#Truat in Words

[russica]

My house was got by a tornado so I draw bg3 fluff to get me through 🫠

Name: Ryth

Gender: Male he/him

Species: Lightning Dragonborn

Class: Fighter

Scale Color: Blue with purple and teal highlights

Tongue Color: Teal/Green

Eye color: Teal

Height: 6'6"

Dislikes: Authority, strong perfume smells

Likes: Blood, sparring, sleeping, swimming, mangos

Ryth is gruff and doesn't speak much, but he enjoys when others fill the silence. He prefers action over words, likely to just do the thing and ask forgiveness later. He is cold, calculated, and brutal in battle. Also messy, man is constantly coated in blood.

Despite his battle style, he shows a lot of platonic affection to those he considers his clan. Licking companions clean is as much a platonic bonding activity as it is a romantic one. He is all about not denying yourself comfort and desires; food, sleep, sex. That said, bro is definitely monogamous lolol.

In a relationship, he is not stingy with his affection. He is a proud creature. He's constantly touching or draping himself over Gale. He is a touch possessive but isn't easily jealous if he trusts his partner, and he truats Gale implicitly.

[mynameishedgehog]

im listening to acotar and tamlin cracks me up, he seems so shocked and bewildered that she doesnt wanna be there and doesbt truat him on his word alone, buddy u basically kidnapped her whatd u think was gonna happen

[sfc-7707]

https://youtu.be/Me1YdjmNA24

[doctapuella]

feel like makin’ love, amirite? ;)

WOO BUDDY its suddely real warm around here!!!!! lord he really knew what he was doing when he wrote that one

[the-roots-that-bind]

I just wish they could stop treating me this unfairly. Whatever happened to showing others basic human decency? I've tried so hard to love them, but all they do is put me down and judging me for things I haven't said or done. They even judge my compassion.

[troybeecham]

Today the Church remembers the Vietnamese Martyrs (Vietnamese: Các Thánh Tử đạo Việt Nam), also known as the Martyrs of Annam, Martyrs of Tonkin and Cochinchina, Martyrs of Indochina, or Andrew Dung-Lac and Companions (Anrê Dũng-Lạc và các bạn tử đạo).

Orate pro nobis.

The Martyrs of Vietnam

The Vatican estimates the number of Vietnamese martyrs at between 130,000 and 300,000. The Vietnamese Martyrs fall into several groupings, those of the Dominican and Jesuit missionary era of the 18th century and those killed in the politically inspired persecutions of the 19th century. A representative sample of only 117 martyrs—including 96 Vietnamese, 11 Spanish Dominicans, and 10 French members of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (Missions Etrangères de Paris)—were beatified on four separate occasions: 64 by Pope Leo XIII on May 27, 1900; eight by Pope Pius X on May 20, 1906; 20 by Pope Pius X on May 2, 1909; and 25 by Pope Pius XII on April 29, 1951. All these 117 Vietnamese Martyrs were canonized on June 19, 1988. A young Vietnamese Martyr, Andrew Phú Yên, was beatified in March, 2000 by Pope John Paul II.

Vietnamese martyrs Paul Mi, Pierre Duong, Pierre Truat, martyred on 18 December 1838.

The tortures these individuals underwent are considered by the Vatican to be among the worst in the history of Christian martyrdom. The torturers hacked off limbs joint by joint, tore flesh with red hot tongs, and used drugs to enslave the minds of the victims. Christians at the time were branded on the face with the words "tả đạo" (左道, lit. "Left (Sinister) religion") and families and villages which subscribed to Christianity were obliterated.

The letters and example of Théophane Vénard inspired the young Saint Thérèse of Lisieux to volunteer for the Carmelite nunnery at Hanoi, though she ultimately contracted tuberculosis and could not go. In 1865 Vénard's body was transferred to his Congregation's church in Paris, but his head remains in Vietnam.

