#tsubanobo

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

 It just works! I can’t explain it!

[summerandfall]

i found an old mellingo draft in my notes, thought i'd share here because i may not ever touch it again.

**(you can tell it's outdated because i was still writing this with my headcanon that Ingo fell into Hisui "4 years ago" and described him as "having a youthful glow" lmao.)

[gingericywolf]

Thinking of Ingo

[lagtrainz]

love how everyone just decided yeah enamorus has sex pollen

[javisbutt]

the thought of melli getting sent to the present with ingo is so fucking funny to me cause we got this ancient hisuan malething in real life new york city and then theres dozens of people rhat neither of them recognize talking to them like “ingo we’ve been looking for you for three months busting our asses in desperation and you were just—“ *pointing at melli* “GETTING BITCHES THIS WHOLE TIME??????”

[lamponellatempesta]

Random thoughts of Lampo are back! In the tonight menù we have small headcanons on Melli! (Already sorry for my English!)

- He is a transgender boy and he understood when he was quite young that there was something between his body and how he really felt that he was not working but he always kept it hidden, given the age in which he was born.

- It is of the sign of Leo, an August Leo.

- He tried to keep his voice low enough to be more masculine and this make him feel good about himself.

- His ego is largely a shell that he uses to defend himself from others and look strong, when in reality it should only be protected and make him venting, otherwise it will explode like a voltorb.

- His favorite dish is a soup made from berries found only in the highlands.

- Prefers sunrise to sunset.

- The first person he confessed to feeling like a boy and not a girl was Adaman, who was initially shocked for some time, but then everything went back to normal.

- On days when women’s duties hits (if you know what I mean) is difficult to see him around . He hates everything about those days and the discomfort they cause him by reminding him that the body does not match who he is. In total breakdown surrounded by little voltorbs and Lord Electrode, also present in his own way.

- He will understand that he feels feelings and attraction for boys when Ingo appears in front of him, despite finding him initially weird.

- Over time, Melli will also teach Ingo to speak Sinnohian properly and especially not to pick poisonous berries.

- He will understand that he is totally under a train for the Lady Snesler's warden when they find themselves having to share the cave of Melli because Ingo remained stuck there because of a storm and everything Ingo said about sneasler, the only thing left in Melli's mind are the features of his face and how he wanted to kiss him to make him shut up and feels how those lips taste.

[kharmii]

Art credit to: SeonForest@seon_f Twitter.

Melli and Ingo shipping is called Tsubanobo in Japanese. Melli is beautiful but also a huge douche. Based on his performance as a Warden, Ingo would inwardly refer to him as ‘Kind of Alright Melli’ -or- ‘Barely Adequate Melli’, but he conceded that he’s a great singer and great lover. Melli makes Ingo call him ‘The Great Melli’ when they’re being intimate because it’s a huge turn-on for him.

LOL, people also ship Komado and Beni. They must all have families and see each other on the side because aren’t these all ancestors? That’s me thinking too hard on a fictional story, but I’m compelled....

[scribesynnox]

the main melli and ingo ship names are highlandsshipping and mellingo. tsubanobo or costumerserviceshipping are also used

Eyooo, thanks for answering my question!

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

[Flower] - A bouquet of Chamomile and Camellia~

[gingericywolf]

Thinking about highlandsshipping and whitenoiseshipping and how Both Melli and Piers have a skuntank.

Do with this what you want.

[gingericywolf]

Pspspss -ing at the mellingo people. I have some food for you. It's an animatic idea. Screenshots because I'm lazy to type it all again. Song is lvr boy by awfultune

I don't know if I will ever get to it. So I'm sharing in hope someone elses picks it up in the meantime.

this the song, I just think it fits them so well

And ok maybe I am not so lazy. everything in text under readmore

I used to get on my knees

And I'd pray for love

To come find me someday

Here I see melli in front of the dialga statue just in front of electrode arena with skuntank at the side, doing exactly what the verse says. Pray the scene pans out to a wide overlook of the place with a distortion in the distance (the icelands wink wink)(would like to sneak a close up of dialga eyes glowing too maybe, if we go by the story that dialga's the enraged one)

