#sorry if it's got that sleep deprived swag that can be extremely hit-or-miss

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Came to the realization earlier that Emmet in the Illusory Lives AU could just.

Scruff Ingo.

Like, as far as Zoroark go, he's pretty tall due to having retained his human height (*bop bop bop* yes I know normal Zoroark are like 5 feet shhhhh), and he's just tall enough that he could pick Ingo up by the collar.

Needless to say, this is egregiously embarrassing for Ingo, because dragging siblings around by the collar is his job, and yet here Emmet is doing just that.

It goes great until biology fails Emmet and Ingo grabs his actual scruff, rendering him a limp noodle because scruffing instincts (many baby scruffables go limp when scruffed) (he's not a baby but. shhh).

Ingo just has to find his scruff first, why does Emmet have such a fantastically voluminous mane of ghost fur, how is he supposed to find any vertebrae in there.

Also sopping wet Emmet after getting hit with basically any water-type physical attack. Looks drowned. The mane just deflates like an old balloon and adds like 20 pounds of weight to his neck because it's full of so much water. He genuinely looks pathetic.