Emmet, texting Ingo and Fraise on their date: Playing Hide n’ Seek with my favorite nephew. I looked for him for 15 mins and couldn’t find him anywhere. I had a mini-heart attack thinking he’d gotten outside somehow then I walk by his room and heard this hoodie giggling...
{Sends them a pic of one of Ingo’s hoodies hanging off the side of Logan’s bed, and another one of Emmet’s hand lifting the hoodie revealing a smiling Logan huddled underneath.]
Ingo, proud of Logan’s creativity: Hm... My boy’s genius.
(Ingo is texting Emmet back, his wife curiously looks over to see.)
Fraise: What are you texting?
Ingo: Oh, just telling Emmet. Now he knows how our mom and dad felt after he fell asleep in that laundry pile... Did I ever tell you about that?
[Fraise shakes her head.]
Ingo: Okay, so. When me and Emmet were around 5-6 years old, our mom was doing laundry and took Emmet’s baby blanket to be washed, at the time Emmet was verry attached to it, he would hardly go anywhere without it. And when he found it missing, instead screaming down the house like he usually did. He tracked it down to the laundry room and took a nap in the dirty clothes pile; with the blanket pulled over his head.
{Fraise cooed at the mental image, it was cute trying to picture her husband and brother-law as kiddos.]
Ingo: With the blanket covering him, Emmet was completely obscured from our mom’s sight. So... Naturally our parents freaked when they found me in our play room alone and Emmet was nowhere to be found. They looked everywhere, they had the neighbors looking everywhere. And just when they were about to call the cops? out from the Laundry room comes mom’s Sawk; carrying a groggy and very cranky Emmet...
Fraise: My Sol... I can’t imagin that sort of thing happening, I’d never let Logan out of my sight after something like that.
Ingo: Yeah... Our mom did that for bit, always made we were in the last place she left us, checking every room before she left it, eventually she mellowed out.
(Ingo’s phone vibrates)
Emmet, texting back: Shut-up, I wanted my blankie....Your telling Fraise about this aren’t you? If you do, then I get to tell her how you broke your Big toe “Bowling champ!”
{Ingo’s tenses up as Fraise reads the text starts asking Ingo what Emmet meant?]
[Inspired by @harveyb-wabbit92 's haunted rail au]
Before Yugen fell, two gloved hands hovered over their hand as if he was going to catch them. The conductor closed his eyes and he whispered softly, “Forgive me.”
Slowly opening their eyes, Ingo looked at his newly possessed body. Making sure to check every safety check. That everything was functioning well. That he did everything correct by possessing someone. Opening their palm in and out. Testing to see if the possessed was conscious. He noted that Yugen was out like a light. Then, he looked at Yugen’s Pokémon. He was a bit surprised when their Pokémon could tell something was wrong with their trainer, but they couldn’t do anything because of the beast in front of them.
“Very smart pokemon,” Ingo thought to himself. He straightened his back, raised his right hand forward towards the beast and his other arm lowered down, his hands pointed downward.
As he declared, “I am subway boss Ingo! All trains have departed but you are trespassing and have broken many of our established rules! For that you shall be dealt with accordingly. ALL ABOARD!”
Ingo watched Yugen’s battle earlier with the creature as he made a mental note of all the moves Yugen yelled out. Although he knew the move sets of Zephyr, he didn’t know the fourth move set of Mono but he noted how the mischievous shuppet still hadn't done their move yet which made some luck in Ingo’s favor. Especially how the creature had a burn on their lower leg.
Ingo yelled out, “ZEPHYR! USE FLASH!”
Zephyr summoned a bright light which blinded the creature as it cursed out in pain, covering their eyes as Mono took the chance to use her move and got a powerful hit towards the monster as it flinched even more at their burn when they stumbled aback. Ingo took this chance again when the creature tried to regain conscience due to being blinded by the flash.
“MONO! USE PHANTOM FORCE! ZEPHYR! USE NIGHT SLASH!”
As if in the same mind, Mono and Zephyr charged full force at the monster. Mono going a bit faster as it zig zagged in the shadows. The shuppet leaped behind the monster as the absol leaped up, forming a dark blade as they both striked the monster at the same time. Both landed a critical hit before the creature could do anything.
Mono and Zephyr both stepped back, being in front of Ingo. As the three of them watched as the creature fell on its knees. As it yelled, “QRW IDLU! LW’V QRW IDLU!!! L VKRXOG KDYH Z… Zrq…” The creature went silent as all of the monster parts started to glow a white hue. As it slowly turns into white looking fuzzy circles, lifting up in the ceiling. The white fuzzy circles each came off of the monster, turning the monster back into the corpse of the vengeful trainer as it all formed into the shape of a gengar. The gengar looked at the trio and gave a genuine smile not before slowly disappearing.
Ingo sighed but before he could say anything, both Zephyr and Mono were looking at Ingo with a deadpan face. Ingo could feel his sweat dropping at the sight of these pokemon fully knowing that this isn’t their trainer as if his introduction of possession didn’t gave it away.
