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...well, it does add drama if I must attack the long-lost family of my birth to get them. So yes, that is what it shall be.

[in this weird au fanfic that exists only in their heads right now]

You emerge from the shadows, our Uncle is standing there, ready to defend the splicers, you defeat him despite his rank as a Gym Leader. He falls to his knees and realizes something- this was not Emmet who had betrayed the family, but the missing twin.

[Ingo laughs.]

Ah! The terrible family secret that he alone knows! Well, our parents must too, I suppose...

[But they are regular people and thus hard to fit into the story; he dismisses that wrinkle with a slight shrug.]

I cannot believe your own family thought that you were the terrorist! Ah, but with so much video evidence of you committing your horrible crimes, how could they not? It was terribly heart-wrenching, and they did not wish to accept it, but who can deny reality when they see it? And of course, if you truly had turned to villainy, it makes sense that you would only scowl!

[He pauses to think for a moment, then asks:]

Is it very clear when twins are infants that they are identical? Babies all do look very similar anyway, at least to my eyes.

I can't tell either, the only way I can tell us apart in baby pictures is because Mom and Dad painted our toenails.

Well, then, perhaps they did not even know that! And they must have assumed I was dead in any case, instead of being raised by old-fashioned cultists in the mountains!

[which is evidently a part of this now]

Your only friend was a Foongus you found on a tree.

Hm...yes, but that is secret from everyone. Because...well, goodness, how did they justify battling alongside Pokemon in their quest to separate people from Pokemon? I understand they probably did not really believe in it, but they must have said something!

That it is like recruitment for War! The Pokemon are fighting side by side for now for their own liberation.

Oh, I see. Well, obviously I am a true believer in all of that!

[Apparently a universe where he founded Team Plasma is within the bounds of reasonable, but one where he is just a total hypocrite is beyond the pale!]

And I still have a very cool long coat to flap behind me!

Why would you even be a villain if you didn't have a cool long coat to flap?

You have a detective's coat. Like Detective Berglund on Peninsula of Passion! You joined the force to prove yourself, because our parents were overprotective and smothering of you after the loss of their other son!

Plus I was jealous of the brother I never knew because they idealized who he could have been, and held me up to that expectation.

[A beat.]

Detective Berglund was a jerk last episode.

It is because he does genuinely believe that Elsa killed Anders! He does not know their love was true!

[Not that Ingo is a particular Detective Berglund fan, but he tends to sympathize with most characters who aren't just outright awful!]

Yes, that too. But you all think that he is dead, so there is certainly no thought in anyone's mind of all that when I appear! It was decade ago! And I suppose I would not see you until much later in any case, or else we would have just had a dragon battle then.

It is so obvious even I picked it up, who does he think she loved? The record shop clerk?

[Emmet on the other hand, does not sympathize with or like Detective Berglund and had made this clear in the past.]

Maybe it is like a slow build-up, seeing each other in a crowd and stuff.

He is struggling with the loss and wants someone to blame!

[This guy isn't even Ingo's tenth favorite character, he is just too soft-hearted.]

Ah, yes - I do not know we look alike at all, only that there is one detective coming after me very intently, and you probably think I am using some sort of disguise to frame you on purpose! And then I think that I have killed you in the dragon incident, so there is nothing more to do about it!

He should just read some sad stories and call it a day. Not blame Elsa.

[Emmet thinks.]

Maybe you think I am an angry ghost after the dragon incident?

Ah! Bravo! An angry ghost! How exciting! I must be in a poor state by then - even if I did not know you, it must be upsetting to find out one had a twin brother who one has been accidentally framing for crimes and then immediately kill him over ideological differences!

That must suck to kill your identical twin over ideological differences, but I am sure it happens sometimes.

Rich historical precedent, in Unova.

[He's not actually sure whether or not either of the original kings ended up killing one another, but they started a whole war about it?]

I think I one time read a fanfic, based on a musical, based on the Twin Heroes that did that.

What happened to them in real life?

Went off somewhere after their sons decided to pick the war back up again. Guess they got tired of everyone fooling about.

Well, perhaps they should have thought of that before starting a war! And over something so nebulous, too!

Well, speaking from the future, we can see how Truth and Ideals are really hand-in-hand but back then they probably didn't.

Even excusing all of that, it's a foolish thing to start an actual war over. Most wars are about...resources, or land rights! That is worth nothing more than a regular argument or two!

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