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what is submas?

**DISCLAIMER: i literally very little research and all that are written below are a combination of my own conclusions and thoughts and what i have read. i will include links where you can read more about them**

terminology: Submas/ サブマス is a term short for subway master which is the role/title of Ingo and Emmet and it's used as the duo name of the brothers. The duo originated from Pokemon Black and White.

"ingo" is derived from "ingoing" and "emmet" is from "emit". their japanese name, "nobori/ノボリ" is from "上り/up train" and "kudari/クダリ" is from "下り/down-train". (source: bulbapedia)

they are the heads of the battle facility, the Battle Subway, in Nimbasa city. Ingo manages the SIngle and Super Single lines while Emmet manages the Double and Super Super Double lines. and together, they can be battled on the Multi and Super Multi lines.

headcannons

  • they're very autistic-coded.
  • they love trains, they love pokemon battles. they share their pokemons. those being: Chandelure, Eelektross, Archeop, Exadrill, Haxorus, Crustle, Klinkang, Klinkang, Garbodor, Durant, galvantula.
  • Anville town: because the town is known for their love of train, many people headcanon them to be originated from here.

Individially

INGO

  • ingo is **ideal** aligned, reflected in his script as being wordy and flowery, a lot of words to describe a meaning. like visually thinking, it's like he's more fluid. like he dabbles in the "what-if"s more before coming back to/ coming to an conclusion. => ground for overthinking.
    • Ingo: "Thank you for riding the Battle Subway today. I am the Subway Boss Ingo. I will choose the next destination based on your talent. Do you understand Pokémon well? Can you hold on to your principle? Will you go on to victory or defeat? All aboard!"
  • he's more for encouraging words and very expressive in his speech.
  • ties to the theming of **ideal**, he's some part connected to zekrom, the dragon of ideals. curiously, while zekrom is an electric type, ingo is regularly paired with fire. this's because of his ace, chandelure being a fire ghost type. but thinking more about it, fire does suit him more like in "passionate fire"..
  • which leads to me, tying red (magenta) and purple (indigo) to him whenever i draw.
  • he's the older brother..
  • he has keen eyes and a tendency to spaceout/ lost in thoughts (is he looking at you? or is he in his head?). Which ,when he got transported to Hisui, is very unnerving to the local..

EMMET

  • emmet is truth aligned, reflected in his script as him saying statements. blunt and straight to the point. inversely, emmet is more condensed in his thought, focusing in the "truth"/present. => ground for implusivity.
    • Emmet: "I am Emmet. I am a Subway Boss. I like Double Battles. I like combinations of two Pokémon. And I like winning more than anything else. So let's start a great battle in which every Pokémon uses various moves."
  • he's more expressive in his actions. fast to act.
  • ties to the theming of truth, he's some part connected to reshiram, the dragon of truth. and just like my thought above about ingo, while reshiram is a fire type, emmet is regularly tied with electricity, because his ace?, electrok, is an electric type. which also suit him very well. like electricity is usually also ties to excitement in movement/motion?.
  • he's usually drawn with joltiks because his galvantula has an egg move and so he's headcannoned to be a breeder.

relationships and shipping

  1. nimbasa city: because they are the most powerful pokemon battlers in the city, the duo is headcanoned to know the Gym Leader of the city, Elesa; their trio name (ingo&elesa&emmet) is nimbasa trio . But for romantic shipping, there are:
    • nimbasabattleshipping for ingo/elesa;
    • conductorshipping for emmet/elesa;
    • thirdrailshipping for ingo/elesa/emmet (in most class, i have not seen blankshipping feature in this tag but still be careful when looking);
    • Mention of incest:
  2. Drayden: my guess is that drayden has a very unique beard that kinda looks like the twins' sideburn, they are headcannoned to be related to each others as father&sons or uncle&nephews , which also make iris their sister/cousin and drayton their second removed? cousin/nephew/ distain relative. this's also supported by the fact that they have a Haxorus on their team.
  3. battle related:
    • because he's somewhat specialized bug type pokemons, emmet is sometime shipped Burgh, the Bug type Gym Leader in Castelia city.
    • doublebattleshipping: emmet and evelyn from the battle maison, the reason being it's cute shy girl and assertive/energetic boy kinda :))) also they specialize in double battle.
    • WhiteNoiseShipping for Emmet x Piers
    • BleachedBonesShipping for Emmet x Guzma
  4. hisui era: