#mi5 gang

[lemonlinelights]

The giant game of spy telephone in s2e21 has me laughing so hard XD

[on-a-lucky-tide]

I ken she isn't a character you typically focus on, but my curiosity is biting ma baws so I may as well ask just in case.

What do you think of the dynamic between Kate and John? And possibly the dynamic between her and Nikolai. Apologies, I ken there's about a bawhair of dialogue to work with on Kate and Nik but you're smart and I'd trust that if you do have an answer, then it'd intrigue me.

If you don't, fair enough, I completely get why. I'm just, to my core, a nosey bugger. And I fear an obvious one because Christ, the way I type isn't subtle and it really fucks the anonymity bit of this, I just cannae be fucked asking on my main blog.

I think their dynamic is pretty great but obviously complicated by the fact they're working for, and loyal to, different nations. Until very recently, UK and US geopolitics has been pretty aligned. I think John and Kate, if they existed today, would be struggling like fuck with how the rest of the world is turning its back on the US. All of Kate's avenues of information are being cut, MI5 and MI6 view the US as a liability, etc.

But, anyways, in fiction! First meeting and I think Kate probably thought "aw an upstart baby", because Baby Price with his shaven chin and serious eyes probably looked comical to someone who had a twelve year headstart on him. And then he proved himself to be a truly formidable operator, she realised she needed to build a strong link; he was clearly brilliantly intelligent and also gay as fuck ("aw repressed gay murder kitten").

It started off as a relationship of necessity. Then they shared a whiskey and a smoke after a particularly grizzly op, and it snowballed into actual friendship. John did wacky shit like use a gorilla costume as a decoy, and wasn't afraid to bend, and sometimes completely break, the rules. She liked that. He's smart, witty, funny, and so is she. If he was a woman, he'd be her wife. Luckily, she found someone just as good, but without John's temper and fixation on duty (read: someone healthier), so he gets "best friend" instead.

It's still characterised by their roles though. Sometimes Kate has to keep things from John and she hates it. But it's just the way it is. She hates it when their mission objectives don't align, she hates it when she can't provide him all the intel because she just doesn't know, and the fact that he'll go in anyway... Sometimes she wants to choke him with her bare hands. She'll take his growls and his snarls when he's frustrated because she knows it's coming from a place of deeply seated duty, an honour code that pushes him constantly forwards.

John is loyal to Laswell as much as you can be to a foreign agent; again, there are just some things he needs to keep to himself. He'll go in and risk his neck to save her arse. He respects her highly, would follow her into the maw of hell if needed. Over the years, he's started to see her and her wife as part of his extended family. I think he's probably slept on their couch while injured a few times. I wrote "Kicked Into Touch" initially because I wanted to write that domestic time between them. John values Laswell's opinion of him and he enjoys sharing hobbies/time with her outside of work. He's been to BBQs, the occasional family function; she'll likely officiate his wedding to Nikolai.

Speaking of Nik, I think Laswell adores him and him her, even though he finds her exasperating. "Why do you want to go there you crazy woman, what is--fine." He doesn't understand the American mind, probably finds it more than occasionally frustrating, but he knows Laswell is good and just, working within a straight jacket as best she can. She's not your standard, cookie cutter capitalist. She finds him eccentric but brilliant. She knows she can count on him to achieve the impossible in most situations; acquiring specific weapons, flying into hostile territory, accessing the inaccessible meetings and gangs. Nik is one of her greatest assets.

It was Laswell that gave MI6 the idea to use John to get Nik to turn. She had known Nik for a while by that point as a potential informant but her guys had failed to entice him over. Their offers just weren't hitting the mark; he didn't trust them. She had enough intel to know he was gay, and in an exceptionally vulnerable situation, so she had to play it carefully. Honeypotting him outright was cruel and it would only damage the working relationship later on. She needed someone that sat in the niche of hot and interesting, but not a blatant appeal to his prick.

She told MI6 to put Baby Blue himself right in Nik's path; intense, honest, brave and handsome in a unique, roguish kind of way. Laswell knew the way John spoke, the way he carried himself, his expressive face, would hook their Russian in. So when Price turned to Nik in the bar and said, "Come work with me, Nikolai. We'll change the world", Nik damn well believed him.

[our-detective-so-supreme]

So here's my timeline theory on when each of the crime gang met the Moriartys.

First, Jack Renfield, a short while after the events of chapter 1. This is pretty obvious since we see this in canon.

Next came Moran a few years later, as evidenced by William, who by then was a teenager.

Von Herder came along either shortly before or shortly after Moran. They knew each other prior to the formation of MI6, plus Herder was the one who designed Moran's rifle from chapter 3.

Fred was the next one to cross paths with them. The exact circumstances behind this first meeting are currently unknown, as of writing this post.

Moneypenny was hired as Albert's secretary back when he was working in MI5 (and was subsequently transferred over to MI6 when it was formed).

It was also not long after MI6's founding that Patterson was taken on as one of their informants.

And then finally, we have the last additions of James and then Billy. Again, no need to elaborate on how either came to be.

[darkmaga-returns]

The UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is considering calls made by Idris Elba to ban kitchen knives with pointed ends.

Cooper has that revealed that she is considering Elba’s call to ban kitchen knives with pointed ends ahead of a report into terror threat posed by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

She commented on the actor’s suggestion as she prepared to publish the findings of a Home Office review into the handling of Southport killer by Prevent, the Government’s anti-extremism programme. 

The Mail Online reports: The murderer was referred to the scheme three times, with officers receiving information about his interest in school shootings, the London Bridge attack, the IRA, MI5 and the Middle East.

But each time they concluded he just had an unconventional interest in world affairs for a child aged 13 and 14. The review, elements of which have already been leaked, will find that counterterrorism officers were wrong not to consider him a terror threat.

Rudakubana was sentenced to 52 years in prison last month for the murder of three girls when he attacked a Taylor Swift themed dance class using a kitchen knife he bought on Amazon. 

Speaking ahead of the review’s publication this afternoon, Ms Cooper said she was considering a proposal from Idris Elba to require all kitchen knives to have rounded ends to make it harder for them to be used for stabbings. 

‘We are looking at the point that Idris Elba has made… we will look at any issue that might make children safer,’ she told The Times Crime and Justice Commission. 

[aziraphales-library]

Hello dear mods ! I read a fic but now I cant find it , so it was basically a killing eve au where crowley is an assassin (vilanelle) and aziraphale is an agent from m15 (eve) and i remember for a fact that crowley is gender fluid and it was a series , I think ? That consisted of two fics. I'd be ever so grateful if you could find it

Hi! You're looking for...

