compared to them, and utterly unfamiliar.]

Scrangle: I... [swallows] ...um...

Scrangle: M-maybe...if I just...ah...

Scrangle: ... [glances at Laventon, who looks heartbroken at her] Don't look at me like that! I don't like that at all!!

Scrangle: [stands back up] I'll figure it out, I'll figure everything out, I don't care!!!

He's prone to being swept up by Scrangle's posturing and buying into their hype, because their talent is his hope for completing the pokedex, so he really wants to believe they're strong and capable. But also he's more keen to notice when they start to crack and get scared.

Rei: in contrast, has more of a tendency to idolize Scrangle. They seem like everything he's not in so many ways, and Scrangle does nothing to discourage this. They make him nervous sometimes, but he and Laventon get to see more than most how much Scrangle absolutely adores their pokemon, and how much said pokemon adore Scrangle, so he can't bring himself to really believe Scrangle is as scary as they act. He wishes he could understand them better, though.

Emmet: Swerving sharply out of actual games and into purely fanfic territory, Emmet has a fun little arc with Scrangle. Initially he doesn't trust them; they are connected to his brother's disappearance, after all, and they seem verrrry weird.

As he gets to know them better, he develops some jealousy of the time they got to spend with Ingo when Emmet was unable to. Especially knowing Ingo's memory was wiped, it can feel a little bit like Scrangle was a replacement for Emmet. He eventually comes to terms with it and lets go of his bitterness. Scrangle had nothing to do with Ingo being taken away from Emmet and blaming them for it won't fix anything. Plus, this poor kid really needed the direction that Ingo gave them.

Besides that (and constantly developing in tandem w that lil arc), Emmet finds he has a lot in common with Scrangle, and is charmed by how aggressively weird and deeply excited about pokemon and battling they are.

bonus Ingo: literally just explodes

I: ...Although we are from very different places, I believe that we have something in common.

S: We do?

I: Indeed.

I: Neither of us sees the world in quite the way that the people of Hisui are used to.

I: I appreciate knowing that there is someone by my side who understands what that's like, even just a little.

I: I sincerely hope that I can offer the same reassurance to you.

&

For once, I am at ease spending so much time in a town. Pokemon battles have given me the sense of connection with the people here that had been alluding me since my unsheduled arrival. I owe Scrangle more than I could ever hope to repay for directing me down this new track.

[lilacstarvix]

Now i know in the OG au Emmet becomes Ingos warden but now there are two of them. I imagine Emmet probably helps Ingo with keeping the zoroarks at bay but i also dont think the people are going to be as accepting of the hisuin form. Sure Irida (i honestly dont know if im spelling that right i just call her irritation or irritable) knows that Emmet is good but convincing the masses is different. Would you still have Emmet become his warden? Or maybe Adam (wtf was the rest?) tries to claim that zoroark as diamond clan. “There are two its ment to keep things balanced between the clans” or something. Emmet probably openly rejects the idea of a warden. “I am Emmet all i need is my brother!” Oh oh lord im thinking about it now holdmy beer (crap i gotta google adams full name for this)

Adaman decided to take matters into his own hands. Hes a clan leader and its about time they stopped waisting time discussing this. Clearly almighty Sinnoh sent two for a reason. That reason is because there are two clans. Its clear as day. So he sets off to find the Zoroark. He finds Emmet around Lady Sneaselers den, not thathe dares barge in. To his luck the Zoroark in wuestion actually approached him! Quite a good sign, no time wasted indeed!

Right before that of course Ingo and Lady Sneaseler had know of his approach. Ingo was venting a little about the whole situation. They dont need anyone following them around and getting into their business. Not to mention Ingo has his own warden duties! He doesnt want to add more by having to pretend to be a warden himself. So Emmet decided to take matters into his own hands(claws?) and just said be would deal with it. Oh Ingo you should have stopped him

So Emmet walks up to Adaman. Towers over him menacingly. Adaman feeling the pressure a little starts his lil speech he prepared. Emmet just stands there waiting unfazed. Once Adaman finished he looks to the Zoroark with determination and hope. Emmet almost cridged. “I am Emmet, i do not need a warden. All i need is my brother!” Adaman.exe has stopped responding. Sneaseler laughing her ass off while Ingo face paws (~w*) Much to his credit Adaman recovers rather quickly “I understand but a warden would only be there to help you. And even this brother of yours!” Wow give the man some applause, he just recovered from a talking pokemon in record time. “I said NO and that is all i have to say on it! Neither me nor my brother require your wardens nor do either of us want one. Good-bye” and Emmet just climbs back into the denn. Leaving the man to struggle with a rejection that stung as much as his childhood sweethearts.

Wow that got longer than normal xD i actuslly wanna keep going but my cat keeps stepping on my phone smh she almost sent this halfway in

Ooooo that's actually pretty interesting to think abt ngl, Ingo's warden situayion being unresolved and then having a random hisuian zoroark follow him around is interesting.

