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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 18, 2022 23:34:52 GMT
"Ah that lovely type of person." Alucard began with sarcasm dripping from his voice before he, without sarcasm, continued "Even though they are a menace they often commit crimes too small for higher ups to worry about. In some ways the government can be more of a problem then the criminals." While Alucard didn't hate government officials he often found them tedious as he thought if they had a more straightforward way to lead things would probably be much simpler for everyone involved.
Alucard looked back up at the playing children not knowing what to say the game between the children making him smile. This was one way Poseidon was different from him as a child. While Poseidon was an extrovert in all his forms, as a child, Alucard was more of a studious introvert. When Zack began talking again the Angemon looked back at the human as he listened and his words made a lot of sense causing the Angemon to nod in agreement before he said "That's the darker side of pack mentality for you though it is possible that fear drove some of them to stay out of it and not entirely apathy. In Rosewood there don't tend to be many high level digimon living there after all so for newly evolved rookies to be hesitant to act, I could understand that completely."
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Post by supesman on Mar 19, 2022 13:35:25 GMT
"You don't need to tell me twice. Do I seem like the kind of person who places all my trust in institutionalized power structures? Last I checked, government tends not to be too high on the idea of vigilantes either." Zack said with a smirk and a shrug. There was a reason he wore the mask much more often in the human world than he bothered hiding his identity in the digital world. Last thing he needed was a SWAT team outside his dorm room at four in the morning.
He took a deep breath, turning to watching the children at play and then just let the breath go. Always a centering agent, Marigold let him steady himself against the horizon and start thinking straight again, even when his emotions and ideals started getting the better of him.
"Yea. I know. It's easy to be brave when you've got the resources to make a stand on even ground. Well, by resources I mean a daughter that can go toe to toe with the bastard. It wasn't Rosewood that I meant, it was Terminal. Her drones stalking alleys and stealing food out of the mouths of people that city has already forgot, no wonder she got away with it for as long as she did." He said. He hadn't seen much of the city guards or any other police force in the Digital capital but he knew they existed by word of mouth and thus far his opinion on them was not especially high, not that his opinion of human world police structures was all that much higher. Again, a vigilante was typically not the kind of person who put a lot of stock in the letter of the law.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 19, 2022 14:06:09 GMT
Alucard released the faintest hint of a laugh before he said "You have a fair point, Zack. The reason I think vigilantes are so hated by those power structures is because they are willing to do what the government can't or will not handle which can show how imperfect they truly can be whether they mean well or not. Sadly corruption also slows things down for those bodies too."
Alucard watched Zack seeing that, like him, saw some sense of peace in watching the children play. One of Poseidon's laughs caused Alucard to look up as the young one spun gracefully in mid air before continuing after Marigold.
"Terminus, huh? My mistake. I can see how a swarm of bee digimon looting even there can cause a lot of trouble even for the law enforcement though given the distance to Terminus, I wouldn't be surprised if Rosewood was also victimized from time to time. At least Flymon isn't sending hordes to torment others now." Sure Alucard had no idea if Flymon was alive or not since all he cared about was that she was dealt a huge blow and even if she was still alive it would be a blow that would take time to recover from.
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Post by supesman on Mar 20, 2022 13:27:58 GMT
"She doesn't have to hordes anymore. Marigold and I saw to that personally." Zack said, letting the half boast hang in the air for a moment as he watched the pair of children before it seemed to suddenly hit him how what he said could be misinterpreted. "We didn't do anything to them, you understand. We just asked them if getting tossed scraps from on high, forced to abandon their children at her whim while she got more fat and powerful was how they wanted to live. They decided no, not really. Well, that's a calm way of putting the realization they came to in the moment." He said with a chuckle, knowing that the real scene was more like something out of the French Revolution than a calm discussion about workplace dissatisfaction. "That's actually why she gave me this." He said, patting the spot on the lower end of his torso where the spiny star of a scar had been skewered into him by the insectoid monster. "Turns out the tin pot dictator, bandit queen didn't appreciate the spreading the dissident ideas. Who would have thought?" he chuckled more deeply at that. Though the idea of many human world dictators having the power of a digimon wasn't funny in the regular fashion, the idea of imagining them as giant insectoid monsters as at least amusing in an absurdist kind of way.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 20, 2022 23:28:54 GMT
"It is good that you didn't punish the innocent and it seems you did her swarm a favor by inciting a revolution." Alucard said coming to the swift conclusion that Zack had helped incite a revolution despite the human not directly saying such. "I'm sure they were also happy to be able to raise any of their children without being forced to abandon them. How do you know Marigold's real mother wasn't one of Fanbeemon's swarm that refused to abandon her child? It would make more sense seeing how kind Marigold seems to be compared to that Flymon. Judging by what you said about Flymon, Marigold doesn't seem anything like the digimon who dared to call herself 'mother'."