Killing Adam and Eve by orphan_account (M)

Ezra Fell really likes assassins, far more than any of his coworkers think is healthy. But his obsession comes in handy when investigating the newest psychopathic contract killer Anthony. What happens when these people from two opposing worlds find some ineffable connection?

But here are a couple more Killing Eve AUs for anyone interested...

die for you in secret by parentaladvisorybullshitcontent (T)

“You killed that dignitary. They made me look at the crime scene photos, they think I have some sort of – some sort of hold over you-" “You do,” Crowley says, voice low and urgent.

hiss hiss sweet serpent by LeilaKalomi (E)

Crowley—Anthony Crowley—has dreamed all his life of being like James Bond. Unfortunately, life at the Home Office isn't as exciting as he'd thought it would be...until, he hears that Carolyn Martens of the Russia desk needs an MI5 connection to help track an intriguing man suspected of being a part of the notorious international gang, the Angels. Could Crowley be the right man for the job? Or will this be his downfall?

- Mod D

[neruomancer]

Average Members of Groups of Interest: Where are they now? Part 2

PISCES:

*Either some MI5 desk monkey or an especially good tarot reader that was "conscripted". They are the new blood after the office went through some "fumigations". They don't have a bug problem anymore. That's right, no brain bugs, completely clean you don't have to worry about it anymore. They are all gone

*Shan infested Agent, all the old timers and loyal azathoth worshippers got wiped during the "bug hunts". Now it is just the atheistic/secular earth borns who have only known the pleasures of human misery. They may have had a hand in culling the azathoth worshippers and the geezers from the cowboys so they could live it up driving around their meat suits.

Army of the Third Eye

*After the Embassy Row massacre A-Cell decided they needed some local heavy hitters. They turned some young former IRA hard boys over to the Army to train them in sabotage and to give them a little catharsis against the Brits. They don't really know about the bugs and they don't really care. Or they are environmentalists really mad about Welsh lake being drained and have become violent anprims.

*Department for the Veterans of Psychic Wars. When most left the Army or got busted you stayed behind because you had nowhere else to go. They were inside your head, you remember the scratching feeling against the back of your skull. You can hear the whistling of the Court, the nuclear chaos of it all. Those whistles wax and wan but you hear it in your loneliness and alienation. Your apartment is freezing and you swear you can simply walk in the court of the Outer Gods.

GRU-SV8

*You fought against the cultists of Shub, you hunted down Nazis wizards, traveled to Leng and back. All to get blown away by some NAFO dip shit memer piloting a drone with a grenade tapped to it. The video of your death will be put into a tiktok nsfl compilation and children will do the floss to it.

*The Broken Vanguard. You were there, the past haunts you. Your country was stolen and sold off from you. You live in the decaying ruins of what was to be the future of the workers state.

The Skoptsi

*After much of the cult was either blown away or got pitched you went to jail for mundane crimes. Life max. The cult is no more but you have started a gang culture devoted to the black goat, our lady of new birth. Forgive us for our sins and born us new into the world. Sheds the only flesh for the new flesh. You awaken in the shared prison shower covered in blood and hungry. This is not a prison, it is a feeding farm for you.

*You were a good Orthodox boy who grew up in the church. You read your Bible, you went to service, etc. You are an adult now and you hear the flies. The Flys of the Black Goat. You see some people are covered in flies, at work or at the bus stop or in the store. No one else sees them. But you do. Make the buzzing stop. They smell like rotten flesh. There is only one thing you can do. Buy a toolbox, maybe even a gun? Squash the flies.

Outlook Group

*See Majestic

Phenomen-X

*Zak Bagans but somehow worse. "We are here at this Asylum today". Maybe they believe? Maybe they don't? Is just here until they get a TV show deal with Discovery or The Travel Channel. Does very little work besides just showing up to the filming. They have the same disease as Alex Jones where he needs to buy a new watch every three months just to feel something again.

*Genuine believer but very little to absolutely no camera presence. Has been made into a lolcow by the Phenomen-X social media group because of how awkward and gawky they are.

Tiger Transit

*Since the organization has gone "legit" you were the first of the round of new hires to make the crime organization look as illegal as any other financial firm. You are probably an accountant or a HR person for one of the many shell companies. At the recent company retreat there was a banquet. The main course? The long pork. It wasn't as bad as you thought it would be? Most corpos are flesh eaters so it's fine.

*Since Tiger Transit was a airline used by the CIA to traffic heroin, naturally the next step is become a anti communist advocacy think tank. You are a fresh face social media influencer who cries on podcasts about how communism took away your grandpas opium plantation.

D-Stacks

*Dr. Jensen Wu has to be 88 now right? He probably has an intern? Where is he? He got lost in the storage halls of the museum. Sometimes you see him wandering. Bright smile, wrinkles and all.

*If the program didn't assign a "budget" archeologist to the stacks then the outlaws tried to transfer everything of note to a green box somewhere. God I hope not.

Keepers of the Faith

*One of the dwindling numbers of loyal yog worshippers who slip in and out of the train tunnels of New York. Sometimes people in suits come by and give you snacks from the morgues office for information about the glowing spheres. A peaceful and quiet existence sleeping in the cold and tight seams of the city. The time will come.

*The impatient young blood. Has forbid the teachings of yog for the careless gospel of hip new gods. Doesn't know what the fuck a crawl chaos is but human flesh sure does sound good about now. Got sick and tired of the old dry dead the keepers kept pointing to feed on.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

I'll be in TUCSON, AZ from November 8-10: I'm the GUEST OF HONOR at the TUSCON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION.

#20yrsago William Gibson on ObL tape https://web.archive.org/web/20041016033110/https://williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp#109907889910593617

#20yrsago Apple to iPod owners: “Eat shit and die” https://memex.craphound.com/2004/10/30/apple-to-ipod-owners-eat-shit-and-die-updated/

#15yrsago Hallowe’en is safe, your kids are safe, the only scary thing is the warnings https://www.huffpost.com/entry/as-goes-halloween-so-goes_b_340163

#15yrsago Homebrew backyard railroad recreates Disneyland https://web.archive.org/web/20091208070906/http://cptrr.webs.com/

#15yrsago Gang steals phone wires out from under English roads https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8333774.stm

#10yrsago Pizzeria asks judge to find rival’s flavor to be trademark-infringing https://www.techdirt.com/2014/10/30/pizzeria-attempts-to-trademark-flavor-pizza-yes-seriously/

#10yrsago 100K Hungarians march against Internet tax https://www.vice.com/en/article/huge-internet-tax-protests-galvanize-government-opposition-in-hungary/

