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Afraid a lot of things are still in production atm so have some out of context Emmets and a quick mockup of a possible cover image for Under the City Streets.

“Oh yeah, we just had to shake Subway Boss Ingo loose from the planet with an earthquake. Poor guy got caught in the folds of space-time apparently.”

“Listen, listen! I wanna be a cop. Crowd boos. But only for TRAIN CRIMES! Crowd goes fucking nuts!

-Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Well There’s Your Problem, Episode 87: UCSB Student Housing Cube, 4:58

AU where Emmet and Ingo host a podcast about trains, Pokémon battles, and sometimes Pokémon battles on trains.

  • Ingo does most of the talking, usually in-depth, thoughtful, and passionate info dumping.
  • When Emmet pipes up he’s half insightful, half agent of utter chaos.
  • Ingo: *detailed analysis of train systems and how they go wrong*
  • Emmet: *dick jokes*
  • Emmet occasionally issues actionable threats to troll reviewers that Ingo has to bleep out.
  • There was intense arguing over whether to keep it to mature audiences and allow for cursing. Emmet won for the adult rating with the argument that it would be funny for either of them to state verrry sternly: “If you are under the legal adult age, cease listening and switch tracks right now. Where are your parents?
  • They frequently have guests. Elesa shows up the most and is the honorary third host. They mainly nerd out about Pokémon. To their chagrin, Elesa is popular with listeners because she likes blitzing them with relentless puns and pushes their buttons by deliberately getting train facts wrong.
  • Sometimes big name trainers guest host. Sometimes fellow Gear Station employees join in. Every time devolves into complete nonsense.
  • Frequent Pokémon bloopers where they’ll interrupt somehow. Common culprits are Archeops screaming and surprise Joltiks.
  • It is the nerdiest freaking podcast but they have quite a sizable audience.
  • They’ve turned down doing ads because this whole thing is just an excuse to talk about trains and Pokémon with absolutely no one to stop them.

Extra:

“Train good, car bad.”

(P.S. Listen to Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters. It has slides.)

Well that’s totally not ominous…

(Just a wip preview)

Quick doodle of the train mans after their adventure in the Unknown, with an additional mini-‘adventure’ in the hospital detailed below:

Emmet comes out of the Unknown with a scar on his cheek from where Ingo nicked him. This leads to a scene where Elesa comes to visit them in the hospital (having just had a weird dream where she was a talking Zebstrika that helped out two kids). Elesa stops short upon seeing Emmet sitting menacingly on Ingo. He’s holding up a scalpel (“Emmet, where did you get that??” “Don’t worry about it!” “Emmet…” “I said don’t worry about it! 83”). Ingo is not impressed and is trying to discourage Emmet from shanking him, no, not even lightly, are you for real. Emmet’s smiling a little too wide for this harebrained idea, insisting that Ingo has to decide whether it’ll be mirrored or the same. That’s when Elesa shouts at them what the fuck do they think they’re doing?! Neither train man is expecting this and a startled Ingo accidentally kicks Emmet right in the crotch. Emmet goes down hard and the scalpel kinda nails Ingo anyways. So now Ingo’s face is bleeding, Emmet is trying to remember how to function after a solid nut shot, and Elesa is shouting for a nurse. The fact that the scalpel makes a mirrored scar is kind of a happy accident. Heavy quotes on “happy”. So that’s how Ingo winds up with an accidentally on-purpose facial scar of his own.

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