The Church in Vietnam was devastated during the Tây Sơn rebellion in the late 18th century. During the turmoil, the missions revived, however, as a result of cooperation between the French Vicar Apostolic Pigneaux de Behaine and Nguyen Anh. After Nguyen's victory in 1802, in gratitude to assistance received, he ensured protection to missionary activities. However, only a few years into the new emperor's reign, there was growing antipathy among officials against Christianity and missionaries reported that it was purely for political reasons that their presence was tolerated. Tolerance continued until the death of the emperor and the new emperor Minh Mang succeeding to the throne in 1820.

Converts began to be harassed without official edicts in the late 1820s, by local governments. In 1831 the emperor passed new laws on regulations for religious groupings in Viet Nam, and Christianity was then officially prohibited. In 1832, the first act occurred in a largely Christian village near Hue, with the entire community being incarcerated and sent into exile in Cambodia. In January 1833 a new kingdom-wide edict was passed calling on Vietnamese subjects to reject the religion of Jesus and required suspected Christians to demonstrate their renunciation by walking on a wooden cross. Actual violence against Catholics, however, did not occur until the Lê Văn Khôi revolt.

During the rebellion, a young French missionary priest named Joseph Marchand was living in sickness in the rebel Gia Dinh citadel. In October 1833, an officer of the emperor reported to the court that a foreign Christian religious leader was present in the citadel. This news was used to justify the edicts against Christianity, and led to the first executions of missionaries in over 40 years. The first executed was named Francois Gagelin. Marchand was captured and executed as a "rebel leader" in 1835; he was put to death by "slicing". Further repressive measures were introduced in the wake of this episode in 1836. Prior to 1836, village heads had only to simply report to local mandarins about how their subjects had recanted Christianity; after 1836, officials could visit villages and force all the villagers to line up one by one to trample on a cross and if a community was suspected of harbouring a missionary, militia could block off the village gates and perform a rigorous search; if a missionary was found, collective punishment could be meted out to the entire community.

Missionaries and Christian communities were able to sometimes escape this through bribery of officials; they were also sometimes victims of extortion attempts by people who demanded money under the threat that they would report the villages and missionaries to the authorities.

The court became more aware of the problem of the failure to enforce the laws and applied greater pressure on its officials to act; officials that failed to act or those tho who were seen to be acting too slowly were demoted or removed from office (and sometimes were given severe corporal punishment), while those who attacked and killed the Christians could receive promotion or other rewards. Lower officials or younger family members of officials were sometimes tasked with secretly going through villages to report on hidden missionaries or Christians that had not apostasized.

The first missionary arrested during this (and later executed) was the priest Jean-Charles Cornay in 1837. A military campaign was conducted in Nam Dinh after letters were discovered in a shipwrecked vessel bound for Macao. Quang Tri and Quang Binh officials captured several priests along with the French missionary Bishop Pierre Dumoulin-Borie in 1838 (who was executed). The court translator, Francois Jaccard, a Christian who had been kept as a prisoner for years and was extremely valuable to the court, was executed in late 1838; the official who was tasked with this execution, however, was almost immediately dismissed.

A priest, Father Ignatius Delgado, was captured in the village of Can Lao (Nam Định Province), put in a cage on public display for ridicule and abuse, and died of hunger and exposure while waiting for execution; the officer and soldiers that captured him were greatly rewarded (about 3 kg of silver was distributed out to all of them), as were the villagers that had helped to turn him over to the authorities. The bishop Dominic Henares was found in Giao Thuy district of Nam Dinh (later executed); the villagers and soldiers that participated in his arrest were also greatly rewarded (about 3 kg of silver distributed). The priest, Father Joseph Fernandez, and a local priest, Nguyen Ba Tuan, were captured in Kim Song, Nam Dinh; the provincial officials were promoted, the peasants who turned them over were given about 3 kg of silver and other rewards were distributed. In July 1838, a demoted governor attempting to win back his place did so successfully by capturing the priest Father Dang Dinh Vien in Yen Dung, Bac Ninh province. (Vien was executed). In 1839, the same official captured two more priests: Father Dinh Viet Du and Father Nguyen Van Xuyen (also both executed).