Honestly IDK whether the 'pretending to be Ingo's pokemon' or 'hanging around Sneasler and undisguised Ingo works better' tbf.

I could definitely see accusations going around when Emmet is seen near the new noble black zoroark, but also the idea of the clans bickering over having two zoroark nobles is another path to take so I'm gonna have to add one of those plot points to the next part of the story.

[lunar-lair]

Ooo I’m always a sucker for soul eater au’s, even if they aren’t that common. tell us more abt Ingo’s no good v bad day?

VERRRRY EVIL LAUGHTER OHOHO..YOU WISH TO HEAR OF IT?! then i will gladly inform you omg <3 glad youre enjoying this madness lmao (throws formal writing at the floor and it shatters. this ones go crazy go stupid super-specific stuff im going feral. also its 3 am and i do what i want)

technically its. ingos no good very bad day(s) bc it happens TWICE bc ingo is Silly and has Trauma from Bullies!!!!

tldr: elesa scrapes emmet against ingo The Wrong Way, ingo gets Fucked Up, he doesnt tell her, she does it AGAIN before he heals properly, emmet says FUCK this and tells her, she cries a lot abt it, ingo feels bad but is glad it wont be happening again, and then later on ingo n emmet teach elesa how to do it The Right Way

too long read it anyways: beneath this read more!! This Is Gonna Get Long (by the way, warning up ahead! ingos side literally gets Shredded so a minor gore warning? its described vaguely but theres some creepy skin stuff)

later ill be copy pasting a Written Out section from my doc that i couldnt do justice to again but for now ill pull from my brain instead

the beginning of all of this happens when the trio are surrounded by madmen that are too powerful for them to subdue. theyre out of options, and emmet and ingo start thinkin'

back when they lived in aniville (did i mention they still come from aniville? and still like trains? anyways ive mentioned it now), they were often accosted by bullies. they were twins who were Autistic, in a Tiny Town, and then inevitably, known to be weapons as well. this brought them a Lot of negative attention (a lot of which ingo tried to keep emmet safe from). when they were surrounded, theyd scrape a rock against the other (or emmet against a rock more like, in his case) and like. yknow OW thats an AWFUL fucking sound Goodbye

at the time, they thought it would be simple for elesa to figure out. that she could scrape the two of them together, and do it right, and not hurt them.

they were 14, and they forgot elesa didnt know emmets blade like it was her own, or ingos blade like it was her own.

(she didnt even have a blade.)

so they tell her about it, and tell her to scrape emmet against ingo.

but shes panicking, and the easiest way to scrape emmet against ingo is back to side.

emmets back is sharp.

the noise is very, very loud. loud enough for them to escape. louder than it should be, emmet thinks.

his back hurts.

when he tries to reach out to ingos soul, he gets nothing.

nothing but a hiss of pain.

oh.

when emmet transforms but simply asks for ingo, and emmet says ingos simply tired when elesa asks, she doesnt think much of it. (only 14, new to this, doesnt know that staying in weapon form takes more energy than getting out of it.)

when ingo doesnt show for a while, and emmet says ingos just tired, elesa tries not to think much of it.

emmet is seething.

on the way home, he told ingo to tell her.

he hadnt transformed back. emmet couldnt carry him otherwise.

ingo refused. refused despite the roughness of his blade, refused despite the chips taken out of his metal.

two days later, when ingo had finally woken up again, emmet pleaded with him, asked him why he didnt want to tell her.

because she might get rid of us, he said simply. and his voice was quiet, and it wasnt right. because it saved us. because it was necessary.

over and over. every excuse.

he didnt want to give her any reason to throw them away.

they were already twin weapons, already a bit too mad.

he had taken the brunt of all the bullying, over the years, for emmets sake, but it had taken its toll.

he believed in emmets worth, wholeheartedly. he believed they were strong together.

he thought, just a little, that he was the weak link.

months later, once ingo had almost healed, once elesa had forgotten about the moment entirely, they were sent with drayden as their leader along with some other teams their age to group-tackle a mission to subdue a good lot of madmen, as a learning experience.

they got separated from their group. elesa grew desperate.

she stood behind her cover, and straightened up, and held ingo a little flatter.

emmet shouted, tried to stop her-

she scraped emmet against ingo, and the sound resonated back in her soul.

is that pain?

ingo cried out, and emmet shouted, and elesa was silently terrified as she ran.

what did she just do?

and now. presenting,,the section ive copy-pasted from my doc bc im not rewriting this its already decent

(uhhh. ok including some stuff mentioned above bc its good writingtm and if im copy pasting you all should see it. and maybe doctored to be better idk well see this post is hella more freeform than the others)

of course, elesa did not mean to hurt them.

of course, she still made the mistake of scraping them incorrectly.

of course, ingo is afraid to make her feel bad for it.

and of course, emmet does not give a single shit. (well, he gives enough to not mention it the first time, because ingo is hurt, and hes a little too worried to be angry at anyone.)

