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Okay which of ya idiots 'round here was tapping into the Azure Flames? That stuff's not meant for any sorcerer or whatever ta go mucking 'round in. 's real dangerous stuff fer literally e'ryone who ain't me. People've tried and probably blown themselves up while I was takin' my nearly dying nap. I'm 'ere ta make sure ya city ain't on fire and maybe help put down whatever idiot's tryin' ta tap inta it.

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It's late morning. The sun is shining, and there is a man on foot in Domino, cursing 'damned brats' and 'I left my bike in an intentionally safe place with boring people'. He's maybe investigating screams somewhere, that sound like a man being thrown through the sky. Or maybe he's just lost. The city got bigger and weirder since the last time he was here.

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Serves you right! Karma!

I could always go for round two, so don't push it.

Why am I the one getting punished? Literally none of this is my fault!

Well.

At first, it was because if I were to blame anyone, it'd be Cyril probably, and he wasn't around, and you were the simplest and sturdiest target.

In this case though? It's because you poked the hornet's nest.

I like to believe I am more than a punching bag with feelings, you know!

I care about your feelings.

It's why I asked if you were sturdy.

You're rough to be friends with some times, you know, Suguru.

Listen, I'd usually be very gung-ho about my wife being drop-dead gorgeous and super tall and all that.

But I don't like letting her go on a fishing trip, only to be attacked and come back looking like that.

So I need to get out my emotions somehow. You are a good, solid target.

Yeah, well.

I resent this assessment of me but I cannot in good faith refute it.

Was that screamin' I 'eard when I got inta town ya?

I don't want to talk about it. But yes.

I think I'm gonna, like. Try ta 'andle this calmly an' rationally.

What the 'ell 'appened?

Cyril that is a very long and winding road but to give you the cliffnotes of what you're actually trying to ask:

Geo is Gina now. She and I went fishing for her sister who may or may not believe she's the world-ending-serpent of norse mythology because she's an idiot. And we may have fought a completely differently fucked up sea serpent that WASN'T her and she awakened to the Azure Flame because she's your granddaughter and the rightful heir to it, unless I'm missing something obvious.

Anyway Suguru unjustly decided I was the one to blame for this completely forseeable turn of events and that's why I was hurling through the sky like that.

Edited 2023-07-09 06:09 (UTC)

THERE'S NO WAY

'cept the lunk comin' outta the closet. That ain't a surprise at all since I got a good look at 'er inner world. Good fer 'er, I'm 'appy she's livin' 'er best life.

Cyril I was on the boat with her when she transformed.

The only reason I don't have a pic of her is because she burned off all her clothes when she did and I am already in enough trouble with Suguru, I'm not dumb enough to hand her a good reason to actually kill me.

Oh C'MON.

Look, Haita. Yer smart. Damn smart. Ya can tell I'm bein' serious 'ere 'cause I ain't insultin' ya.

I'm willin' ta accept that I left a bit of me behind the last time I got enough duel hype ta manifest out of 'er, and that played with whatever the Ogre's genetics are, and boom, she's technically my heir. If I was gonna name anyone, yeah, it's 'er, I'm willin' ta accept that.

We both know that the Ogre's mom is my old flame. But the last time I saw 'er was 5000 years ago, give or take. Even fer spirit logic, that math don't add up, an' I ain't gonna accept that I am responsible fer the entire Briar clan.

Look, Cyril. I don't know what to tell you, buddy. Aside from the whole time gap - which I do not know enough about the family dynamics to speculate on - the rest of it shakes out.

Maybe it was just you manifesting using her as a conduit, but wouldn't have that activated by now if that was the case?

There's an awful lot of unknowns that make sense if you're a part of the family line somewhere and not just someone who randomly ran perpendicular to their whole mess.

Occam's Razor, my man.

Edited 2023-07-09 06:35 (UTC)

Okay. Let's say that somehow, Enkidu carried my kid for 5000 years or hit a weird time vortex, or walked the roads where time stops mattering with him, 'cause ya'll think it's Kaz. That makes a real uncomfortable amount o' sense and is ALOT ta take in, so ya'll forgive me if I ain't immediately hoppin' on the theory with wide arms and bright eyes.

'Cause yeah, it wasn't me manifesting through her. I felt someone else like... Imagine my fire's a mostly locked room that has me in it, and sometimes some idiot sorcerer tries ta tap in and ends up gettin' themselves fuckin' burnt ta ash. But it's like someone else 'ad a key and was able ta open that door, 'cause they were meant ta be there.

Look, man, I didn't say you have to LIKE the theory, but you asked and I've got what I got. If you can find a way to debunk it by all means.

Cause, yeah, I don't think even being your like, Spirtual Wi-Fi Hotspot for however long she was would have given Gina this metaphorical 'key' to the Azure Flame. And even if it did, doesn't that imply she had some sort of uncanny affinity for the whole thing?

Me damn it, 'sides the time, that makes sense. But Ennie was always a lil' uncanny an' weird, an' time can get bent an' broken in tons o' ways, so like. It's REAL plausible. Does my maybe son know what ya'll're thinkin'?

Yeah, it shouldn't have. If she like, asked, I'd 'ave probably 'eard the prayer or whatever and granted 'er access. She always had a big ol' pyro soul, so that's why I thought it was easy fer me ta like, tap in. I ain't exactly the reflective type so I don't know what my own soul'd look like. But if it's close ta me...

Ya do know what the extrapolations from 'ere are now, right?

I don't think Gina's brought this up to Kaz, or if she has, she never told me, but I wouldn't be surprised if he's also thought it a time or two. Kaz can be a meathead but I never met a man who so thoroughly follows a trail of thought to its dead end. Could be he's suspected the whole time for all I know.

I mean, I don't actually know the extrapolations beyond her being the Queen of Neo New Babylon or whatever the hell you've been building out there beyond the black.

Bastard's almost as good a detective as m-... oh. Yeah. Fuck. I guess I gotta arrange that meeting.

Yeah, Gina's my heir apparent, 'cause Kaz took after Ennie and is jus' full on DARK and she's the first one that can claim that right. No one can dispute that, least of all me.

Problem is, Onni. I'm big shit from the ol' days. I can trace my lineage near directly ta Sophia an' Tierra, some o' the very first duel spirits. Ennie's prolly the first demon outta the depths o' the Makai or somewhere else, deeper in it. What does that make that entire clan?

...My gut's telling me "the biggest batch of old blood this side of Pandaemonium" and I got a really dreadful suspicion it's right.

Fuckin' bingo. We're talkin' like, old claims ta shit that may have been built over a hundred times by now. Marriage proposals. Alotta eyes on your city and more on your weird ass demon tribe. I guess MY weird ass demon tribe?

I'm usually left outta the politics, but if it was suddenly discovered I had heirs with Ennie, well. Things get a lil' more complicated.

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