#i have to get ingo so i can have the nimbasa trio

[harusitoftc]

I just want y'all to know that I got Emmet/Caril in the first attempt and I'm verrrrry happy for that

I've been waiting for this moment since I installed the game

[choochooboss]

Sketch dump! Vol. 5

September 2022 (Part 1/2)

The first piece on top summarised my cosplay rush for Tracon 2022! The second is an old idea for a charm.

"SURPRISE!!"

Back in 2022 I hosted an art raffle for reaching 777 followers on Twitter! The winner would get their submas themed idea realised (which was their friends throwing a surprise party for the twins!). I wanted to make a little comic and have the bosses walk in their office where depot agents, Elesa, Drayden, Skyla, Clay etc. would be waiting with decorations and treats and games.

Emmet is all smiles of course while Ingo gets so emotional he could only whisper a "super bravo".

Not really headcanons anymore but still funny ideas.

1. Emmet gets clumsy when off-rhythm! He starts walking in curves if there is nobody else around to match his rhythm with.

2. Emmet spaces out/forgets to say things aloud when someone speaks too long or when things go off-script! His thinking gets interrupted easily.

3. Ingo sometimes bumps into doors because he is too used to automatic doors!

4. When things go off-script Ingo speaks too much and rushes in straight lines"

Also my little inexpensive sketchbook & my trusty tools! Mechanical pencil and eraser pen are life when scribbling my skrimblos smaller than a postage stamp!

More Ingo~ I utilise a wide range of sources for references, including CSP's poseable 3D models, they can come really handy with perspectives and proportions!

The second piece is my very first attempt at cosplay in Tracon 2022: Blingo! I walked in with a sequin hat, leather jacket, leather pants and high heel patent leather boots.

The hardest part of cosplaying Ingo is remembering NOT to smile ahaha!

Some hairstyle tests

I drew these for a huge submas art collaboration over Twitter hosted by @/mimizukeii!! It was technically my first art collab before I started arranging them myself with Aggie/Magma.

While looking for train related songs I found this cute nursery rhyme to go with the marching:

"Over the mountains,

Over the plains,

Over the rivers,

Here come the trains.

Carrying passengers,

Carrying mail,

Bringing their precious loads In without fail"

I wanted to compare these silly twins, planning to do something more silly with them later. Also a sketch of @/fukurow's butler designs I never finished.. The capes compliment them so well, I love them!!

Prequel to this piece! Emmet is so confident in himself he thinks Pierce wants to learn from him but is invited for a duet on the stage instead!!

Emmet has really great voice actors in Pokemas! I especially love how his english VA gives him that bri'ish/posh/sophisticated vibe while also soft and melodic! I know for SURE this VA/Emmet can sing, I can show you later!

One of my favourite sketches!! I wanted to add a bunch of characters in the BG reacting to this sonic blast of emotion over a performance!

Heyyy it's the smile buddies comic!! I really hope Ingo gets to interact with Marnie in Pokemas one day!!

I feel Ingo's eyes in the mirror panel is a little off in the final comic, I meant to keep it softer like in the sketch!

It's Nimbasa trio!! Idea inspired by submas EX uniform colors. Might continue this later!

Some BG tests for this piece! Compositing is hard but absolutely worth the effort, it can make a huge difference in the appeal of your piece!!

Practise piece drawing over a photo I thought was cool! I want to get more experimental with lighting and perspective!

'How's it hanging bro?' Who hung him up there anyway??

Sketch for this arguing scene! Something REALLY BAD needs to happen for them to end up that tense! Even if I want to present them close to the canon material I still want to put them in really challenging situations to see how far I can push their emotions!

Thank you so much for coming all the way down here!! This set was pretty loaded, I hope you enjoyed scrolling through all this ahah!

Previous posts:

Sketch dump Vol. 1: April-June 2022

Sketch dump Vol. 2: July 2022

Sketch dump Vol. 3: August 2022

Sketch dump Vol. 4: July 2022 Part 2

[hehe-hoho-ohno]

Submas canon vs fanon

The entire time I have been in the Submas fandom I have seen a lot of confusion about what is canonical and what is a wide-spread fanon. Both in the sense of people thinking things were canon when they were not, and (more rarely) people thinking things were fanon when they were not. So I thought it might be useful to put together a little guide.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with using fanon. I use most of these headcannons in my own fics because I like them and canon is dumb anyway. (Note: pokemon is a huge sprawling mass and tends to contradict itself, and there have been changes across the various games/manga/anime)

All quotations are taken from bulbapidia.

Nimbasa Trio - FANON

Elesa has no connection to Ingo and Emmet besides living in the same place. There is one interaction between them in Pokemon Masters, and while they are on friendly terms they don't appear to be particularly close. Similarly, the idea that Ingo likes bad puns/Emmet does not stemmed from their fanon friendship with her.

Uncle Drayden - FANON

The only confirmed family Ingo and Emmet have are each other.

Cilan is a huge fan - CANON

Cilan is a fanboy of both of them in the anime.

Ingo is the older twin - CANON

In the original Japanese Emmet calls Ingo "nii-san" which means older brother.

"Do you have any siblings? I have an older brother, Ingo."

- Emmet, pokemon masters

Emmet's joltik hoard - FANON

Emmet's galvantula knows the move cross poison. This is an "egg move" which can only be learnt through pokemon breeding. Since it would take several tries to get this move it probably would have left Emmet with a lot of Joltik. In theory. We don't see Emmet with joltiks in canon.

Ingo's kitty smile - CANON

He smiles like that in the manga. (Admittedly, it's not as exaggerated as the full on :3 people sometimes draw him with.) He also briefly smiles in PLA, but less cat-like.

Ingo's perpetual frown is unintentional - CANON

"<player>! Someone just told me something that troubled me deeply! They said that compared to Emmet, I'm too stiff! But that's just a misunderstanding! I know I smile when I'm having fun! I'd even say that I'm quite proud of how expressive I am when I speak! What? You say you've never seen me smile? I-is that so..."

- Ingo, Pokemon Masters

They are both autistic - FANON

They are related to the twin heros - FANON

They share similar themes and motifs to the twin heros/Zekrom/Reshiram but that's it. They have no canon relationship.

Both of them are heavily coded as autistic. However, it's never been directly stated in the games that they are autistic and (to my knowledge) nobody at Game Freak/Nintendo has confirmed anything.

Ingo has a receding hairline - (debatably) CANON

He is drawn with one in the art book. Does the art book count as canon? Until something in the main games says otherwise, probably. (Though there is some argument to be had that it might be an unflattering haircut instead.)

Ingo arrived in Hisui via wormhole - FANON

"For my part, I simply found myself one day here in Hisui, a region whose name I'd never heard... All I could remember was my own name. I was still standing there in bafflement when the Pearl Clan came to my aid."

- Ingo, PLA. (However, the art book depicts the pearl clan finding him facedown on the ground, so take his standing claim with a grain of salt)

We still don't know how he got there. Similarly, it is quite common to show Ingo arriving during a blizzard/freezing to death and generally in poor health/injured/unconsciousness. But the way he recounts it sounds much more peaceful.

It'a also common to have Sneasler be the one to find him. The art book (of dubious canon) shows a human pearl clan member finding him, and Ingo's quote seems to confirm that. It's possible Sneasler was involved but she isn't mentioned.

Ingo got amnesia from hitting his head - FANON

We don't know how he got amnesia.

Ingo remembers Emmet as "the man in white" - FANON

"I'm starting to recall a man who looked... like me. We'd battle and discuss Pokémon, I think... The words "I like winning more than anything else" flashed through my mind just now..."

- Ingo, PLA, about Emmet

He makes no mention of remembering Emmet wearing white or smiling.

Ingo calls her "Lady Sneasler" - FANON

Ingo only calls her Sneasler, no Lady. In fact, nobody calls her or any of the ride pokemon Lord or Lady because...

The ride pokemon are noble pokemon - FANON

There are 10 blessed pokemon descended from the heros of old, and these pokemon are revered by the clans and have wardens. The blessed pokemon are divided into two groups, the rides and the nobles.