(besides, having your back scraped against anything doesnt feel the best either…especially when it means your blade is being dulled.)

what this all results in is emmets back being sore,

and ingos side being ripped to shreds.

it turns out raw, like a layer of skin or two has been ripped away, and a few spots where there are full chunks taken out of his side.

this reflects in a rougher surface on his blade, and few shreds of metal being torn out.

the roughness heals with time, as does the rawness on his side.

the chunks heal with time, as well, though scars are left behind.

the chunks taken out of the blade never go away. (because ingo never forgets. because ingo is admittedly terrified of the thought. because ingo hates that his brother hurt him, that elesa hurt him, that he couldnt tell her at first for fear of being blown off, or hated.

because the scars stay.)

so in the end, they dont mention it.

and in the end, a good 4 months later, once ingos wounds have healed (for the most part) and theyre in a similar situation, elesa goes to do the same thing.

emmet tries to stop her. ingo grits his teeth.

ingo cries out in pain, this time, and emmet cries out in turn, and elesa is alarmed, but still moves to get out of the area before enemies they cant handle find out they can handle them.

the moment theyve made their way to a far away forest, where the madmen (who barely have a mind of their own) surely cant find them, emmet is transforming back, and carefully snatching ingo out of her hands.

he carefully avoids the blade, instead working at her fingers to make her drop it so he can hold the hilt instead.

she stares blankly as emmet holds ingo close to himself, baring the edge elesa scraped emmet against. after a moment, his gaze turns a little darker, and he hides ingo beneath his coat.

Elesa opens and closes her mouth a few times. She's hurt him, she doesn't know how, but…"Is…is Ingo al-"

"No!" Emmet interrupts, voice louder than she'd ever heard it, frown baring teeth and gaze hard as stone. His voice was still monotone, but only almost. Anger leaked in, somehow, in a way she'd never heard.

She steps back, just a little.

"I…did I do something…?" She asks, voice weak, faltering under Emmet's stony gaze.

Emmet stares back, and she hears, faintly, Ingo pleading for Emmet not to yell at her, that she didn't mean to.

"You should not even be talking," he says quietly, and Ingo stops.

"...Emmet?" Elesa says again.

He takes a shaky breath in, and looks her in the eyes.

"What do you think happens when you scrape the sharp part of a blade against the blunt part of another?"

Her eyes widen.

Ingo…he'd screamed, earlier, hadn't he? And Emmet had yelled, too-

"I…" There's nothing she can really say. She reaches forward, just a little, and takes her hand back when Emmet steps backwards in response. "I…I'm so sorry…" She finally said, voice soft, eyes filled with tears. "I had no idea…"

Emmet paused.

Elesa finally started crying, drawing back, looking away.

She hated to cry in front of others. She'd told them that much, by now.

And much, much more.

She could be trusted, he thought.

Ingo muttered the same, still hurting, but conscious nonetheless.

"Can I…" Elesa started, pausing to sniffle. "Can I at least see what I've done?"

Emmet carefully pulled Ingo out from beneath his coat, holding out Ingo's injured side.

She sobbed.

Chunks of metal, taken out. A rougher surface, visible even to the untrained eye.

"Did this happen…"

Emmet nodded, frown softer now, but still a little angry. "Ingo forced me not to tell you." He paused. "I…I am not truly mad."

And she turned up to him, and blinked.

"It is not truly your fault. You did not know. I…I am mad you did not notice him hurting. And I am mad Ingo did not let me tell you." He pulled Ingo closer to him again. "Just please, do not do it again."

She nodded, over and over, falling to the ground.

Emmet kneeled to the ground with her.

Ingo muttered that he would be alright between them, voice quiet.

After a long while, Elesa crying and apologizing, Ingo asking her not to, Emmet simply sitting there, she looked up at Emmet.

"Are you alright?"

He smiled, but it was small. "My back is a little sore. Ingo is hurt far more."

She looked down to where Ingo had been set on the grass, injured edge face up. "Why is he still…?"

"He would be much harder to carry," Emmet said simply. "And he cannot walk. We learned that the hard way last time."

She turned away, and said quietly, "I can't believe I did that to you two twice. Without even noticing."

'It is alright,' Ingo spoke, quieter than he ever had been or ever would be. 'I am the one who chose not to tell you.'

"...can I hold him?" Elesa asked, knowing Emmet would care far more than Ingo would.

Emmet nodded, and Elesa carefully held him by the hilt, a hand supporting his uninjured side.

"I am so sorry," she said softly, yet again.

'You have promised not to do it again,' Ingo said softly, reaching out to her soul just a little, 'and that is enough for me.'

She laughed, a little broken. "I doubt it's enough for Emmet."

She looked up to him.

He looked away.

"I…I am still very angry."

"I used you to hurt him," she said simply. "I would be, too."

And he looked back.

"But you did not mean to. And Ingo kept it from you. And he is alright."

