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Okay but this thing looks so much like Emmet. And it's goofy enough so it could be a Pokémon, so say it's an extinct Pokémon that only has incomplete fossils so can't be revived. Ingo sees the needle felt doll and thinks it's the cutest thing ever, buys one and puts it on his office desk. Emmet is lowkey annoyed by it because he does see the resemblance and it looks so silly. He commisions a custom frowny version that looks just as silly and puts it next to the smiley one, maybe to annoy Ingo a little bit (but also because the smiley one looked a little lonely by itself), but Ingo thinks the frowny one is also cute and dotes even more on the pair. One of the depot agents makes small hats for them and by that point Emmet has to admit that, okay, maybe they're sort of cute.

When Ingo goes missing Emmet can't bring himself to touch anything on Ingo's desk, so the pair just sit there gathering dust and Emmet feels like screaming every time he sees them (seeing them side by side is like a stab to his heart but he still thanks the Dragons that his past self got the frowny one made because if he had to see the smiley one on Ingo's desk by itself it would really have shattered him)

Then Ingo comes back, and once he's acclimatised enough to Unova to come look at Gear Station Emmet takes him to their office, and Ingo immediately zeroes in on the fish and shouts about how adorable they are, they look just like you and me, look at their cute little hats— and Emmet bursts out crying, and yes he's done a lot of crying since Ingo came back but this isn't even an emotional moment, he's crying over the stupid fish

And Ingo doesn't quite know why Emmet is crying, but he does know it's not really about the fish, and he holds Emmet as he sobs his eyes out

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using up a buncha my wool scraps to felt a sacabambaspis 4 myself cuz who can resist this faaaaaaaaaaceeeee

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Tate and Liza in Hisui AU

This is strictly based on r/s/e so the psychic twins are like eleven years old, not seven

Laventon finds them on the beach and takes them to Cyllene when they tell him they're from Hoenn, they figure out pretty quickly that they've been displaced in time, Cyllene agrees to take in the twins (because what else is she going to do, they have nowhere to go and they're too young to be told to earn their keep, they might not be from this time but they're still from Hoenn) but she's busy all the time and doesn't really have the temperament to take care of kids anyway so Laventon ends up as their primary caretaker, though Cyllene still tries to spend time with them

Laventon doesn't give them Pokemon at first because they're eleven and Pokemon are dangerous, but they're Gym Leaders, they're good at what they do, they befriend Cyllene's Abra immediately, and although other types aren't their specialty they still start training Laventon's 3 starters since they're around, and Laventon eventually gives the starters to them

Laventon starts taking them on field expeditions because they're so good with Pokemon and he reckons they're a little more capable of defending themselves than other kids their age due to their psychic abilities (and Cyllene lets them take her Abra with them when they do) and the ride Wyrdeer immediately latches onto them, they also befriend a Mime Jr which they insist on taking home with them, much to Laventon's consternation

A couple of Unown also start following them around as well, nobody has any idea what the Unown are but the psychic twins love them

Zisu absolutely adores them and joke-threatens to steal them away from Cyllene several times, to which Cyllene replies she'll take them over her dead body

People keep calling Tate a tomboy which he hates (and so does Liza), they have to keep convincing each other not to drop rocks on people's heads with their minds because Laventon told them to keep their psychic abilities a secret, when Cyllene realises what's going on she glares at people with one hand on her sword until they start using the right pronouns for him

When the Nobles start getting frenzied, not even Kamado is willing to send eleven-year-olds to fight enraged giant Pokemon, but Wyrdeer himself requests their help and nobody can say anything to that

The psychic twins themselves are super hyped for it because eleven-year-olds think they're invincible (especially those with psychic powers), and they're also Gym Leaders, they've been dying for a proper battle that's not against each other

Every other adult around them is. Not so hyped. Cyllene insists on accompanying them (Lian and Mai tell her that she is not to use her sword on Lord Kleavor under any circumstances) abd Laventon trails behind her wringing his hands in worry

The psychic twins of course pull of the quelling perfectly, they're not scared of Kleavor, their aces back home are Solrock and Lunatone, they're used to rocks being thrown around, they have no idea how close they came to getting seriously injured and all the adults are trying to recover from heart attacks

They eventually meet Ingo and he breaks down in tears seeing them, he doesn't know why he's crying, they don't know why he's crying

Once they figure out Ingo is actually a really good battler, they reckon he's good enough for them to pull out their preferred battle format, that weird double-multi hybrid battle thing that I have no idea if it will be considered fair in-universe, and Ingo sees the identical twins challenging him as a pair and breaks down all over again (and they don't get to battle that day because Ingo is just that much distraught by it)

(And because I need the train twins to be reunited. Emmet eventually finds his way into Hisui and Ingo finally realises why he got so worked up over seeing the psychic twins. They do twins vs. twins multibattle matches which the psychic twins lose most of the time because as talented as they are they still have limited experience. Everyone has so much fun though.)