For love to come meet me my way

Your love hit like a brick to the face

Then here we have like maybe a few days later adaman and melli are walking together to got to a meeting, then adaman stops and it flips to irida presenting ingo as the new sneasler warden

And when I put up a fight

You put me back in my place

I thought I wasn't cut out for this race

Here we could have that bit of the story where melli is being a dick to the player/akari. Like literally that bit in front of the cave when ingo makes that comment, but maybe with a bit of behind the scene with melli being aware that what he is doing isn't right and he is ashamed (and overdramatic thinking he may have lost all his chances)

You know how I feel

You don't need a song

This can be made in many ways. Maybe with melli's pov looking at ingo and then we see melli's blushing. Or maybe it's melli with frowny Lord Electrode, taking care of him and talking and talking about ingo

But just in case

You're my lvr boy

My stay in bed under the cover boy

My only you and no other boy

Like yeah this I literally imagine being melli thinking about what it could be just them together

My face is red come smother me boy

And maybe here have Electrode rubbing against melli to get his attention back amd we see how melli's face is all red

Cuz you're my lvr boy

Come on and meet my mother boy

You made me a lil tougher boy

This is just a continuation of the previous scene, but we see melli's attitude change a bit

My life was black and white

But now I see color boy

You're my lvr boy

Ok ok can we just talk about the BLACK AND WHITE? GONNA BE RELEVANT LATER. but yeah this part makes me think that all the previous was just lineart and in this scene there is an explosion of color. You have melli's pov towards electrode and colors spread from electrode to the whole scenery

Then there is a bit of music that we use to change subject

I used to find things about me

That were wrong to me

NOW we are with Ingo. And Boy. Does he find a lot of wrongs with him in his amnesiac state ehe. But I'm thinking. Looking at his broken reflection in water, maybe doing the thing mary does with her fingers trying to smile(?) He looks sad and miserable (just as I like my faves.. aehm)

But then you came along

And showed me

Showed me where I was wrong

And maybe here he looks up and sees Melli with Lord Electrode (again. Because hisuian Electrode has a frown) and he is like.. realizing again that it is okay (and I mean. Melli def is able to read him thanks to electrode)

So thank you

'Cuz now I'm where I belong

*deep breath * OK. 2 ideas here.

Them. JUST THEM TOGETHER NEXT TO EACH OTHER. BECAUSE I INTEND THIS AS. MELLI IS "Where he belongs" and not hisui. But just MELLI. Or. With lady sneasler. As in being a warden, and sneasler is, like electrode with ingo, subconsciously making him think about melli. Ok? Ok

In a world where I finally feel strong

I got my boy and he can tag along

Just a cool rotating shot that starts with a close up of ingo and ends with a wideshot of him on top of a cliff side in his pose with gliscor, the alphas and sneasler launching in front of him as if in battle.

And then just a normal scene of a day of patrolling the highlands with melli, like melli is tagging along ingo and being is usual self and talking but you see ingo having his kitty like smile because he has fell (eheh) for them.

You know how I feel

You don't need a song

But just in case

You're my lvr boy

My stay in bed under the cover boy

My only you and no other boy

My face is red come smother me boy

'Cuz you're my lvr boy

Come on and meet my mother boy

You made me a lil tougher boy

Just. STUFF. OF THEM TOGETHER. I mean I have ideas but I'm fangirling to hard I am loosing words and Aaaaaaaaa

But yeah we have ingo being the all blushy red faced one here and melli maybe puts a hand on his face. And then I'm thinking "mother" could be either sneasler or Irida (because clan leader)

And again you see how ingo changes by being with melli. Gets back some confidence and stands his full heigh, doesn't slouch anymore. The amnesia is still heavy on him but with melli by his side is more bearable, he is more himself again

My life was black and white

But now I see color boy

You're my lvr boy

Here. Is where like. The black and white is part is really taken more literally has in. The games. So like there is ingo and we see a "shadow" of emmet . So like. BLACK AND WHITE. Gotcha? Ehe

