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I got pokemon arceus for Christmas and I finished it today (cause i have no life) AND I HAVE A FANFIC IDEA (featuring several headcannons) Part 1

Ingo and Dawn are back in the main timeline with only a year having passed in the present while 2 years has passed for Dawn and 7 for Ingo. Due to timey wimey stuff, neither physically aged but all things like hair growth, tattoos, and scars stayed. Due to being unable to find Dawns mom, Ingo is her legal guardian since he was taking care of her (and the kid wardens) in the past.

Ingo and Emmett reunite, and it is very sweet, and Emmett welcomes his new niece. Everything seems to be going well, except Ingo is hiding a lot. After regaining his memories from Uxie, Ingo was able to make his own identity from being a twin while Emmet was not, so he hides all changes. Ingo hides the fact he grew put his hair, his new muscles, his various scars, and his clan tattoo under his uniform, and it goes pretty great. Two are practically inseparable except whenever Ingo and Dawn go put to give their Alpha pokemon and Lady Sneasler some nature time. (She upgraded her child to be a warden)

Well, it goes really well until a space-time rift appears in the middle of Nimbasa and Ingo springs into action and defeats it. Dodging like a young pro and not a 33 year old train conductor and things slowly start falling apart, especially when Emmet follows Dawn and Ingo to see his brother rock climbing with his hat off and non-buzzed hair gleaming. Emmet doesn't like the change.

It gets even worse when another space-time rift opens up and out falls, not a pokemon, but Adaman and Irida. Both of whom are incredibly happy to see Ingo, friends that aren't also Emmets... Adaman and Irida and set up near the professors lab as to study and to make sure they're aren't too overwhelmed and Ingo takes more days off a week to go see and help them, making Emmet anxious. Cause Emmet doesn't really have people outside of Ingo other than Elesa

Emmet and Elesa meet Adaman and Irida, and are surprised with how close they are to him and that is how they find out about Ingos job in the past and that Irida was his boss. Eventually, as more and more space-time rifts appear, the group decides to travel through Unova to figure out how to stop it, with Adaman and Irida choosing to take part in the gym challenge.

I have more ideas for this, non of then are coherent though.

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Sneasler!Ingo not realizing how much of a feral person he's become until he's coughing up a hair ball. Out of everything, it's a fucking hair ball. Not hunting and eating meat raw. Not purring and hissing like an animal. Not even the grooming he does to create the hair ball.

Just. The. Fucking. Hairball.

And then he realizes how pokemon he's gotten.

Of course human Emmet is watching him puke up a ball of hair. We really need more human Emmet finding out how much of a sneasler that sneasler!Ingo is.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure part of the hair ball is Akari's. Yeah, long human hair is a bitch to cough up.

ASKFHSKJHS NOT THE HAIR BALLLLLLLL

Emmet watched in mild concern as the pale lavender sneasler that supposedly was his brother convulsed and hacked out several coughs, his muzzle snarled up. "Niece. Why is he doing that." Emmet looked over to where Akari was sitting, scrawling something into her Pokédex while two of the sneaslets tried to chew on her kerchief. "Huh?" Akari blinked, glancing at him and Ingo in confusion. "Oh. Hairball, I guess. Lady Sneasler does that too." What. Emmet whipped his head back around to look at Ingo, who now had his ears pinned back. "...Hairballs are caused by repeated grooming behavior," Emmet said, as if repeating something from a textbook. "Yeah?" Akari raised her eyebrow at him. "Haven't you seen him with the kits? He does it to me, too." What. Emmet just stared at her, his brain not wanting to process this information. Behind them, Ingo finally managed to cough up that hairball and proceeded not to groom any of the kits for nearly a week out of fear of it happening again.

this is very fun to write XD

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Thinking about the subway bosses being distant descendants of the Twin Heroes and, by sheer coincidence, they look very very alike. Plus they're identical twins in black and white.

Mostly people in Hisui coming across some of those documents/ depictions of the Twin Heroes of Unova and well... damn one of thems a dead ringer for Ingo. What does that mean?? Local train man may or may not be royalty what do?

Maybe Irida's not sure he came from the rift (she never mentions he is in game, just that he appeared one day) and is mildly worried about having potential foreign royalty as a warden. Surely he needs to get back home now they have a lead?

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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

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My brother pitched an idea to me

As he puts it, "if you draw prowl with cat ears, people on tumblr would go feral", so I'm testing his hypothesis..

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Presenting Shifting Spirits Ingo as a child thinking about Amtrak plushie featuring my hand-drawn doodle-texture that I haven’t had the energy for for awhile. If you look closer (wich please PLEASE do if you have the time), the doodles where all made with his future/fate in mind!!!

A version without the train and a version of the the doodles at the add blending mode to be the most visible bellow :p the train plush was a part of this work since the sketch but the image admittedly doesn’t match the effort I put into the rest of the piece lol.

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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

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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

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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*

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i am working on rendering a submas piece that might be done by chrimmas we'll see, but here's some assorted PLA scribbles i have

listen i love bald/balding ingo but i also love giving men long hair

lady sneasler found him in the dumpster (the snow)

ive seen a pokerus au floating around and i decided to try my hand at it, here is dewott!akari

she is only baby

pikachu rei and his lil cheekies

arcanine palina (arcanine has really weirdly shaped ears?? makes palina look very doe-like)

gliscor ingo

drawing pokemon is very difficult for me because they are by nature highly stylized XD

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people need to realise that a poor little meow meow must be a character who has committed atrocities you cannot poor little meow meow a good guy that’s not how this works

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A buff son

I found out today that it’s impossible for me to draw Springer or Prowl in a serious manner so I decided to fuck it and just embrace the goof

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Get in losers, we’re going climbing.

I like to imagine Lady Sneasler is chatty with Ingo, and while the two can’t understand the nuance of each others words they can certainly understand the vibes.

Masterlist for my submas stuff!

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oh my god two words in that just UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE

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"I can't believe you're making me go gray in my twenties."

listen i know aNiMe LOgiC and hair color can be whatever but like

fuck you

the subway twins went grey because of ingo's litwick/lampent/chandelure eating parts of their lifeforce, you can pry this headcanon from my cold dead hands LOL