#whether it's protective mate Striker or protective dad Striker

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So I was just rewatching episode 3 and we've all seen how Blitz reacts to Loona getting what seems to be her first crush around him with Vortet. How would Striker react? He's not as loud as Blitz is and he's more level headed so would it be something subtle like "Yeah I'm from the wrath ring you tend to pick up some interesting skills down there. For example I can make a a stallion into a gelding in about 30 seconds flat" (not a realistic time but who says it has to be if he's trying to intimidate someone)

Or is he trying to reel Blitz back in like "Darlin I know your worried but our little pup has to grow up sometime and when that happens we have to be confident that we did a good enough job raisin her that she'll be smart about this."

Honestly--and I don't know if this is cheating or not but hopefully this is still an acceptable answer to this--my personal headcanon is that Striker does BOTH. :D

When Loona first starts showing an interest in Vortex, Blitz of course is the first to notice and the first to react: and he does so loudly. There's no mistaking exactly what he thinks about this with the way his lips curl to show his teeth as he lets out a low growl, and there's absolutely nothing subtle about the way he storms right in between the two hellhounds and starts telling Vortex off to his face [at least as much as he can with their height difference]. However, it doesn't take longer than about a second before Blitz feels a hand take his arm and carefully draw him away, his furious expression gone in a blink of surprise and confusion, only to look up to find Striker looking at him with a slightly raised eyebrow and a gentle kind of knowing on his face.

"Darlin',” he begins in that deep, low rumble of a voice, his tail soundlessly finding Blitz’s and flicking up along its side in a caress.  “Come on, now, they were just talkin’.....”

“Yeah, well “just talkin’“ LEADS TO HPV!” Blitz’s voice rose to a shout as he turned his head back to yell across the hall at Vortex--only to find himself being drawn in flush against his partner’s chest.  “What?  You know that talking can lead to all kinds of shit!  WE started off just talking!!”

“Well we turned out alright don’t ya think?”  Striker asked with a smooth little smile, affectionately slipping an arm around Blitz’s waist and caressing just along the narrow bones of his hip.  “An’ before ya start freakin’ out on me, I’m not sayin’ that they’re gonna end up like us--or that they should end up like us.  All I’m sayin’ is that it ain’t gotta be the end of the world if Loona wants ta get t’know the guy.  She hasn’t had the free time ta meet a lot of people lately with how many jobs we’ve been takin’ on, and if he’s gonna be in the office next door for a bit anyway, I don’t see any harm in lettin’ her get ta know him if she wants ta.”  He shifted his gaze from Blitz to instead let his eyes flick over to Loona, catching her watching them with a skeptical yet curious expression on her face.  “Besides,” he continued, meeting her gaze directly as he spoke.  “Our Loona pup’s got a good head on her shoulders, and she’s smart as hell.  I don’t think we got all that much to worry about with her.” 

Loona’s face softened as a light tint of pink rose in her cheeks, her eyes quickly averting as she tried to pretend like she was too cool to be affected in any way by her step-dad’s praise.  Blitz, however, let hmself openly show just how much he was affected by Striker’s words, whatever protective aggression there still was in his face completely melting away as he too looked over at their daughter.....and felt his heart strings tug.  

“.....You’re right,” he said quietly after a minute, causing Loona’s ears to peark up as she snapped her head back to stare at him.  “Loonie knows what she’s doing.....and she should have more people to talk to here at the office than just us and Millie and for fuck's sake Moxxie.”  He let out a small sigh, but followed it up with a small smile as he watched Loona’s eyes brighten in surprise.  “It’s okay.”  

It seemed to take her a minute to process what she just heard him say, but when it finally sunk in, that brightness lit up her entire face.  She couldn’t help but return the smile, her tail giving a light swish behind her as she hesitated--but finally quietly mumbled out: “.....Thanks, Dad.”  

That of course had Blitz lighting up like a flash of lightning, but before he could ruin the touching moment between them by flinging his arms around her, they were interrupted by the sound of their office phone ringing.

“Oh--hey, I’ll get that,” Loona said quickly, turning back to Vortex quickly as she offered, “Meet up downstairs for lunch?” and, when she got the affirmative from him, hurried off into the office to take the call.  

“C’mon Darlin’, we got a job ta get ready for,” Striker said with a soft kiss to Blitz’s forehead, guiding him back towards the office after Loona.  “Let’s go see if we got another one for today, huh?”  

He opened the door for his mate and motioned for him to head in first, pausing in following after as Vortex took a slight step towards him.

“Hey man, I just wanted to say thank you for what you did just there,” Vortex smiled, his shoulders relaxing now that it was just the two of them in the hallway. “I think it’s really cool of you to trust her to stand on her own two feet like that.  And I appreciate that you didn’t freak out on me like the other guy did.”  

Striker closed the door to the office instead of walking through and leaned himself up comfortably against it, lifting his shoulders in a casual shrug as a smirk spread slowly across his face.  “Yeah, well, Blitz and Loona both grew up here in Pride, so ya can’t really blame him for wantin’ ta make sure that hers stayed in tact.  I’m from the Wrath ring myself, an’ we handle things a little bit different there.”

“Oh yeah?” Vortex asked, his head tilting a little.  “How so?”

