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Post by supesman on Dec 28, 2021 16:14:39 GMT
"Oh, dad." She reached out, wrapping herself around him as he snuggled up to her tight. She didn't know what was inspiring this kind of outreach at the moment but she seemed to be enjoying it. Looking over to Blackjack and Harmony as her father released her, not wanting to embarrass her more than the gesture itself required. "Blackjack the most important thing you can use to define yourself is the love you have and the love you give. Anything else, good or bad, is just gravy." She said, settling back in her chair.
"I hope the answers you find are the ones you want, lord knows finding Marigold's origins was a bit of a...disappointment." He said, patting her on the shoulder.
"Meh, you know what? If people wanna give me weird looks when I say that this human here is my father and that I come from the human world then so be it. It's true in every way that counts, right?" She said. It was a bit odd for a digimon to say they were "from" the human world but Marigold did act more like an insect shaped human than a digimon
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 29, 2021 1:33:51 GMT
Blackjack and Harmony smiled as they watched Marigold return the affection her father gave her. Blackjack nuzzled his sister and she did so in return. "Wow. You seem pretty wise for being only a little older than us. Then again you have been through a lot in a fairly short time." Blackjack said as he and Harmony floated over to their table to land on it.
"I guess, regarding matters of our past, we can just hope for the best that things will work out. I don't know why but I have a feeling the answers may come one day. Hopefully by then we'll be mature enough to process the truth when and if it reveals itself." Harmony said snuggling Blackjack again.
"Who knows, Marigold, maybe your father isn't the only human with a digimon kid. Digimon and Humans tend to form strong bonds so they likely come in bonds of various kinds." Harmony said before she continued "As for you saying that you are from the Human World, that is definitely true seeing as your egg hatched there."
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Post by supesman on Dec 29, 2021 17:44:16 GMT
"Hey dad, can you go get me a honey salad from the snack bar?" She said, seemingly changing the conversation on a dime. Her father popped up from his seat without thinking, patting her on the head and walking back toward the bar. "Alright so, now that he won't start tearing up again I'll let you in on a little bit of a secret." She said, beckoning with one of her leg claws to bring them in closer. "My father's a bit of an...idiot savant, putting it in basic language. He thinks about this sort of morality and philosophy stuff A LOT. More often then not people think I'm wise beyond my years because I'll pick up lessons he doesn't realize he's been teaching me and just parrot them back to other people." She said, looking over her shoulder as her father came back with the salad, waving and smiling to some of the other Digimon in line who might not have been used to seeing a human so out and about in the middle of a social spot.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 30, 2021 0:24:43 GMT
Then Marigold changed the conversation by asking her father go get a honey salad from the snack bar which Zack hopped up without argument or thinking before patting Marigold on the head and heading to do as she asked of him. When Marigold said she wanted to let them in on a secret both Blackjack and Harmony hopped over to Marigold's table after looking over at Zack briefly. "Harmony and I don't always spend time thinking about the morality of things but we generally mean no harm. We are what humans call, what was that again Harmony?"
"Chaotic Neutral, Blackjack." Harmony answered.
"Yeah that. See we have morals but we just don't go out of our way to interfere with others unless someone asks us for help." Blackjack said with a nod.
"I guess we have a lot in common with being wise beyond our years, Marigold. Only I picked up my wisdom from what I've overheard from passerby that were usually not aware of us as we spent a lot of time hiding before we reached rookie." Harmony said as she also looked over at Zack.
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Post by supesman on Dec 30, 2021 17:43:23 GMT
"My father and I couldn't be any less neutral about most things, especially when it's someone doing wrong or hurting people. Not saying that you two would stand idly by if it was happening right in front of you but my father and I legit go out looking for trouble on a really regular basis. Like, nightly. he just can't help but make it his problem when someone is in trouble. She says, not noticing her father returning with the salad in his hands. She nearly jumps out of her proverbial skin when he starts talking out of nowhere and sets the salad down in front of her.
"Someone in trouble IS my problem. if you ask me, someone in trouble should be EVERYONE'S problem. We'd live in a better, more caring world in that case. if people didn't need a reason to lend a hand." He said, patting Marigold on the head again as she recovered from the unintentional jump scare and leaned down to begin eating away at her food. She may have had him go get the salad as a distraction tactic but that doesn't mean she didn't actually want the salad.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Dec 31, 2021 0:39:15 GMT
"Of course we wouldn't stand idly by. We aren't heartless and cruel monsters that enjoy the suffering of others. We just got used to trying to avoid trouble since we haven't been rookies very long. You know we used to implement the run and hide defense fresh and in training digimon have learned to be good at." Blackjack said catching movement out of the corner of his eye before seeing Marigold leap out of her skin at Zack's arrival. Blackjack smirked playfully at Marigold's reaction as the salad was set in front of her.
"Yes, Zack, you do have a point. Sadly not everyone thinks along those lines. Sounds like you've seen many examples of this if you are so passionate about trying to make things better." Harmony said watching Zack pat Marigold on the head before Marigold began eating the salad she asked for so apparently it was more than a mere diversionary tactic.