The ride pokemon are not called noble pokemon, and they do not get titles. Mai talks about "the great Wyrdeer" but does not call him lord or noble.

"This suggests that even Pokémon that are not nobles can become frenzied..."

- Kamado, PLA, about the ride pokemon Ursaluna seemingly becoming frenzied

Ingo lives in Sneasler's cave - FANON

We don't know where he lives.

Ingo became a Warden because Sneasler liked him - FANON

"I showed a natural affinity for taming Pokémon, which is why I eventually became a warden. But still I wonder what my true purpose is here..."

- Ingo, PLA

There is no further information about his wardenship. There is no information on what his relationship with Sneasler was prior to him becoming her warden.

Ingo likes having photos because of the amnesia - CANON

"Ah, photographs. I appreciate having physical keepsakes—less ephemeral than memories. Would you do me the honor of posing for a photo with me, <player>?"

- Ingo, PLA, at the Photography Studio

Ingo has been in Hisui for XX years - CANON

The art book uses the placeholder XX for the amount of time Ingo has been in Hisui. Some have taken the double digits to mean 10+, however the first digit could easily be a 0. So, we still don't know. Net 0 information.

Emmet must be taking Ingo vanishing badly - FANON

We have not heard from Emmet.

***

That's all for now! I'm sure I've missed or forgotten something, feel free to add stuff in the reblogs! I might edit the list later to add more if needed.

[critterbitter]

Do you think you'll draw the nimbasa trio catching their first Pokemon that's not their starter on their journey?

Definitely! It’s just a matter of getting there, haha. I am but one vaguely man shaped blob with a hyperfixation. Mortal needs like sleep and hand pains stop me from vomiting every brain idea I have.

I actually got this question multiple times, so to answer! I am not going to be drawing the nimbasa trio getting another pokemon until their late teens unless a brainworm strikes. (So no new pokemon during the current snapshot series haha.)

Why?

From a canon perspective, well:

Most npc trainers you meet on route have 2-4 pokemon, so I’m gonna try to keep within that amount until the trio settles in Nimbasa and have the revenue/space to upkeep a full pokemon team.

From a meta perspective, wellllll:

Another caught pokemon means character development, and I, ah... right now, I just wanna draw a candle, a zebra, and an eel. I love painting. But fitting seven or more characters on a canvas is, er… Make me draw more guys and I’ll melt like a vanniluxe on a summer day.

If people are curious for some pokemon headcannons though (note that this is not canon— pokemon gave me a puddle of information, so I’m taking the shovel to dig an ocean.)

- ingo saw a colony of dwebble collecting rocks while in the desert, and he’s been enamored ever since. He’s been trying to convince a dwebble to join his team for a while. Unfortunately, Ingo’s very excited and dwebble are naturally shy. (It doesn’t help that litwick can get mean when jealous.)

- emmet loves double battles and teams up with a lot of wild pokemon— but he doesn’t click with anybody until much further in the future. Me thinks his expectations are a tad too high from having such a good start with tynamo. He’s worked with multiple growlithes and thinks Helping Hand is the coolest shit ever.

- emmet’s first “caught” pokemon would be archen. More like “lab grown” and “lovingly hatched”, but it’s the thought that counts. Thinking once again about squab archen…

- elesa found her two emolga in the trash. She was going to release them after fostering, but got attached.

For future plans:

(The pokemon the twins live with and are officially part of the team (named at what stage the twins meet them! Note that everybody becomes fully evolved at somepoint.)

Ingo— litwick, dwebble, drillbur, and axew.

Emmet— tynamo, archen(lint roller), joltik, and durant.

They also have pokemon coworkers that don’t live with them, but agree to help in battles for exp and wages— kliklank twins, garbadore, shelmet and karablast, boldore (atlas), and gurdur)

And for our favorite electric gym leader:

Elesa— blitzle, the emolga twins (em and molga), stunfisk, mareep

(She has pokemon coworkers Eelektross (eela), zebrastrika (motorbreak), and Galvulanta (Lanta) who have a similar set up to the twins— the pokemon agree to work with Elesa for exp and wages, but otherwise have their own lives.)

(Fun headcanon: pokemon who are raised by humans tend to keep human nicknames. It’s not always the case, but it’s a common enough trend for research studies.)

[nimbasa-trio]

✨Welcome to the blog of Nimbasa's Shining Stars!✨

I'm Elesa Hinata, and I run this blog with my two best friends, Ingo and Emmet Ambrose. You may have heard of us--I'm Nimbasa's current Gym Leader, and my friends run the Battle Subway.

This is a personal blog where people can get to know us better by asking us questions about our lives and our jobs. We're all busy but we'll try to answer promptly.

✨Our pokémon!✨

Ingo: Éowyn (haxorus), Adelaide (chandelure), Percival (gigalith), Caradoc (garbodor), Lady (sneasler)

Elesa: Pashmina and Velvet (emolga), Taffeta (galvantula), Cashmere (zebstrika), Lace (luxray)

Emmet: Tube Socks (eelektross), Bitsy (galvantula), Lancelot (escavalier), Birdie (archeops), Pebbles (crustle)

✨Organization!✨

Original Content | Reblogs | Pictures | Pelipper Mail

Ask Ingo | Ask Elesa | Ask Emmet

//howdy. this is a pokémon unreality blog set in the continuity of a fic i'm working on and has some degree of canon divergence. if you want to set up a story beat/event, want to check to see if an ask is okay to send, just want more info, or would like something tw tagged, feel free to dm me.

these characters are adults and sometimes discuss adult topics. if you don't want to see this content, block the tags "tw sex mention", "tw dick joke", and "suggestive".

magic anons are off.

pelipper mail is on for things that reasonably could be sent via mail; if you're unsure feel free to dm me. pelipper mail responses will be written ooc as prose, so please don't treat them as the trio posting.

union room is on for low-stakes stuff. if you're unsure if something qualifies, feel free to dm me.

anyone can interact including sapient pokémon, but this is not a high stakes blog so please bear that in mind when interacting.

this blog doesn't share a continuity with any other pokemon irl/rotomblr blog except the ones i run. the main blogs that share this continuity are @cynthia-champion-of-sinnoh and @ghostgirl87.

ingo writes in purple text, emmet in blue text, and if the text is white, you can assume elesa is the one doing the blogging.

[subwaytostardew]

Subway to Stardew - Passenger Events - Saloon Part 2

This plays after you see the first saloon event (submas having lunch with Elliott!) and visit on a Friday after reaching 3 hearts with Elesa.

Commentary under the read-more!

Did you notice the sprites? No? Great! I finally stopped procrastinating and recolored their spritesheets so now they don't share the same brown outline and match vanilla style a bit more!

Sprite-wise... they're over 80. Emmet's in his 90's.

So many sprites.....

Also... Elesa's back! We have a basic outline for what would happen in Elesa's events, but we haven't written anything for her yet... She has plans though! She's rounding up all the artists for it. Meanwhile, submas are still struggling with passenger relations.

Elesa's storyline is going to be fun to plan out but one of her B plots is making sure Ingo and Emmet take their breaks!

Elesa's fun. She's a bit awkward herself (girl can NOT keep a secret for the life of her) but she's doing things. Nimbasa trio share a braincell and they pass it around throughout this event.

We wanted to show a little more insight into their life in the valley and how others feel about them. This time, you're catching them on a bad day. One of my favorite things about Stardew is how everyone is very much flawed in some way and everyone is an unreliable narrator. I love how it just presents life in a run-down town as is and it's up to you to interpret whatever glimpses you get.

Trying to merge the two different media's in terms of tone and seriousness is a bit complex. Pokémon - as a franchise - is at the end of a the day; kid friendly. Stardew Valley, while may look happy go lucky and cute touches upon some really heavy topics.

We are basically skirting the lines here and there with the themes and even trying to make it in character for the Pokémon characters as well.

Taking a kid friendly characters and just trying to touch upon tough subjects while also trying not to seem OOC or off - is tough. So creative liberties it is.

Not everyone gets along in Stardew. I tried to emphasize that in Sebastian's distaste for submas. He would hate being their neighbor. He's cranky because he can't sleep in until 10:00 AM anymore because they're already at work before it turns 6:00 in the morning. Extreme opposites with their problems.