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stories about time travel are about two things. number one is inevitable tragedy. number two is seeing that inevitable tragedy and saying oh god I will make this right please even if I can't fix it I will try to make this right. also I lied they're about three things and third is obviously love

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if you've ever used the London Underground you might have noticed that it often gets uncomfortably hot. the reason for this is actually that its builders dug too greedily & too deep and as a result the trains are very close to the fires of hell. hope that helps.

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One crossover I've been thinking about ever since getting on the submas train is one with Kamen Rider Den-O. They have time-travelling trains. There's that theme of memory (specifically other people's memory of you) as something that sustains a person's existence. They have magic time-travelling trains. I just want Emmet to somehow find himself in the sands of time and be picked up by the Denliner crew, go through some shenanigans, then eventually get to Hisui. And when it's time for them to go back, the moment Ingo and Emmet step into the sands of time together a train platform appears out of thin air, tracks laying themselves down, and a black-and-white two-car train rolls up in front of them. The train jingle is the first four notes of the subway trainer battle theme. I don't know I just want them to have a time train of their own.

I will never be able to actually write this because I can't write the Den-O crew in English and I can't write the train twins in anything but English. But I do think about it a lot.

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Oh and I guess I have a place to upload this now. Made like half a year ago by my desperate need to see the train twins dance with each other. Song is Akiko Wada - YONA YONA DANCE

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Random things about the heart and mind continuity:

Ingo had to leave all of his (and Emmet's) Pokémon behind when he came to Hisui, so all he currently has is the Oshawott Laventon gave him. (He'd have gone for the Cyndaquil if he knew it would evolve into a fire-ghost, but since he didn't know, he chose a Pokémon he was familiar with because he wasn't in a position to be taking any more risks than he already was. He's going to be so surprised when Oshawott evolves fully.)

Emmet of course immediately pressed half of his team into Ingo's hands the moment he realised Ingo has only one Pokémon with him.

Emmet's team: Crobat, Yanmega, Steelix, Rotom, Scizor, and Magnezone. The Scizor evolved from a Hisui-native Scyther (as opposed to caught in a distortion). The Rotom spends most of its time as Heat Rotom because it's cold in the Icelands. The Magnezone is the same Magnezone Ingo would have got if he'd been the one to fall to Hisui.

Emmet has been in Hisui for about 2 years before heart and mind, and Ingo has been there for maybe 10 days.

Ingo was going around asking everyone he met if they knew Emmet, and didn't have any luck until he ran across Mai in the Fieldlands, who mistook him for Emmet at first glance. He nearly blew out Mai's eardrums after that.

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I wrote heart and mind somewhere around chapter 7 of WiNLY, meaning I desperately needed more Emmet in my life. The specific scene that came to my mind was Emmet throwing himself into Ingo's arms and then asking 'who are you?', and that's the moment the fic was built around.

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I do find it amusing that of the three pairs of train twins I've written, only one out of six has his memories intact, and that one is Ingo.

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In WiNLY Ingo says he's not very religious. What that means in (my version of) the Pokéverse is that he knows that gods do exist, there's very little room for debate there*, but he doesn't believe that they involve themselves in human affairs, but just off somewhere doing their own thing. He still uses 'Dragons' as an expletive, even without his memories, because that's more of a cultural thing than a religion thing, but he uses the word as just an intensity modifier and doesn't attribute any additional meaning to it.

(*There would be a small subset of people who actually do think legendaries are just really strong Pokémon and not gods, but they'd be a small minority.)

Emmet on the other hand does believe the Dragons play some role in people's lives, namely their own. Emmet explicitly thinks their fusion ability came from the Dragons. This is mostly because he's the sort of person who wants an explanation for everything, but since Ingo is uncomfortable with the fusion ability being studied in any scientific way, so he decided the Dragons were the explanation. And (although this isn't really showcased in WiNLY) Emmet is more likely to invoke Reshiram or Zekrom specifically depending on the situation.

Ingo really latched onto the Pearl Clan's capital-s Space thing because it fit in well with how he perceives/interacts with the world. But again, he considers it a culture thing, not a religion thing. Emmet just absorbed it directly from Ingo.

Emmet's time thing is more to do with routine than actual time itself, so Time doesn't get the same treatment despite them having spent much more time with Melli than with any Pearl Clan person.

Legendaries in WiNLY use capital They/Them specifically because, when I write 'they', I wanted it to unambiguously refer to Ingo and Emmet as often as possible. That's also why Lord Electrode, Mignon, and Magnezone all use it/its, though I really wanted to use they/them for Electrode at least.

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My Fics

Winning is Not Losing You (tag) which I abbreviate as WiNLY (I will write the extra scenes eventually)

The Heart Believes and the Mind Knows and its continuation In Full Accord (tag)

A shattered mirror (can still reflect new scenery)

tag for other fic ideas