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[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Ingo has a resistence to poison by now. I mean, the sneaslets are not the best at controling their venom, especially after just hatching.

I know he's not a gym leader but doesn't prolonged contact with a specific type or species of pokemon cause side effects on the trainer? I know some fans put down that Ingo has glowing eyes from Chandelure's ghost typing and I don't know if many thought of his prolonged contact with the sneaslets and Lady Sneasler would also affect him. Maybe more fur like hair (better for nesting materials), purple tinted grey hair, sharper nails, or etc.

He probably knows how to rock climb too. Akari's probably struggling to find a foothold to start meanwhile Ingo is already halfway up the cliffside. Ingo is a semi feral mountain man, he can probably climb a brick wall.

Oh, likely he also has a mini version of Lady Sneasler's basket as well. While he can't stuff people in there he can use it to transport supplies like berries or even some sneaslets. It makes sense, he lives in the highlands so he needs his hands free to climb.

Just dunk him in light purple grey paint and he's a mini Lady Sneasler.

Ingo has been accidentally poisoned by baby sneasels so many times that he doesn't even feel the burn of the venom anymore 😭

I also subscribe to the headcanon that Ingo's eyes glow due to Chandelure, but I don't believe that he'd have developed anything from Lady Sneasler yet? I assume Chandelure is Ingo's starter and he's had her since she was a Litwick, presumably when he was also a child/tween? If glowing eyes is all he's gotten from Chandelure in the thirty plus years they've been partners, he's probably not gotten much in the way of obvious Typing ability from Lady Sneasler.

STILL. This man can absolutely scale cliffsides with his bare hands. Purely because the image of Ingo climbing a rock wall in dress shoes is one of the funniest things ever. People have offered him boots. He says no.

If anything, the Typing quality he absorbs from Lady Sneasler is probably physical strength or something related from her Fighting-Type side. Again. He is climbing mountains in dress shoes. Potentially also tougher palms and fingers, somewhat like Lady Sneasler's paw pads? Would help with climbing.

INGO CARRYING SNEASLETS IN TINY BASKET ON HIS BACK

I am adding this to my list of things to doodle, because this is blessed, thank you for this, anon

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Rapunzel Ingo....

Do you think that when his hair gets too long he cuts it off and gives the cut hair to Lady Sneaseler to use in her nest? Kind of like how birds will take the fur of shedding dogs to build their nests with? Or does he use it as stuffing for better warmth retention, like how some coats have fur/down in them?

Just... fuzzy mountain man.

Maybe Lady Sneaseler sneaks some feathers into his hair from time to time.

oh my god why is that so CUTE

Lady Sneasler is so honored to receive gift of nesting material from her Warden :D

must groom him in thanks

and YES SHE AND HER SNEASLETS BESTOW MOLTED FEATHERS UPON HIM

he wears them with pride

i like to imagine that every new litter of kits that Lady Sneasler has all think Ingo is just a really weird sneasler for a substantial amount of time. The kits are all either amazed or horrified the first time they see him take his coat off.

*confused sneasel noises*

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Do the sneaslets/sneaslings see Ingo as their Dad? Do they try to imitate him, like do his pointing stance and their best mimic of his "All Aboard!" and "Bravo!" phrases?

...Does Lady Sneasler mimic him?

I think depending on which litter they're from, they either see him as their father/second mother or their older brother. Lady Sneasler has considered Ingo to be her weird skrunkly kit since she found him, so most of the older sneasels consider him their sibling.

The sneaslets absolutely attempt to imitate him. They will also climb him and try to steal his hat to complete the look. It is not rare to see him hiking through the Highlands with a gaggle of excitable sneasels all trying their best to say "All Aboard" in time with him. I imagine it sounds like when housecats try to mimic their owners.

Lady Sneasler prefers to mimic his train whistles more than his shouts, but on special occasions (when the sneaslets beg hard enough) she will yowl in a rough approximation of whatever Ingo is saying.

Ingo: All aboard! Lady Sneasler: mmmMRAAAAAOOOOWW chorus of excited sneaslet sounds

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

I had a couple shower thoughts I need to share.

This primarily applies to Hisui magnet Ingo (the one where pokemon who evolve in proximity to him evolve into Hidui forms), but this could also work for Sneasler Ingo.

All the jokes associated to Ingo quickly become ruined when an evil researcher/organization kidnaps Ingo because, cmon, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to bring back/study extinct pokemon! Drastic measures will be taken in the name of science!