Sebastian and Submas DO NOT get along... They may tolerate each other at the end of the story but they just do not mix well.

I also think that Sebastian would just project a lot of his personal problems onto them... He already does that with Maru. He's not the best taking out his frustrations in the right direction. Haven't finished Maru's passenger event yet (another battle event...) but submas would be decently close with her since she has an interest in Pokemon and Sebastian would take that as "siding" against him. They are also decently aquainted with Demetrius which isn't the best for Sebastian's dad issues. He's not fond of the invasive species they brought in but they do appreciate infodumping to each other about mechanics and such.

Oh, Demetrius... I'm going to have fun with world building info-dumps with him. Ya'll like world building? Well, talk to the villagers, they may have a glimpse into things.

I do headcanon Demetrius (pretty much painfully canon...), Maru, and Sebastian as autistic themselves just like the Nimbasa trio. Unfortunately, that does not necessarily mean that they'll always have solidarity. For one, Sebastian's sensitivity to loud noises puts him at odds with Ingo. Submas fare better with the more infodumpy types.

Sibling relations are a sore subject for all of them so submas are horrified at even the thought of splitting tracks and hating each other because they have codependency issues; Sebastian has an inferiority complex and hates how they make him feel like even more of a failure because he doesn't like Maru. Neither parties are exactly healthy, but you can pick between who you're going for! (I was curious as to what the deal was with Sebastian so he was the first bachelor I married... I think you can tell that I divorced him.)

Sebastian has his issues... He was also going to be my first bachelor but uhh, I went with Harvey. I still love Sebastian as a character tho, he is really complex especially family dynamic wise. I do feel bad for him....

He does. I do appreciate how messy his family dynamic is, but I'm a little biased against him since I appreciate Maru and Demetrius more (sorry). I really like how he doesn't handle his issues healthily (I mean... look at Emmet.) and it's interesting to compare him to the other characters.

Like Sam! Sam's a good kid (college age 20 something year old...) and actually really emotionally mature even if he's a bit childish at times. Abigail... isn't quite all there yet but she has a strong sense of what's right and wrong. She's less hesitant than Sam when it comes to things, but Sam serves a bit as damage control here. I headcanon Sam and Abigail to have ADHD so they kind of have an idea about submas being autistic and what that entails, but it's not at the forefront of their mind. It doesn't help that their autism manifests in verrrrry different ways and they don't really know them all that well in the first place. It's a bit awkward between them but they're okay with each other.

We had a bit of fun determining the heart point changes between each route. Personally, I think friendship decreases are hilarious. Also if you don't back up anyone in this situation then... 🤨

(1) Sebastian -

Ingo -100 | Emmet -250 | Sebastian +250 | Sam -5 | Abigail -15

(2) Ingo -

Ingo +40 | Emmet +5 | Sebastian -100 | Sam -20 | Abigail -25

(3) Emmet -

Ingo +25 | Emmet +30 | Sebastian -100 | Sam -5 | Abigail -5

(4) Sam and Abigail -

Ingo +20 | Emmet +5 | Sebastian -40 | Sam +50 | Abigail +50

(5) Nobody -

Ingo -50 | Emmet -200 | Sebastian -200 | Sam -50 | Abigail -50

I don't see friendship decreases as characters getting angry at you per se. It can always just be them feeling awkward and wanting to distance themselves from you for a bit. For example, if you reject Ingo in his 8 heart event, you get knocked down two hearts just so you can get more friendly-but-not-too-friendly dialogue before it stagnates again at 8 hearts.

The "true ending" is Sam and Abigail's route since they're fairly neutral picks. You should stand up for them! Sebastian would agree that him lashing out was wrong, but he just doesn't want to talk to you about it. Why would he? You would just lecture him or something.

Bad ending is not siding with anybody like a coward. Sebastian's being a bit of a bully here (mainly to a grown man a whole head taller than him, but still, his friends got caught in the crossfire) and if you're wishy-washy then that's just odd of you as the town's farmer and supposed protagonist that goes out of their way to befriend everyone. Not a good look.

Sebastian's route is a bit of a jab at how his romance plays out. A few people have mentioned Emmet and Sebastian being friends with each other under the reasoning that they're lonely autists (but mostly just being favorites, which I get) buuuut... Not sure why you would go for Sebastian when submas is right there. Pick one or the other. They're enemies here. I can't quite see them getting along past that surface-level analysis. Smoking alone is a hard No. from Emmet since birds are super sensitive to airborne toxins (so much so, you can't even have non-stick pans around them!) and he's protective over his defeatist of an Archeops.

Ingo's route is more for fun than anything. If you really want Ingo, you do get the most points with him for mentioning him, but he's confused as to why you're trying to win him over now of all times. He's concerned about Emmet first and foremost!

Emmet has trust issues so even the slightest red flag puts a quite a bit of distance between you. He has low point increases because it's hard to win his trust. In this situation, a point increase mostly just means you didn't do anything wrong. If you side with him, that's what you're supposed to do since he's the side against Sebastian. He may be getting picked on, but he's a bit of an instigator himself. His own route aside, Ingo would be most pleased to see you speak up for his brother. Ingo's route is only has the highest point increases for him because it's well, his.

As for the bar fight... It was a bit difficult to figure out how to make it play out believably and interestingly despite it being three New Yorkers against some grocery store owner. Ingo is more focused on defense, de-escalation, and protecting his passengers (in this case, the college kids). He can take a hit and doesn't want to resort to making any attacks unless absolutely necessary, so he was blocking for the most part. Had Ingo not been the designated grocery shopper, Pierre and Emmet probably would have already killed each other. Emmet doesn't have the patience to deal with Pierre. He thinks Reshiram will smite him for upcharging them and will take it upon himself to deliver the justice of truth. Emmet's swinging at Pierre. Unfortunately, he doesn't have the best defense nor balance when he's kicking and punching. Pierre's too drunk to talk about it, but even sober he suspects that submas are working with Joja because as far as he knows, he saw Morris walk away from the Railroad when they first arrived.

Ah yes. Joja stuff. *Realigns stacks of papers* Lets touch upon Joja here for a moment and Pierre's view of things. When Submas first came around. Pierre was already suspicious of them - more confused if anything - why are two major city boys who also- mind you- come from a foreign region and bring along Pokémon. Take interest in a small town? With an abandon railroad? Right off the bat he does not have a great view; he is worried about his store, his income, and family and this is stemmed all due to Joja Mart.

Now Pierre spots Morris heading towards the railroad - of course Pierre does not know what the interactions between Submas and Morris are. In his mind it's Submas making a deal to work with them or is already with them! Pierre already hates Morris as it is.

That is why he is so passive aggressive to Ingo and Emmet. Just this time around - Pierre is drunk... and Abigail's friend is being "annoyed" by them.

Well... outright agressive in this event haha. I don't quite remember how the idea was finalized, but we decided that they would get into a barfight when doing another "showing passenger relations at the Saloon" event.

As for Joja itself. I most definitely headcannon them in this whole crossover universe as the typical "bad guy" Pokémon team. However they have already won/succeeded (Pokémon are no longer in The Ferngill Republic....) However things are now being shaken up and changing.

I could go on and on about Joja and how I view them... but I think that will be a separate post (if people want to know)

The fight was a pain to debug. For one, Pierre kept running off into the void like a coward. Ingo's lines about staying behind the yellow line were made in the debugging phase because I got fed up with him for doing that.

Worse yet. 1.6 broke the Pokemon animations so now I have to go back into every event and redo everything (RIP green bean X-Scissor). The old method I was using no longer worked; before, I was using the addObject command. Now they show up as error signs because the sprites that were previously on the sheet called from were removed as they are not valid objects.

I ended up having to figure out the temporarySprites command to replace the "using a Pokeball" animation. There are no instances of it being used in vanilla. Nobody seemed to figure it out either, so I had to make a mini-event just to test its usage and figure it out.

I eventually did. Thanks to the help of my emotional support Emmet.

