#lucas: Going Thru It In Hisui

[theworldisvast]

💀 -tell me of loss

Ah, loss. The perfect reminder to live each day to its fullest and create memories to look back on when it inevitably hits you.

Yeah, there's been a fair amount of it in my life, like anyone's going to face eventually. My mother passed when I was a teenager, and that was part of my decision to halt my 'adventure' in Sinnoh. And then there's my old friend, Lucas... He had a head start on me as a Pokémon trainer, and he was the one who went on to become the Champion of Sinnoh.

When we were sixteen, though, Lucas disappeared. All of his Pokémon and all of his belongings stayed, though- and the assumption was that he would return.

Yeah.. over twenty years later, no sign. No body.

I do miss him, though.

Bitterly.

[blaiddraws]

Wait. hold on an entire second. I. I need to know more about the GiraIngo AU. I. How does the clans react to him? How does the Galaxy team react? HIW DOES VOLO REACT?? AND! the protagonist! Do they try and capture him? Do they become friends? I’m. Thinking about this so hard now.

(referring to this)

it's been a hot minute since I've thought about it so this is mostly off the top of my head. But.

okay so. a random new never before seen pokemon just suddenly shows up in hisui, wandering around. weirdly friendly and non-aggressive. and surprisingly genuine even if it can't speak like a human.

the clans! since he ends up getting basically adopted by sneasler first. and introduced to the clans through the noble Pokemon (she proudly flaunts her new worm son to all her besties) they're immediately. like. not necessarily completely TRUSTING of him but they can tell he's not a bad thing, or there to hurt anyone.

so they almost treat him like a,, lesser noble, i suppose? they respect him but they don't have that same. uhhhh devotion? no. reverence? for him that they do the Actual noble/ride pokemon, who are descended from Pokemon with the Almighty Sinnoh's blessing (little do they know he's literally like. a mini deity. but hey. details)

they eventually get used to him.

Galaxy team! i guess sorta the same way they'd treat the nobles, since they learn of him thru the clans. not much to say there

VOLO. haha. volo is. SO incredibly confused. so is the giratina of This Point In Time. both of them have no idea where this mini shiny giratina came from. normal giratina is kinda put off by him because it. it has NO idea. and it doesn't like that. volo is also put off by him but less so, and mostly because giratina is. so volo ends up trying to just. avoid him

unfortunately giraingo can subconsciously sense giratina's presence on and around volo so is just sorta. drawn to him. doesn't know Why but he just thinks that funky merchant guy is neat

protagonist! there's many ways we could go with this. dawn/lucas from the Future? do they Remember the future? or perhaps someone unrelated to dawn/lucas at all (and therefore don't know or have personal experience with giratina)??

i think if we did a dawn/lucas from the future who Does Remember. it'd. kdhdkshsjd. they're the player character therefore i WILL shove my love and adoration for The Worm into them. weird little chaos gremlin from modern times. pokemon can do no wrong even giratina.

so. they come across this mini shiny giratina and absolutely lose it.

introduced to them as the lesser lord of [whatever]. since the clans don't know what a giratina is. so it never occurs to them to try and catch him. but BOY howdy they're obsessed with that little guy.

so. yeah. become friends through sheer force of will. ingo does not have a choice in this. (not that he would have chosen otherwise. he's desperate for human contact where they actually treat him normally instead of with way too much fear or respect. and also SOMEONE has to stop this kid from diving into spacetime distortions without hesitation, or trying to fight and catch All the alphas. etc.)

[tiktaaliker]

i can't wait for rei to meet ingo. most pla fics have the protag latch onto ingo in some way bc they're both ppl from modern times, but i can see rei going "oh shit" once they realize ingo is from modern-day (if not sinnoh, maybe) bc if he recognizes rei as being Not Who They Seem (maybe he knows lucas and recognizes a little bit of him in rei's appearance) and fully regains his memories... that could be p dangerous! and if they (rei and ingo) really get out of hisui and back to present-day, what if ingo has bonded so deeply w rei that he wants to visit every now and then like human friends do. so i see rei being really wary of ingo (every other human in hisui, they can just leave behind and not have to explain when they go back to sinnoh!) and kinda hoping he doesn't regain his memories or leave hisui, so he can't report them to the officers jenny or whatever for impersonating someone like The Sinnoh Champion (altho they prolly wouldn't know that's who their face/body belongs to at that point) and stealing some rando's phone lol.

oh yeah i will not lie ive been looking forward to introducing ingo since before i started actually writing history offers preservation. like 90 percent of the time when ppl write the protag and ingo interacting it's like. ok we have both been eebied from a similar deeby so we gotta stick together! but here? rei's worst nightmare is someone from modern day calling out their bs. like rei knows very little of how things work in actual civilized society and even with ingo's memory loss rei is gonna freak out BIG time. its like. you know how in hitman where if you put on a disguise there's certain people who can still tell you're lying even if everyone else buys it? i feel like rei would be absolutely CONVINCED that ingo will find them out eventually

meanwhile im honestly torn for ingo's side of it... either he's going to very very easily see thru rei's disguise (i feel like he's prob dealt with a lot of zoura/zoroark both in hisui and unova so is used to pokemon trying to pass as humans. like he can't tell with rei at first glance but there's some sort of vibe that ingo picks up on that rei is very much not human) or it goes RIGHT over his head. like its not even something he's at all considering despite any and all signs to the contrary