He set a hand on Elesa's, the one holding Ingo's hilt.

"I am still very angry," he said again, and his voice was still monotone, and his eyebrows were still furrowed, but his eyes were soft, and his frown was more worried than anything else. "But not expressly at you. You are forgiven. As long as you do not do it again."

She nodded, and kept nodding, and laughed, relieved. "Ok. Ok."

Soon enough, the team they'd been separated from (and who had heard the noise, scraping and loud but wrong, the weapons of them hearing the scream from another soul like theirs) found them, and soon enough, Elesa was forced forward to explain, having already given Ingo to Emmet to keep safe.

Emmet walked forward, showing the damage, as well as the remains of the last time showing through.

Their honorary uncle, teacher of the school, and demanded leader of the mission (he wasn't letting his boys go out there on their own if there were others going, too), Drayden, gave a gasp. "Are the wounds from that time also…?"

Elesa nodded, head tilted down, eyes hidden behind her hat.

Her hiccups were still audible.

"Elesa did not know," Emmet defended.

They all turned to him, including Elesa.

"I wanted to tell her, of course. But Ingo thought she'd think us weak."

'It saved us,' Ingo added, voice weak. 'If it was necessary…'

"You would do anything if it was necessary," Emmet snapped.

Ingo quieted.

"...sorry," Emmet muttered.

'I know.'

"I didn't know," Elesa said. "But I should've noticed he was hurt regardless."

Emmet and Drayden gave a laugh.

When she turned, the latter gave another chuckle. "That boy could hide a broken arm if he wanted to."

Her eyes widened when Emmet laughed again.

"He has."

Drayden spluttered a little at that one; everyone got a good laugh, at the least.

"She has promised not to do it again," Emmet added. "It is water under the bridge."

She gave a weak laugh. "Then why'd you make me explain?"

"Because you did it," Emmet said, smile a little cold, eyes closed. "And I am still a little angry at you and Ingo."

After a moment, Drayden held a hand out. "May I hold him?"

Emmet relinquished Ingo easily to the man.

Drayden held him just as carefully, one hand on the hilt and one under the unharmed side.

The other kids (this was supposed to be rather easy, but they all ended up retreating and leaving it to stronger teams) started whispering around them.

One said something like 'what a weak weapon'.

Elesa and Emmet turned to stare coldly.

Drayden frowned, disappointed.

She shied away.

Another muttered 'won't staying like that hurt him?' and Emmet flinched.

Drayden gave a sigh. "Ana has a point." A weapon himself, one who wielded himself without a meister, knew this well.

Emmet's hand flew to his mouth. "I…it's so easy for us these days, I almost forgot…"

Elesa turned to Drayden. "Is staying in his weapon form hurting him?"

Drayden hummed, worried and deep in his chest. "It's expending a lot of energy and focus…and probably isn't the best for his wound."

'...it will bleed if I transform…' Ingo said. His voice was shaky.

Emmet made a pained noise in the back of his throat.

"I'll be here to carry you," Drayden said, voice gentle, but sure.

After a long moment, Ingo transformed.

And once the light faded, he laid in Drayden's arms, already unconscious.

Emmet walked forward, and picked up Ingo's hand, dangling over the side of Drayden's hold. "He wasn't allowing himself to pass out so he wouldn't transform."

Drayden nodded.

Everyone went quiet. Elesa walked forward and put a reassuring hand on Emmet's shoulder.

Drayden finally turned, Emmet and Elesa turning with him. "We should get back to the school. He can be treated there."

Emmet never let go of Ingo's hand, and Elesa never let go of Emmet's shoulder.

Drayden made sure his hold was firm, that he carefully avoided touching Ingo's right side (luckily the one that was facing away from Drayden, since he was holding Ingo's uninjured side in the first place).

The school nurse was able to learn what had happened this time, Elesa accompanying Emmet and Ingo as well.

She got a bit of a chewing out-'be careful with the blades of your weapons, even when it comes to each other'-but it was more about being careful than being truly bad to her weapons.

Emmet kept insisting she didn't know.

Drayden affirmed it, having come with.

The nurse dropped it rather quickly, but still made sure Elesa knew to be careful.

Once she was gone, and it was just Drayden, Elesa, and Emmet, Elesa stared, with hollow eyes, at Ingo's unconscious form.

And she asked again, "How didn't I notice?"

Emmet gave a quiet laugh. "We are verrrry good at lying when we need to."

Ingo hadn't woken up by the time they left. (Emmet stayed, the nurse having given up trying to drive either of them away at this rate.)

After a 30 minute wait the next day, though, Ingo opened his eyes.

Elesa apologized, over and over and over, and Ingo simply smiled, tiny but real.

"It's not your fault," he said, again and again. "I kept it from you. You are an excellent meister. I could never blame you."

Years later, after a few too many run ins with situations where it would save them a lot of trouble, and with the knowledge that it could be done right, Ingo convinced Emmet to have them teach Elesa how to do it right.