Ah yes... 1.6 has broken some events. Small things. (events are still playable) But we will definitely be revisiting some events to improve or make better. Or to just fix.

I have so much backtracking to do 😭😭😭😭😭 Oh well... I thought events were safe to work on since barely anything about them changed in 1.6... I was wrong.

The ending had quite a bit of revising for concision and tone. It was much more lighthearted in Kade's drafts, but I figured that Emmet is low on steam and probably would have gone nonverbal after everything. Too much passenger interaction for the day. He just wants to depart back to his home station.

Yeah there was a lot of dialog and exposition cut. (Hmm no wonder why it's only 13 minutes long. lol)

Only 13 minutes... Still a lot considering that most vanilla events are around the 1-3 minute mark...

Poor Emmet.. and Ingo. I won't lie, when first seeing the event I burst out laughing during the fistfight. Just somthing about Ingo suddenly collapsing due to Pierre. BUT THEY'RE OKAY - ISH.

It's a bit comical! I had fun ragdolling them. Emmet was going to be much more swingy in his attacks but I ended up not keeping it in since it just didn't look right when used as an animation frame.

We at least kept one of the rag-doll sprite as a "knock back" from Pierre. Which transitions well with his passed out sprite.

Until next time! Thank you for boarding!

[astrocassette]

fuck it i'm reposting milo's ref sheet to add a little bio + full story summary

milo elloway

they/he

a casual trainer who works at a quilt shop in nimbasa

a pretty lighthearted + easygoing guy, goofy on the regular, and enjoys making people laugh. tends to be on the quiet side. he can be awkward at times but earnest

❤️: hard rock + metal, quilting + sewing, horror fiction, rpgs, casual battling, retro aesthetics, learning languages

❌: high bridges, driving, cooking, large bodies of water, waking up early, the competitive circuit

and now, story summary under the cut

so!

as it says, milo's originally from (an) earth! they fell asleep on the metro on their way back home from visiting friends, and woke up Somewhere Else, on a train Unfamiliar to them. the earth they're from doesn't have pokemon, even as a franchise, so they've got NO idea wtf is going on

ingo + emmet find them incredibly confused + speaking no known language with a phone map that doesn't match the world, rightly figure maybe dimensional shenanigans are about, and take them to the interpol. while a case is opened up for milo, the nimbasa trio adopts them as a sort of interdimensional exchange student, showing them around, and then helping them get their footing in the pokemon world when the interpol isn't able to find a way to get them back home.

milo has to grapple with the language barrier (learning galarian from scratch) and culture shock for a while, plus mounting guilt as they slowly realize they prefer the pokemon world to their earth but have no way to let their loved ones know what happened and that they're okay (they eventually come to terms with it, but it takes a couple years)

in between language lessons, they hang out a lot with new friends (the nimbasa trio + a whole host of ocs i have not drawn yet), and pretty much everyone encourages them to give training a try. so they do! they do their own little gym run, and earn a few badges before tapping out and heading back to nimbasa, content with being a mid-strength trainer.

as they get further settled in, they pick quilting back up, and after showing a few projects to the local quilt shop, get hired there! they make friends with many old ladies + the shop sewaddle and gain a reputation amongst the regulars for having a good color sense.

there's a good stretch of just peaceful life for them, happily working, getting to know ingo + emmet + elesa + various ocs better as their language skills improve, and traveling around the region in their spare time. they even nearly start building a romance with ingo, but this gets interrupted when the interpol find another person from earth in hoenn, and milo ventures abroad to meet them + see the region! they extend the trip to see a little bit of johto, but that gets cut short when ingo goes missing.

it takes over a year, but milo + emmet manage to get to hisui with the help of a celebi, and are able to find ingo! but, arceus is miffed at their meddling and removes celebi from the premises, stranding the three of them in the past for a couple years. during this time, the events of legends arceus happen, with the three of them basically functioning as npcs. ingo does what he does in canon, emmet helps laventon with the pokedex + manages the training grounds with ingo, and milo apprentices at the clothier's in jubilife!

i'm still working out how the three of them factor into the canon storyline of pl:a and how big a role i want them to play, but they for sure join the wider party of people supporting akari. and, post-rift-fixing, milo does get together with ingo :]

that's everything i've written out so far (my document is so fucking big. this is as concise a post as i could make it), but i really like the idea of bringing in elesa with jirachi for the post-game of pl:a, and i do intend to get everyone back to the future.

if you read all this, god damn, i appreciate it!! if you found this interesting and want more, here's the tag i've got going for this au

[white-hyacinths]

(@bluestarlights) Yes I did! Though only in traditional sketches. Here are they from August last year of my thoughts on the Them (please ignore the messiness of some of these xd) (also under a read more because this got Lengthy)

Plus a bonus assassin Elesa!

In terms of archetypes, I'm thinking Emmet as Fallen (taking risks, big damage), and Elesa as Trickster (stealth and otherwise gathering information). And I've already stated Ingo as Lightbender (healing and support). He must hate that Emmet is so close to the brink of death all the time and he can't even heal him half the time xd

The markings on their faces (seen on the second page and hidden everywhere else, including with Elesa) are part of my little oc whatever. They're part of a subspecies of humans that is part of my own addendum to lore- a Fruman Phoenix, or just Foenix. When exposed to enough magic and lack of corruption, humans can be born with a larger than average soul that is able to "respawn." These humans are identified by their faintly glowing eyes and markings on their faces and shoulders. They're hunted in Fruma because magic is strictly reserved for nobility and royalty.

In terms of story, the nimbasa trio work together to help people escape the reign and rule of the Fruman Queen and give them a place to stay out of sight called Sanctuary. Whenever one arrives, they're given the choice to stay, and risk being found, or leave, and risk the rumors about the border giving one amnesia true (tee hee)

Something happens where Ingo has to leave Fruma. Whether he gets caught and sent to Wynn or for some reason needs to leave on his own, I'm not sure. But I like to think their escape route out of Fruma leads to Corkus, so if it's the latter imagine Ingo learning electromagic or befriending like Ava and then inventing trains xD

Anyway that's all I have/remember xD

[elithesia-autem-danguarde]

Nimbasa Trio, but it’s Elesa and Ingo being ding dongs. (RIP Emmet)

*Scene: Ingo and Elesa have made the charming mistake of locking Emmet in the back of Elesa’s car when he’s sick and sleeping.*

Ingo: “I’M BREAKING THE WINDOW!” Voice through the phone: “Emergency Assistance. How can I help you?” Elesa: “Hi! Uhh! We locked our unconscious brother in the car and people are judging us!” Ingo: “I SWEAR TO ARCEUS I’M GONNA BREAK IT!” Elesa: “Do NOT break the window! You’ll get glass on him!” Voice through the phone: “Miss. Please tell your sister to relax. Everything’s going to be okay.” Elesa: “That’s a man.” Voice through the phone: “Really?!”

I’ve never actually watched Modern Family nor do I care to, but I think it would be funny if Ingo and Elesa got to have an experience of absolutely losing their minds after locking their baby brother in the car. Hence (mostly) ripping off the dialogue for this post. Plus, I’ve seen funny animatics on YouTube, so I figured why not have another version?

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Statute of Limitations (Immortals AU)

Wrote 800 words for an AU that’s been rotating in my brain for over a year that I still haven’t written, but I’m posting this anyway because I do what I want.

AU context, sparknotes edition: Ingo couldn’t get sent back directly to the future for timey-wimey reasons and spent 140 years immortal, chilling in the Coronet Highlands. Accidentally befriended/tamed/domesticated the feral cat of a man we know as Volo (also immortal) while he was waiting to catch up to the future and his twin. Now the Nimbasa trio has been reunited for over a year and Volo is the twins’ weird roommate and Elesa’s bitchiest bestie.

~

“Hang on,” Elesa says one night, as they’re sitting around the twins’ living room eating Sinnoh takeout, two and a half hours and two-thirds of the way into an hour-long documentary on Hisui. They keep pausing to give Ingo and Volo the chance to expound on whatever topic the documentary didn’t have the time or information to elaborate on themselves; Ingo’s infodumping is familiar and comforting, while Volo’s is a bit of a surprise but hilariously bitchy. Even when the documentary gets things right. “Volo—you consulted on this? Historically?”

