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[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]

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]

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]

May we see Emmet's mustache or is it a horror that should never see the light of day?

mustached emmet be upon ye

[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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Is Ingo scary to anyone else in Hisui? Besides Akari of course. This man befriends weapons of mass destruction, regularly cuddles with the most poisonous creatures alive (Lady Sneasler and her sneaslets), and likes battling.

Question, how tall do you say Ingo and Emmet are, especially next to people from Hisui? That's another possible scare factor. Oh, imagine if Ingo's slouch was not only from stress but also from trying not to loom over everyone else.

Someone did like a fanfic were one of the scenes was Ingo straighting from his slouch and described it something like "the sound of geodudes shattering into thousands of pieces" which apparently scared Melli.

INGO IS VERY SCARY. Like, even Ingo as he was in Unova would be a bit threatening to the people of Hisui (he is tall and frowning and LOUD), but with the tattered coat, glowing eyes, and just...general vibe of ominous mountain man, Ingo absolutely scares the shit out of people. Less so if they're Pearl Clan, just because they're already aware that he's just a little odd. Also if they're Melli. Melli exists in a weird grey area of simultaneously being able to insult Ingo to his face and being terrified of him.

I feel like it is important to mention that while Ingo is threatening enough, if the roles were reversed and Emmet was the one sent to Hisui, people would be terrified. (it's mainly the smile)

According to my girlfriend's calculations using the manga as a ref, I believe they are 5'9"? I choose to ignore that though and perceive them both as over six foot because funni.

Ingo also slouches because it's easier for the sneaslets to clamber onto his back that way :3

KAJSDKF THE SOUND OF GEODUDES SHATTERING INTO A THOUSAND PIECES

[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]

This is a sadder ask so if you don't want to read it, that's okay.

But do you think about the effects on Ingo's body from being Lady Sneasler's warden? Particularly his shoulders.

Mountain climbing gives people broader shoulders, meaning Ingo's shoulders might not fit his coat too good. Not only that but climbing requires manueverbility, something that's will likely be restricted by Ingo's coat. I mean, it looks like it will handle it at first yet Ingo's new shoulders and the thick Pearl Clan tunic/kimino will put stress on the seams. It doesn't seem so big at first until you remember that it is one of the few things that Ingo has from Before.

Also the climbing might have given Ingo hunchback shoulders. If the muscles of the shoulders get too large it gives the person a more hunchback appearance, not just from the size of the muscles but also because it forces the shoulder blades into a different position. There are excercises to help with their issue though I don't think they would be widely known. So Ingo's slouched posture might also be a result of climbing too much.

I just thought this was a little interesting. I know everyone goes "Ingo got buffer" but they don't go into a detail of how it affects him besides he's stronger. Imagine how his only way of survival destroys his memoirs of a different time while fucking up his posture and giving him back pain. He's no longer quite as identical to Emmet any more.

NO BUT I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS TOO

Especially the aspect of him and Emmet no longer being as identical!

Granted, I do think their coats are slightly oversized for dramatic effect, so there's probably a bit of room before it starts getting too tight. I also imagine that Ingo's repaired it whenever it rips or tears too much? At least, if it's ever ripped so much that the repair is necessary.

I don't know if "the Subway twins are autistic" is the common fandom headcanon, but I can't see them as anything other than autistic, and the unwillingness to repair the coat fully/get a new coat that looks similar is something that reads to me as very autistic? It's both a physical reminder of the Before, but also I imagine that Ingo just finds the coat inherently comforting due to the weight/texture/routine of putting it and his hat on.

ON THE TOPIC OF HIS HAT.

Immensely impressive that he's not lost that hat. I fear what would happen if he lost that hat. (half-joking lol, i am also autistic and the idea of losing something that is both sentimental and also Part Of The Routine is incredibly stressful)

I imagine that the Pearl Clan probably tries to suggest he at least replace the coat with one that allows for better movement when climbing, but Ingo always refuses. His climbing could probably be more efficient with a new coat, but he doesn't want a new coat. So he just makes peace with the fact that he won't be as maneuverable as he could be.

There's probably also a part of him that doesn't want to change, either. He doesn't want to become so different that his coat doesn't fit the way it used to, because what if, if he ever does go home, the people he used to know won't recognize what he's become.