#vespingo

Oh Boy Do I!!!

Queuing posts for most of my AUs! Check out this Masterpost!

I feel your heartbeat buzzing in my chest

-Premise- What if they were bees.

What if Ingo and Emmet, renowned subway bosses, were just bees.

What if they lived in anville town in a hive made in one of the abandoned rail houses and they were b-

THEY'RE BEES. They are LITTLE GUYS. I Don't Know What To Tell You!! They Are Small And They Like Honey!! And also have to deal with an immense amount of tragedy BUT THEY'RE BEES! Look at their little antennae,, yes they are forced through the most cosmically unlikely series of tragic accidents but it's fine. They're god's favorites. Hisuian pokemon are those blessed by Arceus? Awesome. Hisuian Combee. The first one ever. Because this tiny hexagon shaped bug has won the favor of The Almighty Sinnoh Itself. What more could you possibly want.

-Noteworthy Points- They're bees!

What if you were separated from your closest friend and became irreversibly changed in the time you spent apart but you still remembered the piece you lost and never stopped searching for it until you found him?

(Bonus below)

Long and complicated answer! Welcome to The Plot!

After Ingo and Emmet are separated, Ingo tumbles into Hisui and is generally pretty worse for wear. He has to relearn how to fly (alone and unbalanced) and figure out how to Survive.

Thankfully for him, he manages to make some friends :] Mainly in the form of a slightly greener Laventon, fresh on the scene in Hisui and substantially newer to the field of research- A hurt combee, while still a Pokemon, is a lot easier for one man to handle and approach on his own. He takes Ingo back to his office at Jubilife and nurses him back to health- And while he sleeps one night as Laventon is burning the midnight oil, the little bee beegins to take on a glow. It encircles him like a halo, and when the light clears, he has a little red marking in the shape of a triangle on his chin.

Laventon gets to witness the first Hisuian Combee, Ingo himself rather clueless to the whole thing.

His evolution comes a lot later, after Laventon reintroduces him to the wild; Laventon takes Ingo to the Combee colony living in the Heartwood and makes sure he acclimates well enough/isn't rejected before falling back to leave him bee.

I haven't decided exactly what happens and when, but in the time Laventon spends away, Ingo evolves in an attempt to protect the colony from some kind of danger. When Laventon finds him again he's nearly unrecognizable- An alpha- A noble by right, first of his kind and dignified guard to the field's Combee.

He recognizes Ingo not by appearance but by his behavior alone- Treating Laventon with familiarity and hospitality. He's exceptionally gentle for his size and strength, and continues to get along with humans shockingly well. (As a pokemon from the future, we've seen they are broadly more domesticated.)

Is this a ramble! Yes! It is! There was no quick answer to the question :> I hope you enjoy the elevator pitch plot points. I love the bees so fuckin much man....... Why does Arceus bless Ingo? Great question. I just think he should be gods favorite. As a treat. And also it's a super awesome story device that I haven't seen many other people use- the origins of Hisuian Pokemon.

Thank you for the ask!!

I understand perfectly 🤍 That's also the same shit they did to my brain when I first made them. I have so many fucking combee on PLA and Violet, I'm unwell

I already posted most of my old combee art and I haven't made any new art in a while, but I do have this old silly (read: not silly) valentines card I made a few years ago!

Also, if it counts for anything, I have loose scraps of an old animatic I never finished that are also here in deep storage /lh If you ask nicely I will consider sharing it one day (trying not to implode over putting art that is a few years old onto the internet where people can see it)

Thanks for the ask! Always feel free to poke me more about it, I love making new stuff but often need a reminder to do so. Someday I should post some of my writing for the bees here too, that would be fun.

o/ ✨🤍 The love is stored in the bees. There's no way to elaborate they're literally just. they're so. they're so bees. the love is in them. The bees

Steady Tracks chapter 2 is still happening (I have finally gotten a second wind and am making decent progress)

I've been working on a short animatic for Spirit Keeper Ingo (It's mostly done but I haven't had the time to go back to it since the semester started)

Potentially might be starting a second fic in the near-to-far future. I realized one of the things tripping me up with STDNW was not having variety, so i might start another fic to work on when I can't make progress on ST.

I am also still working on that Uquiz. all the quiz parts are done but shockingly it takes longer than you think to write 30+ paragraphs about all the different final answers. oof. That's lower on my priority list but i'll probably get it done over the summer

Oh this is important also, STIngo is getting a redesign. It's not major, just wanna fix some shape language stuff. Make him look more pokemon. That'll happen officially at some point but again god forbid I set a concrete deadline sdjghdh ⭐Other animatics in the future, maybe some comics. Art hard, brain bad, fuck it we ball

Thank you for your time, have some doodles 👍 (these are between a month and a year old, horrors of constantly evolving art style n character designs, yadda yadda)