Luckily, Drayden had gifted them replicas of their weapon form for their most recent birthday, on the grounds of 'never forgetting who they were'.

(The chips in Ingo's sword were built in, perfect replicas that they were.

He laughed when he first saw it.

They were like prizes now, reminders of Elesa's care for them, reminders that he still had his own mind, even as a weapon.

He had always taken the brunt of bullying for Emmet.

He had always wondered about his worth just a little more.

After all of that, he could be just a little more sure of it, instead.)

They were a perfect way to show her how it was done.

Once they'd figured it out themselves, they booked an open Saturday for all three, and set out to Elesa's apartment to invite her to the training ground in DWMA.

Their first lesson: side against side.

This was the hardest.

Emmet's side is rather small, and unless you know his blade very very well, it's hard to remember where it is without looking for quite a while.

Inevitably, though, she could do that.

The second lesson, and pleaded for by Emmet: for the love of Arceus, lower your pressure.

Part of what made both incidents so damaging was the sheer pressure Elesa used when pressing down.

This was the easiest part to get down.

The third, and final, lesson: be sure, but not hasty. If you stutter, it doesn't make the right noise. If you're too fast, though, you risk damaging the blades in the process.

After a few weeks, Elesa training in her own time, she asked to try again.

When they paused in return, she promised to be gentle at first, promised she knew what she was doing now.

They agreed.

She did it gently, at first, for the first 50 rounds.

On the 51st, she did it the way she had been.

An awful noise rang through the clearing.

Both weapons cheered, Ingo giving a loud 'Bravo!!'

Neither had been harmed.

After some more training, and once they weren't afraid of it, Emmet and Ingo got talking, once they'd gotten home.

The next time the three trained together, they asked Elesa to try again, saying they wanted to try something.

She simply shrugged and held her hands out for them as they transformed.

When she scraped Emmet against Ingo, the awful noise echoed throughout the clearing in a way it hadn't before, bouncing roughly off of her soul.

They apologized for that, admitting they didn't mean for it to affect her, as well; she just shook her head, saying she was used to the sound by now, asking them how they'd done it.

They transformed back, explaining the process of bouncing the sound between each other and out into other souls in the area.

She was very impressed.

Drayden was cheering them on for it within the hour, having been called over to see by his excited nephews (and honorary niece).

you have made it to the realm of non copy pasted stuff! i added the part where they train her how to do it right instead of writing that part again bc its 3 am and it was already good

okok. more fun non copy-paste stuff (that i discarded and had to rewrite UGHHHHH)

once ingo has healed and been sent home, and once drayden has the time, he comes over to visit.

He asks Emmet to leave the two of them alone (just for a small while, he promises, when the boy hesitates-caring as ever, the both of them, same as they've always been), and sits down on the twins' couch, ignoring the creak when he sits down (but revelling in the snort Ingo makes as he does).

And, after a moment, he asks Ingo to look at him, turning as he does.

Grey eyes stare up into his, focusing intently.

"If your meister dismisses you when you tell them they have harmed you," he begins, slow and methodic, words to live by being spoken, words to respect, "they should not be your meister. And if your fellow weapon dismisses you when you tell them you are harmed, they should not be your fellow weapon."

Grey eyes stare up back at him, glassy.

He pauses for a long moment.

These are words to let sink in, words to remember.

They are a lesson he learned the hard way, words he should've lived by.

There is more than one reason he now wields himself, this among the many.

They are words he taught himself, words he teaches many, whenever he has the chance.

Ingo nods, firm and sure, after a moment.

He recognizes that, that they are words to live by.

He figures he won't need them, with people like Emmet and Elesa around.

But they will stay safe in his heart regardless.

n e ways. its 3:50 am PASKSKD and i had to rewrite it so srry if it looks fucky ^^' however that's it for our midnight-4 am soul eater au post bonanza!! gn everybody lmao

[akirasdigbick]

pls talk more abt dilf ingo! :oooo i loveeee your art so much!! and ur blankship family is soo adorable like my heart melts thinking of them!

I am glad to hear you like my art and the blankship family au as well! :) I might try to doodle more of it after I sketch some more of my MHverse AU.

I definitely will talk more about DILF Ingo. Here are some tidbits.

Man's the definition of, "Yes I look tough, big and scary, but I am just a big oaf who likes mechanics and my family. :<"

Dude is muscular. The type of muscular DILF you would just stare at in public. Lifting heavy objects becomes easy work for him.

He is also the type of dad who does dad jokes without even realizing it. He and his husband could just be talking to a Depot Agent and he just replies with the most dad response you can think of. Emmet just stares at him like, "you did not just say that did you?"

He also gains those dad reflexes. The first time those reflexes really kicked in, he was sleeping on the couch, husband across from him, and their kid playing on the couch. The kid drops his toy and tries to reach for the toy he threw on the ground from the couch. Before the kid could fall head first to the carpet, Ingo instantly wakes the fuck up to catch his kid. Emmet just stares like "??? how the fuck did you just do that???"