“That makes it sound like I did so fifty years ago,” Volo sniffs. “I was a historical consultant on the topic. Mostly by mail; by the time they were making this, Cynthia was a little too popular for me to go wandering around Sinnoh without a good excuse for looking like her fraternal twin.”

So, yes, but in fifty words instead of one. Cool. “You like… you got paid money for this? Is this your job?”

Volo makes an dismissive sound. “Yes, I got paid for it, but it’s not exactly reliable work, nor does it pay greatly. As a historian, the best money is in research grants, but those are a little hard to get a hold of without extensive history at a university, and my need to shuffle identities every decade or so did clash with the need to accumulate that sort of history.”

“…So, yes but no?”

Volo rolls his eyes at her. “Yes, but no.”

Elesa mulls over that. She doesn’t unpause the documentary just yet, because there’s a niggling question in her brain now—

“Do you have a job?” Emmet asks before she can. “You’re here a lot.”

Volo huffs, deciding to take offense in that catty way of his, so Elesa jumps in before letting him answer: “Dude, you’re clearly loaded, I have never once heard you say a thing about hopping back and forth between here and Sinnoh and plane tickets aren’t cheap. Frankly, neither is this apartment, and I’d be surprised if you’re just letting the twins pay for it all.”

Volo regards her shrewdly for a moment, then hums as his eyes slide away. “Don’t worry about it.”

That is the least satisfying answer on the planet. She and Emmet immediately turn to Ingo for answers.

“I do not worry about it,” Ingo says immediately.

Elesa and Emmet’s eyes meet. Weird, suspicious emphasis with no real answer. Hmmm.

“I am Emmet. Are we harboring a fucking criminal?” Emmet demands.

Volo sputters. “I beg your pardon? That’s your first assumption?”

“That’s not an answer,” Elesa points out, entertained. “He’s only going to get more suspicious the more you avoid giving one.”

“And you, of course, are virtuously on my side,” Volo mutters bitchily. “The disrespect! And here I thought we had something. A camaraderie, if you will—”

“It’s not like you’re a poacher, Ingo would worry about it a whole lot if that were the case,” Elesa interrupts him. “I can’t really imagine you beating someone up—”

“I can,” Emmet says.

“—without going full-on crazy eyes,” Elesa corrects herself. “So this hypothetical crime you may have committed and have definitely not denied committing is probably, y’know. Petty. Which fits, because you are a petty, petty bitch!”

“I,” Volo says with dignity, “am the classiest bitch any of you will ever meet.”

“I am the classiest bitch in this room, but nice try.”

“You’re all cutting-edge fashion and avant-garde, that’s not the same thing as class.”

Elesa gasps loudly in overblown offense. “You take that back!”

“Ladies, you are both pretty,” Emmet intones. “Ingo. Has Volo committed crimes? Yes or no.”

Ingo pinches the bridge of his nose. “He doesn’t have a valid birth certificate and yet has had a functional passport for decades despite being stuck at twenty-seven. Of course he’s committed crimes, we knew that already.”

“I am Emmet. I meant for money.”

Ingo shrugs and reaches for a new can of soda. “Well, that’s none of my business.”

“Ingo.”

“Look,” Volo sighs, “can any of you truthfully tell me that you’ve never talked to a particularly out-of-touch gentleman whose lone battling Pokémon is holding a useless nugget of gold worth more than everything you have on your person and thought, you know, I bet I have an island somewhere that I could sell this moron?”

There’s a beat of silence. Emmet snorts. Ingo puts a hand over his face that doesn’t hide the amused curl to the corner of his mouth.

Elesa cackles. “Oh dragons, you scam rich people for a living? I need to hear about this right now immediately. Story time! Funniest scam you’ve done, let’s go.”

“Accusing me of being a scam artist now?” Volo snips facetiously, but he’s smirking. “I will confess to nothing. …At least, not until I have the chance to check the statute of limitations for a few things.”

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#5

Eh why not.  This was actually the first idea I wrote down, and I still like it.  :>

So many reunions have Emmet running up to Ingo and hugging the life out of him.  Good!  I love!  But what if

Need the vague setup of Ingo has Returned.  He is aware that it feels like home, but his memories are still kaputz.  The lingering feelings of having lived years in a haze, building new memories off of nothing and how empty and lonely it was.

His feet are taking him through the streets automatically.  If he doesn't think about it, it comes naturally, but when he notices he becomes lost again.  It is night, few people around, no one seems to be paying him much mind.  It's that time of night where…something is over.  He doesn't know what. (hint: subway shutting down for the night)

Looks up to see a man exiting a building.  Probably saluting a goodbye to someone.  And Ingo just…he runs.  He doesn't know this man, but nothing could stop him now.  There are tears in his eyes because he is so close and he still doesn't /know/ or /understand/ but.

There is a brief flash of eyes as the other turns around just before Ingo barrels into him, hugging him as tight as he can.  The other man is frozen against him, not hugging back, but also not pushing away.

"I am Emmet."

And how that name /clicks/ in Ingo's mind.

"Yes!" he replies, hugging tighter, more tears streaming down his face.  It is Emmet, and now he knows this.

"You are Ingo"

"Yes!"  Louder, because it's true, because Ingo can feel Emmet moving against him, arms starting to raise.  

"Ingo is…here" 

"Yes!"  Because Ingo is home.  And Emmet is hugging him, wailing because his brother has returned.

(Later Emmet can't stop bawling, and Ingo can't stop beaming despite his own tears)

240 notes - Posted March 6, 2022

#4

Ah midnight.  The perfect time to come up with new ideas.

Rather surprised not to have seen this variant myself but!

In which Emmet too loses his memories.  That's it, that's all.  No getting eeby deebied.  Just, when Ingo vanishes, Emmet can't remember where he is, who these people are, etc.  He knows his name, knows something is missing, but that's it. 

And you think it would be easy, right?  All these people around him are there to remind him, there's so much physical proof of the memories.  Except he can't retain the information.  Yes, he'll listen intently as Elesa explains their history together.  He'll get flashes of familiarity.  He'll look away from her face for just a moment, and by the time he's looked back he has no idea who he's looking at again.  Sometimes the memories stay longer, but it's disheartening.

Emmet also keeps wandering off.  He knows something is missing, but he's just so uncomfortable staying in a place he does not recognize.  So many people paying him attention, claiming they know him, and yet his mind remains blank.  He does not like the sensation of being nothing, when he has no memories.  All he knows is he needs to leave, to search.

How long do they try to keep him there?  A few months, perhaps.  Most specialists agree that being around familiar faces and places might help with his missing memories.  There's also the issue of the missing Ingo.  Everyone assumes that's what Emmet insists he's missing.  But like the rest of his memories, Emmet has no memory of his brother.  

So after the months of a disheartening lack of progress, of Emmet returning to this blank slate after every conversation, they just…let him leave.  There's no one really with the authority to make him stay, and the one most interested in his well-being…

It's been the roughest time of Elesa's life.  She's lost both her best friends, even though one of them is right in front of her.  She tries to hard to keep a positive attitude, to keep hoping that /this/ time Emmet will remember something, that a clue to Ingo's whereabouts will be found.  But she's at the end of what she can handle on her own.  Skyla has been as supportive as she could be, but Elesa /missed/ her honorary brothers.

When Emmet goes missing /again/, she runs after him, as she always does.  Tracks him down, where he's already on the outskirts of Nimbasa, steadily plodding his way along.  Her heart /breaks/ when he turns unrecognizing eyes on her, and she snaps.  She's done with this. 

(In the back of her mind, she'd noticed.  Notices that Emmet would remember the occasional traveler he ran into, since the Incident.  It was subconscious at best, but it led her to her current actions.)

Maybe she or Emmet have a pocket knife, or just some cutting implement.  She grabs it and hacks at her hair, cutting off the long tresses.  She tosses aside the coat that she treasured, and she grabs at Emmet's jacket.  She's not /Elesa/, no.  She's Ella.  Just a trainer.  Just a traveler.

