#wild man ingo

[r0-boat]

Wild man! Ingo

(Tarzan Au)

Prof. Laventon as your fatherly figure

With slight kamado slander

( time period is all over the place don't think too hard dkdnd.)

I imagine two ways how this could go: Ingo and emmet were separated at Birth.

You are Laventon's assistant( and pretty much his adoptive child) you've heard from the locals to stay away from the tall mountains of Coronet, sneasles and Sneaslers make their nests there.

Laventon and you are ecstatic. Two of you make great haste to the mountains before listening to the Clan's warnings of something else that lurks.

Laventon gets cold feet upon near the steeper parts of Coronet. You will not be defeated as you start climbing the frigid walls. You make your way onto solid ground higher than your professor. " I'm sorry! I can't go further!" He calles out the wind howling drowning out most of him. "I'll wait for you at camp! Please! please! be careful"

The wind starts to pick up whipping up the fresh snow on the ground and in the air. The wind snatches your scarf blowing it to Sinnoh knows where as you press on.

The cold doesn't bother you but... you can't help but feel like your being watched.

You've been walking around for a while and still no sign of a single Sneasle... maybe you need to get higher... You rub your freezing cold hands together trying to gain what little warmth they have before grabbing on the rocks that stick out the jagged ledge. You grit your teeth trying your hardest but your hands give out on you slipping down and falling a far height. The last thing you see was a figure approaching you as you black out

Your eyes slowly open as you regain consciousness. You realize that you are covered with furs and in some sort of nest?. Your whole body still hurts from that fall. That's what you saw it.

Silver Eyes growing from the entrance of the cave it's Long Claws and thick fur. A Sneasler?! But upon closer inspection it was a man

The man Pokémon?? Beast? Doesn't take his eyes off you slowly calling closer his metallic claws scratching on the ground. He reaches for your face you brace yourself but instead of the cold metal of the claws, you feel soft yet rough hands gently touch your cheek.

You lay there completely still as he holds your chin and inspected your face occasionally tilting your head from left to right. He tilts your head to the far right inspecting your neck feeling cold callused figures gently graze across the Skin. He licks his lips going in for a taste before-

The echoing call of a Pokemon catches his attention. He lets out and annoyed growl before getting up looking back at you one more time before leaving.

He is curious about you as much as you are of him. Mother Sneasler always told him to stay away from the foothills of the mountain but why? You don't look dangerous in fact... You look like him! Mother would never approve of him housing a stranger in his own Den. So he'll keep you as a secret for now.

You're like him but smaller, softer. You are so cold when he found you. Is this why he feels so protective...over you?

He gets weird feelings in his chest when he gets closer to you the way you try not to meet his eyes and squirm away honestly makes him want to do it more.

His callused cold hands gently hold your wrist his thumb traveling up before rubbing your palm. You are so cold before but now you're so warm, warm a different feeling of warmth than his kin's fur.

A man with ugly facial fur have a weird plated scales try to take you away he spoke in words he didn't quite understand. He looked angry. Ingo reveals himself pulling you towards him, he snarls when the man draws his weapon. He has wrestled Pokemon bigger than this fool. He will not let he touch you.

[blaiddraws]

today i bring you family sleepy cuddles. tomorrow? who knows....

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

AU where Ingo lands in Hisui, but his memories remain intact. He's still found by the Pearl Clan, and it takes him a while to realize hey wait this isn't just some isolated clan in the middle of nowhere, this is like. The Past.

Anyways, having his memories, Ingo actually... finds himself butting heads with a lot of people in the clan, even if he's doing his best to be perfectly polite. Their superstitions lead to unhealthy practices and it's driving him insane. Where's the safety checks?!

It actually comes to a head when Ingo sees firsthand how people treat twins. Him being an identical twin suddenly feels very fucking unsafe in this settlement when he hears them talking about taking the firstborn twin and literally murdering them. They're NOT a Zorua! Holy shit, Zoroark illusions can't trick you into feeling like you gave BIRTH, what sort of ridiculous thought process is this?!

Ingo takes the baby and runs.

Doesn't end up getting very far. Nobody follows, of course, like, they're gonna die out there anyways, no point to caring. Meanwhile Ingo ends up right in the middle of Zoroark territory and he's just. Not really afraid of these guys?

"Terribly sorry for invading your territory, but could you direct me to where I may go so me and my passenger can rest our cab for the time being?"