Ingo just goes ??? after fully realizing what the fuck just happened.

[staryarn]

Oh that's a neat glitch! It's like a mini bomb. Also Ingo and Emmet were really assigned French on sight. Hope they have trains at least, can't imagine what they would do without trains. The country is huge, there has to be some form of transportation. Not everyone can trek across barefoot from Mond to Liyue. And Liyue Elesa would be neat! She gets to be there for Zhongli's retirement congrats!! Abyss Volo I am rotating in my mind. Go you little blond history person :) Enka would be like candy

Me 🤝 volo

Looking down in enkanomiya and jumping into the clouds and just straight up dying bc you thought there would be a floor (he'd also like the chasm for similar and seperate reasons. Also geo resonance is an easy win for that man.)

If I could I would assign them new Yorkers but I dont really have an idea where to put them besides Fontaine mostly because mondstat has no trains (rip) and deals a lot with wind gliders and idk enough abt natlan or sumeru to make a 'they would have trains' there (I mean maybe sumeru because of the academia but Fontaine is the one with the new tech). The only other place I could out them is in snezhnaya with secret trains for the fatui but I dont think they'd 1 line with the fatui at all (however like,, 😳) 2 align themselves with the harbingers or the tsarita in any way (it doesn't seem right to put them with the fatui considering how they act. I can see volo being there but only for personal gainnand that's it. But he gains more from the abyss in the long run so yeah).

Also I think elesa would get along with Ningguang and Yun Jin (and also beidou but mostly bc of Elesa's puns)

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

This is a little out of the blue, but I'm curious if you have any headcanons about Ingo and Emmet's general state of health when he returns to Unova. I've started reading pla fics again and reunions tend to vary wildly, including if Ingo and/or Emmet have any health issues or not. Being kind of a fandom hermit, you tend to stray from the norm (in a good way! I find it very refreshing and insightful), so I thought it'd be interesting to see if you've ever given it some thought.

ACTUALLY IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE SPECIFIC SCENARIO hskhssh but yes i have. given it Thought

i think in general ingo's sort of let his standard of self care slip in hisui bc he just... doesn't. care i mean. he's not really consistent about things like sleeping and eating, out of a combination of like... brain static and indifference. like half the time the feeling of "wow i am exhausted and my arms hurt from climbing" doesn't even make it to consciousness, and then half the remaining time he doesn't care enough to act on it. i think there's also a sort of disconnect/reluctance around meals specifically which i've like. vaguely nodded at in one or two things i think? but he has a hard time like, Sitting Down For A Meal, bc he always feels like he should be waiting for something. someone? whatever it is, it's like a kind of exec dysfunction-adjacent fuzz that makes it hard for him to like, commit to eating, so half the time the food will be cold and unappetizing by the time he manages to will himself through whateverthehell that block is anyway.

also if you like, having a human body, and radically switch up the level and type of your physical activity without any real lead-in or instruction, that's uh, not safe generally. so i feel like there are probably some stress injuries hanging around that he's just been ignoring bc sadly hisui doesn't really. do physical therapists. so i guess the tl;dr is his state is generally Bad but in sort of a lowkey way. this is not mentioning the brain stuff bc that's Definitely there but it's not really related to like, physical health

meanwhile if we are talking abt an emmet who has been in unova aware that his brother is just Gone the entire time (as opposed to one who was like, also caught in the distortion, or anything) i think he's physically fine but he's just been like. a robot. he takes fine care of himself and doesn't overwork himself to a point that anyone can call him out on, bc those things would make other people complain and be a pain in the ass and he's trying Not to make any more work for himself, but it's all like, entirely mechanical. there is zero life behind his eyes. there might be some like stress based health issues but i think he's been trying to actively counter them, under the assumption of like, he's continuing to believe that Eventually ingo will come back. and if when he does come back emmet's a wreck and gear station's in total disarray well that'll just be a whole thing on top of whatever circumstances surround his return. can't have that. gotta keep everything neat and orderly. including himself.

though semi relatedly but on the topic of like, injuries, i think if he got into a situation that was actually life threatening or whatever he would not. give a shit. he's already maxed out on things to worry about just by like existing day to day, go ahead and shoot him, that's fine, c'est la vie or whatever they say in kalos. it's actually a similar problem to ingo's general indifference but caused by almost the opposite underlying thing (Too Much going on internally instead of too little). not that i think he's routinely getting into life-threatening scenarios but like, it IS pokemon, evil teams grow like weeds over there, so who knows really. that could be a fun postcanon to explore actually, if ingo gets back memories included but in the meantime emmet's gone and decided to fight [insert bad guy here] bc they were Being A Problem so he decided to fix it and did not have the bandwidth to be impressed by any threats they threw at him. gce but in reverse kinda