#10yrsago Dissecting the arguments of liberal apologists for Obama’s surveillance and secret war https://nationalinterest.org/feature/big-brother’s-liberal-friends-11515

#10yrsago Potato-chip surveillance: once you start, you just can’t stop https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/27/stasi-style-outrages-low-spies-stoop-mi5

#5yrsago The Internet Archive’s massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars https://web.archive.org/web/20191031041755/https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/29/weaving-books-into-the-web-starting-with-wikipedia/

#5yrsago With “OK boomer,” millennials are killing intergenerational resentment https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/ok-boomer.html

#5yrsago Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-cyber-whatsapp-nsogroup/whatsapp-sues-israels-nso-for-allegedly-helping-spies-hack-phones-around-the-world-idUSKBN1X82BE/

#5yrsago The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/30/the-first-scarfolk-annual-a-mysterious-artifact-from-a-curiously-familiar-eternal-grimdark-1970s/

#1yrago Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/markets-remaining-irrational/#steins-law

Tor Books as just published two new, free LITTLE BROTHER stories: VIGILANT, about creepy surveillance in distance education; and SPILL, about oil pipelines and indigenous landback.

[stephensmithuk]

Illicit Diamond Buyer - or Diamonds Are For Pinching

Rosenthall is engaging in something that was the colonial-era precursor to the "blood diamond" trade - which takes place in many of the same locations.

At the time of the story, De Beers controlled most of the South African diamond trade - and by extension most of the global trade. They controlled the output and therefore the prices.

Now diamonds were heavily in demand for gemstones and there were plenty of opportunities for someone less than entirely honest to make a few quid - at a time when a few pounds was worth a lot more than it was today.

Especially if you were a poor black miner - who could smuggle gems out through their body and then sell them - once they'd come out the other end - to a pawnbroker.

However, white managers could also skim off the top and there were plenty of ways to grab a few during sorting.

There was also illegal mining. Stopping that today is hard enough even with drones and satellite imagery due to the sheer size of Africa - back then it was pretty close to impossible, especially as colonial authorities were massively overstretched even in normal circumstances.

The trade was big enough in the 1950s that Sir Percy Sillitoe went straight from the head of MI5 to working for De Beers in clamping down on the IDB trade.

Sillitoe had previously been Chief Constable of Glasgow, where he'd managed to break the "razor gangs" and also introduced the "Sillitoe tartan", the black-and-white check pattern now seen on police cap bands across the UK and the Commonwealth; the Chicago Police Department also use it.

Ian Fleming would use the trade as the basis for his fourth James Bond novel Diamonds are Forever and then a non-fiction book covering the counter-smuggling operations called The Diamond Smugglers. The latter, not a personal favourite of his, sold very well and was even considered for a film.

[eliaca]

"Gary Oldman and the Slow Horses gang return with the first two episodes of Season 3 on December 1, with new episodes to be released individually each Friday through December 29 via Apple (...)

In Season 3, adapted from Real Tigers, the third novel in the Mick Herron series, a romantic liaison in Istanbul threatens to expose a buried MI5 secret in London. When Jackson Lamb (Oldman) and his team of misfits are dragged into the fight, they find themselves caught in a conspiracy that threatens the future not just of Slough House but of MI5 itself."

Source: Rosy Cordero (2023, sep20) - Deadline.

[earth-18104]

Earth-18104 - 1940s

List of events that happened during 1940 on Earth-18104. Most of these events happening here are taken by other medias, like the movies and the comics, but doesn't follow Marvel Canon or the time-line established so faithfully. Some of these events are my own interpretation and also focus on my OCs. This is more for my own entertainment than to anything else.

The (N) after names indicate characters' birth, and the numbers indicate their ages.

List of Events of Earth-18104 (Resume)

Tw: Mentions of death, violence, cannibalism and n*zism (happens during WWII)

1940 -

• In Los Angeles, Howard Stark (23) demonstrates the properties of Vibranium, a metal found by Stark Industries in Africa. Later that night, Stark is attacked by HYDRA assassins.

• He then accepts Colonel Chester Phillips' proposal to join the Strategic Scientific Reserve.

• Far from his creator, Torch began to gain a reputation as a defender of justice.

• After Hitler's rise to power, Max Eisenhardt (7) and his family fled to Poland, where they were captured during the German invasion of Poland and sent to the Ghetto.

• Eventually they managed to escape, only to be betrayed and captured again.

• His family was executed and buried in a mass grave, but Max survived, possibly due to the manifestation of his powers. He ends up being captured once again and sent to Auschwitz.

• At her work in Bletchley Park, England, Peggy Carter's (19) received a letter with a offer to work as an SOE field agent, which she accepted.

• She then enlists in the British counter-intelligence and security agency MI5 and calls off her wedding. As an MI5 agent, Carter is loaned to the American agency Strategic Scientific Reserve, becoming an advisor.

• (November)

• At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Abraham Erskine injects Johann Schmidt with his Super Soldier Serum, but the serum horribly transforms Schmidt, transforming him into the Red Skull.

• At some point, Abraham Erskine is rescued by Peggy Carter, who has infiltrated the complex disguised as a maid. Carter takes Erskine to the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) so he can produce America's Super Soldier with the help of Howard Stark.

• Fred Raymond's house was invaded by a costumed criminal called the Asbestos Lady and her gang, who intended to force Raymond to develop new means by which she could use asbestos for crime.

• The Torch, who was watching the Raymonds' house, suspecting that the criminal would come into contact with such a notable authority on asbestos, broke in and captured the gang.

• The Asbestos Lady, however, escaped. Learning about Thomas's (10) immunity to fire, Torch set out, deciding to keep an eye on the Raymond family in case they were terrorized by the Asbestos Lady again.

1941 -

• (EVENT - Castle Rock Tower Destruction)

• Johann Schmidt, Discovering that Tønsberg, Norway, is the resting place of the Tesseract, leads a group of soldiers there in search of it. He orders his men to search the city, then arrives at Castle Rock Tower, finding a Church Guardian guarding it.

• Schmidt kills him and orders his men to open fire on the city after finding the Tesseract. He refers to it as "the jewel of Odin's Treasure Room" before taking it for himself.

• In the summer, Nora Jones' health worsened and she died, while Thomas Raymond's (11) powers began to manifest themselves in the ability to generate flames, but the boy had little control.

• When the Torch came to visit them unannounced, Fred Raymomd kicked the Torch before his son could see him and blamed him for being somehow responsible for his son's condition.

• Torch told Raymond that he could teach Thomas how to control his flames and managed to convince him to let Thomas train with him. After that, Torch became the boy's guardian, who was renamed Toro; so the two became a crime-fighting duo.

