#listen the twins being friends with Cynthia was originally something specific for a friends au

[ingo-appreciation]

Giradoption au thoughts but it’s emmet’s side of things

-some brief context on things that have been happening with Ingo to properly set up soemthing

-currently post-game Volo and Ingo are traveling around together to help Ingo recover his memories and understand giratina’s blessing, while Volo is happy to be able to explore hisui and Not Be Banned from places

-by some event I haven’t thought out completely yet, Volo accidentally ends up in jubilife at the same time as his past self

-everything ends up okay and ingo gets a little more giratina features, but essentially space-time got a little fucked up there because that wasn’t supposed to happen

-now back to emmet

-one day while he and ingo were on their shift, ingo went into a tunnel and just vanished

-there was an investigation but no one could find anything

-hell Emmet even ask a friend from Sinnoh to come over and see if there was any legendary involvement or any legendary he could ask to help get ingo back

-one day while emmet and Cynthia are hashing out ideas, emmet goes back to the place where ingo disappeared. Except this time, there’s someone there

-“this area is off limits. Please return to the main station”

-and the person just looks at him and she says “something happened here”

-“yes that is why it’s closed”

-“the fabric of space-time was torn here”

-and emmet just stops because that’s the first time anyone has been able to explain exactly what happened at this spot

-now emmet and ingo aren’t as knowledgeable as hex maniacs or anything, but considering ingo has had chandelure as his ace for a Long time and emmet sometimes uses her for his battles, the twins DO know a little bit about ghosts

-and sure enough, when he gets a closer look, the lady is a ghost.

-she says her name has been lost, so either she makes up a temporary name or emmet makes up a name for her (I haven’t decided, I’ve just been calling her Void)

-void joins the investigation team because she says she’s interesting it knowing more about the space-time tear. Emmet finds it a little odd but hey! Connections are connections and void doesn’t seem malicious

-void tends to pop in and out of sight and varies on how corporeal she is, but the longer she spends time around emmet, the more she seems to get a handle on how to control her form

-eventually, Cynthia has to go back to sinnoh, and probably by some combo of legendary power and void’s own mysterious ghost powers, a rift is opened back up to get emmet and void to hisui

-surprisingly, the people of hisui don’t immediately think emmet is a zoroark. I mean they’d already had one person who looked EXACTLY like Volo prove he wasn’t a zoroark so maybe this is related somehow

-they take him to jubilife to show ingo his weird doppelgänger and ghost pokemon

-sure enough! There ingo is! Emmet is BEYOND ecstatic to have finally found his brother!

-except ingo looks different. And he doesn’t seem to fully remember emmet

-emmet tries to explain everything and even explains how Void helped him find ingo, bht the second Void makes eye contact and tries to come close, ingo like. Visibly Bristles

-he looks nonhuman as large shadowy thorns appear behind him. And he says “I don’t know who you are but I think you should leave”

-Void disappears and emmet is like “what the fuck, ingo, she helped me find you!” And ingo doesn’t even entirely know why he did it, but he got a Very Bad feeling from her

-ingo asks Volo and even he doesn’t know the answer, it’s only when ingo asks someone who’s been in the distortion world for a very long time that he gets why he panicked

-when giratina rebelled against Arceus, she had a trainer that helped her. And when giratina was defeated, her trainer was erased from time and space and then giratina was banished to the distortion world

-so for her trainer to be here, even as a ghost, something is very very VERY wrong