this is getting long i hope any of this makes sense it's. late. i guess the last thing i would leave off on, which is kind of another tangent, is i think the one thing both of them DO have going, in terms of self maintenance, is that they both have teams! very well trained and closely bonded ones! who simply Will Not Let Them get that bad. they all Care obviously but i think chandelure and kadabra/alakazam specifically are like, trained emotional support pokemon, if maybe not like, technically service ones. but they've got like, psychic as a pressure source and to pick things up, hypnosis as a bandaid for insomnia, etc etc and also they're among the smartest of the teams in terms of human intelligence. chandelure has a very close bond with both of them and they've worked out a system over decades so it's perfectly suited to emmet. meanwhile kadabra has simply self adopted the role kind of begrudgingly after ingo gave it a vague half-remembered instruction in the concept cause otherwise its trainer will like, starve or something, which would be Annoying, cause it likes this setup. it gets soup. it will do whatever is necessary to ensure regular soup opportunities in its future.

[karaktcrs]

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OH HI I DIDNT SEE U RB THE PORTRAYAL THING hold up i have a LOT to say!

marley was always a fav in gen 4 for me but mai never hit me quite the same until u followed me!!! mai in canon is good but i didnt rly read too far into her character for some reason??? and i love her so so so much now because of you. the emphasis she puts on family is so good and like its touched on in game but not to the extent that you do!! and thats very obviously a very very important part of her character and you write it SO WELL??? you bring this wonderful energy to her that i cant even explain but i adore it so SO SO SO SO MUCH!!! i LOVE ur interactions with everyone. seeing ur mai interact with velvets adaman. oh my God. it makes me adore both characters SO SO much more and i think we were ROBBED of them in game they need more canon interactions so bad imho? im hoping to see a lil more in the update but im not done w it yet...

i havent seen too much of ur ingo outside of headcanon posts but i am obsessed with him. when i read the thing about him being selective mute it really really hit me, as someone who often experiences bouts of being nonverbal myself. (it was 10000% more prevalent when i was a kid but still). i really appreciate mental health analyses about characters and that specific take on him is SO interesting and unique but also 10000% fitting and i cant believe i havent thought about it before.

ur cilan is so funky!!! i was obsessed w the triplets in 2011 (tho not quite as bad as my love for the twins) and i think hes so cute!! and i love that u put up w my headcanons abt emmets animosity towards him. i cant wait to see more of him im obsessed with gen 5 always

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[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

Thank god is not just me who mourns the loss of flavor to Emmet's dialogue. I too love how short and choppy his sentences are, to the point, no words wasted, a fantastic contrast to how comparatively wordy Ingo is. Which makes sense, as they're mirrors of each other in many ways! iirc in Japanese Ingo is also very formal while Emmet is much more casual in the way he talks, which I think translated to English pretty well, although obviously some nuance is lost because we don't have different formal levels built in like Japanese does.

I think you captured that well in oop too, as Emmet lacks the level of politeness that Ingo has, and he's a lot more blunt. It's well matched to how you've written Emmet in the first arc too, with his near single-mindedness in finding Ingo, and how it puts characters like Rei and Cyllene at ease. I've always kind of thought that the blunt way he talked, his blatant honesty and confidence without any frills, was what got Cyllene to trust him. She's very similar in that regard, which I think is probably part of what made Rei trust him so fast in turn (well, that and he's a kid who is floundering and desperate to have an Adult take charge and give them direction, especially an adult who showed him kindness and care in the way he righted Rei's rails when he started to panic)

YEAAH YEAH okay i am also glad this is not just like... a me observation. like i don't play ex so i hadn't really looked at the quotes before now and... why did they do that to my man... it feels so wroooong

and re: what you were saying about translations, yeah, maybe the ex voice is the more accurate translation, i. would not really know, but like. rip to japanese players for missing out on emmet's incredible eng bw cadence if it's true. it's simply the far superior version... i'm sorry...

+ the thing abt him having an opposing voice to his brother!! like yeah, imho you REALLY lose that contrast in ex because english just does not have the same kind of obvious registers for formality. the bw dialogue is sooo much better in terms of making a really clear contrast btwn them... and also i know i said it before but the eng bw voice is just like. better? more interesting? it has more Character in it? im tryna sound objective and all here really what i mean is i love it and am obsessed with it.

ANYWAAAY waaah yeah!! like i said idc what they do with emmet in newer games they can pry his bw cadence out of my cold dead hands. and i'm REALLY REALLY GLAD it comes across in oop... i think i've said before that he's one of my fav characters to write bc he is just so unique in the way he talks and just sort of. his character generally. in such a perfect way. he's blunt and direct and incredibly purposeful and. with all of the careful hop-stepping and social maneuvering and mind games going around in pla it is SO fun to write a character who actively refuses to fuck around like that even a little bit. and yeah!! i think it can be both very disarming and very reassuring to people.

like cyllene you are exactly right!! they only spent a very brief time together but i REALLY love the idea of them interacting anyway. cyllene i think is someone who has a very specific way of reading and interpreting others, and to her it just came across so strongly how much emmet meant what he was saying, and how driven and simultaneously caring he was, and. like i said. both disarming and reassuring. i think she likes and trusts him an inadvisable amount already.

