#but iris gets. upset. and emmet doesn't explain right away what happened so she kind of stews

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Toying around with people other than the twins in WtST (poking at the Broken AU variant, specifically).

I think that Iris would be upset with Emmet, at least at first. She's only eight when he disappears, but that's plenty old enough to be hurt by an absence and to start pinning blame for the aftershocks.

She sees how hurt Ingo is and has seen him in some of his lowest moments, and has seen the pain and worry of Drayden and Elesa, and her question of "Why?" turns accusatory after a while.

Why did he leave? Why is he still gone? Why hasn't he come back?

How could he just disappear and leave them like this?

She's glad to see him back, of course, and that anger dies down when she gets an explanation -- it's hard to be mad at someone for leaving when Arceus plucked him up with no warning and chucked him to an ancient version of another region entirely, after all.

But in the interim? She's sad and angry, both. It's got her all knotted up inside, and some days she can't even think of him because she gets so upset she doesn't even know which she is.

Just... chucking things at the wall. Kids are complex little beans, and interesting to write for.