#ingomen

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I need something to distract me and what better usage of my limited time on earth here than figuring out the minutiae of ingomen's (absol!Ingo) stats in his au.

(devastated to learn absol cannot learn the move Roar, not gonna lie. I might fudge that in the au canon actually if we're being honest. he does get Mean Look as his default Resting Disappointed Face, which stops naughty Heirs and Leader-Children(/Chosen-Children) in their tracks ;p)

so absol has three abilities: Pressure, Super Luck, and Justified (hidden)

Pressure is like. THE ability i think of when i think legendaries, which ties in nicely to the arceus connection. if it's an actual like, physical effect though, feels like that would have the opposite effect of putting the clans at ease with his presence. kinda like how I feel intimidate would come across, but if it's paired with being defended or rescued by angry alphas I can see it being a comforting, if overwhelming, presence to the clans (while still Fucking Up the jubilife settlers)

I was actually kinda pumped about Justified because I'd never heard of it before, but it just raises stat when hit by a dark move. could tie into giratina or even zoroark, but for like actual attacking moves h. zoros don't actually have much going on there and giratina has, uh. one singular dark type move. which is dark pulse. um.

Super Luck doubles critical hit chance, which also could tie into the Arceus thing, just leaning more on the Blessing side of things versus Divine Atmosphere Pressure. also then i can probably force a Super Singles joke in there somehow.

[rainyfroggy]

I just realized the adorable ingomen (absol! ingo) comm I ordered from you last year never made it to tumblr! :<

would you be able to post it here so I can reblog it from you? I have the image and could post it (with credit obviously) myself instead, but I definitely want to ask you about it first.

(thank you again for making such a beautiful piece for me! 🖤)

Oh I'm so sorry! My mistake! I have a potato memory oops

And if you want to post it as well feel free to do it! It was a pleasure, I love absol!Ingo! pretty baby!

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alright okay. maybe i’ll write a scene that just explains the bare premise of Third Idea but you all have to promise to talk to me about it afterwards

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welp, turns out the message system don't work on desktop right now. based on the preview however, I need to say I am not currently looking to commission other artists until I have the available income to do so again (though I will spread posts about open coms to my followers if I have had good experiences in the past, or can otherwise recommend the artist!).

but when I do commission I prefer to seek artists out myself if I enjoy their style, or go off of a mutual's recommendations, rather than be directly asked to comm you in a DM. thank you for understanding!

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thank you to the person reminding me of Them. wondering now if Stn Sparks was already with Ingo when he got yoinked along with him on accident, or joins him when they find the way back to their original verse. but if she does the latter I'd almost absol-utely end up wanting the (zoroark) twins to come too though. hmm...

PMD Ing(o)men AU family photo!

Rei currently has the non-scruffed privileges because he can (…somewhat) be trusted to not run off after the slightest shiny object. Akari is displeased. Stationmaster Sparks is just happy to be here.

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i really need to get some art done, anyone up for chatting on a twitch to keep me working? probably ingomen au or a few original drawings

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4am doodles with Ingomen and the twins. Growlithe goes from being about belly-height to over twice Ingo's size when he evolves, but still thinks he can hide behind his (completely unphased) arceus-granted babysitter.

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I'm definitely focusing on this seven hour invasive snail conference and not doodling ingomen au, what do you mean?

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trying to find refs for Ingomen's size so have some misc pictures from google under the cut and the original doodle above from months ago while I was on hold with insurance. it's a scribble don't judge me :p

I said in the about post he's around lion sized, but always nice to have reference images!

this is the oddest clickbait stock image thumbnail but idfk. it's actually shocking accurate for Akari-Ingo comparisons (and not far off actually very close in accuracy irl)

here's an *actual* photo (but please. please do not do the thing irl). the line of his back is around the lower hip of (an adult) human, head ends just around the bottom of the pecs. (and horn goes above that)

Ingo @ Akari, forgetting he has a very pointy bone sickle attached to his face: fuckin rip

(this is a very big lion, this is more him to Akari/Rei and Irida than the full grown adults)

good for an idea of him vs the kids like Lian

thought wolves might also be a nice size comparison, they're always bigger than people expect though so "lion" is better (also absol are def cats to me). speaking of:

akari: imma pick you up and hug you!

ingo: (i don't think-! *squawks*)

akari's back: C R A C K

akari, crumpled on the ground: w...worth it...

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the problem I'm having is there's like 4 (okay, 3.5, the last one is definitely not on the table for this au's canon but just a general PMD idea) settings i could take the ing(o)men au into and they all pretty much clash with each other, and since i can't decide which to focus on, *none* of them have had any progress done on the plot basically since the damn inception of this au :|

this post is honestly just me brainstorming since maybe if I write my thoughts out with the pros/cons it'll help me narrow things down? (edit: lmao it actually worked and I've narrowed it down to just 2 possibilities, leaning towards 1, so woo! massive progress!)

