#zekrom! Ingo

[harveyb-wabbit92]

{Dragon shifters au: Kamado sends I-S/o on another dangerous mission that results in her being missing assumed dead, Seeing Kamado’s indifference to his wife’s disappearance causes Ingo to snap he shifts to full Zekrom and starts rampaging, the sky turns an inky black and blue lighting strikes down everything in his path as Ingo’s storm ravages the entirety of Hisui, Everyone gather’s in Galaxy hall to try and figure out a way to stop Ingo’s rampage. Of course Kamado doesn’t believe he’s at fault for anything that’s happening much to everyone’s disgust.]

Kamado: There's got be an explanation for all this!

Lucas, enraged grabs Kamado by the front of his kimono: You want an explanation old man? 

Lucas, as he smacks Kamado: {Smack]  INGO... [smack]  IS... {Smack] PISSED! [smack]

{Luckily Lady Sneasler and Akari find I-S/o alive but unconscious in a cave after an avalanche, they get her out and manage to wake her up and tell her what’s happened while she was gone, they help her get to Ingo and put an end to his rampage.] 

[cecilioque]

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Melli & Volo: X

[a-land-lacking-sleep]

A brief thought on the parallels of the Subway Bosses, The Tao Trio, and Warden Ingo's place

@waywardstation just made an amazing post on her thoughts of Warden Ingo's parallels to Kyurem. Nothing in the game directly connects the two, just like nothing in the game connects the Subway Bosses to the Dragons in Generation V. But the connections are still there regardless, because Game Freak made sure to fill Unova with so much symbolism.

These are the basic thoughts that connect each Man to their Dragon.

Subway Boss Ingo - Ideals; Aspire to greatness, never give up in your journey

Subway Boss Emmet - Truth; You are who you are, there is no need for a mask

Warden Ingo - Void; What is there when you lose who you are? No drive for greatness, nothing to mask. Ideals, Truths, nothing matters except the ground beneath your feet.

In each game that they appear, Ingo and Emmet are relatively flat characters. In Gen 5, they have enough personality to stick in your mind, and nothing past. And in PLA, Ingo's whole personality is "I lost my memory and am depressed, but have hope". Instead, we end up looking at word choice, and in the Subway Bosses cases, other media.

Subway Boss Ingo, across most media, embodies Ideals. He has his eyes to the future, always pushing himself and others to continue onwards. He frames battling and training as a journey ("What can I see after winning, winning, and winning? Where is my destination?"; "Your talent has brought you to the destination called Victory!"; "There is no terminal called End in your life!"), most often when he is victorious. He seeks to create his Ideal self, and wants to push others to do the same.

This comes up in Pokemon Masters EX as well, where the "no terminal" line returns (in an appropriately spooky tone), he also spends time in the Day With Ingo story event talking about how he seeks to better himself and "break through the mold of [his] past self". This event is also the first time he mentions the phrase "greater heights", which appears another 6 times in various snippets in Masters. And finally, we have a triple whammy of travel metaphors for growth in his level up lines.

For Subway Boss Emmet, his connection to Truth is admittedly a bit more tenuous. He doesn't have any tendency for truth-seeking or investigations (outside of the famous behavior in the manga where he likes to eavesdrop on drama, which gossip isn't exactly truthful), but what he has is a strong showing of being truthful, even if he ends up being blunt or disrespectful.

As a consequence of his writing in Japanese giving him a very casual way of speaking, the English translation has him speak in shorter clips, just the bare essentials. The naked truths of his thoughts. He doesn't seek the Truth, or give a Universal Truth; Emmet is True to himself and to those around him. (As a side note, I love when people give power to other usages of the word True through Reshiram. I did it in my fic with a turn of phrase, but I've seen it done beautifully in other works too).