In Nhu Ly near Hue, an elderly catholic doctor named Simon Hoa was captured and executed. He had been sheltering a missionary named Charles Delamotte, whom the villagers had pleaded with him to send away. The village was also supposed to erect a shrine for the state-cult, which the doctor also opposed. His status and age protected him from being arrested until 1840, when he was put on trial and the judge pleaded (due to his status in Vietnamese society as both an elder and a doctor) with him to publicly recant; when he refused he was publicly executed.

Many officials preferred to avoid execution because of the threat to social order and harmony it represented, and resorted to use of threats or torture in order to force Christians to recant. Many villagers were executed alongside priests according to mission reports. The emperor died in 1841, and this offered respite for Christians. However, some persecution still continued after the new emperor took office. Christian villages were forced to build shrines to the state cult. The missionary Father Pierre Duclos (quoted above) died in prison in after being captured on the Saigon river in June 1846. The boat he was traveling in, unfortunately contained the money that was set for the annual bribes of various officials (up to 1/3 of the annual donated French mission budget for Cochinchina was officially allocated to 'special needs') in order to prevent more arrests and persecutions of the converts; therefore, after his arrest, the officials then began wide searches and cracked down on the Christian communities in their jurisdictions. The amount of money that the French mission societies were able to raise, made the missionaries a lucrative target for officials that wanted cash, which could even surpass what the imperial court was offering in rewards. This created a cycle of extortion and bribery which lasted for years.

Saint Vincent Liem Le Duang.

He was born into the Christian community of Thong-Dong in 1731. From a young age he showed great devotion and ability. He was sent to the Philippines at the age of fifteen and took the habit in 1753. After completing his studies at the University of St. Thomas, he was ordained priest and returned to his native land. As he could speak Vietnamese he started his apostolate immediately. He spent the next fourteen years ministering to Christian communities, teaching at the seminary of Trung-Linh and preaching in the non-Christian areas.

From 1767 the Church in Vietnam came under attack from the authorities. Vincent nevertheless continued to proclaim the Gospel openly, regardless of the obstacles and threats. He was captured in 1773, beaten and imprisoned. He was placed in a cage and displayed like a wild animal. However the local Mandarin believed that this ritual humiliation would not help the authorities’ attempt to crush the Christian religion. Vincent was released from his cage and allowed to walk about the prison. He took advantage of his relative liberty and preached the Gospel to his fellow prisoners and all who would come to listen. This status was short lived and he was put back in his cage and taken to Hanoi and the Imperial Court.

At the Court the Emperor arranged a disputation between Vincent, a Buddhist, a Confucian and a Taoist. His reasoning, clarity and elegance, in defending the true faith, left a deep impressio, so much so that an Imperial Prince declared the superiority of Christianity. However Vincent’s fate was decided after a stormy dialogue with the Queen Mother. He was sentenced to death and was beheaded on the 7th of November 1773.

The persecutions of the Vietnamese Church continue. In 1975, the exodus of Vietnamese friars would result in the formation of a new vicariate outside their motherland: the Vicariate of St Vincent Liem. Every day, the brothers of the vicariate, pray for the conversion of Vietnam, through the intercession of St. Vincent.