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Post by supesman on Dec 31, 2021 14:38:25 GMT
"You see examples of it everyday, even if you don't realize. Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't have to be about life and death. Sometimes it just has to be about doing the little things. People will justify, say it's out of their way, that they don't know both sides, that it's too small to be worth the gesture. Those people are wrong on all three counts." He said, holding up three fingers, very extravagant with the way that he talked with his hands, always gesturing alongside whatever he was saying out loud.
"Random acts of kindness you know? Doesn't cost you a dime, only costs you a few seconds of time and a few ounces of care." She said, spearing a good majority of her salad by stabbing her leg spike directly through the center of the bowl, the limb pulling away from the bowl with a massive kebab of lettuce and other assorted fixings attached to it.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Jan 1, 2022 1:17:20 GMT
Zack's animated way of expressing himself with his hands had kept both siblings attention quite easily. The young digimon at this point wondered if other humans communicated in such an animated way. Either way it was mesmerizing to Blackjack and Harmony. After listening to Zack as he also spoke with his hands, Blackjack said "Maybe the people who want to help don't know how, Zack. That or they are too afraid to. In a place like the Digital World I can understand that to some extent as most of the population are fairly small and weak."
Then when Marigold mentioned about random acts of kindness, Harmony said "Shame there aren't more people that donate their time to help out even if it just involves helping someone get home safely or giving directions. You're right about such kindness not costing much. That and it also can feel rewarding even if it is something small."
After sitting quietly thinking a minute, Blackjack's eyes lit up as if he had an idea before he said "Hey! Maybe to help some of the unfortunate we can donate a bit of our daily earnings so someone else can eat or have a place to stay the night while we are in towns and villages."
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Post by supesman on Jan 1, 2022 15:37:00 GMT
"Now THAT, Blackjack, sounds like a worthwhile endeavor to me. I mean after all, you two did say that there was a bit of a gambling talent between you. Find some scam artist, take him to the cleaners and that kind of money could do a lot of people a little bit of good at a time. And sometimes a little bit of a good is all that somebody really needs to get their feet back under them." He said, smiling and nodding along with the young, orb shaped digimon's proposal. he wanted to encourage that kind of thinking as much as he could, everywhere he went.
"People have often called my father and adrenaline junkie, you know that Harmony?" She said, speaking to the other member of the pair as their male counterparts interlocked on their idea for using Blackjack's talents for charity. "But I think you've hit the nail much closer on the head. My father hates adrenaline, he always gets super shaky after he comes down from a rush. I think what gets him high is the feeling of knowing he helped somebody, even in a small way. Granted it inspires him to...let's call them unorthodox extremes but the point is still made I think."
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Jan 2, 2022 0:14:26 GMT
"And with me around, Zack, I can make sure Blackjack doesn't bite off more than he can chew when he takes a scam artist to the cleaners." Harmony said with a grin before he playfully nudged her twin.
Blackjack glanced back in an expression of mock hurt before he said "Why, big sister, you wound me. It's not my fault some digimon are sore losers." The facade soon fell apart as he began laughing. Sure even adult digimon could likely take getting cleaned out by a pair of kids as a grave insult.
Harmony sighed and rolled her eyes before she, in a stern tone, said "Blackjack!"
Blackjack then returned his sister's stern tone with a mischievous smirk before he said "Yes, Harmony."
"Nevermind" she said with a sigh before she then, to no one in particular, asked "What am I going to do with you?"
Looking back at Zack and Marigold, Harmony said "Sounds like there are many people who don't get your father at all, Marigold. As for the high he gets from helping others it is worth it even if an adrenaline rush is involved."
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Post by supesman on Jan 2, 2022 16:19:24 GMT
"Bad guys are always sore losers, Blackjack. Eventually you'll find it...satisfying in itself to take some shady bastard to the cleaners and watch his rough and tumble persona shatter in a ranting, gibbering child right before your eyes. Honestly I wish I was able to take more pictures of it, it's really something to behold." he said, taking a sip of his own drink and looking off to the middle distance as he silently debated whether or not to share this next part. "Granted your version would more be listening to the faded howling of someone who realizes like an hour later that they got got. Mine is more watching the color drain out of their face as Marigold grows up into Stingmon mode and pounds them headfirst into the dirt." He said, pantomiming holding someone down by the back of the head and slamming them into the surface of the table in front of him.
"I have to admit, I get possibly a little too much joy out of bouncing a bad guy's head like a basketball. Some folks just really, REALLY have it coming." She admitted, running her leg spike around the edge of her drinking glass as if she was sharing a slightly embarrassing story at brunch.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Jan 3, 2022 1:07:29 GMT
"It's not the ones that wine and rant after losing that worry me, Zack. It's the ones that become so enraged about being one upped by a pair of kids that they become potentially violent. Harmony and I had that issue once already before we met you and Marigold. We had cleaned out some Gizamon and the furry frogs didn't take losing to a pair of Sakkutomon very well. If those Dracmon named Solaire and Terrance hadn't come along my sister and I might of ended up snacks." Blackjack said with a sigh as he recalled the encounter from a short time ago. "We ended up helping those Dracmon by DNA evolving into a curious being called TempestCardmon R."