• While growing up on the streets of London, Eric Brooks (12) encountered veteran American vampire hunter Jamal Afari and saved him from being killed by vampires.

• Afari soon learned about Eric and his origins and decided to take him under his wing, becoming his mentor and adoptive father and helping him control his powers.

• He taught Eric everything he knew about hunting, fighting, and killing vampires.

• December 7 - The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor leads the United States of America to enter World War II.

• President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt declares that the United States will build fifty thousand planes to combat the armies of Hirohito and Adolf Hitler.

• Stark Industries begins producing planes for the war effort after the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Howard Stark's innovations earned him a spot on the Manhattan Project.

• Steve Rogers (21) visits the US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York, but is classified 4F and rejected from service. He goes on to be rejected four more times in four different cities.

• The Strategic Scientific Reserve team in New York City completes the Renaissance Chamber Project. Howard Stark comments that it should be called the Brooklyn Project in response to J. Robert Oppenheimer's work at Los Alamos.

• At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Abraham Erskine rejects candidates selected by Chester Phillips for the Renaissance Project.

• Clara Creed (121) tells Tereza Márquez (126) OCs about the army recruiting "freaks" and suggests she join. She herself moves into a hidden shelter for mutants, preferring not to get involved in the conflict.

1942 -

• Steve Rogers (22) goes to a recruiting office in New York City but is turned away due to his numerous health problems.

• Tereza Márquez (127), Victor Creed (123) and James Howlett (57) go to the World Exhibition of Tomorrow. Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes (17) are also present. They all witness Howard Stark's presentation about a possible flying car.

• During the performance, Rogers goes to another recruiting office and is witnessed by Abraham Erskine, who asks him if he wants to kill Nazis. Steve responds that he doesn't want to kill anyone and that he doesn't like bullies.

• This impresses Erskine, who offers him a chance at military service through the Renaissance Project.

• Johann Schmidt and Arnim Zola experiment with the Tesseract inside HYDRA headquarters. Zola notes that his discoveries will change the war.

• At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Steve Rogers and several other volunteers begin their training under the supervision of Erskine, Peggy Carter (21), and Colonel Chester Phillips.

• Creed, Márquez and Howlett went to war, joining a special division of mutants, or "freaks" as they were called.

• At some point, Tereza was taken away from Creed and Howlett and chosen as a possible candidate for the Rebirth Project because of her powers. However, she was soon discarded because she was a black and hispanic woman.

• Dr. Cornelius Truett decided to keep her and the feral men close, wanting to study their mutations.

• (The first Avenger)

• (June)

• At Camp Lehigh, while Rogers was doing push-ups with the other recruits, Chester Phillips threw a fake grenade at them; Steve threw himself at the grenade, ready to sacrifice his life to save his comrades.

• That night, Erskine explained the effects of the Super Soldier Serum to Rogers, telling him that he was chosen because of his good heart and compassion. Rogers promised Erskine that he will never change who he is and that he will continue to be a good man.

• Steve went through initial tests and met project member Cynthia Glass who was, unbeknownst to him, a Nazi spy. When the Nazis attempted to attack the secret base, Steve was protected by Tereza Márquez, Victor Creed and Dominic Fortune, a soldier of fortune who was originally a candidate for the project but was turned down due to his questionable lifestyle

• July 4th - The mutant Jason Wyngarde, later known as Mastermind, is born. (N)

• A while later, Steve was escorted by Peggy Carter to the Brooklyn Strategic Scientific Reserve Facility in preparation for Project Rebirth.

• He was injected and made to ingest Erskine's formula and was then bathed in Vita Rays, which caused his body to transform into the peak of human perfection.

• By this time, the project had been infiltrated by Nazi agent Heinz Kruger, who fatally shot Erskine, and was himself killed by the newly empowered Steve Rogers.

• With no complete copy of the super-soldier formula available in writing, Steve Rogers was the only man to receive the full treatment at that time, but there would be others eventually. Due to Rogers being the only Super Soldier, Phillips refused to let him serve in the war.

• Phineas Horton (37) was working for the United States government when he was targeted by Hitler, who had the Python broken into Alcatraz to use Horton to destroy or control the Torch.

• To this end, Python forced Horton to lead the Torch into a trap in which the hero was trapped in the cylinder in which he was created. Exposing him to the device caused the Torch to become a huge flame creature loyal to Python.

• Horton helped Torch's sidekick, Toro (12), stop Python and restore the synthezoid to normal.

• Mexico declares war on the Axis powers.

• In August, Brazil declares war on the Axis powers.

• Refusing to be held for research, Steve joined the USO and went on a morale-boosting tour of the United States of America.

• Under the name 'Captain America' he became a national celebrity, appearing in films, comic books and card collections and establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.

• The Western Allies' bombing offensive scores massive successes as targets in Nazi satellite states are destroyed.

1943 -

• Kriegsmarine U-boats torpedo a ship off the coast of Virginia.

• After a highly successful campaign in North Africa and the invasion of Sicily, the Western Allies landed in mainland Italy.

• American bombers hit Italian warships thirty-five times.

• An RAF attack destroys several vital German dams.

• Wreckage of a submarine is discovered off the east coast of the USA by residents.

• Another wave of bombers targeting Nazi satellite states destroys their objectives.

• At Camp Leigh, Steve Rogers (23) met and quickly became friends with company mascot James "Bucky" Barnes (18).

• When James discovered Steve's dual identity, the military authorized James to be Captain America's costumed sidekick, Bucky, as a foil to the Youth in Nazi Germany.

• Cap was sent on a solo mission to the nation of Madripoor to investigate sightings of Nazi agent Baron Strucker in the area, Captain America stumbled upon a deal being made between Strucker and the group of ninjas known as the Hand. Cap worked closely with the adventurer Canadian Logan (58).

• Soon, Captain America was sent on a mission to Djbera, Africa, in order to see the surrender of Nazi defector Major Hans Guetterez.

• Unknown to him, Bucky has been ordered to investigate sightings of Baron Strucker in the area and assassinate him. His plane was shot down and crashed in the desert, leaving them open to enemy attack.

• They were rescued by a squad of British SAS and accompanied by Logan, who revealed Bucky's true mission and that Logan had come to learn what he could about Captain America to Romulus, who tried to take Cap up on his previous offer of partnership, earning Bucky's ire.

• Attacking the Nazi base on Djbera and accepting Guetterez's surrender, Captain America went after Bucky after he slipped away in battle followed by Logan.