“Well for one thing, we’re raised ta treat other people with respect because we know just where that’s gonna land your ass if ya don’t,” Striker answered smoothly, his tail flicking in an upward arch as it softly began to rattle.  “And for another thing.....we learned that there’s no point wastin’ energy on yellin’ at your problems when you can just kill ‘em instead.  An’ y’know, I gotta say that after learnin’ that, the number of problems in my life got cut down by a hell of a lot.”  His smile grew to a full grin, his eyes glinting with a fierce brilliance that had Vortex shifting just a half step back.  “Now I haven’t got much in the way of any problems at all.....except for maybe just one.”  

His tail rattling spiked to a louder, threatening pitch.  

“N-no, no Sir,” Vortex quickly assured as he took another full step back, holding up his hands assuringly as he glanced back behind him to Verosika’s office door.  “No problems here, just wanting to have a nice, respectful conversation with your daughter and maybe meet up with her this afternoon for lunch.  If that’s okay with you, Sir.”  

“Ah so you do know that word,” Striker’s lips twisted pleasantly as he pushed himself off from the door, unfolding his arms from his chest as he took a slow step forward.  “Good ta hear.  I expect from now on ta hear you usin’ it the next time you address my mate.  An’ as for havin’ lunch with Loona, that’s entirely up ta her--but I trust that it won’t be a problem either way.”  

“No, n-no problems!” Vortex reassured as his back hit the closed door behind him, giving him a small start as his hand frantically searched for the door handle.  “I’ll just go ahead and, um, head back to work now and maybe check back in with Loona closer to time.”  He finally managed to find the knob and turn it, rushing into the office with a hurried, “Nice meeting you!” before slamming the door shut behind him.  

Not two seconds after he did so, the door to I.M.P. cracked open as Blitz stuck his head out into the hall, shooting Striker a questioning look at seeing him just standing out there all by himself facing Verosika’s studio door.  

“Hey, is there a problem out here?” Blitz asked with a small frown, reflexively searching for any signs of his ex and her bullshit attitude.  

“Nah,” Striker replied as he finally turned away to instead head back to their own office, his tail once more finding and twining together with Blitz’s.  “No problems here.”  

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FIFA World Cup 2018: Pits France-Uruguay in World Cup quarters

France got two trophies in 1998: One, obviously, was the nation’s solitary World Cup title, won on home soil. It was additionally the birth year of Kylian Mbappe, the 19-year-old who’s rising as one of the greatest stars of the World Cup.

“All things considered, that was a decent year for him to be conceived, regardless of whether he didn’t see a great part of the 1998 World Cup,” clowned French mentor Didier Deschamps, who was the commander in ’98. “I’m extremely upbeat that Mbappe is a French subject.”

It will be France’s singing velocity drove by Mbappe and Antoine Griezmann against Uruguay’s guard tied down by Diego Godin on Friday in Nizhny Novgorod in the World Cup quarterfinals. The victor will confront Brazil or Belgium.

Uruguay has surrendered just a single objective in four World Cup matches, and France has scored seven — most in the 4-3 triumph over Argentina in the round of 16.

In scoring twice against Argentina , Mbappe turned into the primary young person with different objectives in a World Cup knockout amusement since a 17-year-old Pele did it twice (counting a cap trap against France) in 1958.

It’s a major stage with inescapable examinations that Mbappe grinned about and after that batted away.

“It’s complimenting to be the second one since Pele,” said Mbappe, conceived in France to a dad from Cameroon and a mother from Algeria. “However, how about we place things in context. Pele’s another classification.”

This is France’s seventh quarterfinal and its fourth in the last six World Cups going back to 1998 and the celebrated side drove by Deschamps, Patrick Vieira, Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry — the alleged “Rainbow Team” from a multicultural France.

“In a World Cup you have the best level players,” said Mbappe, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain. “So it’s a chance to demonstrate what you can do and what your capacities are. There is no preferable place over a World Cup.”

After three dull recreations in gather play, France was electric in its latest match, especially in the second half when it cut up Argentina’s trudging protection. Five of France’s starters in the principal amass coordinate had never played in the World Cup, including Mbappe.

“You require some tolerance,” Deschamps said.

Deschamps has contrasted playing Uruguay with confronting Peru, which barely lost to France 1-0 in bunch play on an objective by Mbappe.

He named Uruguay “strong and forceful” in a French TV meet, including: “These are not characteristics showed by Argentina.”

The match will exhibit a few cross-fringe kinships.

Griezmann plays at Atletico Madrid where his colleagues are Uruguayan protectors Godin and Jose Maria Gimenez. Godin is the guardian of Griezmann’s little girl.

While Godin and Gimenez will attempt to stop Griezmann, Uruguay striker Luis Suarez will contradict Barcelona colleague Samuel Umtiti.

“I’ve generally kidded … that I needed to confront Umtiti at a World Cup,” Suarez said. “Also, it worked out.”

Suarez’s running mate, Edinson Cavani, scored the two objectives in the knockout prevail upon Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal however is nursing hamstring damage, and it is indistinct in the event that he will play.

His nonattendance would be a hit toward the South Americans, yet barrier is the genuine key with mentor Oscar Tabarez hoping to see less of the ball.

“I think all the time there’s the mixed up conviction that ball ownership prompts scoring openings,” said Tabarez, who assumed control in 2006.

“On the off chance that you don’t have ball ownership, you can even now deliver torment.”

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