Ingo doesn't stay with them that long, maybe like a couple hours tops, so he doesn't really get hurt cause the researchers are either nice about the situation or just never got enough time to do anything. But that doesn't matter.

Because not only does Ingo have a Ghost chandelier who can pinpoint his location,

He also has Akari. And Emmet. Both of whom, *especially the latter*, are not pleased with the situation.

Emmet, with Akari, both go in and raid the place immediately.

Emmet leaves with Ingo in tow, and leaves his favorite niece to wreak havoc on anyone and everyone inside.

The police and fire department show up after they leave to a pile of unconscious researchers with a sticky note saying "they kidnapped my uncle, pls arrest them" and the building burning behind them.

Bonus points if Ingo was asleep the whole time (due to Spore or Sleep Powder), so when he wakes up in the hospital and is promptly discharged, all he sees is a burning building on the news, and immediately turns to Emmet and Akari who are both trying very hard to look innocent.

Ingo honestly can't even bring himself to scold them. Mainly cause both of them have a legitimately good reason for this.

After a couple months, he is promptly bullied about being kidnapped.

The end.

AKSDJFH EMMET SETTING AKARI LOOSE ON THE RESEARCHERS

"GO MY CHILD, DO A CRIME"

Ingo: please stop encouraging Akari to do things like this Emmet, actively handing Akari pocket knives: sorry what

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Akari is probably constantly trying to help others and Emmet probably stops her because he seems like the person to not help someone out of spite because they were a rude passenger.

Like, on the subway someone needs help finding their bag that is literally under their seat but they had also called Akari a Zorua because she appeared suddenly with Ingo and is weird. But Akari doesn’t care and tries to help her get her bag when Emmet grabs her by the shoulder and is like: “No, my favorite niece, this is karma in the finest ways.”

the customer Subway Boss is always right!

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

When Akari meets Emmet does she try to beat him up? Like, not even using pokemon, just straight up hands.

Akari: *sees Ingo in white with a mustache and is smiling**enraged daughter noises*

Emmet: why are you looking at me like that?

Akari: this btch going down :> *proceeds to throw hands*

"can I keep her, Elesa" "WHOSE CHILD IS THAT-"

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Wouldn't it be funny if Emmet went to Arceus (somehow) to at least fix the "my brother is a long hobo cat now" problem and Arceus just goes:

"Alright."

Then turns Emmet into a sneasler and calls it done.

he's not having a good go of it XD

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

I can imagine Emmet meeting sneasler!Ingo. Emmet just thinks Ingo is an exhausted, overworked Dad to sneaslets. Then Akari introduces the sneasler as her Dad and considering the post where she said my dad doesn't smile, Emmet connects the skrunkly sneasler to Ingo.

Yay! They found Ingo!

And then realizes that there are sneaslets. There's a female sneasler hanging around Ingo. They're famaliar with each other. Ingo is helping take care of the sneaslets.

DID INGO FUC-

The answer is a no but Emmet doesn't know this.

INGO DID YOU FUCK THAT SNEASLER?????

Akari is cackling the entire time as Emmet demands answers and Ingo yowls in annoyance that he can't SPEAK ANYMORE

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Lady Sneasler:

Beautiful, graceful, a noble blessed by Arceus. She is well groomed, not a hair out of place. She knows her worth and while she doesn't flaunt it, she's not exactly modest about it either. Beware of her claws because despite their beautiful coloring they can still rip you apart.

Sneasler Ingo:

Scrunkly, disheaveled, has a beard and has no clue about anything going on. Might be a himbo. He can fight but much prefers taking care of his Lady, her kits, and Akari. Everyone thinks he sires the kits. He did not. Still trying to figure out how to battle and climb since being turned into a sneasler. Grumpy cat looking, something that cracks Akari up.

Akari:

Human grandkit. Snuggles into her Dad's fur a lot. Will sneakily braid some of it.

YES

Lady Sneasler's biological kits are all lowkey horrified by Ingo's appearance and constantly pester their mama about it. Please Mama, please tell us we won't grow up to look like big brother, he's so skrunkly-

Akari learns how to climb solely to invade Lady Sneasler's den to visit her dad and all the kits. The kits are also alarmed by Akari not having any feathers or fur. They keep trying to give her their molted feathers (they do this to Ingo too)

Lady Sneasler loves her weird family uwu

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

May we see the sneasler brothers in their coats. Also how tall would they be? I looked it up and apparently the average height for sneaslers is a little over 4 feet while an alpha sneasler is over 8 feet tall.