And Emmet…doesn't forget that.  He starts talking to her again.  Remembers meeting her on the road.  So long as she doesn't connect to anything that was "Elesa", he doesn't forget.

She hadn't intended on leaving her life behind.  Still, she doesn't regret it.  At least this way she can still help and support Emmet.  She can still look for Ingo.  

The Nimbasa Trio is gone.

(With obligatory they absolutely do find Ingo and restore everyone's memories.  Happy endings are a must.)

263 notes - Posted March 23, 2022

#3

Let’s do another one then.

So I definitely have a habit of daydreaming where a fanfic might be going, or where I wished it would have gone instead.  That happened recently I think in combination of reading We Will Always Have Each Other and Detours so...yeah.

So many fics have someone "talk sense" into Emmet instead of letting him rush to his brother's side.  And sure sometimes they do let him rush over, but it's usually somehow more local, not across continents or anything.  So I guess what I'm saying is I'm going to steal that idea of a local Sinnoh broadcast of "do you know this man"

And boy howdy, did they not expect what happened next.

See, people have been looking for a hint of Ingo since the disappearance.  You have the important, high up friends, reaching out to other important, high up friends.  The search didn't go too far out of Nimbasa and the Unova region, but there were some people who were aware of what happened.  But more importantly, trainers, adventurers, travelers.  They most assuredly know, and travel the globe.

It starts slow.  A friend calls a friend in Unova, passing on a link to the news segment.  Word spreads quickly among the people as excitement builds.  Could it be?  Some gym leader pings the local gym leader, asking if this wasn't the brother they'd asked them to look out for so long ago?  After that word travels to Emmet immediately.

And there's no pause.  There's no stopping.  No one needs to be told, no one needs to ask questions.  Emmet just starts running out of the Subway, coat flapping behind him.  In the streets people are starting to gather, starting to make their way to transports, excitedly talking in groups, passing the word on faster and further.  

As Emmet burst out of the subway, there's cheers, cries, encouragement.  People running along side him, clearing the path in front of him, all wanting to help, to be there for one of their beloved Subway Masters.  And the Pokemon trainers rally, those with flying pokemon swooping in and calling out.  Not even pausing to land, just reaching out a beseeching hand.  And Emmet leaps, is lifted, up into their arms and into the sky, a small procession heading for the other continent.

(Behind them, people pour onto trains, onto travel pokemon, any means possibly and begin heading for Sinnoh.  They need to greet one of their own, welcome him back from where he'd been.)

The flight is long, and tiring for a pokemon carrying two.  Others offer to take over, Emmet letting himself fall from one and onto another.  Such a danger they'd normally never allow, but they can't stop.  Not when everyone had been waiting for this moment for so long.

They land at the hospital, and there's no need to ask who Emmet is.  It's wildly obvious.  He's let through, police waved away so as not to interfere, and he finally can reunite with his brother.

There's some roadblocks.  Ingo doesn't remember it all, after all.  How can he slot back into a space and a world that has moved on without him?  But he's there, and that means more than anything at this point.  

Emmet just laughs, incredulous.  What does Ingo mean?  No one has forgotten him.  And outside, people begin arriving, anxious to see Ingo alive and well.  Sinnoh is invaded by Unovians who have waited years for their beloved Subway Master to return.

Have you seen this man?  Yes, says Unova, we have.  And we welcome him home.

342 notes - Posted March 7, 2022

#2

There is a legend in Unova.  It takes place long ago, during the war of the descendants of the twin heroes, when Reshiram and Zekrom tore apart the land after being pitted against each other despite the brothers' reconciliation.  For so long, the region had been torn apart by the battling dragons, until one day, finally, the dragons' rage had settled.  The battlefield was filled with the silence of death, the survivors shaken as they emerge to survey the ravaged land. 

Reshiram and Zekrom turned to the survivors, cursing the ones who'd driven them to this level of destruction.  They were forced to wear the markings of the dragons, physical reminders of the harm they'd caused the region, forever keeping them apart from their fellow humans and partner pokemon alike.  Their features were twisted into parodies of the dragons' traits, faces elongated into muzzles, feathers or fur covering their skin, claws and horns and teeth that were frightening to behold.  

The descendants had retreated, hiding their guilt and their shame.  They'd avoided others, kept to themselves as they passed down the lesson learned, to never let their pride and ambition cause harm to the world.  Over the years, as peace reigned and the descendants continued to uphold the truth and ideals they had learned through the terrible battle, as generations were born, lived, and died, the curse slowly began to wane.  The lesson had been learned, after all.  None of the family line ever held their personal ambitions against another in strife.  

Slowly the physical reminders stopped appearing on new children.  Slowly they were able to reintegrate with the nearby villages.  Eventually the traits only showed up in the rare case of twins being born.  Sometimes it was just sharper nails and teeth, other times it was horns curling out of the fluffy hair.  While it stopped being seen so much as a curse, they were always careful to keep the traits hidden.  Perhaps out of shame, or perhaps just not wanting to deal with the comments and curiosity that would surely arise.

The story continues to be passed down, though none know anymore how much of it was true.  Still, the story lives on, just in case.

Ingo and Emmet were born with wings.

Whether or not the legend was true, they don't have any particular extra powers.  There are other twins in the region, and perhaps some of them have minor tells as well, but Ingo and Emmet definitely have the most dramatic feature.  These days there's no particular stigma about the "curse" either, as it's more of an urban legend that's not taken seriously.  Still, their parents decide it's not worth the trouble of answering questions about it and have the boys hide their wings.

(It's a sort of an open secret.  It's not flaunted, but it is hard to keep two rambunctious children from hiding something that to them is perfectly natural.  So long as no one comments, there's nothing strange about it.  Besides, the boys are delightful, polite and energetic.  How could anyone hate the rays of sunshine?)

—

"Emmet, sweetie, hold still for just another moment," his mother chided gently as she worked his arm into the sleeve of his jacket.  He did his best, contenting himself with rubbing his fingers along the cuff of the sleeve that was already on as she finished fussing with the other arm.  He could feel his wings tight against his back, the jacket wrapped snug around him in a comforting pressure.  

Finally, his mother was satisfied and let him go with a pat on his head, turning her attention to Ingo.  "Alright sir, your turn."  She shook out the other jacket that had been draped over her arm, holding it out to his brother.  Ingo's wings fluffed out as he hopped forward eagerly, then flattened down as he turned his back to her and held out his arms. Laughing softly, she began helping him into his clothes as well.

Excitement bubbled in Emmet's chest.  Today was family trip day.  They were going to go all the way to the city!  There would be so many new things to see!  He bounced on his heels, his arms flapping out at his sides in time with each bounce.  After a moment, his mother stood up and moved away, and Emmet turn his attention back on Ingo.  Like him, Ingo began to bounce on his heels, matching Emmet's movement as they waited for their parents to finish getting ready.

Their jackets were long, reaching down to calf level.  At that length, the majority of their wings were hidden beneath it, easily explainable as a second layer.  Sometimes it was stuffy to wear them, but mostly Emmet didn't mind.  He liked the way they flapped around when they moved, swirling around his legs or flaring if he turned abruptly enough.  

"Alright boys, we're ready to head out," their father said at last.  Finally!  "But first, remember the rules?"  

"Yes!" Ingo burst out immediately. 

"Yes!" Emmet echoed, nodding eagerly.  They did know this!  

In unison, they recited, "Stay together, don't leave your sight, don't take off our jackets, and have fun!"  Ingo was so loud on the last word that Emmet's ears were ringing, but he didn't care.  His face was aching with how big he was smiling.

"Good job.  And if anyone asks any questions you don't want to answer?"

"It's none of their business!" Emmet said, raising a hand high as he laughed.

"Emmet," Ingo scolded.  "That's rude.  We're supposed to go get mom or dad and not talk to strangers."

Their mother giggled, snagging Emmet's raised hand and dropping a kiss on it.  "Well, you're both right.  It is none of their business, but you should come straight to us if anything happens."

Emmet tugged his hand away with an emphatic, "Gross!"  Then he reached out, Ingo's hand meeting him halfway.  He swung their hands between them happily.  "I want to ride the ferris wheel."