In Pokemon Special, Emmet doesn't hide the truth of why they asked White to train on the Battle Subway ("We're studying you as an example of a Trainer who gets overwhelmed and loses every battle!" "That's not nice, Emmet."), not because he is intending to be rude (Ok, a little bit), but because that *is* what they are using her for. In the games, he speaks of how Pokemon battles can be decided on luck ("I won against you. But I think I just got lucky."), because the Truth of the matter is, you can be highly trained and just have a bad day or get hit by a critical hit. But, most importantly, he believes that battles must be serious for them to be fun. Because what fun is there in putting up a fake fight, when you could just be True to yourself?

Now, to speak on the connection of Warden Ingo to Kyurem, we must first understand what Kyurem is to Zekrom and Reshiram. On a surface level, it is a Husk, a leftover revenant that can be reassembled into a simulacrum of the Original being. But looking into the actual symbolism of them all is where you find threads of connection to the Warden.

Reshiram, the Dragon of Yin, is representative of a more static element, receptive of change but passive in how it does so. It is a recursive existence that reaches out and pulls back towards itself - Everyone has an individual Truth, but that is still able to be changed by The Truth. However, one does not go out and change The Truth, only altering the perception of it while it passively exists. You cannot change what is already there, only create something new. In comparison, Emmet is never really shown to focus on the future, but rather on the present. He knows of the Truth in his life, and while it can be changed by present actions, he knows that he cannot go back to change it, so there is no need to try, or to hide it.

Zekrom, the Dragon of Yang, is active, ever expanding, and pushes up against those around it in it's search for Ideals. Ideals cause you to seek out a goal, to leave your home, your comfort zone, and push away from the past. To represent Ideals is to be in constant flux; Settling into a form makes you into a Truth, as an Ideal is a goal, something attainable, yet unreachable. We've gone over Ingo's future-forward gaze, constantly thinking about what is to come. Life is a journey, and every step you take in life is a step to self-improvement.

Kyurem is a Husk, a Shell. According to Bulbapedia, it is representative of Wuji ("Without a roof"), the absense of Yin and Yang, or "The Ultimate Nothingness". For this reason, I personally also attribute to it Mu, a concept of non-existence and negative space, specifically the lack of something normally there (modern Japanese actually uses "mu-" as a prefix the same way English has the suffix "-less"). Interestingly, the Japanese transliteration of Wuji is "Mukyoku" (lit. Non-polar, another translation of Wuji), connecting the two concepts neatly. In short, Kyurem represents Nothing and Everything.

Kyurem was supposedly the Original Dragon, the deity of Unova that represented Truths and Ideals in unison, a embodiment of Yin and Yang's harmony. In a sense, the Original Dragon was an embodiment of Everything, Unova's spirit of unity. Then, with the war between the Twin Princes (another pair also frequently compared to Ingo and Emmet, in case you think I forgot my boys), it was split into 2, but secretly 3, parts. This third secret part became Kyurem, a being lacking in its original qualities, leaving Nothing but the Husk.

Now, finally, we can get to everyone's favorite uncle, Warden Ingo. His connection to Kyurem is probably the least intentional of them all (which is saying something, because I'm honestly convinced that the Subway Bosses' own connections aren't intentional, but rather just a result of how Unova games were written with Truth vs. Ideal being ingrained heavily), but there still is one. As Wayward says in her fateful post, "Warden Ingo is an empty husk of who he once was ever since he was separated from his life, and from Emmet." Ingo as the Subway Boss may not have embodies the Everything that the Original Dragon has, but pairing with Emmet so closely still meant that Truth and Ideals mixed so cleanly that it might as well have been Everything.

However, the most important connection for Warden Ingo are the concepts of Wuji and Mu. To be "the Ultimate Nothingness" or "Non-Polar" means to be devoid of Everything, yet still have the capability to be far more than Nothing. The singular concept of Mu may mean that Warden Ingo is missing who he is and was, but that is not who we grow know in the game; We connect with a man who is slowly piecing together his sense of self, remembering facets of his past and growing happier with who he can be. Thus, the Mu transitions into Wuji, a void that isn't Empty so much as lacking.

