#fun fact i have a total of 12 submas aus

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Don't mind me, just making a gym leader AU

Ramblings about it below the cut

They run the Nimbasa gym. It's a dual-type gym that swaps every day, much like the rock/ice or fighting/ghost gyms in Galar (if this was an actual in-game thing, Emmet would be the gym leader in White/White 2 and Ingo would be the leader in Black/Black 2. For obvious reasons)

Ingo is a ghost type specialist, and he leans into it hard. He acts distant and, y'know, haunted, until the challenger finishes. Win or lose, he suddenly becomes very excitable. People who only know him through the gym challenge are quite surprised when they meet him outside of it, since he's as energetic as Emmet

Goth Ingo rights. Yes he wears makeup to make him look paler and black eyeliner. Yes he paints his nails black. He takes an hour in the bathroom getting ready and it pisses Emmet off

Ingo's team: Chandelure, Jellicent (m & f), Golurk, Cofagrigus

Emmet is an electric type specialist, but persona doesn't really change. He's energetic as it is so he doesn't need to amp himself up to fit the role (yes that was a deliberate pun)

Emmet's team: Eelektross, Galvantula, Zebstrika, Emolga, Stunfisk

Both teams vary depending on how many badges the challenger has

The gym challenge is a mine cart maze! Flip the switches to change tracks, and the incorrect one takes you to one of the gym trainers

On the weekends they hold unofficial multi-battle challenges. Just for fun. They swap their pokemon with each other

On their off days, they still function as the station masters of Gear Station. I couldn't take their trains away man. That's just cruel

They just took their station master uniforms (their canon outfits) and spiced them up for their gym leader uniforms

I'm still uncertain what Elesa and Shauntal are doing here, aside from being a model and an author, since the Nimbasa gym has been overrun by two train nerds and Ingo's stolen the ghosts. Elesa is still friends with the twins though

PLA Stuff:

Ingo gets eebied to Hisui in his gym leader uniform, so he arrives looking scruffy as hell, and then it just gets worse

He's also stuck in Work Mode, so he constantly acts sullen and distant, which isn't helped by him dissociating 23/7

He walks up the mountain, leading the protag, and then he walks down a changed man. The proper pokemon battle with the MC snapped him out of Work Mode, and now finally everyone gets to meet the properly animated Ingo. He still dissociates a lot though

Ingo still has an affinity for ghost types. His team is: Zoroark, Froslass, Gengar, Drifblim, Mismagius, Rotom. Eventually, the protag goes "Huh, he really likes ghost types" and gives him Typhlosion

Emmet is having A Time, naturally. He closes the gym on the days Ingo would run it. Idk, he's sad, but as in most of my stuff, he's coping as healthily as he can manage

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