• Working with Logan, Cap tracked down Strucker who had just founded the first incarnation of the terrorist organization known as Hydra. When Bucky was brought in to be executed, he eliminated who he thought was Strucker, prompting Hydra agents to attack. Cap and Logan came to his rescue and were helped by the SAS.

• In the aftermath of the battle, they discovered that the man Bucky had killed was a Strucker impersonator and they all set out to find the real Baron Strucker.

• Logan and Bucky later found Strucker and took him prisoner. Cap was unaware that Logan's orders had changed and he was supposed to make sure Strucker remained free.

• When Bucky tried to warn Cap about this while they were flying, they were shot from the sky by Nazi agents led by Baron Zemo and with Logan's help, helped free Strucker. Furious at this betrayal, Captain America fought Logan until Bucky managed to force the Nazis to retreat with covering fire.

• During the shootout, Logan took a blast to the chest and was left for dead, however, he would eventually survive and cross paths with Captain America many times in the future

• At some point, Cap met with the Human Torch and his partner Toro.

• (Battle of Azzano)

• The 107th Infantry Regiment suffers heavy casualties fighting the German Army and HYDRA, which openly fires at German troops, severing ties with Nazi Germany.

• Uprising at the Austrian HYDRA Weapons Facility: A group of soldiers meet for the first time. As prisoners, they are used to make weapons for HYDRA.

• They come together, at first, to get revenge on one of their captors who violently beat Bucky Barnes.

• In November, Peggy Carter (22) tells Steve Rogers (22) that the 107th Regiment has been captured by HYDRA.

• Determined, Steve leaves for Austria with the help of Carter and Howard Stark (26). At HYDRA headquarters, prisoners of war are forced to begin assembling a large plane, known as the Valkyrie.

• Rogers sneaks into the HYDRA Weapons Facility in search of Allied prisoners. During his search, he memorizes a map of HYDRA facility locations and obtains a sample of the power source HYDRA was using.

• He soon finds the prisoners and frees them; together, the Allies face HYDRA and escape the Facility.

• While trying to evacuate, Barnes and Rogers encounter Schmidt, who notes that he has always been Abraham Erskine's biggest success, removing his prosthetic mask. Schmidt and Zola evacuate the building after initiating the self-destruct sequence.

• Steve Rogers is presumed dead, but soon arrives with hundreds of soldiers he saved from the HYDRA facility. Rogers gathers some of the men he saved at the HYDRA base and creates a team that will eventually be known as the Howling Commandos.

• Howard Stark examines a sample of HYDRA's power, which will help him develop a framework to synthesize a new element. Rogers meets with Stark, being equipped with his new uniform and a Vibranium shield.

• August 29 - Gabrielle Haller is born. (N)

1944 -

• January 1 - Isaiah Bradley, the man who would one day be known as Black Captain America, is born, one of the only survivors of the Super Soldier Project. (N)

• Master Wong Kan, future Sorcerer Supreme, is born. (N)

• Wong was a descendant and lookalike of Kan, a Tibetan monk who lived about a thousand years ago and was a student of the occult. In the ten generations before Wong, the firstborn of her lineage served the Elder.

• A member of the Ten Rings, undercover in London, detonates an explosive planted inside a government building.

• Attack on HYDRA facilities: Captain America and his Howling Commandos (which includes Logan and Marquis) invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in France.

• Maybelle Reilly is born, later she would be Maybelle Parker. (N)

• As her family was very poor, her parents constantly argued and blamed May for their financial problems, always telling her how difficult their lives were because of her. A few years later, her father left home and May was left alone with her abusive mother.

• November 2nd - Dr. Stephen Strange was born in Philadelphia, when his parents were on vacation. (N)

1945 -

• A battalion of troops was immobilized by HYDRA troops due to a blizzard on the outskirts of Stalingrad. Among the soldiers is Tereza Márquez (130) OC.

• During the three months they were imprisoned, Tereza used her fire powers to keep the other soldiers warm; however, the constant use of her mutation, plus the stress she suffered every day due to being in enemy territory, took a lot of energy from her and she was in danger of burning herself alive.

• At some point, when one of the soldiers in her battalion died, Tereza mocked her colleague for trying to "save dead weight", which earned her the distrust of her comrades.

• Three months later, they were rescued by the Howling Commandos led by Steve Rogers (24).

• Upon hearing of Tereza's abilities, Rogers invited her to join the Howling Commandos, even though the other soldiers in his battalion had told him that Tereza was unreliable, calling her "El Diablo".

• Tereza, who was still resentful and angry that Rogers was chosen by Erskine, denied his offer.

• The Howling Commandos board a HYDRA train on a mission to capture Arnim Zola.

• Once inside, the group split up, Rogers and Barnes enter the train and find many HYDRA agents using Tesseract-powered weapons.

• During the conflict, Rogers uses his shield to block an explosion, creating a hole in the side of the train. Before Rogers can grab him, Barnes falls from the train and is presumed dead.

• Jones, who was sneaking around the top of the train, catches up to Zola and captures him.

• Bucky Barnes (19) lands at the bottom of the valley, surviving due to Zola's experiments. He is later found by the Soviet Armed Forces and is imprisoned until 1950.

• Arnim Zola is interrogated in London by Chester Phillips.

• Red Skull promises his HYDRA army that their plan to launch the Valkyrie against the United States of America will end in victory.

• Steve, mourning the death of Bucky Barnes in the ruins of Whip & Fiddle, vows to defeat HYDRA and the Red Skull.

• (The disappearance of Captain America)

• Some time later, Captain America attacks HYDRA headquarters alone on his motorcycle, which he uses to blow up the base's doors. He has a quick fight before being surrounded and captured by HYDRA forces.

• He is taken before the Red Skull, but before he can be executed, members of the Howling Commandos enter through the window while Colonel Chester Phillips attacks the main gate.

• Red Skull retreats to the hangar, followed by Rogers, Phillips and Carter, he boards the Valkyrie, trying to enact his plan. Phillips and Carter drive Schmidt's Coupe, giving Rogers a ride, Carter gives Rogers a kiss, before he jumps into the plane, seconds before takeoff.

• Once aboard the plane, Captain America discovers the bombs and is attacked by several HYDRA agents Rogers quickly dispatches the agents before they can board the bombs and take off with them.

• He confronts the Red Skull in the control room, during the battle, the Valkyrie's controls are damaged.

• Red Skull laments to Rogers that he has seen the future, and it has no flags, Rogers responds that this is not the case in his future. Red Skull takes the Tesseract in an attempt to use its power, but is overpowered by the celestial object and presumed dead.