[lunar-lair]

lays on the ground h. hi its 2 am welcome to the post abt how the mcs fit into the soul eater au girl (note: timeline is a bit fucky!! i am. Working On It)

Hilda and Hilbert

Our first duo still grow up with Bianca and Cheren! They're twins, a weapon duo, but ones who have no meister, and instead choose to wield themselves!

Cheren and Bianca are a meister weapon duo respectively, having decided early on they'd be working together since their best friends refused a meister (which they honestly think is really cool, Bianca especially. She'd never be able to do the stuff they do on their own)

Cheren is the only meister Hilda and Hilbert would let wield them (besides themselves). Bianca also has an open invitation, but she's not really a fighter

Also ive just decided a lot of the stuff im abt to write a QUICK warning OSJDDO

Bianca is a shield, and though she has some sharp edges, in truth she's made for support

Her, Cheren, Hilda, and Hilbert actually form a four-man team, Bianca and Cheren often acting as support

They barely entertained the thought of working alone, realizing very quickly Bianca was meant for support

Around the time of 16, Bianca actually learns how to heal through soul perception

This is gonna sound weird. But Listen,

Think of it as a heal pulse move. She can only do it to nearby people, but it's through manipulating the soul into calming, and wounds into healing through fixing the form of a weapon. She can only calm meisters, but weapons find her a big help.

It's sort of like. Reverse madness? Except. It's more like, with meisters, simply calming the soul, and with weapons, using madness to mold an almalgamate form into a form it was previously before harm

I honestly have no clue what Hilda and Hilbert (or Nate and Rosa) would be. Maybe swords for the first two and then guns for the second two? Smth smth old then modern. Genuinely, I have no clue, and will absolutely be taking suggestions.

These four are a couple years younger than Elesa, Emmet, and Ingo, showing up to the DWMA when the three are 15.

Around the same time, team Plasma show up.

The main characters still do a lot of the work, but Elesa, Emmet, and Ingo are important goals for all four of them to look up to.

see.....this is why i said the timeline was fucky. i wanted emmet n ingo to know the kids when they were also kids ok :(

After team Plasma has been Thrashed, by the time everyone has aged a year, all 7 of them are given madness stones.

We've said where the trio keeps there's, but as for these four

Bianca and Cheren keep theirs on a bracelet (Cheren didn't really care where it went and Bianca wanted to match) and Hilda and Hilbert also wear theirs as earrings! Though they don't keep anything else on their other ear, it's only one.

(yes there are special smiths who make the stones into jewelry. yes i just decided this)

Rosa and Nate

These two still show up about 10 years after Hilda and Hilbert do their thing, appearing when Ingo and Emmet are 25, Elesa is 26, and the other four are more like 23

Bianca still becomes an apprentice, but to the nurse of the DWMA, this time

Cheren becomes a teacher, well known for his stern but kind teaching

Hilda and Hilbert travel a LOT and Bianca and Cheren are the only ones who ever know where they are. They go around doing random jobs that weapons are made for, cleaning up random madmen and helping other meister/weapon duos and DWMAs across other regions

Rosa and Nate,,,like I said no CLUE what they are but they just chill at the DWMA, also have no meister, but don't have support in Cheren and Bianca, they're solo

They take Emmet and Ingo's class for Obvious Reasons and Instantly become some of the two's favorites

OHHH MY FOD I FORGOT ABT. THE RIVLA

i know nothing abt him..

um. he. uh. goes to the dwma,,hes a weapon who can wield himself but. iS LOOKING FOR HIS MEISTER. Who became part of team Plasma!!!! WOO ok I FIXED IT

he looks for a purloin right. whos forgotten abt him. ok YES lets go

N e ways UHH. Rosa and Nate beat the shit out of team Plasma (w/ the help of N this time, along w Emmet, Ingo, Elesa, and the quartet described above (so many names..)) in a similar fashion to 10 yrs prior and get some madness stones. Which they wear as earrings too (weapon twins who wear madness gems as earrings 🤝)

(Once it's all over, Emmet and Ingo, Hilda and Hilbert, and Rosa and Nate happen upon each other, the former two having been called by the president and the latter just leaving.

They all notice the placement of their stones, and even Emmet begins to laugh.

They stand in a perfect triangle, the three duos all making a side.

Their stones of madness glint in the light, all two halves of one whole, all made to be worn near each other, all made within the same breath.

The president laughs, Arceus looking over his shoulder.

"All is as it should be," the president hummed.

Arceus made a booming sound.

One that meant, 'finally...indeed.')

UHHH ANYWAYS. thats one more post done!!! team plasma next which is. kind of a doozy. a lil. im still mentally ironing out their details like i said this au has existed for like a couple of days PSJDODDKFJF