I also noticed that sneaslers are actually pretty small! Which is why I just choose to imagine that the Noble pokemon are similar in size to the Alpha variants lol, because I want Lady Sneasler to be able to scruff Ingo and carry him around.

Anyway, as for their heights, I don't think they'd change much? Maybe get a tiny bit taller from the ears/feather

ingo looks shorter because of his horrible posture KASJHDGK

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

So Lady sneasler has adopted Ingo. What would sneasel/sneasler Ingo look like?

like pokefied/pokerus?

Lady Sneasler and her skrunkly son (sneasler!Ingo)

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Is Elesa an aunt now?

Also, does Ingo scruff Akari from time to time? I imagine he's used to doing it with the sneaslets so he just does it as a reflex.

Akari's about to run off to do something very stupid and Ingo just scruffs her and boops her nose and says "No" in that voice pet owners do when their pet is about to do something they pet knows it shouldn't do but will do anyway. It's a reflex so I imagine Ingo is embarrassed afterwards.

Elesa is an aunt now and she is thrilled about it (she and Emmet are constantly fighting over who's the better aunt/uncle. Chandelure is winning)

YES HE DOES. HE ABSOLUTELY DOES.

He's embarrassed the first time but it's really the only thing that'll make Akari stop squirming to escape. She doesn't have the instinctual "mother has lifted me, time to ragdoll" thing that kittens do, but she will still go limp. To be fair, part of this could be learned because Lady Sneasler will also scruff Akari when she's doing something stupid (Lady Sneasler perceives Ingo as her kit, therefore Akari is now her grandkit and she will parent her as well).

Please do not boop Akari, she may bite your finger.

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Do you think Ingo could be a Hisui form magnet when he gets back to the future? Like if a pokemon, petil or rufflet for example, evolves around him they'll be Hisuian form? Or if an egg, sneasel/zorua/voltorb, they'll hatch as their hisuian version? Just Ingo being in Hisui so long it has become a part of him. And it happens nowhere else, not even in Sinnoh. So if anyone wants to revive extinct variants of pokemon they have to follow Ingo around.

Imagine Ingo trying to have a normal day off and imstead he gets followed around by 50 interns and 2 professors trying to evolve/hatch a hisuian pokemon.

OH MY GODDDDDDD

Ingo is so tired of this. Emmet thinks it's hilarious.

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Does Akari attempt to dress up like her dad?

Also, will Emmet cry up finding out he's no longer the DILF twin? Like, you may have an army of Joltiks Emmet but Ingo has a beard and a feral teenage daughter. Competition of who is the DILFest!

Akari's hat now!!! She can be a Subway Boss too!!!

Honestly Emmet is probably more offended by the fact that Ingo can even grow a beard at all than being out-DILFed (Emmet can only grow a mustache and Elesa says it looks horrible on him)

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Is Akari still murder baby in your Pokerus AU? Also, is Ingo skrunkly long cat or horrifying bug bat?

she is mildly murderous, but she's nerfed on account of being an itty bitty baby oshawott/dewott and being very easily eaten by a lot of pokemon in Hisui XD

she DOES have sharp teefs and WILL bite tho

Rei has the type advantage on her as a pikachu, but Rei is also a wuss and lets Akari bully him all the time (sibling love fr)

Ingo is a gliscor in the Pokerus AU! :D

He is not wearing his hat here because he was sleeping and was hanging upside down

and additional scribble of gliscor :D

[zephyrrhiesfyrian]

Do the other wardens know Ingo is a sneasler? Does Irida know?!

Choke on that Melli

Irida and the Pearl Clan assume this is a blessing from Almighty Sinnoh. After all, what's more of an honor than being transformed into the same species as the noble you serve?

Lian will ask him to help excavate rock and look for gems (and Ingo can carry Lian's sliggoo for him). Palina will lend Akari brushes for pokemon fur when she learns about it because "if Warden Ingo is going to be a pokemon, he ought to honor Almighty Sinnoh by at least combing that scraggly coat of his" (faint whines of protest from Ingo. He doesn't think his fur looks that bad)

Gaeric is sad because he can't wrestle Ingo anymore.

Melli is horrified.

He's also convinced for a solid while that sneasler!Ingo is just a new male sneasler in the territory (specifically he assumes he is Lady Sneasler's mate for the season) and Akari is just playing a prank on him by insisting this is Ingo.

And then Emmet shows up and Melli is even more convinced that Akari is lying to him. Clearly she just got Ingo to clean up a bit, learn to smile, and trade in his coat for a decent one!

Melli doesn't understand why looking nicer, wearing white, and smiling all makes Ingo more of a jerk though.