Raising his hands, he explained, “I promise you both that I will return your trainer as soon as we deal… with this..” He pointed at the dead body of the trainer as Zephyr only gave a ‘hmpth’ as a response as Mono rolled her eyes but they both helped Ingo drag the body but strangely enough. When Ingo grabbed the arms of the trainer, it soon crumbled under his touch. As the whole body turned into ash. Leaving the clothing behind.
…
The trio went silent and before Ingo could think of anything. Mono used her shadow sneak move to teleport the clothes into the nearest trash. Ingo should be worried about this but it’ll soon be morning soon and people will be coming in (also the glares of the two Pokémon are boring into the back of his head) so it would just be safe to take Yugen’s body in a place where they should be fine. Ingo walked out of the tunnel and walked towards the nearest gear station lobby. After a couple of minutes, Ingo reached his destination. He laid Yugen’s body on a bench and closed his eyes as he pulled himself away from their body. Much to the delight of Yugen’s pokemon. Who, stood near their trainer's side to make sure that no funny business happens near them again.
I’m kinda taking the Hilda AU and running with it right now. Like it’s currently just Ingo living in the Scandinavian woods and Vincent who happens to live near anyway, and reunites with his fling from 200 ago.
They have a bit of a nightly hang out in Vincent’s car. It’s been forever since Ingo’s had coffee. Maybe it helps bring back some memories.
This is where it gets timy whimy. To Ingo it‘s only been a couple of years since they‘ve said goodbye, but to Vincent, again, it‘s been two centuries! In the mean time Vincent met young New York subway boss Ingo, not being able to say much about the warden Ingo he knows this young conductor will become one day. But now…
PLA throwback today! For the Hourglass Shipping content, I offer you dad Ingo, taking care of his and Isla's two kids ❤ Depending on the version of events, they are either named Effie & Garret or Lani & Daki ^w^
Not pictured: Ingo having to trim his goatee and hair, because the kiddos keep grabbing and pulling on them.
[Ingo introduces Adaman and Melli to Fraise an Ultra recon agent sent to retrieve him and Lucas, both men are little thrown off by her appearance, From her ultra recon uniform, down to her dark red hair, lime colored eye and pale blue skin....]
Adaman: So, you’re some sort of recovery agent sent from the future to retrieve Warden Ingo and Lucas?
Fraise: Yes, that’s the status of my mission, recover Ingo Trevithick and Lucas Damon and see them safely back home. However, at the moment I am currently assisting Mr. Trevithick in finding a suitable Warden candidate for Lady Sneasler in his absence.
Ingo: I won’t leave until I know someone is watching over Lady Sneasler.
Adaman: And Irida is fine with this?
Ingo: We discussed it, she’s upset but she knew this day was coming...
Adaman: I see. What’s your thoughts on this Melli?
Melli, To Fraise: ….Is Everyone blue where you from?
Ingo: Warden Melli!
Melli: What?
Adaman: You can’t just ask if people are blue!
Fraise: Gentlemen please! It’s fine, it’s not the first time I’ve been asked that question. (to Melli) Yes Warden, we’re all blue, it’s the result of my world’s sun dying out.
I've been thinking a lot lately about allergies and the Pokemon world. I've seen various takes on it, but I like to think that if you're allergic to cats here, you'd be allergic to cat-like pokemon, allergy to dogs translates to an allergy to dog-like pokemon, an allergy to certain kinds of pollens translates to an allergy to certain kinds of pollens of plantlife on pokemon (like the plants on a Torterra or the pollen of a Roserade), etc.
Anyway, I like to put my problems on my blorbos, so Emmet gets my cat allergy. He has an inhaler and allergy meds, and anytime a trainer on the Battle Subway sends out a Purrloin or something, he puts on a face mask and gets ready to battle. Afterwards, Ingo makes sure to stop the train for a bit so that they can properly clean out the train cars, specifically the Subway Boss train car, while Emmet pops his meds and puffs his inhaler if he's feeling wheezy.
Emmet also was that kid to ignore his allergies and pet a cat pokemon anyway, so he'd go to Drayden with puffy eyes, a stuffy nose, and wheezing, and Drayden has to send him to get clean, take his meds, and set him in his room with his humidifier.
Rosie also has cat allergies (she's my oc so I can do what I want, lol). Johanna (at least in the anime) has a Glameow, so she makes sure to keep the house clean and her Glameow in its ball while inside. They let Glameow out of the ball often outside, but this way her daughter and brother-in-law don't have to deal with their allergies. This does not stop Rosie from wanting to pet her mom's pokemon though, and she does get to pet Glameow while outside as long as she takes her allergy meds beforehand, doesn't touch her face, and washes her hands afterwards. They all make it work.
Also Ingo has a shellfish allergy so he can't eat stuff like Horsea or Corphish. Cuz he doesn't get to leave this post without an allergy.
The Christmas Carol theme was suggested for Hourglass Shipping to me and I simply could not let this opportunity pass by!
Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas if you celebrate! Hope you are having a lovely day!
I am aware I styled the clothes more after the later periods of the 19th century, I modeled them more after vintage Christmas cards and less after the year the original Christmas Carol was set in~