"Wow, Marigold, your champion form is Stingmon. With your love of eating plant matter I would of expected maybe forms like Hudiemon or HoneyBeemon." Harmony said with a look of awe and if the father and daughter duo would look at Blackjack they would see him making a facial expression similar to his twin. When Harmony regained her focus she then said "I do agree that there are those that deserve getting the snot beat out of them. Especially more so when they pick on those that can't defend themselves."
"My sister and I still don't understand the full potential of our powers seeing as we haven't been rookies very long." he said thinking back to the misunderstanding from earlier.
As if her thoughts lined up with Blackjack she then asked "Then what was up with you scooping sand onto your card earlier before charging it with power? What was up with that?"
With a confused look turning to an embarrassed one, he replied "I don't know what that was about, Harmony. It was as if it was instinctual. I don't know how else to explain it."
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Post by supesman on Jan 3, 2022 15:34:52 GMT
"Can't say I know how to help you very much there, my friend. I don't have much advice of avoiding fights too big for you considering getting into fights that are too big for me is basically the closest thing to a calling I have." He said, shrugging. He understood and appreciated that the pair didn't want to be back to back, knocking heads together all the time like he and Marigold did but the fact remained that he didn't have much advice for any other lifestyle than the one he was already living.
"Could have been worse. I could have ended up with my genetic predisposition apparently and digivolved into a Flymon like the woman that gave birth to me." She said, shivering at the thought of herself as the raging, massive beast of an insectoid digimon, though more in the sense of resembling her birth "mother' in any way, shape or form as opposed to actually having a problem with the form itself.
"That? Well that's just your instincts kicking in, like you say. Not fully fight or flight, it's hard to say that you thought you were in any real danger in that moment." He said, rubbing his chin as he thought back casually to the moment that the young gambler almost pumped his comparatively squishy body full of holes. "Every organism has an instinctual drive to defend itself and the members of its group. It's natural selection, however much that sort of idea applies in the digital world. A digimon isn't much use to anyone if they let themselves get eaten around every corner. Giving yourself the basic chance of fighting back, even in a losing battle is better than the alternative." He said, holding his index finger up against his throat and sliding the flesh of his digit along the front of his windpipe. He hoped that that sort of gesture was universal enough to come across even to digimon.
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Post by ricochet10-Blackjack&Harmony on Jan 4, 2022 0:07:16 GMT
"I suppose you have a point. I guess I can be somewhat like you in that regard, Zack. My overconfidence can make me my own worst enemy at times." Blackjack said with a smile while Harmony chuckled. At least her brother was able to admit his faults because if he couldn't he could of easily been insufferable to live with.
Blackjack and Harmony shuddered at the thought of Marigold growing up like the creature that was her birth mother and it was obvious the thought of being a Flymon alone was unsettling to the FanBeemon. "Your birth parent has no right to call herself a mother after abandoning you to die, Marigold." Harmony said with a grave shake of her head before trying to cheer Marigold up as she said "Even if you became a Flymon you would of been many times the digimon that Flymon is. You have already proven to have a kind heart. Maybe you inherited it from your other birth parent." "Yeah but those instincts combined with my frenzied state could of resulted in a painful death for you, Zack. If this is some kind of attack of mine then using it on instinctual reflex without understanding it is even more dangerous. I also wonder if Harmony can do such a thing to." Blackjack said after seeing Zack slide his index finger across his windpipe. Humans, though fascinating to many digimon, were quite fragile by comparison.
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Post by supesman on Jan 4, 2022 14:22:34 GMT
"We're all our own worst enemy sometimes, my friends. Unfortunately such is life. Who may man struggle against, save man himself in turn?" He said, waxing slightly poetic for the moment. it probably wasn't surprising that someone who obviously had an eye for grandiose ideas and gestures could get a bit lost in his own words, though he didn't seem arrogant or with his head twisted about it so it came off more as a quirk than as obnoxious.
"The only parent I have that I'm willing to inherit anything from is sitting six inches to my left, Harmony." She said, taking a sip from her drink as she laid that out on no uncertain terms. he other birth parent hadn't done much or anything to keep her from getting tossed out like a sack of garbage so even if they weren't directly responsible Marigold evidently wasn't a fan of the hypothetical unknown "other" that had had a hand in her creation.
"Oh I'm not doubting that. Standing six inches away from a handful of sand turned buckshot probably wouldn't have ended well for anybody, pretty sure a six inch blast of buckshot is filed under "sticky ends" no matter how you look at it." Zack said, trying to be humorous so as to dissuade Blackjack from any lingering guilt he might be feeling for what may have been. As far as Zack was concerned, nothing actually happened, no harm, no foul.
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