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Considering we don't know as much as we should about this place and it's monitoring yet, it doesn't hurt to act with caution.

[Funny because Jinx was probably the least cautious person he knew.]

There is a benefit in that. The more we know, the better we can destroy them.

please dont tell me i have to be 100% careful. because theres no such thing as fun in being careful.

Cautious, not careful. We wouldn't deny you all the fun.

OKAY GREAT! only babies are careful. and im waaaaaaaaay too old to be a baby.

From my understanding, babies are neither cautious or careful. Just curious. But you are thankfully too old to be a baby.

think u can tell ragna that? he keeps calling me a kid. my birthday was LAST MONTH! im super not a baby or a kid now.

Baby and kid are also different. Kids have learned caution. How old is the brute?

beats me. maybe the same as vi?

Twenty-something then. So he's treating you like a sibling.

[He thinks. Silco doesn't actually have siblings and by the time he met with Vander, both of them were trying to play tough too much to baby one another.]

( there's a slight delay as her eyes glosses over his words a few times. when ragna stopped by their home with a cake on her birthday, she insisted he stay over and share the cake with her because he is family. he didn't seem too keen with the idea when she skimmed over that little detail, but if this is silco's prospective then maybe he does see them as family after all.

she wonders if that bothers her father any deep down. he wants them to be them and only them, however more and more people are entering her heart these days. would silco feel claustrophobic if this keeps up? would he feel left out or replaced? she hopes not. his daughter is doing her damnest to express he is still on top of her hierarchy of all her pets she adopted. sucking in her lips and complimenting, she finally writes: )

what if he sees me as a sibling?

( it's her way of asking: "how does that make you feel if someone else besides vi is a family to me?" )

You can't stop how people feel, Jinx.

[He wasn't an avoidance type, but death gave him a certain change to perspective. Perhaps she could find some happiness here; she was in a better place than Zaun already.]

yeah. sometimes that sucks.

( as much as she despises vi and caitlyn together and want to keep them separated, even a dummy can see they are becoming closer and closer each given day. not wanting this conversation to twist sour, she perks it up with this: )

well! if im going to have more brothers and stuff, at least we dont have to worry about me having more than one dad. cause that wont happen!

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Perhaps. You either accept it or you work to change their mind.

[Or if they were him, double down. Let them all despise him. Or fear him. He had no reason to change their minds because it suited his purpose. He had a goal, and he'd stop at nothing.

This was going to be Jinx's kingdom. His time was best spent building it up for her then pass it to her.]

You're used to having adoptive siblings from the past. This isn't a stretch.

[He expected she meant it as an assurance, but before this point, he hadn't put much thought in the possibility of a parental figure rival. Now he turned much of his attention to it.]

( well so far from his writing, he doesn't seem to be upset or fazed over the fact of newer family members. maybe she was thinking too much into things or assuming things again. )

it would be cool to have a big bro again!

Is that so? From your stories, one of your adoptive brothers deserved to have his tongue removed.

[Siblings was a safer topic.]

i dont really see him as a brother anymore. just some stupid annoying kid.

Did you ever?

when i was super little.

I assume the will to call him that faded quickly.

yeah. he was NEVER nice to me. Claggor was sweet sometimes but... didnt stick up for me either when he would talk crap.

Boys can be like that. He better have had his uses.

[Judging Vander's parental style? You betcha. Which, in hindsight, would be funny as he let Jinx run amok and be a terror.]

he was good at picking locks, i guess.

There were better in the Undercity of his age group.

[He should know... he owned most of them back then.]

HA! u just made him speechless.

The unfortunate truth hurts immature boys' egos.

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