The Zoroark are like. Hey this guy is weirdly nice. Also he's got like a literal baby, they're not MONSTERS. Hmmm sure follow us pal.

Ingo and his new baby gets adopted by a Zoroark pack.

[space-spaghetti-s-universe]

Ingo and Zisu (with Akari). Thanks again to @waywardstation for being kind enough to let me color in their fantastic sketches! (funky little akari under the cut btw) Link to Wayward's original sketch right here!

[hallowsden]

Papa ingo gonna killll

I wouldn't say Ingo would kill anyone, per se. He's better then that. Not to mention, Akari's right behind him. He doesn't want his kit child be more traumatized then she already is. No, if anything...

Ingo will teach Volo a lesson he will never forget.

He takes his job as being Akari's papa seriously. Though he feel the anger and rage crackling through his veins like electricity, he has to restrain himself, less he may hurt Akari in the process.

So, he'll settle for a battle. Make sure the blonde, unruly rider's time is as unpleasant as it can be whilst he's stuck on the station with him.

(Small blurb after the cut)

Reigning in a snarl, he glares at Volo.

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Ingo took off his coat as he cracks the joints in his neck and hands. Standing tall, he takes a protective stance in front of his child, eyes shadowed under his cap, as he points at the blond perpetrator that brought him here, that started this mess, the blonde who dare hurt Akari.

"May you never arrive to your intended station," Ingo growls before shouting "ALL ABOARD!" as he sends out Gliscor.

He wasn't Emmet (who is that smiling man in white?) who went all out regarding rude trainers and riders but... He'll make sure this battle was quick yet brutal.

[sleepy-bunbun-ace]

i come back to the submas tag again to talk about emmet aus (i'll make a masterpost soon)

this time i want to put my own spin on the "emmet is suspected and accused of ingo's murder when ingo goes missing".

emmet has to run away from unova as a whole. everyone (even his own friends and family) accuse him of killing ingo. he knew he wasn't as popular or well liked as ingo, but not to this extent. he flees in the middle of the night, only updating his depot agents on where he is. they're the only ones who know the truth and defend their boss' name at all costs.

he travels across the world, evading the authorities and leagues of each region he visits. the only things he has left to his name are his and ingo's teams, his new xtrans, and a few clothes. well, that is until he arrives in sinnoh.

you see, giratina still feels guilty of what happened in hisui so when emmet appears in turnback cave, it has a deal ready. become its conduit and keep it company in the distortion world, and emmet will be able to walk freely throughout the distortion world to escape the outside world and maybe find ingo in the process.

emmet accepts the deal.

cut to a year later when a stranger dressed in strange clothing arrives in hisui. they look so much like warden ingo. if it weren't for the strange clothing, always present smile or red eyes, they would've been identical to him!

they're about to leave to go off exploring again when said warden hesitantly calls out their name.

"emmet...?"

[ghostypetrainer]

I got this as a submission from @koruga but for whatever reason, Tumblr is staunchly refusing to let me publish it so... let’s work around that! here’s their text from the original submission:

I found myself entranced with the idea of The Modern Zoroark AU and tried to draw it. Ancient Mimikyu is maybe Ghost/Grass? I think they would be fascinated by Ingo, too, it's a much more efficient way of getting attention than they've discovered yet. 

and yeah, I love the idea of ancient mimikyu being ghost/grass! It can already learn Wood Hammer, and it’s tail is made of wood, so it makes a fair amount of sense! also lmao Ingo ditching his shirt to deal with the heat but keeping his coat... priorities. local zoroark man sent to tropical paradise- the people are great! the pokemon are wonderful! the weather fucking sucks.

[bananacreamphi]

I finally had a submas dream last night.

So it started in this weird sort of side scroller setting where is was sort of this well furnished room in a medieval castle and somehow there was a nonogram puzzle on screen (?) and the line of pixels I was supposed to place was Kyoko Kirigiri from danganronpa (???) and I kept placing them at a certain height because of her birthday correlating to the height or something. It was weird. Anyway the line of pixels was visited by this nice old man who was presumably her soon to be adoptive father, then by a woman (the “mentally ill mother” as was described in the dream) in a blue dressed who told her/it to set their house on fire. Cue the now unclearly identified child (it was an actual human now) running around setting up flaming barrels around the new family’s property (which was no longer a side scroller background, it was just normal). Then there was a flashback(?) showing an unhappy looking kid Emmet in a bed so I guess the kid was Emmet now. Most notably, though, Ingo was nowhere to be found.