• Rogers quickly takes control of the plane, calling Carter, telling her that her only option to stop the bombs is to shoot down the plane, due to the autopilot sending it to New York City.

• Carter plans a meeting with Rogers for next Saturday as he puts the plane on the ground, where it would remain frozen for nearly 40 years. Rogers' radio cuts out, which brings Carter to tears.

• The United States Armed Forces begin the invasion of Iwo Jima.

• Logan (60) and the Devil's Brigade were tasked with infiltrating Germany to put an end to the German Super Soldier program, but the entire unit was decimated during an air raid. Only Logan survived.

• During Walpurgis Night, Logan finally infiltrated the Nazi facility and discovered that several soldiers had been transformed into werewolves by General Wolfram. Logan managed to defeat them, but before he could kill Wolfram, he was stopped by Nick Fury Sr. (37).

• Despite Logan's protests against letting Wolfram live after killing his entire unit, Fury explained that Wolfram could be useful in the upcoming war against the USSR.

• He also revealed that both Captain America and Bucky Barnes were killed by Baron Zemo and that the the main scientist in charge of the US Super Soldier program had also died, to that end Fury and the US needed Wolfram as part of this new program they had created: The Weapon Plus Program

• Later, Dr. Abraham Cornelius Hudson (32) met with Nick Fury Sr, in recent months he became interested in Victor Creed and Tereza Márquez's abilities and discovered more about their families.

• They discussed the possibility of the two soldiers being part of the Weapon X project.

• Hudson, knowing it would probably be difficult to get them to cooperate, sends a squad after Creed and Márquez to bring them to the Ravencroft Institute.

• When Hudson's men attacked Márquez alone, she managed to kill more than half of them, before being fatally shot by one of them. She was saved by Creed (128) and they both deserted the army.

• Werner Reinhardt attempts to evacuate the HYDRA Research Center in Austria and escape with several mysterious artifacts that HYDRA has collected over the years.

• His base is attacked by SSR troops led by Peggy Carter, Dum Dum Dugan and Jim Morita. Reinhardt and his men are arrested and all artifacts are confiscated by the SSR.

• Steve Rogers' disappearance is publicly revealed.

• Allied nations celebrate Victory in Europe Day. The Howling Commandos gather to celebrate Captain America's sacrifice.

• German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at Soviet headquarters in Berlin.

• The United States begins Operation Overcast, later renamed Operation Paperclip, an effort to recruit former Nazi scientists to work for the United States.

• An atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

• Soon, an atomic bomb is dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

• Japan agrees to surrender after the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

• The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed, formally marking the end of World War II.

• The Tuskegee Airmen return home after fighting in the war.

• Peggy Carter (23) is honored with an SSR medal.

1946 -

• Arnim Zola and some former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes (20) who survived the fall and was taken into custody by the Soviet Armed Forces.

• Since that moment, they have kept Barnes frozen and alive, but without an arm. Once he is found by Zola and his agents, they take him into custody.

• As SHIELD is founded, Zola begins to rebuild HYDRA from within the agency.

• Bucky Barnes' memory is erased and he receives a metal prosthetic and is kept cryogenically frozen, he becomes a HYDRA assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

• Dr. Xavier died in an accident and Sharon moved into her ancestral mansion in Westchester after marrying her late husband's former colleague, Kurt Marko, in hopes of maintaining a well-structured family for Charles.

• However, Marko married her for her wealth and due to Xavier's jealousy.

• Charles (9) faced problems with his new family when Marko brought his teenage son, Cain Marko (15), who constantly bullied him.

• To make matters worse, Dr. Marko violently abused Sharon. With his growing telepathic powers, Charles tried to ease her pain by sharing it with himself.

• However, Charles was unable to prevent his mother's ruin, as she succumbed to alcoholism and died of a broken heart.

• After the war, Logan (61) met and fell in love with Itsu and soon she became pregnant with his son Akihiro.

• Stephen Strange's younger sister, Donna, was born on the family farm in Nebraska. (N)

1947 -

• (March)

• Canada's Department K and the remnants of Operation: Rebirth pooled their resources to become Project: Sentinel, yet another foolish attempt to not only recreate the Super Soldier Serum, but in post-war hubris, amplify its effects a hundred thousand times more.

• (Itsu and Logan)

• Just days before his son was born, Logan (62) was proving himself worthy of being a father in combat, but accidentally stabbed a villager with his claws.

• As a result, he was banished from the village, but before leaving he wanted to say goodbye to Itsu for the last time. Returning to his built home, Logan found Itsu murdered by the Winter Soldier (22), who was following orders from the mysterious Romulus.

• After Itsu's death, Logan disappeared for a month, during that time he went to see the demon Muramasa to help him "kill them all".

• Muramasa accepted and promised to forge him a "mighty blade against which all...even someone as great as you...will fall" using a piece of Wolverine's soul.

• While awaiting further orders, the Winter Soldier saw that Muramasa's subordinates were transporting a still unconscious Logan after Muramasa extracted a piece of his soul.

• Barnes decided to ignore his orders and killed Muramasa's men, Logan was then extracted 8 hours later.

• Unknown to Logan, Romulus took the child from Itsu's womb, and he was born safely and adopted by a Japanese couple. This child was called Akihiro, but ended up adopting the name "Daken", which means "Mestizo".

• Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross is born. (N)

• SHIELD Agent Phill "Cheese" Coulson is born. (N)

• The Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-1948 begins as a result of the confusion left by Britain's decolonization of India.

• Olivia Octavius, future scientist, ​​was born in Schenectady, New York, to a lower-class family. (N)

• An only child, Olivia was raised by a neglectful and alcoholic mother. At school, she was bullied by other students, but excelled academically.

• At some point she befriended Maybelle Reilly; the two became close because they shared the same family problems, which made them best friends.

• Adrian Toomes, the first Vulture, is born. (N)

1948 -

• Stephen Strange's brother, Victor was born. (N)

• When Wong Khan was four years old his father introduced him to the Ancient One and sent him to Kama-Taj, Nepal, to receive training and become a sorcerer.

• Since he as was the firstborn son of Hamir the Hermit, and therefore his life was dedicated to the Ancient One from early childhood.

• Years later he became the librarian of the Masters of the Mystic Arts.

• (Blade)

• Determined to avenge his mother's death, Eric Brooks (19) turned into a vampire hunter and called himself Blade, after the sharp weapons with which he used to kill vampires.

• (Marcus Jonhson)

• CIA Agent Nia Jones worked with Colonel Nick Fury (40) on a mission to take down a Hydra base in Czechoslovakia. They became romantically involved and the affair resulted in Nia's pregnancy.

