#reshingo

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.

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.

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will also include a lot of the art from the very beginning so some of it is kinda old/outdated LOL

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

behold him. the traits kinda come out a little stronger when he's feeling High Emotion

2. sillies.

literally just drew this one because it was funny

another silly of. listen. ingo's a battle freak just like his brother what can i say

on reshingo and his appearance as reshiram:

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

the distortions.

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.

just a vague feeling of deep dread.