"We're ready for departure!" Ingo said smartly.

"Then let's go!"

—

Growing up, Ingo and Emmet got into the habit of keeping their wings hidden under long jackets and the like.  It wasn't that they hated their wings or anything.  Their parents would often take them into the wilderness on camping trips where they could stretch their wings and fly about if they wanted.  It just never interested them much.  It was easier to keep them hidden away from any wayward stares or questions.  

(One of the things they enjoyed doing was preening each others wings.  It was relaxing, allowing them to take care of their sibling and be taken care of in return.  They liked being well groomed and professional in the rest of their life, this was just another extension of that.)

(Perhaps the wings are also why they got in the habit of the Naruto run, lol~  Have you ever tried to run with a pack on?  While not fully equivalent, there are some similarities.  You have extra weight on your back, it's easier and more stabilizing to hook your hands into the straps as you run.  So they don't pump their arms, they keep them steady and don't shift the weight on their back from side to side.)

As they got older, they got better at their disguises, learning how to move and dress to minimize any telltale signs of the wings beneath their clothes.  And of course when they became the subway masters, they designed their jackets to be the perfect camouflage.  The high collars covered the bump of the wings that were above their shoulders, the length keeping the mass of the wings beneath them looking like a feather layer, and the colors matching.

They also devised a new game they could play, that doubled as part of their duties for the subway.  While the open skies didn't call them, the subway tunnels did.  And they did need to do the occasional inspection of the lines, after hours when the rest of the workers went home.  It was actually Ingo who thought it up, though Emmet took every chance to challenge his brother thereafter.  The game was a race, where they were able to use their wings to perform tight maneuvers, propelling themselves forward as fast as the could, keeping the glide for as long as they could before being forced to touch down, going at honestly reckless speeds in their fervor.  

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450 notes - Posted March 24, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I was thinking about @hoofpeet​‘s latest stuff on Emmutt, as I do when my hands are busy and my mind is wandering.  And I just thought like

What would Emmet’s interactions with Emmutt be like once they return?  Would he be blasé like Ingo?  Would he be angry like Zingo and Chandelure? 

And I feel he is savvy enough with all sorts of pokemon that once he has the real deal Ingo, he can forgive a lot of the bad behavior.  It tips over into the “here’s my horrible pet isn’t he funny” like Ingo does.

However!  I also thought that like, Emmet had a tough time while Ingo was gone.  He struggled a lot, kept going, and got his bro back in the end.  So he’s doing much better now!  Still, that doesn’t mean there aren’t bad days.  Days where the feelings of loss still spring up.

Emmutt has been trying to get back under Emmet’s skin whenever he can, but the brothers are just too alike in how they treat him.  When he notices Emmet looking run-down and sad (and probably sleep deprived, because that’s never good for one’s mental health), he sees an opportunity.  And he digs in deep, almost as bad as that first encounter, hoping to get a good reaction out of Emmet.

(They don’t realize Ingo and Zingo are nearby, the former bristling at the bad behavior, and the latter smug that Emmutt’s about to get a scolding.)

And Emmet just sort of laughs a little, and is like, “You can’t hurt me worse than Zingo did (by accident) when we first met.”  Then he wanders off to find Elesa to sleep on bc that’s what he does to feel better when he’s moody over Ingo’s disappearance.

It’s an instant triple K.O.

Emmutt is insulted to immovability at the implication that Zingo is better at being a hellion than he is.  Zingo is devastated because she didn’t mean to hurt Emmet, she really didn’t!  (He knows this and wouldn’t have said so to her face, at least not anymore.)  And Ingo is shot with the misplaced guilt over his absence hurting Emmet so much.

(Part of this was also because initially Zingo was supposed to torment Emmet, until she turned into the best pupper who tries very hard.  Still, even if it wasn’t intentional, Emmet had so many Issues because of her.)

*hand waves*  Hoofpeet does such angsty things with a touch of humor.  It’s hard to put it in writing, but it’s not meant to be bad, just a miscommunication of errors.

540 notes - Posted July 25, 2022

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Chapters to write

Childhood Shenanigans (Elesa - Ingo - Emmet POV; Friendship; possibly just mini drabbles of them as kids compact into one; Humor and Fluff) - 0%

Ever Heard of Knocking!? (Outsider's POV; Established Romantic Relationship; Humor and Fluff) - 20%

Aftercare (Elesa's POV; Established Romantic Relationship; Mentions of Explicit Scenes—No smut! just hints! gotta stay somewhat PG!—Humor and Fluff) - 10%

Stormy Night (Emmet - Elesa POV yeah decided to include his POV to this too; Established Romantic Relationship [Emmet/Elesa focused]; Hurt and Comfort) - 25%

Art to do

Any Anon Ask

Comics that my brain randomly comes up with at the dead of night (like teen!Elesa hilariously failing HomeEc and Ingo and Emmet hesitating to eat the food she had burnt cooked)

Nimbasa trio wearing pokemon inspired fits (My outfit designer brain goes ooo)

Nimbasa trio's casual wear

Teen!Nimbasa trio designs (Cuz my first art of them was wACK and I've been itching to redraw it)

From kids to adults type of illustration

The 2 Valentines day illustrations (SHE LITERALLY HAS 🔺🔻 ON HER OUTFIT I'M STILL FIXATING ON IT SO HARD—)

Nimbasa trio in Tetsuya Nomura's KH artstyle (the game that literally has a metric fuckton of trios and I miss drawing characters in that style)

The fan kids I had designed for them (will I show them tho?—)

AUs

Siren AU (Submas being twin eel-like mers who are kept into captivity in a facility Elesa's working in; fucking finish it already you hoe) I FINISHED IT RAAA—

Nimbasa trio x Okami AU (Specifically Ingo and Emmet, the Subway Bosses of Nimbasa City as Lechku and Nechku, the Twin Demons of Ezofuji while Elesa takes over Tuskle's role as shrine maiden)

Emmet getting eebied deebied into Monster Hunter Rise (The funny is Emmet is not only coping with his brother still missing—also LOSING his girlfriend—but is trying to comprehend talking cats, giant handheld weapons that he can barely carry and to not get killed or eaten by the local wildlife—oh and Elesa takes Emmet's place of "Arceus, if you don't tell me where BOTH of my boyfriends are or so help me I will not hesitate to fight god—")

Nimbasa trio x Monster Hunter (Ingo and Emmet as Wyvernians! Elesa is just a regular human hunter but she is of Higher Rank! Oh other pokemon characters are there too, the villains aren't villains just rival guilds except Ghetsis is still a bastard running his city, and the PLA cast are alive here so Ingo still maintains his friendship with most of them)

Nimbasa trio x God Eater (??? Debatable, why must my other interests have very detailed weapon designs lol)

Nimbasa trio x Code Vein (??? Debatable too, Ingo and Emmet as Elesa's attendants cuz why tf not)

[blueisquitetired]

I posted 89 times in 2022

That's 89 more posts than 2021!

(it’s almost like I didn’t have an account back then)

75 posts created (84%)

14 posts reblogged (16%)

I tagged 65 of my posts in 2022

Only 27% of my posts had no tags

#submas - 35 posts

#feralinhisuiau - 29 posts

#subway master ingo - 28 posts

#subway master emmet - 27 posts

#submas au - 24 posts

#gym leader elesa - 21 posts

#akari pokemon - 21 posts

#blue’s writing - 19 posts

#pokemon - 15 posts

#blue’s art - 14 posts

Longest Tag: 93 characters

#plus all of those unnamed dads that just live in their houses and have no impact on the story

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Nickname guide for Found Family (From Hisui to Nimbasa) as well as other future fics

91 notes - Posted July 26, 2022

#4

Everyone Goes Feral in Hisui AU

Okay so basically it’s just Nimbasa Trio + Akari in Hisui just... letting loose.

(And Emmet causes zero bodily harm/murder, it’s not that kind of AU)

Akari was raised by zoroarks

Ingo becomes a wild mountain man

Emmet rips apart space time with the power of truth and ideals

And Elesa very nicely asks Arceus to send her back in time (and it does)

This is a sort of crack AU that’s just supposed to be fun found family romp about a bunch of city slickers finding their wild side in ancient sinnoh.

