Okay so! As far as the breakdown for how all of them get along goes, all in all, they get along pretty well? Emporio and Firepaw have hit it off Delightfully with each other, Ingo and Emmet are currently varying extents of 'do-not-separate', and both of the former pair have been training with the latter. At the very least they trust/like them enough for Emporio to be the one who suggested reaching out to them for assistance on the mission, since it was Firepaw and Emporio's idea to go in the first place!
Which segues into leadership determination; Emporio and Firepaw, being younger, would prefer that someone older/more experienced (for all that they're all about equally new to actually being Pokemon) takes the lead. Firepaw is used to letting older cats handle things since he's technically not supposed to be out on his own yet, and Emporio while he does have a general overall plan to offer them all would let Ingo and Emmet take point on things because they're more familiar with Pokemon. And between the twins, Emmet tends to let Ingo take point by default! He'll chip in his two cents where appropriate or needed, but especially now Ingo probably has the more relevant skillset/knowledge base in terms of wilderness savvy. It's not so strict of a hierarchy that they can't/don't all offer input, though.
On splitting the party, most of them would at least consider the idea if given a good enough argument for it, but in general Ingo, Emporio, and Emmet are all against splitting up at this point, and Firepaw's fine with either plan but will listen to Ingo and Emmet if they say to stick together.
Impostors! A lot of it comes down to how good the impostors are at impost-ing. Firepaw doesn't really know anyone's scents yet, and the other three primarily are relying on their brains/common sense/situational awareness to spot an impostor. Emporio's ready to apply Logic and Reasoning to the situation, Ingo has experience with distinguishing Hisuian Zoroark impostors, and Emmet can spot more obvious tells in the case of something like an unpracticed Ditto (untransformed face) or (Unovan) Zorua (still has Zorua tail). Otherwise it might come down to finer details like off behavior, missed things like scars, not properly imitating habits, suspicious gaps in knowledge ("What did we talk about the other day in the clearing" "How many ground type moves do I have"), etc.
Them preferring to stick together is probably the biggest point for the overall group being difficult to pull one over on, at least in terms of opportunity to, which also means that the biggest concern is if someone (Firepaw) is convinced/pulled away by an impostor pretending to be one of the others. Hilariously, Firepaw might possibly also be the hardest to tell apart from an impostor because he acts very much like an actual Litten... unless the impostors slip up and act too 'human'. Or use terminology he wouldn't, considering the cat lexicon (twoleg instead of human, various clans, etc).
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Which segues into leadership determination; Emporio and Firepaw, being younger, would prefer that someone older/more experienced (for all that they're all about equally new to actually being Pokemon) takes the lead. Firepaw is used to letting older cats handle things since he's technically not supposed to be out on his own yet, and Emporio while he does have a general overall plan to offer them all would let Ingo and Emmet take point on things because they're more familiar with Pokemon. And between the twins, Emmet tends to let Ingo take point by default! He'll chip in his two cents where appropriate or needed, but especially now Ingo probably has the more relevant skillset/knowledge base in terms of wilderness savvy. It's not so strict of a hierarchy that they can't/don't all offer input, though.
On splitting the party, most of them would at least consider the idea if given a good enough argument for it, but in general Ingo, Emporio, and Emmet are all against splitting up at this point, and Firepaw's fine with either plan but will listen to Ingo and Emmet if they say to stick together.
Impostors! A lot of it comes down to how good the impostors are at impost-ing. Firepaw doesn't really know anyone's scents yet, and the other three primarily are relying on their brains/common sense/situational awareness to spot an impostor. Emporio's ready to apply Logic and Reasoning to the situation, Ingo has experience with distinguishing Hisuian Zoroark impostors, and Emmet can spot more obvious tells in the case of something like an unpracticed Ditto (untransformed face) or (Unovan) Zorua (still has Zorua tail). Otherwise it might come down to finer details like off behavior, missed things like scars, not properly imitating habits, suspicious gaps in knowledge ("What did we talk about the other day in the clearing" "How many ground type moves do I have"), etc.
Them preferring to stick together is probably the biggest point for the overall group being difficult to pull one over on, at least in terms of opportunity to, which also means that the biggest concern is if someone (Firepaw) is convinced/pulled away by an impostor pretending to be one of the others. Hilariously, Firepaw might possibly also be the hardest to tell apart from an impostor because he acts very much like an actual Litten... unless the impostors slip up and act too 'human'. Or use terminology he wouldn't, considering the cat lexicon (twoleg instead of human, various clans, etc).