• Wanting to protect their son from his enemies, Fury convinced Mia to abandon her life as an agent. Although reluctant, Nia agreed to protect her baby and adopted the new identity of Nia Johnson and moved to Atlanta, Georgia.

• November 9th - Months later, her son, Nick Fury Jr, was born, who she named Marcus Johnson. (N)

1949 -

• (Cyttorak)

• When Cain Marko tried to extort money from his father, a fight broke out, causing some of the lab equipment to explode. Dr. Marko was mortally wounded, but managed to drag Cain and Charles to safety before dying.

• From then on, orphans Charles (12) and Cain (18) lived as enemies under the same roof when Charles realized the potential of his mutant powers.

• Due to his telepathy, Charles excelled in most of the activities he was involved in, causing Cain's jealousy to increase to the point of causing Charles to get into a car accident, seriously injuring him and causing him to separate from his half-brother.

• Heather McNail Hudson, member of Alpha Fligt known as Vindicator, is born. (N)

• Howard Stark (31) restarts his plans for SHIELD, this time with the help of Chester Phillips. Peggy Carter (27) ends her work at the Scientific Strategy Reserve, and becomes one of the founders of SHIELD.

• Yondu Udonta is born on the planet Centauri-IV. (N)

[peachjagiya]

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Thank you for your concern but I'm not Jikooker. But that doesn't mean I have to downplay Jungkook's and Taehyung's other friendships and decisions that they made.

About the SDT and ROK-SWC thing. You have the part with English subtitles, which translated it correctly to special forces. Now switch those subtitles to Korean to get what Jungkook actually said. He said 나 특전사 하고 싶어. Now please do me a favour and google the word 특전사 which was translated to special forces in the English subtitles. And then please tell me what you find. Jungkook said he wanted to join ROK-SWC. This is not some lie the neighbours came up with, I'm sorry.

Jungkook not doing as well is proven because he simply wasn't awarded on stage during the ceremony where the best trainees get rewarded for their achievements during training. That doesn't mean Jungkook didn't do well, just not as well. The knee injury came from a post of someone that trained with Jimin and Jungkook. Now that's something you can believe or not. But as we believe stories we hear about other members as well without visual proof I don't see why I shouldn't believe that too. Because it does make sense. We all know Jungkook would've been one of the rewarded trainees under normal circumstances, so a knee injury making it impossible does make sense.

And they didn't just stay together for training, they joined the 5th Divisions artillery unit together afterwards. Source: https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/312/0000645530

About the interview, well, here you go: https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.naver?blogId=mnd9090&logNo=222993754117

You can use a translator. Doesn't give you a perfect translation but good enough to show you that Kim Dong-young served as a cook, while Lee Shinwoo served as a K6 gunner who both joined together through the buddy system. And they talked about how when they had a fight while being in the Army they made because they share a bed. Which clearly implies despite one being a cook and the other a K6 gunner they did share the same room, in the same dorm. They also say that when Dong-young became a cook they saw each other less which made Shinwoo felt betrayed to which Dong-young said that everything was fine. They both worked their jobs during the day and still went to bed in the same dorm and same room.

There are no romantic Jikook adventures in military. Anyone who romanticises a situation like this is honestly disgusting. But I'm also not going to pretend Jimin and Jungkook are separated or didn't choose that on their own. It changes nothing about what Taehyung and Jungkook have, that two friends, Jimin and Jungkook, didn't want to go through mandatory enlistment alone. The same way Taehyung wanted to do SDT. Both things are ok and don't mean much at all.

Sorry if I sounded snappy, this wasn't towards you, admin. But I hate being accused of something that I'm not and I hate lies. Especially when these lies fall back on a whole group and in the end also on Taehyung because he's the one who's getting dragged in the end.

Pointed but not snappy. 😊

I'm not trying to argue endlessly about it but I'm still confused by the translation. When I put 특전사 (special agent) into Google (it took me so long to realise you meant literally Google it), it comes back with ROK-SWC, yes no doubt.

But the whole thing translates to "I want to be a special agent"

Language varies so maybe I'm looking at this through an English lens but that's a general phrase not an organisation. Say I Google "Special Agent" in English, it brings back the FBI. But I actually want to be in MI5. It just means the FBI have the best SEO.

Consider the context too:

A: I'm going to be rapelling down buildings in the Awesome Squad where we do amazing activities!

B: *sadface* I want to join the amazing gang!

I don't think we're insane to assume he was using a generalised phrase relating to Tae's conversation? Especially as Tae then points at him and JK laughs in a self deprecating way.

I honestly truly see your point. But I also honestly think allowances can be made for human speech patterns and context that reframes the meaning. JK isn't Google.

Thanks anon. It's splitting hairs really, isn't it? Not much changes by trying to work out what JK actually meant. I actually did say I agreed they had chosen to go together.

[silverhallow]

A Spies Honour

Benedict Bridgerton x Sophie Beckett

Modern Spy AU

Rated: G

Word count: 475 (oh look it’s a Drabble)

Summary: the possible plot of yet another AU… Sophie an MI6 agent ends up infected by a deadly virus and has to be rescued/captured by a rather handsome MI5 agent and her former best friend…

Author's Note: I’ve been watching too much Fast and Furious lately… so yeah 😂

Enjoy

Thanks to @ambitionspassionscoffee for the first of the photos

Sophie had no idea how she’d gotten herself into this position…

Well she did…

There was no way on God's green earth she was going to let a terrorist gang steal a super virus that her MI6 team had been tasked with transporting.

It had gone wrong from the moment they got out of their armoured truck and she’d ended up escaping after injecting herself with the virus in an attempt to keep it safe.

What she hadn’t counted on was being framed by the organisation… for stealing it and killing her team.

She’d gone on the run, disguised herself, and as she was about to get out of London on a flight to Russia to find the man who could help her get the virus out of her system, she was tracked down and found by Benedict Bridgerton and her former best friend Kate Sharma.

After a series of disasters which resulted in them being on the run, Sophie handing herself into the terrorist organisation, which she now knew was ran by her bloody former stepmother and them blowing up the black site she was back in London…

Dressed up to the nines as they were trying to protect Benedict’s brother and sister who were working on the extraction process to get the virus out of Sophie’s systems

They would have 35 minutes… 35 minutes until she became infectious and the virus would be airborne and would ultimately kill millions if not Billions of the population.

It was going to take 30 minutes to get the virus out of her system.

Time was not on their side.

Sophie stood there at the edge of the room, gun tucked in the back of the dress as she looked up at Benedict who was standing next to her “you know if this goes sideways you're going to have to be the one to pull the trigger…”

Benedict frowned at her “it’s going to work” he said. He’d grown close to Sophie over the last 48 hours, Kate had told him about her past.

