#@xenokattz not to sound like a creepy stalker but i found you ages ago after the first chapter

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OK finally found a minute to properly keysmash all over this. So in love with M'Baku's voice here. It's so easy to see how he and K'uk'ulkan could overcome their initial enmity to reach a place of mutual respect, similar to how M'Baku and T'Challa did. The former probably have even more in common, with their traditionalist and isolationist tendencies and preference for cutting through bullshit policking with real talk even while recognizing the former is sometimes necessary.

I would make it sooner but someone destroyed the capital and we are currently unpresentable. OMG I'M GETTING SECOND DEGREE BURNS FROM THIS, HOPE YOUR BACK IS FULLY HEALED NAMOR BECAUSE THERE'S MORE COMING

Respectfully,

Respectfully

I die. I'm ded. This is on the level of "What's wrong? You need a glass of water?" Burn him!! Make him suffer!! I love him. I love them all.

Once upon a time, when I was in still drowning in the brainrot that is "The Pearl I Carry in my Heart," I thought some of the chapters would start epistolary style.

It doesn't quite fit any more but I'm a hoarder so I kept all the letters in a different doc. Here's some of them if anyone wants BTS. There's more but let me figure out text cuts first because I have not posted in a minute.

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My greetings to you, Great Feathered Serpent, God-King of Talokan.

I am M'Baku of the Jabari, firstborn of [name] and [name]. I am now King of Wakanda and will be your contact regarding the Wakanda-Talokan Alliance. Because I know you will demand it, I will tell you that Shuri of the Panther Tribe, daughter of the late Queen Ramonda, remains as the Black Panther.

Our representatives should begin outlining the details of this treaty as soon as possible. The United Nations will likely give Wakanda little more than one month to grieve our queen before they come crawling out of the termite hill. If they find us, it will not be long before they find you. The people and resources of both our nations need to be protected.

I would rather just get on with it and send a list of demands but the council tells me that a summit is more appropriate for cultural exchange as well as all military treaties and the other things that come with an alliance. I have attached a draft of the possible topics during the summit. The soonest we will be ready to receive you is in two months. I would make it sooner but someone destroyed the capital and we are currently unpresentable.

Record and send your response through this bead and I will reply as soon as possible.

M'Baku of the Jabari, King of Wakanda

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King M'Baku of the Jabari,

I made this alliance with Princess Shuri, the Black Panther. I will not speak to any other.

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Ajaw K'uk'ulkan,

I regret to inform you that the Black Panther is unavailable for the foreseeable future. I will, of course, inform her of your response. It is up to her whether or not she will contact you.

M'Baku of the Jabari, King of Wakanda

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Where is the princess?

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She is away grieving her mother, you great feathered bottom-feeder. You will speak to me and no one else until this summit. If I find out you have tried to contact Shuri before she is ready, I will dance on your molars and left patella which will be the only pieces of your body remaining once she is done with you. I will wipe jade from the face of the earth so you cannot pay the Maize God into rebirth. I will melt down your useless gold armour to build myself a new toilet in the Citadel. Do you want this summit or not?

Respectfully,

M'Baku of the Jabari, King of Wakanda