And again. When we changed from melli to ingo it went back to only lineart. And here color comes back, maybe from sneasler purple feather. But Melli is already here. It's accepting the feelings kinda

You own my heart

You own my heart and it's no one elses

You own my heart

You own my heart and it's no one elses

Here we go more Simple and we just have a close up of melli, I'm thinking if I want to use the headcanon of exanging jewelry so like. Melli would have something that reflects ingo

I fall apart

And when I fall apart I'm no one elses

You own my heart

You own my heart like no one elses

And this is the same close up but of ingo and with the previous idea maybe he would wear melli's necklace, something that makes them like official, a thing. Engaged. A two-car train (ehehs)

I can be your baby

I could be your baby

I'm always your baby

Always yours

Here just holding each other, maybe in a flower field, and no matter what they will belong to eachother

And maybe a cute sneasler and ectrode cameo to end the video

And this end part would all be in color.

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

Testing out screentones ｡･:*:･ﾟ★｡･:*:･ﾟ☆

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

Bedhead lol

(Part 2 of this)

[miscellaneousrenaissant]

Good night~

[summerandfall]

you are all wrong!!!!!!!!!!! melli does not have obvious descendants because he is gay with ingo and are gay uncles to irida and adaman's children!!!!!!!!!!!! they're part of the family line they have a gay antique photograph in one of their desendant's living room!!!!!!!!!!!! send tweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gingericywolf]

I have no real question to ask but I’m giving you the chance to talk about Ingo and Melli! Maybe what about them you like?

It’s weird you know, like I don’t know, I am not sure, there is something about their dynamics that just hits all the right spots. I started shipping as a joke, mainly because of all those funny posts of melli treating him like an old man and him going “I am younger than you” (let’s not think now this is probably not the case anymore with the new informations), and the “ingo’s training in customer service is what makes him so good at dealing with melli” to the “melli is down bad for Ingo and tries to get his attention in the worst way possible (taking out the torches), Ingo is absolutely oblivious to it all”. I see all the hate towards Melli and all the love towards Ingo and be like wouldn’t it be funny if they kissed. I learned to love Melli. And I love him so much now. Then I actually started thinking of it seriously and to look better at their interaction in game, and think what they could be out of it, and and their dynamic. Just YES, OH I realized  IT COULD ACTUALLY WORK.

So for what I like, first is, the height difference, even if most of it is given by Ingo’s bad posture and slouching, when he straightens up the difference isn’t that much anymore, but still Melli would be taller I think, and I just want Ingo to have to look up to someone, which boasts up Melli’s ego. In the game Melli and Volo feel like the tallest characters and Volo is confirmed to be 190cm, I don’t think Melli is much shorter than him but I will need to check that. So yeah, the height difference first. Melli in exchange would boast up Ingo in every occasion he can. He doesn’t let people talk shit of him, or his being an outsider. Ingo is Ingo first, Pearl clan warden after, an outsider even more after. Melli will for once put his ego towards someone else, and not only himself.

Then I like the idea of  Melli being completely mesmerized by Ingo’s weird glowy eyes, like moonshine, and isn’t it fitting that Lord Electrode Arena is called Moonview arena and you find Cresselia in there, the Lunar pokemon. And doesn’t Lord Electrode (better say, hisuian electrodes in general) have a frown on his face? just like Ingo. And Melli deeply cares for his noble. Oh don’t get him started on that little smile the man does to, the slightly turn upwards of his lips, just like one of the baby sneasels. Am I projecting on Melli? Maybe a bit. Melli feels all of this warm and fuzziness and yet they try not to think about him, but OH Adaman had to hear a whole lot of “Ingo this, Ingo that”, Melli doesn’t realize that his rantings just clue Adaman on what is going on, even more when Melli does slip quite a few compliments towards the warden of Pearl Clan, while absolutely claiming that he “can’t stand him”.

