#reshirambles

Alright I’ve held my piece on this long enough, I wanna talk about what I think really happened to Ingo. Something about his situation and the way that he’s been brought to Hisui compared to how you as the player have been brought to Hisui was bothering me, and now that I’ve beaten the game, I understand why!

I don’t think Arceus was responsible for Ingo’s arrival in Hisui. We know that the rift above Mount Coronet was created when Volo had Giratina tear it wide open, and that every subsequent problem we have is a result of that—including the other, smaller spacetime distortions. We also know that Pokémon from the future can be brought to Hisui via those smaller rifts (how else would Porygon be in them if not?).

Is it a stretch, then, to say that Ingo was brought to Hisui via one of the spacetime distortions, rather than being placed there by Arceus as we were?

There are clear differences in how he got there vs. how we got there. Arceus calls us its child, plots out our landing spot, gives us a phone, and ensures that we’re immediately set up with a place to stay. We’re Arceus’s solution to the natural disasters wrought by a religious heretic who wants to unmake the world. Ingo, on the other hand, is a tattered amnesiac who clearly has had a rough go—just look at his jacket! I don’t think a deity that refers to us as its children would intentionally treat Ingo worse in this situation, let alone bring him there on purpose. For a deity trying to prevent the collapse of its world, that behavior seems too inconsistent.

The actual culprits here, even if it probably wasn’t intentional on their part, are Volo and Giratina. The former might be unaccounted for now (he’s hiding. From me. Because he knows I would maim him if we met again in game), but I think at the unseen end where the game’s run it’s course and we’re finally back to the future, god is going to grab its rebellious shithead child and make it apologize to both the twins for the hell it put them through because it thought it’d be funny to grant favors to a heretic.