Kate and Sophie had made up. Sophie had thought Kate had abandoned her, killed their team when Sophie had been injured on a job but it had been a frame job.

Araminta and her cronies had set them up.

“It may not” Sophie replied

“It will, and when it does, tomorrow after all this shits gone down and we’ve saved the world…”

“Yes?” Sophie said looking at him expectantly

“Go on a date with me? No guns, no fighting… just me and you, some food and wine?” He asked

“If we get through tonight… and I’m still alive tomorrow…”

“You will be”

“If I am then yes… we can go on a date…” Sophie grinned as she reached behind her pulling her gun out of her the back of dress with her right arm as the left had the claws of the extraction devices clamping down, the alarms were blazing,

Cavender and his crew were here…

It was showtime, the next 30 minutes would change their lives forever one way or another.

[ghostlycollectorchaos]

I was talking with the Ant of many names about how I also love how the juxtaposition between the Amelia and the rest of the world.

Everyone else is so cynical and miserable and hates it here at some point (talking about the MI5 and the CIA agents) and the Amelia gang is always so colorful and happy and willing to make jokes, no matter the situation. Like extremely positive, even. There's something to be said about being a Weirdo when you have a family

Even cleaning your eyeballs sounds nice.

what I love about kozlowski is that he’ll say something super wise and kind one minute, and the next minute be like “excuse me, I need to trade out my eyeballs for new ones. I do this every two weeks at least.”

Listen, proper eye-maintenance is extremely important. He has not needed any eye treatments in [REDACTED] years, because he takes proper care of his eyes! All of them! Good eyes should be checked yearly, cleaned daily! Make sure to use them only per instruction. Remember! Absolutely no science with the eyeballs! If you are afraid of any damage to them, switch them out and take them to your eye-specialist of choice. You should have a few in reserve at all times to combat wear and tear to them.

Make sure to wear glasses of different kinds to support your eyes, especially (but not limited to) on days with sunshine or heavy snowfall. Water those regularly, or- No wait, that part is about the flesh-eating plant. Don't water your glasses. Sorry.

-Intern

[thepromisedbride]

ok gang let’s start the bets on how it happened

- made tea too strong

- someone blew in his vicinity and he collapsed

- there was a wrong note in his private classical orchestra

- mi5

- one granule of sugar in his tea too many

- jopping by superm

[thaisibir]

Digimon Survive headcanons - Aoi as an adult

An extension and elaboration of my first post on the Survive gang 15 years later. (Headcanons referencing truthful route spoilers under the cut!)

Age: 30 Profession: MI5/Security Service agent

-Due to years of residence and schooling in England, Aoi becomes fluent in English and speaks with a southeast London accent. Her first exposure to English, however, dates back to a time before she ever set foot in the UK. Her father is a big fan of classic American and English rock, and would share his CDs with her so that she grew up a fan herself of bands like The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Queen. Her peers were taken aback when they learned that the quiet, polite honor student liked foreign rock for study music. Even with a more formal education later on, Aoi attributes her fluency in English to her father's CDs that she listens to so often.

-The first time Aoi used a gun to take down a criminal, she was on the verge of something between fainting and a panic attack. Her hands couldn't stop shaking. For days, she had nightmares of the criminal coming back for her, his eye blown out from her shot. She almost quit her job. Remembering Labramon's evolution to Cerberumon, that great power can be wielded responsibly and for good, gave her the reassurance and comfort she needed to keep her head in the game.

-To the surprise of absolutely no one, Aoi is an excellent mother to her kids: kind, loving, and attentive yet firm when she had to be. During her middle and high school years she used to be a babysitter, where she learned how to take care of kids. Since then, she wanted to have her own.

-On video chats with the Survive gang, Aoi is often seen corralling her herd of hyperactive kids, dividing her time between catching up with her friends and distracting the little ones with toys and bouncing them on her lap. Aoi constantly apologizes about the kids, but her friends don’t mind the videobombs at all and find the kids incorrigibly cute.

-Due to her dangerous line of work in law enforcement and taking down criminals, Aoi ends up being the most athletic and physically fit among the group. She doesn't like to flaunt her strength, but one time the gang pressured her into having an arm-wrestling match with Kaito (which she won).

-Also because of her role in law enforcement, Aoi is the only one among her friends who knows how to fight with knives and guns. Of course she considers force and violence as a very last resort, but when push comes to shove she has nerves of steel. She's skilled enough with close quarter combat to fend off a Sealsdramon on her own.

-Even as an adult, she continues to wear the ring her father had given her when she was a kid. She wears it on her pointer finger along with the wedding ring on her fourth.

-Living in England had made Aoi develop a fondness for pubs and Irish beer. During her time as a single college student, she enjoyed nothing more than a table to herself with a mug of beer in one hand and a good book in the other. When she gets together with her friends at a bar in Japan, she can drink everyone under the table.

-The Chronicles of Narnia are some of Aoi's favorite books. The story about kids wandering into another world full of magic and talking animals reminded her very much of her own adventure through the Kemonogami world. Besides loving the story for its nostalgic value, the language is simple enough for her to understand and enjoy when she had started out learning English. When she became a mother, she would read Narnia books to her kids.

-Aoi has mostly done away with the unconscious habit of holding her own hand in front of herself, though it resurfaces when she becomes particularly stressed or anxious.

-Aoi’s MI5 colleagues admire her calm, collected authority and confidence, and how she can keep it together in the most charged, intense situations. Only her friends truly know what she went through and how hard she had worked to achieve that level of confidence.

-Labramon absolutely adores Aoi’s kids and is fiercely protective of them. When the family goes on walks to the park and the playground, Labramon likes to take on her Dobermon form to guard the kids from potential bullies and kidnappers.

-As smart as she is loyal, Labramon learned to understand and speak English along with Aoi. She would be Aoi’s study buddy even though she couldn’t enroll in school. They used to spend many late nights practicing grammar and vocabulary with each other.

-When Aoi started dating the man who would be her future husband, Labramon didn’t start off on the best terms with him. She was suspicious of him at first, going into full-fledged guard dog mode, and didn’t make it subtle at all what she’d do to him if he dare hurt her partner. She briefly worried that she’d have to compete with him for Aoi’s attention and affection. Eventually she was won over by how much he made Aoi happy, which was the most important thing to Labramon.

-Not only does Labramon learn what a police dog is, she becomes one. Her keen sense of smell can effortlessly sniff out clues and whereabouts of suspects. If a situation escalates, she can evolve into stronger forms to provide more firepower.