1) Ingo falls to Hisui as an absol

pro: have a very specific scene for this one (a panicked thrashing as he nearly gets strangled to death by his own tie because the only garment remotely loose enough around his form is his coat, the rest of his outfit becoming scattered in the wind as he fights for air). also because of him never being a human to the people there, his fighting to help when his senses warn him of danger. and then there's a clash of the guardian angel image the clans with no prior expectation of absol eventually see him as vs a devil harbinger the Galaxy Clan thinks him based on their various homelands' folklores where absol are native makes a compelling wedge, especially once the MC falls and grows close to him

con: can only really have a full connection to Sneasler and still leaves the warden spot needing filled, since he can't communicate and (since he's a pokemon and an unknown one at that) is held much further than arm's length from any of the humans, even the clans that appreciate him. might be an angle to learn about Irida and Adaman through connecting with their eevees? but then basically have to do 50 OCs for each of the respective partner mons in place of their humans.

2) Ingo is changed from human to absol in Hisui - possibly during the Red Sky? (possibly mortally wounded by Beni/Kamado defending MC?)

pro: human connections! immediate angst! drama! the clans mourning him only for the biting winter snow and Lady Sneasler's frantic cry to reveal him staggering towards the settlement on a wounded leg, coat billowing in the wind, looking for help

con: very far into the Hisui storyline, don't get anywhere close to as much traction from the omen aspect of his existence. probably muddles the importance if you throw all the Lord Sinnoh and Banishment and Everything Else in sy the same time as his change. but if it's not during Red Sky and is just like. him tripping off a cliff one day and coming back as a pokemon is the exact opposite problem of it being so stupid and anticlimactic and no reason for a blessing from Sinnoh to give a reason for him to come back.

3) Hisui is the same but the reverse-deebying turns him into an absol

pro: classic Arceus Fucked Up Whoops, can throw in Hisuian Zorua MC shenanigans trying to get home while being amnesiac and also a wild pokemon are always a classic

con: no point on him being an absol vs Literally Any Other Pokemon (and honestly even less plot relevance than other people's Hisuian Sneasel aus). i love the trope but really doesn't fit the concepts i wanna explore with it.

4) pokemon mystery dungeon it

this is a joke. maybe as a different au where imagine Emmet just gets yoinked and Arceus just. forgets to make him a pokemon. didn't It already change this guy? (no Arceus that was Ingo). so Emmet's just wandering around as a human and sees this absol wearing his lost brother's outfit yelling about safety checks to a pair of rambunctious zorua pups (Akari and Rei) playing on a cliff lmao

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wait no im not done because congratulations the IMAGE of totally human ingo Just Rolling With It and carrying things exclusively in his mouth WHEN THERE'S STILL COMPLETELY HUMANOID POKEMON WANDERING AROUND BEING NORMAL ABOUT IT. I'M SLAIN. he uses his hands to pick akari up and stick her in his mouth but the idea of just. carrying rei under an arm simply Doesn't Occur Whatsoever.

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Ask game: Emmet knew a lot about trains, but this was definitely something he'd never seen before. (Good luck I wish you many a writing motivation!)

ASK MEME: send me thefirst line of a fic and I'll write the next 5 sentences! [still open!]

(human emmet in pmd crackverse? human emmet in pmd crackverse.)

It was something he'd liken more to what a young Iris would have doodled if he had tried to describe a locomotive to her using only charades - strangely proportioned open cars of widely varying sizes reminiscent of a very unfortunate steelix's body, the wheels of each resting upon two bars set in a divot in the ground. The front cab was an odd mish-mash of rock and metal similar to the cars, a thatched roof perhaps once dyed a dark navy but now faded in the sun, and inside a box of green where one might expect an engine to be.

As he stood there gaping like a beached magikarp at the complete parody of a train, the object in the engine's compartment wriggled, before two blue eyes and yellow tusks popped up to reveal a charjabug blinking sleepily at the cloudless sky. Not deterred by his appearance, if she had even seen him, a surprisingly loud cry rang out to the otherwise nearly empty area.

"All aboard for Pelliper Post Office! Last call for Pelliper Post Office!"

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entirely crack ingomen idea: he gets to bond with the regular cast despite being an absol bc all the other human characters are also pokemon. their partners have instead been humanized. he becomes warden sneasler's noble

okay real talk would Lady Sneasler be an 00's Hot Topic Scene Teen or an 00's Claire's Prep Teen, or some unholy combination therein?

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too annoyed to deal with attempting to install the tablet anymore, so finally got some replacement microns to ink a family photo :>

(I'm gonna have to color it with a mouse but idec anymore I'm finally putting an Ingomen au pmd au -i need a better name for this alt au- piece up lmao)

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any plot/bg about the absol ingo/ingomen au you can share? 👀 (or if not that's fine too, of course)

just posted a thing for you! mostly I've been stewing at not having a great idea about the plot (or rather, too many idea bunnies to go after to focus on one direction of a plot) so I've just been drawing him a lot instead :p

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still decently sick but waddled downstairs to tag the p*ta post on desktop that i couldn't tag on mobile, sorry for the delay.

I've been spending the day between being miserable with withdrawal (one of my prescription refills was delayed a week due to clerical error and I've been Suffering now it's run out) I've been doodling more Ingomen au and deciding if it's worth it to wrestle the tablet into an attempt at working on the laptop to finish them.

i have a possible plot point but i need to look up all the regions absol are native to to see if I'm gonna mix said idea up or just disregard canon some more lol :p