So anyway Emmet got into the house which was sealed up and now rapidly starting to flood for some reason (my brain assumes the the mom told him to cause that too). Emmet went to escape but the mom slammed the door in his face and he couldn’t get out. Then the dad caught up with him and he was wearing Emmet’s signature white hat and coat. Also then right in front of Emmet’s (and somehow my) view the mom appeared slumped against a wall, unconscious or possibly dead. Then the water filled up the building and the dad held onto Emmet. As they were being rushed through the water Emmet noticed the shadow of a person and Emmet pointed it and the dad was like “no don’t look at it it’s probably going to be the last thing we ever see etc etc” and in the dream I was like bro wtf are you doing talking that much you’re gonna drown. Finally the water somehow subsided and there, along with Emmet and the dad, was a young Ingo. Make of that what you will.

[critterbitter]

Do you think you'll draw the nimbasa trio catching their first Pokemon that's not their starter on their journey?

Definitely! It’s just a matter of getting there, haha. I am but one vaguely man shaped blob with a hyperfixation. Mortal needs like sleep and hand pains stop me from vomiting every brain idea I have.

I actually got this question multiple times, so to answer! I am not going to be drawing the nimbasa trio getting another pokemon until their late teens unless a brainworm strikes. (So no new pokemon during the current snapshot series haha.)

Why?

From a canon perspective, well:

Most npc trainers you meet on route have 2-4 pokemon, so I’m gonna try to keep within that amount until the trio settles in Nimbasa and have the revenue/space to upkeep a full pokemon team.

From a meta perspective, wellllll:

Another caught pokemon means character development, and I, ah... right now, I just wanna draw a candle, a zebra, and an eel. I love painting. But fitting seven or more characters on a canvas is, er… Make me draw more guys and I’ll melt like a vanniluxe on a summer day.

If people are curious for some pokemon headcannons though (note that this is not canon— pokemon gave me a puddle of information, so I’m taking the shovel to dig an ocean.)

- ingo saw a colony of dwebble collecting rocks while in the desert, and he’s been enamored ever since. He’s been trying to convince a dwebble to join his team for a while. Unfortunately, Ingo’s very excited and dwebble are naturally shy. (It doesn’t help that litwick can get mean when jealous.)

- emmet loves double battles and teams up with a lot of wild pokemon— but he doesn’t click with anybody until much further in the future. Me thinks his expectations are a tad too high from having such a good start with tynamo. He’s worked with multiple growlithes and thinks Helping Hand is the coolest shit ever.

- emmet’s first “caught” pokemon would be archen. More like “lab grown” and “lovingly hatched”, but it’s the thought that counts. Thinking once again about squab archen…

- elesa found her two emolga in the trash. She was going to release them after fostering, but got attached.

For future plans:

(The pokemon the twins live with and are officially part of the team (named at what stage the twins meet them! Note that everybody becomes fully evolved at somepoint.)

Ingo— litwick, dwebble, drillbur, and axew.

Emmet— tynamo, archen(lint roller), joltik, and durant.

They also have pokemon coworkers that don’t live with them, but agree to help in battles for exp and wages— kliklank twins, garbadore, shelmet and karablast, boldore (atlas), and gurdur)

And for our favorite electric gym leader:

Elesa— blitzle, the emolga twins (em and molga), stunfisk, mareep

(She has pokemon coworkers Eelektross (eela), zebrastrika (motorbreak), and Galvulanta (Lanta) who have a similar set up to the twins— the pokemon agree to work with Elesa for exp and wages, but otherwise have their own lives.)

(Fun headcanon: pokemon who are raised by humans tend to keep human nicknames. It’s not always the case, but it’s a common enough trend for research studies.)

[norue67]

The existence of Ingo’s alpha fight means that at some point, Ingo waltzed into Jubilife Village followed by three enormous, towering monsters. And the entire village was like “yeah this is fine, he probably knows what he’s doing” lmao Also note that his alphas all have red eyes. That means he didn’t even catch them, they’re still wild. This man somehow convinced a bunch of wild alphas to fight for him just by talking to them nicely

[choochooboss]

Submas sketchdump! Vol. 1

April-June 2022

Literally dumping all the presentable works as promised, whether I'm proud of them or not! This is where I started, even before the first thing I posted online (That subway station one). Many of these are not on Twitter yet so there's lots to see!