The importance of distinction is that Mu is by nature Empty, while Wuji is Empty and Everything, limitless and confined. Similarly, Ingo is devoid of what made him him (His drive for self-improvement is impaired, even while he pushes the player to climb to greater heights), but becomes something new in the meta-narrative of the story. His actual, plot-related story ends when you quell Electrode and he becomes a challengeable NPC at the Training Grounds, but he becomes something of a kindred spirit in the greater plot of the game. He's like you, a Faller who has lost themselves, and also like you, an avid battler who pushes the system to it's limits (especially in the Path of Solitude).

In short, the connection between Kyurem and Warden Ingo isn't anything in the text, as Kyurem has no explicit in-game theming attached to it like Zekrom and Reshiram, and Warden Ingo doesn't have strong philosophical points that seeps out of the words he says to you. But when you look at the meta-theming for Kyurem, and subsequently Warden Ingo's meta-narrative, the connections become clearer.

Does some of this make no sense? Of course! A lot of this is extrapolating what was said in Wayward's post, and what came from my head as I thought of it. A lot of the connections of the twins to the Dragons has been discussed since 2010, but for all intents and purposes, Warden Ingo is a different character from Subway Boss Ingo. Narratively, he is the same person, hence why his appearance is a tragedy in Legends Arceus, one which we never get to solve. But on a meta level, he functions so differently, and lives so differently, that the themes he inhabits do not match up to the Subway Boss in any way. To end this on a sad note, Warden Ingo is exactly like Kyurem - Broken. He has lost what made him whole, and we've been shown that just reinserting Ideals isn't enough. Hopefully, if Game Freak decides to touch upon the Warden once more, we can find a way to reinsert his Truths as well.

[squidthesquidd]

breaking news: emmets favorite pokemon is his brother (real)

bl*nkshippers dni if you touch my art ill wring you out like a washcloth and im an angry housewife

[princess-triton]

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Everyone’s having so many good takes of the boys being the Legendary Dragons and I couldn’t agree more on that ( or maybe I just wanted a pretext to draw them a bit feral )

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[electric-blue24]

wanted to draw some stuff for @blaiddraws fulcrum au because those are some very cryptid adjacent guys

love turning the blorbos into creatures

[nell0-0]

Seen plenty of fics and art of Irida winding up in the modern day (even pokemon masters did that), but what about you're own view of how that'd go? Or barring that, a version of her winding up there and things not exactly going well at first? Like not /violently/ horrible or anything like that, but just not well.

Well, I already have a version of it with the Subway Boss Irida AU. But if you want a version of Irida in the future where things end up, uh, not well, I do have an AU I have only talked about on Discord.

It's an Irida in modern day + twin dragons au:

More about the AU below the cut

The premise of this AU starts with the fact that all the Zekroms out there used by trainers (few as they are) are just fragments of the original, Ingo/Zekrom, who always stays in Gear Station. Until the eeby deeby, that is.

So, when Ingo is yeeted, all the fragments of Zekrom vanish, no matter if they're in pokeballs, PCs or roaming around. This happens because the link with the original and main one is severed.

Years later, there are rumors about a trainer with a Zekrom, so it catches the attention of a lot of people, especially those from Unova and particularly Emmet. And Team Plasma. Yikes.

Irida originally lands in Johto, where she crafts a custom pokeball for Ingo/Zekrom since it just isn't doable to walk around everywhere when Ingo's dragon form is so big. She doesn't understand what happened, nor where or when she is, but she's very cagey about Ingo's situation with others. People don't realize it's Zekrom at first because they weren't expecting the legendary there of all places after vanishing for years, which helps.

Ingo is very protective of Irida as well, especially since she's stranded in the future and he's stuck in his pokemon form (for now). Poor guy doesn't remember how to detransform. Not that he knew he could turn into a giant dragon either. He forgor.

But eventually they end up in Team Plasma's radar, hoping to use Zekrom for their new plan to take over Unova. They're being hunted down. Oop.

[silvereyedzoroark]

Latimas AU: Dragons

Dau 15 Novembmas

Yay this prompt gave me the excuse to finish the scrapped alternate Mega Form for these two!

Now I can't help, but imagine these forms can only be fought/seen in a secret Boss fight.