Those whose names are known are listed below:

(Please keep in mind that for Vietnamese martyrs these are the anglicized versions of their names)

* Andrew Dung-Lac An Tran

* Augustin Schoeffler, MEP, a priest from France

* Agnes Le Thi Thanh

* Bernard Vũ Văn Duệ

* Dominic Mậu

* Emmanuel Le Van Phung

* Emmanuel Trieu Van Nguyen

* Francis Chieu Van Do

* Francis Gil de Frederich|Francesc (Francis) Gil de Federich, OP, a priest from Catalonia (Spain)

* François-Isidore Gagelin, MEP, a priest from France

* Francis Jaccard, MEP, a priest from France

* Francis Trung Von Tran

* Francis Nguyen

* Ignatius Delgado y Cebrian, OP, a bishop from Spain

* Jacinto (Hyacinth) Casteñeda, OP, a priest from Spain

* James Nam

* Jerome Hermosilla, OP, a bishop from Spain

* John Baptist Con

* John Charles Cornay, MEP, a priest from France

* John Dat

* John Hoan Trinh Doan

* John Louis Bonnard, MEP, a priest from France

* John Thanh Van Dinh

* José María Díaz Sanjurjo, OP, a bishop from Spain

* Joseph Canh Luang Hoang

* Joseph Fernandez, OP, a priest from Spain

* Joseph Hien Quang Do

* Joseph Khang Duy Nguyen

* Joseph Luu Van Nguyen

* Joseph Marchand, MEP, a priest from France

* Joseph Nghi Kim

* Joseph Thi Dang Le

* Joseph Uyen Dinh Nguyen

* Joseph Vien Dinh Dang

* Joseph Khang, a local doctor

* Joseph Tuc

* Joseph Tuan Van Tran

* Lawrence Ngon

* Lawrence Huong Van Nguyen

* Luke Loan Ba Vu

* Luke Thin Viet Pham

* Martin Tho

* Martin Tinh Duc Ta

* Matthew Alonzo Leziniana, OP, a priest from Spain

* Matthew Phuong Van Nguyen

* Matthew Gam Van Le

* Melchor García Sampedro, OP, a bishop from Spain

* Michael Dinh-Hy Ho

* Michael My Huy Nguyen

* Nicholas Thé Duc Bui

* Paul Hanh

* Paul Khoan Khan Pham

* Paul Loc Van Le

* Paul Tinh Bao Le

* Paul Tong Viet Buong

* Paul Duong

* Pere (Peter) Almató i Ribera, OP, a priest from Catalonia (Spain)

* Peter Tuan

* Peter Dung Van Dinh

* Peter Da

* Peter Duong Van Truong

* Peter Francis Néron, MEP, a priest from France

* Peter Hieu Van Nguyen

* Peter Quy Cong Doan

* Peter Thi Van Truong Pham

* Peter Tuan Ba Nguyen, a fisherman

* Peter Tuy Le

* Peter Van Van Doan

* Philip Minh Van Doan

* Pierre Borie, MEP, a bishop from France

* Simon Hoa Dac Phan

* Stephen Theodore Cuenot, MEP, a bishop from France

* Stephen Vinh

* Théophane Vénard, MEP, a priest from France

* Thomas De Van Nguyen

* Thomas Du Viet Dinh

* Thomas Thien Tran

* Thomas Toan

* Thomas Khuong

* Valentine Berriochoa, OP, a bishop from the Basque Country

* Vicente Liem de la Paz

* Vincent Duong

* Vincent Tuong, a local judge

* Vincent Yen Do

Almighty God, who gave to your servants the Martyrs of Vietnam the boldness to confess the Name of our Savior Jesus Christ before the rulers of this world, and courage to die for this faith: Grant that we may always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in us, and to suffer gladly for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

[artemistshinra]

Allright its been one, two weeks since RWBY ended and we went into hiatus, and while i dont usually do this, i am feeling like I should go in one big ramble because this is getting ridiculous, and i am getting tired of it.

