Submas,,, but what if they're the original twin heroes,,,
What if historians were wrong about the origin myth of Unova? Because honestly you can not convince me that Unova's founding myth happened only 1000 years ago, civilization should be older than that, especially in places with defined creation myths.
SO my brainworms worked and came to this obviously logical solution: Ingo and Emmet are the original twin heroes of Unova from several thousand years ago. Except they weren't known as "heroes" they were known as "Keepers" and have been around for a verrry long time.
When the original dragon fell to earth, it split into three dragons. Zekrom, Reshiram, and Kyurem. Reshiram saw the truth of the world and found it beautiful and sought to enjoy it. Zekrom realised that the world could be better and formed the ideal of making it last. And Kyurem had nothing but a longing to go back to where it came from originally.
In an attempt to stop Kyurem from rampaging and destroying life on earth, Reshiram and Zekrom created Ingo and Emmet so that they could rally the humans and the pokemon to calm Kyurem down.
Ingo as the keeper of Zekrom, of ideals.
Emmet as the keeper of Reshiram, of truth.
Together they're the keepers of Kyurem, ensuring that Kyurem is placated and doesn't rampage.
Later on when civilization advanced, and a kingdom is created, Ingo and Emmet vanished from the limelight to allow the humans room to develop. But they stayed around. Observed from the sidelines. Ensured that the humans and pokemon were capable of handling themselves.
Some people who still remembered their tale, went to seek them out to train at dragonspiral tower.
Later, it was Drayden who found the twins slumbering at the tower. And brought them into civilization again after coming to the conclusion that they can't stay somewhere so sacred but also dangerous.
Of course, we can't have an au without a sketch! :D
I also have some notes about the twins:
- Ingo and Emmet are around 10-11 thousand years old. They're basically immortal.
- they can understand and talk with pokemon.
- despite the fact that Reshiram created Ingo and Zekrom created Emmet, the twins developed individually and crossed over to the other dragon.
- Emmet is much faster in learning things than Ingo
- Ingo is much better at analysing and discovering things.
- the twins started out as blank slates but learned how to be people over time.
- their isolation from society made them lose track of time, especially after people stopped coming to find them after the dragons were sealed away.
- later when drayden finds them, the twins realise that they can do battles again and teach trainers. Also trains are hella cool.
- also not really relevant for now but when the twins first met depot agent Jackie they may or may not have had a breakdown because what do you mean the kid from 10000 years ago is still around??? Just because I think it's funny that people associate Jackie with a ghost and I totally agree lmao
I'm thinking of calling this the "keepers au" Thats all I have for now! Any ideas or thoughts are always appreciated!