Edit: The fic is out now! Come read it!

118 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

#3

POV you’re the subway bosses but your best friend keeps making you stupid twin costumes and you’re too nice to say no

334 notes - Posted July 5, 2022

#2

This can be my first real post on this website lol. Blaidd was talking about worm!Elesa on the discord and I wanted to sketch one out! Here she is! @blaiddraws

386 notes - Posted June 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Happy Halloween! Please enjoy the pumpkin I carved last night- I am verrrrrrry proud of it!

Here’s the pattern I made if you’re interested in doing it yourself!

See the full post

874 notes - Posted October 31, 2022

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[answrs]

post-hisui thoughts at 4am thinking about this some more

in all honesty i originally planned for the ending to be "ingo goes back to normal except his bi-monthly escapes to the wilderness cabin somewhere to run around with paws" but the more i think about how his actual experience in hisui would have been the less it feels like it fits the timeline? especially with the Protector™ role he's held for what's been a good.... 6? 8? 12??? years now. like normally (in 'canon' (fanon, lbr), other aus that aren't this one) his role might have shifted thirty feet to the left, but he was still basically an experienced, working trainer raising and battling with a team* and who likely occasionally ferried groups back and forth in the Highlands, so i can see him... not necessarily easily, but slotting back into his original post with less issue. meanwhile in this au he's had.... a much different experience and changes to how he works, thinks, exists, to say the least. you feel me?

*i just realized, but he absolutely needs to befriend Gliscor somewhere along the line here. i don't make the rules, lil bat baby needs to be allied, at very least. perhaps he could be the one pokemon ingo "trains", giving him directions to coach him like a human trainer would?

I'm also kinda waffling on what of his memories he retains. i was thinking most of them at first, honestly? but that panic gets kinda pushed to the back burner while he learns how to just. not die. also he's a carnivore so there's.... that hurdle to get over. and the human-panic-disgust-fear thought spirals would get pretty old after the first two or three.

on the other hand like. I've been thinking maybe his memories being suppressed more fits the vibe, especially on the Return To Future Present Arc, and it's kinda just like. most stuff about his memories don't really have much value for him as the Hisui Guardian pokemon? so I'm maybe leaning more towards a PMD style "wakes up knowing his name and he's theoretically supposed to be human but not much else" with the occasional "specific trivia/knowledge pops up as need-be, or there's a vague sense of recollection sometimes" for flavor.

that last one, especially in the Return, makes for a.... hmm. rather distressing reunion of the brothers/nimbasa trio/etc to say the least, if it happens at all? like he has a vague sense that these people are familiar, but he wouldn't necessarily seek them out on his own, just keep by the side of his Charge. which like. unless they get dropped in unova, or crash The Annual Great Gym Leader And Family Fun Getaway Trip To Sinnoh, that would be a kinda contrived way to mash them back together.

..........oh no now im thinking of akari stealing emmet's clothes off a line and someone mistaking him in the woods for his brother and calling out before he (literally) turns tail and runs, leaving torn fabric behind. that might be a fun trail to think about now, Whoops™.

now how would i convince arceus to give Rei over too when It tosses them back through the rift....

lots of disconnected ing(o)men thoughts tonight if anyone's up?

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⚪ thinking about Akari’s return to the present, and the Protect Instinct of shielding her from (what was more human than not, at the end) threats still running high… a half-feral man jumping into the face of an opponent twice his size, too-pointed teeth bared in a fierce snarl as he crowds the encroaching pokemon, throwing his whole weight into the intimidation display. or a grunt, a pickpocket, a wrong-place-wrong-time hiker hearing seams rip as the “borrowed” clothing tears away and shreds hang off a massive, terrifying monster.

⚪ while the typical end goal is ingo adopts his Future-Present child, they move in with him and emmet, happy family days etc. but this akari is an adult (legally emancipated minor, but she's been caring for herself for years now) - and she's much more wary of strangers, even those that share her companion’s sometimes-face.

her bodyguard goes where she goes, she must travel to Unova eventually - to escape the echoes of the Present-Past? and her personal omen follows.

she'd have her own apartment at least, either through battling prowess - though I feel she's of a more research-over-battling leaning nature here - or inheritance, or generous gift from her guard’s friends or own estate to keep her - and thus Ingo too - in the region.

⚪ emmet not having the perfect reunion and back-to-normal-life he'd hoped for the first time he'd seen his brother returned. half the time their apartment stays as empty as the years before, Ingo pulled to the side of his charge in this city of noise and uncertainty more often than not. even if he... visits? - does ingo even live here with him anymore, emmet wonders - he ghosts around warily on silent feet, hunched shoulders making him look both larger and smaller than he truly is.

ingo himself being uncomfortable in a place and company of expectations counter to His Purpose, of fleeting memories and pitying looks. he is not That Man they remember anymore, his status of Being Human anymore not the most egregious change amongst the numerous others.

⚪ he's spent enough time in the wilds that besides dedicated sparring, fighting other pokemon is for all-out, life-or-death confrontations or sustenance hunting. his adherence to modern competitive battle standards is basically in the negatives, even if he would accept the direction of a trainer over his own Ideals to survive the tide of battle.

his drive and passion that made him such a passionate and formidable trainer have not been dispelled in the least - merely redirected in the years and distance since. towards protection, of a god’s Chosen, of warring clans and child leaders, and of unconnected travelers both through Hisui and now Unova. he'd return as a conductor, likely, but his restored position as facility head is not a Truth that is likely to occur soon.

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Nine Fandom People to get to know

@vylad243 tagged me for this (holy fuck I did a double take tbh; love ur radiostatic fics <333 )

3 Ships you enjoy/like

I’mma be honest, a lot of my experiences at the ‘end’ have me headcannoning a lot of aroace/qpr relationships or just plain not romantic/sexual so I’ll just shorten that to relationship, period.

qpr/romantic/sexual: Chili/Zhongchi (Genshin Impact, Childe/Tartaglia x Zhongli. Specifically Cyanide Narwhal’s iteration but anyways-)

Sibling/Family relationship: the Nimbasa Trio + Legends Arceus MC (Ingo, Emmet, & Elesa + Akari/Rei/MC)

qpr/friends/romantic: Arenos (Hades [Supergiant], Ares x Hypnos)

3 ships you enjoy from your current fandom(s)

Wavewave (Transformers, Shockwave x Soundwave)

Radiostatic (Hazbin Hotel, Vox x Alastor)

Jeith (Voltron Legendary Defender, [more of a qpr specifically], James Griffin x Keith)

First ship you shipped

Oh dear god uhhh My first fandom was mfing Undertake AUs (love them, but dear god) so uhhh Killermare?? I think?? (Undertale AUs, Nightmare x Killer)

Last Song you heard

Currently listening to music sooo lemme answer this after I finished-

Tho I did listen to Gladiator, The Dismemberment Song, Faster n Harder, and Dissolve each for like a day/night straight recently 👍

As of now I am listening to Derivakat’s Viper! :)

Fav Childhood Book

Uh deadass wish I could remember any of my childhood tho I do remember I was a book worm kid so

Uhhhhhh probably the Warriors Series (3rd series especially) or or or uhhh Percy Jackson/Rick Riordan’s books cause I’m a mythos fiend oh or SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson (I found it in my middle school book fair???) oh or- *dies*

What you are currently reading

Eh Handful of radiostatic fics and just going through Keith angst in ao3

Currently consuming

Nothing, actually, but I did just have some mocha boba milk tea and froyo an… oh shit it’s been an hour already

Currently Craving?

Nothing, again, since I just ate.

uhhh, no let’s see the stunning by amount of people I can remember and not anxiety out of tagging:

@theundertaleeffect @defnotnoodle @donatellokinnersinner @blood-orange-juice @definitlyhuman @soyhasmcaamp

uhhh and anyone who wants to join! :)

[turtle-trash]

I know no one asked but here’s the moves the nimbasa trio have in the au where they’re pokemon