The subject of this is none other than adam taurus and the part of the fandom that got impressed tear eyed or regretted his death, last weeks i have encountered said people in discord in facebook groups in almost all social media and, it hasnt been funny, i get it he is death you didnt want him to die, in your little world he was such a good character, the moraly gray dude with the big sword that had a tragic past and was lider of a group of opressed faunus, a figure of strengt, and thats fine, seriously though, the problem comes when you also refuse to acnowledge that the guy was an abuser, a psycho, and a manipulator, it becomes even worse when you shield yourself with a: but they didnt show us anything on the series, even when Miles, Lyndsay etc have said so multiple times but it gets even worse when they have the courage of saying: this isnt what Monty would have wanted, yes dude because you met Monty while he lived and you, of course had a saying in RWBY.

Even worse is the fact that some of them somehow got the impression that Blake and called her toxic because she dared to stand up to him the man that loved her so dearly the man also known as his abuser, how dare she denie him the chance of redemption. How does the writters waste his pottential because he was soo deep dont they realize he had still ao much to give with Weiss with ruby with the whole series?!? Some even went as far as to make theyre displeasure known by harrasing the CRWBY on twitter, i wonder if they where the same dudes that complained about bmblb shippers when they did the same some years ago, heh you became what you swore to destroy.

Well i have sad news for you Adam was only a gear that rolled around Blake, he wasnt deep, and maybe just maybe some need to learn about subtext. While they say where do we came off with the idea that he was an abuser i say where do these people came off with the idea that this man wasn't one? Since Black trailer we knew something was off, they show us the great synergy both of them have while fighting and how much they truat one another and then, all of a sudden, we see Blake cutting off the last wagon and saying goodbye, that was the firts clue to tell us something was wrong. Second volume we have more clues about him and Blake and how it might have been a relationship a relationship that went awry, and then then comes volume three, volume three is the one that give us more dept onto this, the moment that Yang falls for Emeralds trick and is blamed for breaking Mercurys legs, the moment that Blake doesnt believe Yang and make us feel like shes heartless until one rewatches it with a clear head and realizes one tiny little detail that is... Blake was trying to protect herself, she mentions that Adam started the same way, his violence started with little accidents then with fullblown attacs, and then then the fall of beacon begins and both of them get reunited and.

He stabs her, even goes as far as to call her his love, and no dont get confused he didnt do it in a lovely way, he did it in a way that said she was his property, a thing that disobeyed his will, a misbehavior that he was going to make her regret, if this is love for you lot then i dont ever want to find love, then he goes off to hereby declare that he is going to destroy everything Blake loves and in comes Yang.

Yang who attacks stuppidly at Adam trying to save Blake, Yang who leaps at a very mad faunus who has his semblance fully charged Yang who gets disarmed. And here is the part that really gets me because thanks to Adams help we have a masive loss of human and faunus life, part of a kingdom is lost, and Beacon falls, and no, if you think he did it because it was good for his cause you are wrong, he did it because that was the most secure way to get revenge from humanity and from Blake, he was actually capable of partnering with Cinder fall and her bunch of humans just to get this, after all we see him searching madly for Blake wasting resources and time on this, getting to see his madness, thats why Sienna Khan scolds him the kingdom of Vale hadnt done anything to the faunus and even she knew of the importance of the huntsman schools, but there he went, with those actions the faunus where put in the same boat as terrorists,i can only imagine how the cause was receiving a huge whiplash for it, and when she dared to disagree with him what did he do, simple Adam stabbed her, i dont know if you have noticed this but in this post i havent been talking about the goat faunus but about Blake...

Anyways back to kitty kat, Blake runs after this, runs home, searching for peace that she didnt deserve at the time, arriving with a Monkey to her familiar heaven, but guess what Blakey, the part that he told you he was going to destroy everything you love was literal, the Belladonas where the oposite of what Adam wanted so what better way to get revenge and get his rival out of the way than to attack them, guess that his oponent was his loves object of affections parents give them an extra to be his targets going as far as to discredit them in public and then attac them, he was so sure about his superiority thar meanwhile he was celebrating, in his words he was " going to get wat he deserved" going as far as to go blow up the next hunters academy with a little convoy of faunus while drunk. Oh and get what he deserved did he got, Blake arrives with sun and an entourage of faunus willing to protect the achool, she one punches Adam leaving him wasted and outnumbered, and what does he do, he yells at hia aubordinates to blow the charges not even caring about the loss of faunus lives, when everything goes to hell he escapes leaving behind his troops, thing that obviously cost him his reputation on the White fang and then again what does he do? Instead of talking with his reflection on the mirror and saying, you know what dude we screwed up, our ways are wrong, that could possible make him redeemable, choose to kill those faunus that oppose him and fall into a wild hunt for the one he deemed responsible for it: Blake!.

