#ghost train au

[4phoenixfeathers]

Happy trainguy Tuesday! Have a ghost train for a ghost guy.

Just when i think the hyperfixation is fading, i start a complex piece for my most niche au yet... Anyways i just really like the image of Ingo riding a ghost train through the Distortion World. This composition has been rattling around in my brain since I made the au.

St. Elmo's Fire is playing through the loudspeakers on blast. It's somehow not as loud as Ingo himself.

[death-c0nscious]

I had a dream that there was a Stanley Parable AU known as the Ghost Train AU. In this AU, the characters are forced out of the office and into a post-apocalyptic world by an infection known as ‘the Forces’.

So of course I had to draw it.

[idsfantasy]

Hey, Wait a Minute

Four technically-dead Ingos walk into Gear Station...

Whole lot of Train Twins and none of them are the twin they’re looking for. One of them is an actual train though!

Art Fight attack for @blaiddraws @fourphoenixfeathers and @chrome-chrome​ and their several ghost!Ingo AUs XD

The AUs in question can be found in the tags (though idk if Chrome's Jailtime AU has a tag cuz I couldn't find one so I made one myself)

[corrupted-tale]

I've been thinking about an au

basically i've been imaging emmet going on a quest to find his brother with the help of a train themed mythical pokemon named Howlgine and also recruting people from different universes via Howlgine. Howlgine is basically a giant steel/ghost or fire/ghost fox-wolf-cat thing that acts as the engine for a ghost train that can fly and travel through dimensions (it basically runs while the train is attached to it like those giant cats in a hat in time, or a sled dog)

and the events of pla are happening at the same time as his journey

Howlgine is very motherly towards Emmet and treats him like her pup.

The other helpers/passengers on the train are a mimikyu gijinka named Blooky, a buff lesbian named Julie from an apocalyptic world with an absol, a park ranger named Parker with a munchlax, and a trans guy named Tyler with a mothim

[hostess-of-horror]

Ghost Train AU [Part 2]

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STUDIO COLLAPSES, FILM DIRECTOR DECLARED DEAD

"At around 7:35 p.m., Dead Bird Studios collapsed unexpectedly during filming due to an explosion. The explosion caused multiple casualties, including the famed film director known as 'The Conductor'. According to the survivors, they were filming their new upcoming movie, 'Sands of Time', until the train used for the set suddenly burst into flames. The damage was massive, triggering the ground to crack open. The entire set then sunk, falling into the deep pit below. It is currently unknown as what the exact cause of the train's destruction.

Authorities had arrived at the aftermath an hour later. They attempted to recover the bodies, but the pit was far too deep to venture down. Daniel Nocturne, co-producer of Dead Bird Studios and one of the survivors, plans to give the deceased's loved ones peace by hosting a large memorial to make up for the lack of proper graves. According to Nocturne, 'What had happened to [The Conductor] was a travesty... None of us saw it coming... and I wish I could do more than just prepare a memorial service.'"

[4phoenixfeathers]

Rejoice, DP x Submas crossover be upon ye! I'm calling it Ghost Train au because that's how Ingo and Akari get home.

The distortion world is just pokemon ghost zone and Akari and Ingo became halfas when they got eeby deebied.

Ingo's obsession is conducting and safety, but he can fulfill it well enough with his "guiding travellers on Coronet" job to survive, even if he isn't at full power. Akari, who is actually Rowan's assistant Dawn instead of the dppt protag Dawn, has an obsession with caring for and studying pokemon. Helping Laventon with the Pokedex and helping out at the pasture are right up her alley.

Feel free to ask questions, I spent all day monday brainstorming in discord and I have sooo many details. I love how many people there are also dp fans, I'm living.

Here's a sketch for the titular ghost train! I left my tablet pen at home today, so i couldn't clean and color it :'>

[4phoenixfeathers]

Submas AU Masterpost

Feel free to use/do anything with my ideas (as long as you credit me for the au or inspiration or whatevs. I'm not stressed about it.)

These are my babies. My asks are always open!