The top piece above the header is my very first digital Submas artwork!! I never finished it bc I didn't know how to pull my vision of as I wanted & started modeling the train and didn't finish that either, whoops! I really want to remake this later and make it super cool!

^^^ My reaction to breaking 500 likes & 100 followers in a single day with my first tweet (the battle subway one) all the way back in May!! I was completely floored by all the attention, oh how it skyrocketed my excitement and anxiety! Crazy times, I was so super nervous to be there with so many amazing artists and doubted if I could ever survive there ahahah!! Many had joined the community much much earlier than me, so I had arrived with a late train to PLA/neo Submas hype!

Next up is a bunch of stuff I haven't posted before:

One of my fav sketches! Been saving this for so long bc I really really want to finish this one day!

One of the first submas sketches with an actual story behind it! The subway bosses are running late for their flight because they didn't pass the safety check! The irony!! This would never happen as bosses are always on schedule. But Emmet hadn't noticed a wild Joltik hiding under his coat, so he set up the alarm and they got examined and interrogated of smuggling! How embarrassing for them! The bosses resolved the situation by catching the Joltik, but will they be able to catch their flight anymore?? Maybe if Elesa can distract the stuerts performing the safety protocol for a minute!

More sketchbook stuff...

In case you can't make any sense of it, Emmet's dreaming of different combinations of pokémon. Meanwhile Ingo snores louder than the train! HONK SHOO!

Top 7 every submas fan draws at some point!

Submas trademark posing

submas sleeping in a train

sad Emmet

Emmet with Joltik

Ingo with a cool solo pose

Emmet being chaotic & Ingo reacting to it

a bunch of mirrored submas poses

I sure have a full bingo card lmao, most of them you can see here XD

Next up is a sad man...

Stay strong our friends!

My typical sketchbook pages, crammed and messy as usual. x)

Post-PLA exploration:

A few examples of how my pencil sketches evolve.

I've done so much art experimenting with submas. I really like this black & white painting but I don't think I'll finish it anytime soon.

Where did you go?

The way I draw the twins' faces has changed a lot. They started with softer features and somewhat neutral emotions, because I wasn't as familiar with them or comfortable drawing them yet. Now there's hundreds of submas sketches, and they still keep evolving! My style is also kinda hard to pull off well, so their features differ from picture to picture.

This one was inspired by some submas music videos, can't recall their names anymore. The glowing eerie eyes and yellow&orange + black&white color schemes were neat!

I keep telling myself I need to draw more butlers, these twinks look so lean and neat and have more color and are posh with their monocles and have fun tailcoats!

(...why eyeglasses are not called binocles??)

I was there for the vinegar chaos. Good times!

That's all for now, I hope you got something fun out of this! Still got loads more art to share but I'll save them for another time. Next round I'll bring in my first submas comic!

[blaiddraws]

aaaaaaaand yet another doodle for @stellarcoachman 's rerouted! this one less jokey and more just. soft.

if you've been following me for any amount of time it might be clear that i am, in fact, a Huge Enjoyer of (platonic) sleepy cuddles,,

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

Wild Man Ingo carves out Akari's first toys out of wood to teach her shapes, and then carves some colored tumblestones to teach her colors. When he gets a little better at carving he makes her a functional miniature model of a train. Then promptly takes it away and builds her a simpler version because the complicated one has a lot of little bits that she could break off and swallow. Safety hazard! What was he thinking?!

Akari and all the little Zorua grow up learning about trains from Ingo and they just daydream about finally getting to see one in person someday.

[writing-time-bitches]

When Ingo returns to Unova after Hisui, Emmet and Elesa are going to have CONSTRAIN the man from punching any wild pokemon that so much as walks ten inches next to them. He is not afraid. He will fight a druddigon if it so much looks at him wrong.

He will out right CLOCK pokemon. He doesnt know fear anymore. He will throw hands.