Blake the one that he knows how she works, i mean making calculations he kight have been 17 and her 12 or something when he started to approach her, the one that Adam knows how to set off so he starts with stalking he, appearing here and there for the sake of suspense and induce fear onto his prey, waiting patiently for his oportunity, he wants her alone, making his big entrance once Blake goes to the comunications tower, there he kills, and both of them fight, but Blake is a little bit stronger, enough to fend Adam off for a little while, enough for Adam to deem necesary to remove his blindfold, and make Blake remember what the humans have done to him.

Then comes the fight adam versus blake and yang and seriously, i dont know how many chances they give him to run off, to get away but adam was steadfast on extracring revenge, at that moment he was really lost, he wanted her alone but suddenly Yang appears, going as far as to try and get her against Blake but when he sees and feels what is going on he gets enraged, even more at rhe notice that there is going to be a one against two, his object of affection and the one responsible of getting blake away from him, after dissipating Blakes aura and getting rid of her, Adam concentrates fully on Yang, he is irked, and so out of it that he can not use his abilities as usual, the koment that he yells what does she even see in you he looses it and as a lot of other people have pointed out commita a mistake he attacks when his aura wasnt completely charged, giving yang enough power to charge hers and dissolve his.

In comes the moment that a lot of fans are complaining, his death, they got rid of the sword but gambol's pieces were still discarded on the floor so instead of choosing to retry, Adam reaches out for the weapon, and i can tell you in these situations is kill or be killed, had Blake arrived one second late and he would have shooted her without second toughts, getting stabbed by both Yang and Blake, and falling into the watterfall, leaving behind a crying Blake, and a traumatized Yang they had been forced to kill him, forced because he didnt give them another choice, Blake couldnt save him even if she tried, and given the oportunity he would have ended her, yes she was crying but who wouldnt? She had killed the one person that at one point was her mentor aomeone whom she had shared a lot of memories, the one man that at one point ahe choose ober her family, as in Nevermore, she lost her soul, someone that even if it was a monster it might not have been like that at the begining, in moat cases the guy doesnt reveal that nature until the relationship is well funded, and yes Blake has reasons to feel down, she wanted to become a huntress hunters save people and she couldnt get him out of the shadows...

[bunny-h00d-blog]

"O-oh....alright".

She frowned slightly, and kept on following her guide, she truated her guide completely which in the long run almost always wasn't a good idea but she did amyways. Looking out to the landscape her smile dissapeared. She had no words. Shaking her head she looked up to her guide.

"Where do we go now?"

"H-hello? I...I don't know where I am...where is everybody?" It seemed Alina had just woken up in a vault, more so stumbled and fell but nonetheless she was woken up. She was still wearing her hood and jeans luckily enough, that was something she wouldn't let any of the staff take from her.

The vault was near pitch black and there was no telling where she was, how she got there, or why. The only sign of a living being was the sound of a faint shuffling of garbage in the distance. It could just be rats, cockroaches, or a horrific abomination of the wasteland but she would never know unless she went to find out.

[getlessmad]

I suppose this may help.