Mirror AU:

Even separated by time and space, Emmet and Ingo somehow manage to match each other in more ways than just their appearances. It's entirely accidental... Until half a year after Ingo's disappearance when they realize that they can see each other in mirrors. From then on, they are a lot more hopeful about their futures. Nimbasa City, however, is not hopeful as the Subway Boss speedruns a transformation from a poor little meow meow to a full blown cryptid.

Prophet and Heretic AU:

Before he can join the Pearl Clan, Ingo goes to the rift on Mount Coronet for answers. Palkia and Dialga are too busy throwing hands to hear. Arceus does, though, and oh geez he should have thought things through before appearing before a mortal. By the time Ingo recovers from his holy fainting spell, he has all his memories back, spooky god powers, and a new headmate. At least Arceus promised to return him home in return for completing some quest to save the world...

Centuries in the future, a very lonely and remorseful Giratina approaches Emmet with a deal.

Paper Lantern AU:

When Ingo gets torn from his own time, he gets torn from his body as well. With nothing but his human soul, he possesses a paper lantern and invents a regional variant of Chandelure. His ace would be so proud. Meanwhile, Emmet is left with Ingo's alive but verrry much comatose body.

Ditto Emmet AU:

I just wanted to hit one of the boys with a shape shifter beam and Emmet is my favorite. A lot fun shape shifter things here. Like family fluff and body horror! And also Emmet copying the incarnation of time itself, hehehe-

Ghost Train AU (Danny Phantom Crossover):

The Distortion World is really just the Pokemon world's name for their version of the Ghost Zone. Ingo and Dawn get eaten up by a couple of natural portals, and two newly formed halfas arrive in Hisui a year apart. Arceus won't touch ghost child Akari with a ten-foot pole, but it all works out in the end anyways because Akari can't not help the nobles, and the Distortion World/Ghost Zone is a great medium for traversing time and space.

Submas Fusion AU:

Ingo and Emmet went to hisui together, but the distortion world said they can't have nice things. A man with no idea who or what he is woke up in a black and white coat in the coronet highlands, with only a handful of Joltik to protect him. He couldn't remember his name, but E and I came to mind. So, he guesses his name is Ei now...

Gear Session:

Homestuck au!

Arceus found a copy of Sburb in the Pokemon world and thought "that's not good" and sent the Nimbasa trio plus Akari on a mission to destroy the incipisphere from the inside out. No reckoning destroying the earth or frog breeding here, but there is a lot of temporary death. You know. Prototyping dream selves and questbeds and all that.

Fluff and Scales AU:

Hybrid au, but Ingo and Emmet are legendary hybrids.

Ingo and Emmet were born with black and white dragon wings. No one recognized them, so it was chalked up to a couple undiscovered species of pokemon and life continued as normal. But Drayden always suspected there was something more to them than that.

His suspicions were confirmed during the Team Plasma invasion, after which everyone and their mother knew what the dragons of legend looked like. And anyone who had ever been to Nimbasa could recognize the white fluff and black scales.

Also featuring Arceus hybrid Jackie and Absol hybrid Beni.

Tron AU:

Ingo got eebied to the grid instead of Hisui! He runs around the computer systems of Unova for about a month thinking he's a program, until he finds Gear station. The train autopilot programs, called ATOs, help their poor amnesiac User remember who he is, while someone unexpected brings Emmet into the digital world to help.

Thrice is a Pattern:

There were three skyfallers in Hisui. The first was an accident. The second was a failed rescue attempt. The third was the one who saved them all. Trainer Dawn never makes it back home after entering the distortion world, ending up in Hisui instead. Ingo is sent to the past to make it right, but he forgets his mission before he can even start. It's up to Lucas, now.

Kabaneri au:

Crossover with Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress! Instead of frenzies, Giratina unleashes a corruption on Hisui that turns people and pokemon into mindless zombies called Kabane. Arceus sends Dawn to cleanse the region, and promises she will be immune to the curse. He fails to mention that to do so, he will have to take away her humanity first.

[4phoenixfeathers]

I couldn't stop myself any longer.

Halfa Ingo is a terrifying mountain cryptid and i love him for it. OvO

Even in human form, some of Ingo's ghostly traits slip through, and most people in Hisui are a lot more observant than the residents of Amity Park... Also, Ingo has a ghost sense, but it's a puff of smoke rather than mist.