since he's got thems draconic traits. he's a bit toasty! and fluffy!
the pearl clan kids LOVE him, especially what with how cold the icelands get. personal heater! PRIME cuddle real estate!!!! and even though he looks intimidating he's actually really nice and always takes the time to play with them
so even though he's weird and kinda scary sometimes and very clearly not human. kids are kinda attached to him lolllll.
kinda back with the themes of the clan accepting him despite his VERY blatant oddness and inhuman traits
new twin dragons au dropped ("new" -> been procrastinating posting it to tumblr since last. uh. last june. almost a year. just about exactly 11 months specifically. whoopsies.)
ANYWAY. the. there's some stuff i've wanted to do with dragons and submas that can't happen with fulcrum au's rules At All. so i decided. why not just make a whole new au. also why not switch who's who while i'm at it :)
and thus my own take on a reshiram ingo was born
essentially: here, the difference between forms is like a spectrum, rather than a switch like fulcrum au's. there's Fully Human and Fully Dragon, but then everything in between as well. though they both prefer to be Fully Human/Dragon.
When reshingo gets Got to hisui, his hold on his "human" form wavers; with the weird spacetime stuff going on and the amnesia, he constantly has slight draconic traits too that human form.
READMORE BECAUSE THIS BEASTIE GETS LONG, FELLAS
will also include a lot of the art from the very beginning so some of it is kinda old/outdated LOL
very normal human guy who's got fangs and claws and weird eyes and can occasionally breathe smoke and fire. his hair is a little longer and kinda floats. mega fluffy sideburns :) also whiskers i gave him real long whiskers because For Fun. sometimes he's got fur or little feathers here and there? yeah dw about it that's just ingo bein silly :P
the first few drawings:
when he first shows up in hisui; pearl clan little hunting or foraging group come across a strange distortion. distortions are always dangerous, but in this one even from the outside, you can see the silhouette of a massive, raging beast ...
when it passes, they investigate the site for anything left behind, and come across ingo. Even though the circumstances of his arrival are suspicious, they still decided to bring him to the settlement. None of them in good conscience would be able to leave someone behind to freeze in the snow.
but when the bring him inside to recover and look him over for signs of injury or frostbite, they start noticing strange things about his appearance. Sharp fangs, claw-like nails, nictitating membrane (the "third" eyelid that you see in a lot of animals that humans don't have), etc.
the pearl clan takes him in despite this, of course; despite his vaguely inhuman traits, he's still Ingo and wins them over pretty quickly.
the thing is, he has to avoid the spacetime distortions. he never remembers what happens if he tries to enter them...
uhhhh THAT. will be it FOR NOW!!! i have MUCH more about this au, but i think splitting the subjects between posts would be best so here's just a sort of introduction :D
ingo's appearance will shift smoothy between human and dragon, as mentioned; i've done a Lot of playing around with what he'd look like at various different "states" so here's some in somewhat chronological order. debatable levels of "canon" design
he CAN somewhat control how much he transforms, but not fully.
Something about the rift above mount coronet prevents him from appearing fully human...
that, and he doesn't really remember how to stay consistently one way ljdfksjklfsjlfsdksjfkl
but because he can somewhat control it slightly, he can occasionally suppress the dragon traits. this usually happens when he visits jubilife (though the question is, is that due to the distance from the rift or the accidental masking metaphor lol)
but generally he's just kinda vaguely creature in a way that is ALMOST human but just not quite, as has been consistently shown through all of the drawings of him as a human
made him as reshiram look a Little different than "canon" (ie gave him Arms) mostly because i wanted it to be distinct from fulcrum au. so here in this "interpretation" it's like. reshiram and zekrom are formed from human concepts. it only stands to reason that their appearance would change slightly due to the general perception of the human populace yeah? so over the millennia, they've had slightly different appearances. the "current" being as pictured ^^^
(on that note: reshiram and zekrom use literally any pronouns. anything that a human refers to them as, is what they use. the most "common" ones are the most "preferred" but there's no real Actual preference.)
that up there is one of the original drawings but over time doodling it's shifted a little bit and here's a super duper recent one of full dragon reshingo. arguably kinda more a matter of stylistic differences as time has gone on tbh
AND! on the thing about reshiram and zekrom looking slightly different, i did play around with a zekrom design as well. kinda did a little bit of pangolin inspiration here
so remember the thing about how the rift above mt coronet is what seems to effect him?
yeah. well. distortions are like mini dramatic rifts, you know? and. well,
we've seen what rifts have done to pokemon that have some kind of "Divine" power, whether it be through blessings like the noble pokemon, or are legendaries themselves like palkia and dialga.
needless to say, ingo uhh. ingo doesn't like distortions <3
he doesn't know why, either. just that whenever he gets near them, something Happens but he can never actually remember.