I don’t expect anybody to read this. I am posting this as a way of healthy venting. Back in October my long time girl friend was caught using tinder to just talk to people. She was flirting and stuff, but never cheated on me in the sense of meeting these guys and what not. She just felt like she wasn’t getting the attention she wanted. Which is on me. I’ll admit I’d become complacent with her. I wasn’t feeling respected in the relationship. So instead of talking. Which we normally did we just ignored it. When I found the app something broke in me. Ive got crazy trust issues. Not the obsessive worry kind but the once you break my trust I can’t truat you again. For the sake of my long term relationship I tried to work it out. I couldn’t though.

A chick friend at work was helping me come to terms with my situation and in November I ended it. This chick friend who will be named tattoo girl came out and told me that she likes me. She’d never given me the indication of it before so it was a little out of left field but I’d told her jumping into another relationship would not be fair for her. To take it one day at a time. So we did. We talked. All day everyday. From the moment we woke up to the moment we passed out. Then I started to like her, alot. I kissed her in my car one day and from there everything was kind of fantastic. She was different on so many levels that I wasn’t used too. I’d never been with somebody who understood my quirks and appreciated them. Things were great. For months. In March it’s my birthday. We decided to define the relationship and she was officially my girlfriend. Then a week later something changed. She attacked me one day. Calling me insecure and was sort of bullying me in a way I wasnt going to sit by and let somebody talk down to me. After all were both adult. You can address me as such. A four day long argument ended with her texting me that we need to go our separate ways.

The next day that was it. She ignored me at work. I tried talking to her and she said that once she’s over it she’s over it. Now mind you this a girl whom told me she was lucky to have met somebody like me. So this whole situation was sort of a shock. It came out of left field.

To make a long story short. The rumor is she was talking with another guy and was saying some really things mean things about me to him. She slept with that guy three days after we’d split.

It’s been several weeks now and while I hate her in every sense of the word. I just feel empty. Like I don’t think its can trust somebody again. I didn’t do anything to deserve this. I know I was good to her and that I am more than she deserves. I just.. I can’t. It would be different if I’d caused this, but I didn’t. She just switched me off like I was nothing. She gets to move on and I am the one who adds another trust issue to his baggage.

Fuck.

I wrote this on my phone. Sorry for grammar and shit. Dyslexia.

[aoiryuujinshimada]

Oda left with a kiss and the hope to take thw power that the Shimada held.

Gabriel walked in. Eyes rolling dramatically. "Was the hand job necessary?" he asked rasing a brow at him. "Even so they plan to kill your brother. Seems too good that he would truat you with such information. Maybe he plans to bring the blame upon all of the Oyabun. Or perhaps make it all of their word against yours. Even so I do not aee him just giving up such even for a quick blow..."

........

He looked over the marks, red and angry soon to become scars upon his wrists. Recalling his thoughts when he seen Reaper take his brother. How helpless he had been. Unable to save him. To protect him.

How he could not stop him from hurting his brother. His beloved brother who was suffering because of him and that was if he were alive.

Once they were rewrapped he set to change his clothes. Choosing a traditional deep blue style yukata baring the dragon mon and black hakama to match. His hair held up in a topknot tied with a long silk ribbon, green and made from on of Genji's old kimono.

He sat before the vanity thinking back to what Genji had said while trying to pretty him up for McCree. 'You look so much betfer with a bit...' he picked up the eyeliner and applied it as Genji had showed him. 'You look stunning Hanzo!' blue eye shadow was next. 'Give it the smoky look...hard to believe this is my brother under all of this.' he looked at himself. He did look...good.

As agreed...Hanzo met Akande on the foyer. Noting how striking and tall he looked in the suit. Almost intimidating. Yet he did not allow it to show. "Konbanwa, Akande-san."

“You’re a part of my family.”

Hanzo was sitting on the roof drinking alone. It had been a few days since he had seen Genji, after their last breakdown and the harsh nights that had followed. Dark rings were under his eyes. He was unable to sleep or eat. Just sit and drink while watching the sun go down. It had gotten so bad that Jesse had gone to Genji for advise. What to do or say to get through to him.

“I am your only family.”