After Zack once again revealed his scar the human's next words made the Angemon smirk before he said "This seems not to be uncommon for dictators to be unable to handle such ideals."
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Post by supesman on Mar 21, 2022 13:24:52 GMT
"If Marigold DID belong to a member of that crowd then either they chose not to speak up or didn't remember specifically. She was an egg when Flymon either gave her up herself or forced someone else to do it. Digital genetics or not Marigold still didn't know any of those digimon from anybody else." Zack said with a slight shrug. Even if any of the FanBeemon present had been Marigold's birth parents it would have been a moot point. More of a piece of trivia about genetics than anything actually concrete or meaningful. "I wondered the same thing. Worried for days afterward about tracking down the swarm when they left and...I don't know, finding who she belonged to. It was stupid and she told me as such." Zack said, not looking up to see Marigold's antennae buzzing as she caught the tail end of the conversation. She let go of her balloon and buzzed over to him, sitting on his shoulder and looking up at Alucard.
"I told him I already had the only family I would ever need. Even if my egg did come from one of those Digimon they weren't the ones who pulled me out of the cold, who clutched me tight until I stopped crying at night, who taught me how to read...who gave me my name." Marigold said, leaning in and smooching her father on the cheek before buzzing back out to her state of play. She had a father, that was more than good enough for her.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 21, 2022 22:48:07 GMT
"Just the same the thought that that monster Flymon had just abandoned Marigold before she hatched is absolutely disgusting. Even if she was able to find food on her own she was still helpless against potential predators. Why she couldn't of abandoned any eggs in the Village of Beginnings is beyond me." Alucard said looking visibly irked at the thought of someone being so irresponsible when it came to children then it hit him. "Perhaps she feared one of the so called "weak children" becoming her downfall." When Alucard said weak children he used something he almost never used, air quotes.
Noticing his playmate had vanished Poseidon looked around seeing Marigold back with her father and released his balloon before flying down floating just above the group having missed the conversation so he looked at them in a confused manner before he asked "Hey, Marigold, what happened?" Then he heard her playful buzz and smiled.
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Post by supesman on Mar 22, 2022 12:33:36 GMT
"Nothing Poseidon, just something I needed my dad to hear." Marigold said, buzzing up and planting a kiss on her father's cheek before going back to her balloon and buzzing about. Zack rubbed the spot on his cheek where her lips had touched his skin and he smiled, shaking his head and letting out a sigh that made it seem like he'd been holding his breath.
"She didn't find her own food. That's the thing. She showed up in my room in the middle of the night because her previous life was cold, lonely...and short. As best we can tell she made it a week the first time around." Zack explained. It was one of those things he really didn't like thinking about, Marigold slowly, all alone, starving or freezing to death without a single care in the world paid to her by anyone who crossed her path. He knew that that feeling would stick with her the rest of her life, he just tried his best to make sure that she never had to feel it firsthand ever again.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 22, 2022 13:00:38 GMT
Poseidon nodded before wiggling with excitement as Marigold buzzed back up to her balloon with him shortly doing the same taking hold of his balloon with one flipper before flying after her once again. 'If it is important Dad will tell me about it later.' Poseidon thought though his smile never left his face. Sure he was curious of what was going on but he learned better than to invade on another's privacy.
Hearing that Marigold starved to death in her last life made Alucard freeze. Though his face was somehow neutral out of habit he was horrified this had happened to one so young. However judging by how he was clenching his fist it was clear he was upset but the children in the room were blissfully unaware of his turbulent emotions. Alucard then clenched his teeth and after awhile of awkward silence he was finally able to calmly say "It is fortunate she showed up in your room in her current life so she now has the loving environment she should of had in her previous life. I...I just find it infuriating how there are both humans and digimon that can be so cruel to even their own children."
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Post by supesman on Mar 23, 2022 14:17:34 GMT
"She will NEVER be alone, not like that, not ever again." Zack said, equally holding onto the edge of the table he was sitting beside. Though he wasn't able to put nearly as much strength in the gesture as the Angemon was for obvious reasons. "I was talking to you earlier about the promises that parents make when we hold them for the first time. When we have this fragile life in our hands, fast asleep and we look up to god or whoever else and we swear on everything we can think of. That was my promise. She will never be lonely, or forgotten, or unloved for another second for as long as I'm still breathing. She will be appreciated, warm and safe for the rest of her life if I have to life hell, heaven and earth with my bare hands to make it so." He said, still watching her as she floated around, dodging Poseidon as he tried to bump against her balloon, playing a little game of tag or cat and mouse. he may not be nearly as powerful as the angel but he did not lack for the willpower to make it so. He was weaker than marigold in the physical sense but he meant every word about burning the world down to give her the life she deserved.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 23, 2022 22:56:19 GMT
During the game of cat and mouse Poseidon had initiated with Marigold the Bukamon was startled by Zack's sudden exclamation visually jumping for a moment before looking down at Zack and Marigold. Just what was going on down there and why did Zack look so stressed.
