#what a guy. he stole a noble's honedge in ancient kalos and had to go on the run

[ghostypetrainer]

remember months ago, when I made this post about a concept where Ingo just sort of regularly blips through time and space due to having n unstable presence in his time due to his eventual fate of falling into Hisui? And how I ended it on a somber note with the implication that Ingo was going to remain forever in Hisui?

Anyways. What if I took that core concept and made it funny. Ingo blips through space and time regularly, but he doesn't get stuck in Hisui forever. He doesn't even get amnesia! It's just another stop for him. He always blips back to his present time eventually.

That's how you get the Paradox AU.

Some fun facts about this AU:

Everyone around Ingo is just. so used to this at this point. Ingo disappears? Sigh. Wonder where he ended up THIS time. I'm sure he definitely won't come back with a Pokemon that they've never seen before.

(He will. Ingo might have a small problem with collecting Pokemon during his travels.)

(And by small, I mean he has 23 extra Pokemon other than his Unova and Hisui teams. This man has so many Pokemon.)

He doesn't age when he's blipped through time, only space. This means he and Emmet don't quite match, and pretty much no one believes Ingo is not only Emmet's twin, but Emmet's older twin.

Yes, Emmet does tease him about this.

Has a scar on the bridge of his nose. Changes the story about how he got it every time. Most assume it's from one of his more dangerous blips through space-time. It's actually from falling down the stairs.

Had a lovely summer romance as a young adult during one of his blips to the Sinnoh region. Years later in Hisui, he meets a girl with white hair named Akari and grows close to her. One day she's regaling him with the tale of how her parents met and suddenly. He realizes.

Oops. You're a (deadbeat) dad now, Ingo.

Historians hate him! Physicists can't get enough of him.