[marchy-emmet]

LFEGKRHGFKSKDF COMM DONE FOR @msbfonnie

PLEASE CHECK OUT THEIR ARTWORK *DISCORD SALUTE EMOJI*

[au-wannabe-the-very-best]

Unrealistic OOC daydream that I'm sharing just because it's funny:

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"I need to be very clear with you Melli," Ingo says, folding up his coat and handing it to the other warden. "I'm not leaving my possessions in your hands."

Ingo places his hat atop the folded coat now resting in Melli's arms.

"Quite the opposite, actually. Your life is now in my hands."

Melli whips his head up, startled.

"Huh?!"

Ingo leans back, his spine cracking as he straightens up.

"I said," Ingo repeats, voice lower but no less loud, "Your life is in my hands. If you happen to fail to protect your current cargo? Start praying."

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lmao I was imagining Ingo as Zekrom and thought "well if he's Zekrom and he helps out Akari, he might just decide to quell Lord Electrode himself. Oh but what about his coat and hat?" And then this scene just sorta popped up. I can't imagine regular Ingo to say or act like this but Legendary Pokémon Ingo I think should be threatening. You know, as a treat. 🥰

[harveyb-wabbit92]

[Dragon shifters au]

Emmet, upon getting a sexy picture from his S/o in Reshiram themed lingerie: Haww...

[Suddenly the stations temperature begins to rise at alarming rate, Cut to the station lobby where everyone is going about their day.]

Depot agent, fanning themselves off: Phew...Does anyone else notice how hot it suddenly got dow-

[Just the station master’s office window explodes sending everyone to a panic, Ingo rushes in with a fire extinguisher and sprays it into the office at the source of the explosion....A blushing Emmet, who was completely unharmed and still gawking down at his phone, but now with smoke bellowing out of his mouth and little drool dribbling down his chin.]

Ingo, Annoyed: Emmet...Emmet, (snaps his fingers) Em-met! 

Emmet, startled and quickly hides his phone: Wha...Oh! Hey Ingo, Wh-*Ahem* What’s up? (looks around the charred office.) Whoa! Jeez...What happened here?

{Ingo’s eye twitches and he sprays Emmet down with the extinguisher again. Needless to say. E-S/o was asked not to send anymore naughty texts and pictures to Emmet while he was working, as Ingo didn’t want to think about what would’ve happened if his brother had received that picture while on a train.]

[kammyclues]

I love the different ways that the Submas fandom reunites the twins lol

Featuring @kynimdraws 's fakemon Vahirom! A beautiful interpretation of the Original Dragon that the tao trio used to make!

[sweetapplecurry]

Prince meets prince 🌙🌺 💖 ◼️⚡️

Refs: X X

[blaiddraws]

new au dropped babes

twin dragons au-- wherein ingo is zekrom and emmet is reshiram-- but when ingo gets eeby deebied he somehow gets stuck in a half-dragon-half-human shape

(Sneasler, on her way to check in with the pearl clan settlement, comes across a very strange and very unconscious dragon man. There is Something about him that seems powerful. divine, even, much like her lineage's blessing from arceus. but more importantly, new skrunkly. she drags (metaphorically) him to the pearl clan and practically forces them to take care of him.)

pearl clan is VERY scared and suspicious of him for a bit. given his lack of memories, and his. creature-ness. but his whole appearance, his warm and kind (albeit odd) personality and mannerisms, and the fact that Sneasler was so attached, ended up convincing them he's some gift from the almighty sinnoh or something.

(which. if you look at it. isn't necessarily far from the truth, given the fact he is very much a legendary pokemon. even if he doesn't remember. and is also rather human shaped.)

meanwhile, back in nimbasa; emmet has a verrry weird and verrry bad day.

(it takes him a hot moment to realize ingo is missing. given his being preoccupied on the more immediately noticeable issue as well as the fact that ingo had supposedly gone out to run some errands)

[assorted doodles/ref stuff under the cut]

[squidthesquidd]

local subway boss gets fucking held