[hanakihan]

speaking of isekai

PLA honestly handled it better than 90% of isekai media in situation with Ingo

Like yea game downplays it in a way but it’s obvious he’s struggling

We clearly see him being an outcast here, he doesn’t spend time in settlements, he isn’t friends with that many people and mostly keeps it ‘professional’, his closest friends are his Pokémon

And entire amnesia situation makes it even sadder, man got yeeted here and now honestly doesn’t even know if he belongs here or anywhere at all

And now think about him having no memories and prior knowledge aside from reflexes, he has no language knowledge, no culture knowledge, he doesn’t even know what place and time it is, he ends up in a rather cruel wild place and just think about him, an amnesiac with clear need in medical attention straight up making himself learn how this world works

Ingo is honestly one of the best examples of undercover horror elements in isekai

Ingo’s situation isn’t romanticized or glorified or made fun of in canon by itself and it makes us feel sorry for him, it makes us sad, because even on basic level we understand how fucked up his situation is

Just think a minute about how Ingo’s situation is a literal isekai stripped of tropes and let depressing realization bitch slap you out of fantasy and memes

[leggerefiore]

A sweet and slightly silly idea:

The first homemade meal Ingo eats after returning from Hisui has him experiencing a flashback like Ego from ‘Ratatouille’, especially if it’s something that he used to eat a lot or has sentimental value. He gets the thousand-yard stare and goes dead silent before scarfing it down.

cw: short, fluff, post-pla ingo

Ingo's new oddities had been a bit distressing at first, certainly. His inability to recognise the places that should be familiar to him was the most concerning among them, but his many scars and fresh injuries also stirred worries. But, he was alive and mostly well. Memories scrambled yet somehow the same old Ingo. Amnesia could not keep a good train man from yelling out “All aboard,” it seemed.

There were many challenges in helping the poor man readjust to the modern day. His ability to navigate Nimbasa had become poor, but he was quickly relearning everything. There was some inherent distrust towards people, perhaps stirred by the environment that he had been in previously. He even seemed more on edge towards wild pokemon themselves, which made interacting with even passive pokemon, like Lillipup, an experience. Yet, old habits died hard as you saw him speaking softly to a wild Purrloin or seeming to be enchanted by the sight of a Litwick.

Now, all of that was important, but something had crossed your mind when you considered the health of your amnesic lover. He was now strangely muscular… His appetite seemed to have been increased from what it was before his disappearance. You hummed to yourself as it swirled in your mind. Had you made him something since his return? You realised it quickly. No, you had not.

Confirming that he was still at home by peeking into the living room where his old pokemon had surrounded him and demanded his attention, you rushed into the kitchen and checked your supplies. You appeared to have everything you needed. Slowly, you began to shape ground beef and work to make a lovely sauce to pair that Ingo had always seemed to enjoy. The smell in the air was a pleasant shift as sizzling sounds echoed out. Soon, you had a delicious hamburger made and prepared to Ingo's previous enjoyment.

Calling him to the table, you watched as he stared at the sandwich for a moment. The smell of onions wafted about while you hoped that he could still handle some level of spice. He sat still for a moment, clearly uncertain for some reason. You hoped it was not too much for him. It finally hit you that he had likely been on an entirely different diet in Hisui. Shame was just about to creep over your mind when he reached a hand out to grab the dish.

His hands instantly seemed to recall how to hold it as he brought it to his mouth to bite into it. He closed his eyes for a moment as distant memories seemed to just ghost around his mind tauntingly. Voices talking about various things with his job or day. A phantom hug around him with a faint kiss on his cheek. The cold air of the outside changing into something warm with the creaking of a door. Then, a single memory. One where his twin sat with him and you. He seemed younger, lacking their shared facial hair and bagged eyes. Laughter came from Emmet as a Joltik tried to run off with a piece of his bun. He felt a sigh come from him as he began to scold him, but was cut off by his Excadrill grabbing on to his leg and looking up at him with pleading eyes. What a mess, he had thought.

He came back to reality slowly, realising he was chewing his food for too long and finally swallowed it. His eyes drifted to you. You barely seemed that different from his memory. How much time had passed since then? Had Hisui just aged him. Ingo took another bite. You smiled at him sweetly.

“Do you like it, Ingo? I wasn't sure if you could handle the chilli oil you usually liked on it…” You scratched your head nervously. He had not even noticed the heat, honestly.

“I love it, dearest,” the words slipped from his lips with little thought as he gave a smile, “Thank you for making it for me.”

You both felt a little closer after so long apart.

(Then you realised he had not had processed cheese in a while. There was not saving him.)