Meanwhile Alucard nodded as he listened to the passion in Zack's words. As a parent himself it was something the angel digimon understood even though he didn't know what to do especially when he started after he had found his son's egg and it hatching into the Pichimon he named Poseidon. Sure his son never suffered like Marigold and if he could help it his son wouldn't have to worry about suffering like that. "I understand the need to protect my child with all I have even if it costs me my life just as I assume you do. It's what separates us from those that don't seem to give a damn about their children." Alucard said noticing how tense Zack was before he, in a surprisingly gentle tone most didn't hear, said "Perhaps you should calm down before you hurt yourself."
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Post by supesman on Mar 24, 2022 14:08:48 GMT
Zack's head rolled back, taking a deep breath in and slowly letting it out. Marigold didn't seem to have overhead, bumping her balloon suddenly against the back of Poseidon's giggling as she saw the surprise on his face, not realizing he had been distracted by the dramatic proclamations of her own father. She was used to her father being at least a little bit overdramatic and so she didn't let it get to her as much.
"Yea, you're right. She's a remarkably happy child, all things considered. Though god knows how much longer I'm supposed to consider her a child considering NONE of the human childhood checklist I grew up understanding applies so I've got to try and gauge her on vague notions of preparation and maturity." He said, leaning back and looking at her as she zoomed about in mid air. He sighed, silently wishing that she could stay frozen in that moment for just a little while longer, that adulthood could just leave her be for a little while. It was a pointless wish, time marched on even in the odd timescale of the Digital World but it was a wish that every parent found themselves in at some point or other.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 24, 2022 22:46:09 GMT
The balloon meeting his back followed by the playful giggling of Marigold snapping him out of his surprised state and he looked at her before grinning with a look that clearly said 'So that's how you wanna play, huh? It's so on!' Tightening his grip on the balloon he flew towards Marigold his laughter resuming as he threw his balloon aiming for the larval bee's body.
"I guess we're both lucky in that department. Shows what just the smallest amount of proper guidance can do for a child. Sure on the surface it may seem odd for someone like myself to be a parent but, to be fair, neither of us are what most would consider the conventional parent, huh Zack?" Alucard said his arms resting on the chair he was seated on. "As for that checklist regarding human maturity, at least you've learned that it doesn't really apply to digimon as they mature at different rates to humans with some becoming mature later or earlier than others depending on various factors and life experiences."
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Post by supesman on Mar 25, 2022 14:43:48 GMT
"Nah-nah-na-nah-nah! Mmmnnn!" Marigold taunted from her balloon string, pulling down the lower eyelid of one of her eyes and sticking out her tongue as she now became the object of the chase, squealing with laughter as she was chased through the air around the room.
"You don't need to tell me twice about being an unconventional parent. I didn't even get to do the fun part before I ended up with a kid." Zack said before turning and holding up his hand again, letting out a sigh and a shake of his head as he realized that was another thing a digimon would have no context for. "Nevermind, I promise you that you don't want to know what I mean by that." He said, shaking his head again. He hadn't even fully explained that to MARIGOLD yet, he was certainly not going to go into that...interesting little lecture in mixed Digimon company. There was inappropriate conversational topics and then there was the kind of stuff that would turn him as read as cherry tomato and make him die of embarrassment right there in front of everyone.
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Post by ricochet5-Alucard on Mar 25, 2022 20:30:33 GMT
Poseidon smirked evilly at Marigold's taught as he proceeded to somehow use his flippers to tie the balloon string around his body before spreading his flippers like magnificent wings. Now it was time to show the little bee larvae what he could do. With a couple of mighty flaps he sped at Marigold surprisingly fast with the balloon seemingly not slowing him down. Apparently in his in training form Poseidon was faster than he looked.
Alucard watched Zack's behavior after he spoke of doing the fun part to end up with a kid. Maybe it was because he was around Zack but Alucard flashed a brief mischievous smirk before he said "I've heard all about the human equivalent to the birds and the bees speech so to speak. This was before Poseidon was born and I overheard it from a pair of human teenagers passing by." Alucard then shook his head before he said "So one of my trips to the Human World I went to a library and after reading from a book about biology I can see why humans find such a thing an awkward subject."
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