>>49507104I'm not a fujo, but as a submas yume who's been obsessed with these guys for the better half of 10 or so years I still can't believe how they've basically been memed into popularity by pixiv artists going balls to the wall crazy over any bit of content they receive. Their pixiv tag was one of the featured tags on the site forever ago and is probably seeing a massive resurgence of content since they were included in Pokemon Masters last July and this whole situation with Ingo.
OP is right, he WAS a massive literally who along with Emmet and they have maybe 3-5 lines of dialogue (a bit more in B2W2) but that only served to be the opening to let the fujoshi come in and go wild with headcanons. It's absolutely fascinating as someone who's watched it happen since way back when BW was new. There even used to be threads here, but they were never very popular in the West as far as I could tell. (Which sucks, we never got any merch over here because of it... but those plushies kinda scare me anyways.)
Anyways, it really is peculiar that they're implying that Ingo and the player are pivotal to the existence of the concept of Pokemon Trainers, and forging bonds with Pokemon as a whole. Lots of lore to think about here. Especially with the implication that the reason people are so scared of Pokemon is because they just go nuts sometimes and destroy entire villages for seemingly no reason. Puts it into perspective how different things were. I wonder what Pokemon must have been thinking back then and if they're so different now?