I feel like there would be quite a lot of misunderstandings at the start? Melli giving many mixed signals but again Ingo is kinda oblivious to all of it, I mean he has bigger problems you know, amnesia and all, and if Melli just stopped for once to tinker with the torches.. maybe maybe they could have a conversation. They eventually talk that out, Melli being internally a whole mess the whole time keeping up that bratty, assholeish full of himself  facade. I just like melli being an absolute gay disaster sir.

Then is just that their characters kind of compliment each other. Ingo has patience,the patience to listen, and that is what Melli needs, someone that listens to him. In turn Melli listens to Ingo, even if he may not understand all he talks about. Spending time with each other while crossing paths in the highlands they see both the ugly and the good of each other, they learn about each other and to appreciate the other company, they may have had to help the other in different occasions, specifically thinking about all the times Ingo must have been accidentally poisoned specially at the start and Melli being the poison expert. In fact I am surprised by Melli being a “trainer” of all poison types taking care of an electric/grass, while he would have been The Guy for pokemon like h.sneasel and sneasler. At the same time Ingo has a lot of experience with electric pokemons, even if he doesn’t remember why (Emmet coff coff). It’s just natural for him and ends up spending a lot of time near Moonview arena.

And like at the end of it all, Melli's character is kind of just an act for himself and the others if you really look into it. It is all a mask, and Ingo is someone he can let that mask fall out, and being around Melli could actually help Ingo in some way with his memories, he can’t quite pinpoint it, but there is something familiar and he does quite like the pretty, and petty, Diamond clan warden despite it all.

Now as I said one of the things that drew me in the ship where the “Ingo is younger than melli” jokes, well it is clearly not true. But no problem, I will just be projecting more on Melli by giving him my same problem of liking older characters and everyone making fun of me for that. What throws my calculations off is the knowledge that supposedly Adaman is older than Melli, as the website and the concept arts say Melli looks at Adaman as an “older brother”. Now this being literal as in, older in age, or just because he took the older brother role we can’t really know. What we know is that Melli was a shy kid,(thus the now absolute insufferable facade) and Adaman was the one to protect him. I still like the Idea of Melli being actually older than Adaman, but given the circumstances and Adaman being now clan leader it just stuck with Melli to consider him the oldest. Like looking at them I just feel Melli is older but acts like a brat, he has more mature definitions compared to Adaman. Adaman has a pointy younger face, he is overall smaller except chest coff coff, Melli has a defined square jaw and it’s more evenly built up. He probably has the best legs in all of the game.

Still, the ship for me still stands for now. 

And it hurts, because it is a ship with inevitable heartbreak, one way or the other. A happy ending is still a bittersweet ending. Be it with Ingo going back to the future or him staying in the past, making him forever divided in half somehow. If he comes back to his time he would regain his brother, but lose the love of his life, the one meant for him, never to see him again, centuries back in the past of a different region. If he stays in the past he can be happy with Melli, but in the event of him regaining his memories he would realize, remember, of his twin brother. Well, This Man can never be happy it seems. The pokeGods really hate him.

Now In my Ideal situation Sometime Somehow Melli finds a way to future Unima, this is why there are no clear descendants of him, though one may point to a few characters that could be related (James and Harley even if anime only could be some, they have the same "gender what" vibe and james makes it funny with the whole subway team rocket incident in the anime, Lucian is probably one of the most probable descendatns out there as I have recently seen theorized around, but I subscribe to the all x color shade haired characters are related distantly to melli), this because after a while of Ingo going back, Melli did try other relationship but they just did not work as they felt too much as a distraction.

I have a whole thing concepted out for Melli in the future that only one person knows about and that I did not talk about as other people already made their Melli in Unova Aus, and mine is a mess in a mixture of languages as I was writing it and forgetting words in one while remembering in another. Plus it would be long and out of the ask. A few things are Melli and Emmet would be great friends, and Elesa would help Melli maybe in modeling, he has the looks for it. Or since we now know he is good at singing he could be a pop star/singer like I have seen someone else suggest (Emmet calling Piers so they can get him set up). But I think Melli would be ok with something more chill too. Skuntank is just happy for his human happiness and Ingo could not have desired anything better. He is Home, both in place and hearth.