Hey guys! Im finally back with a new chap!~
I don't really have much to say, so ill skip the bullshit and go straight to the review replies xP
REVIEW REPLIES!
pippothehippo: I have a great many things planned for both Naruto and Tobirama going forward, so look forward to that xP
Nise no kishi: Could it be?~ Or could it be something else? You'll find out in this chaaaap~
Eternity456: Im glad you enjoyed the chap, Cardinalism and reveals galore! They are indeed a dangerous combo, and one that I had to think a while about surprisingly XD
HanableKing28: The four sins thing isn't Canon unfortunately (Or if it is I've never been made aware of it)
Perseus99: Hey! Im glad you're enjoying all of my plot threads! At this stage Tobirama isn't an Arch General. Just a regular old General. Also im so happy you're enjoying my Olivia plot line! Ill be honest, I never really thought about it like that, at least not recently. Its sorta just been a mindless thing, it might be because I went to a religious school so I understand both sides but either way its working out so I don't really care xP
AAAAnd that's the review replies finished! Wasn't very many this time! But that's pretty good, means I can head straight into the sellout portion and then the real meat an potatahs
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AND NOW ONTO OUR GLORIOUS FLASHBACK CHAPTER!
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"My brother's name was Tobirama Sitri…" Serafall began with a heavy tone "He was my younger twin, we were about an hour apart. He was…similar to you in many ways. Smart, powerful, kind. Though one difference was his endless pragmatism. I used to joke that he would sell me to the Angels for just another spell" She giggled slightly at the memory.
"Well that's quite rude" Naruto joked, getting a snort from the powerful Devil.
"I know right? But he was a pretty big contributor to the Great Three War, even if most people never knew of it…Actually I have a recording of his last battle in the war….before his d-death" She quickly stood up over choking up slightly, walking over to a bookshelf and grabbing a thick disc just slightly larger than her palm.
"A holo-disc? That ones' ancient….How is it even still working?" Naruto asked, leaning forwards curiously to get a closer look at it.
"Ajuka has helped keep it running. He keeps complaining about how he can just upgrade it, transfer the file to some better, more modern equipment. But….this is my second last reminder of Tobirama" She said, gently running her fingers over the aged glass on the top of the holo-disc.
Naruto was silent, watching Serafall stare at the old tech with a glassy eyed look, robotically caressing the top of it before seeming to snap out of her daze and looking back up at him.
"S-sorry about that just….lost in thought. Anyways, just watch this ok?" She placed it on the floor and Naruto sat down on one of Serafall's many beanbags throughout her room.
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As seen on the Holo-disc
(AN: Any bolded paragraphs or lines are Serafall or Naruto talking in present time)
"The date is July 2nd, 1801. We received word from our scouts of an advancing party of Angels lead by Camael himself. Lord Tobirama has ordered us to set up a perimeter defense around this position and to all begin recording via holo-disc's….i-if anyone finds this. If I'm dead. Please tell my wife to look under the couch. I-its where I hid her engagement ring. Please. S-she needs to know at least that…"
"Woah….that's a bit dark"
"He did survive….was never able to fight again, but last I heard he had a little girl who was looking to join the military just as her father did…"
"Aww. That's sweet, in a morbid sort of way"
"Light rain incoming!" The man recording the video looked up as the sky began to brighten, the warrior shouting and beginning to fire rapid blasts into the sky alongside many of his brethren.
The blasts seemed to knock a chunk of the light spears away from them, but far from enough. The light now making a few soldiers shield their eyes and attempt to shield themselves. When suddenly the sound of rushing water, like that of a wave hitting a cliff, filled the battlefield and the sky dimmed to far darker than it once had been. The muted sound of shockwaves travelling through water met the holo-disc, the soldier looking up and seeing a floating figure one their side of the massive water wall which had appeared, their hands raised in the air.
Serafall began to sob, both of her hands over her mouth as she stared at the hologram. Tears very slowly trickling over her fingers and hands.
"I-Its Lord Tobirama!" A Devil cheered as the rest began to cheer as well, the holo-disc picking up the cheers of the recording Devil the loudest.
The camera, seemingly of its own volition, zoomed in on Tobirama. His black hair spiked and waving in the air created by his rushing water wall and his blue eyes staring intently at the wall for a few moments before turning back to look down at his men.
"Casualties?" He barked, keeping his arms raised to keep the wall up.
"Only one sir! Debris!" A commander only ten or so meters from the holo-disc called back.
Tobirama's face seemed to sour at the words before twisting into an ever-so-small snarl as he turned back to his wall, able to see dim light flowing through parts of the murky blue waters as the sound of a waterfall deafened out the explosions of the light spears, even though the water was flowing in the reverse direction.
"All troops take defensive positions!" He barked out as he lowered his hands so they were outstretched directly in front of him.
Before him appeared a massive dark blue magic circle. Spinning and seeming to wave in the air just as an ocean wave would against the coast. A deep, sharp breath, which could be heard even from the holo-disc left Tobirama's mouth as he kept his left arm outstretched and slowly began to pull his right arm back. The magic circle following his right arm in a series of smaller and smaller formula rings. A deep, rumbling sound was heard as the massive wall of water began to draw inwards and coalesce into a sphere easily as tall as a skyscraper.
The disappearance lead to the troops being bombarded by what was left of the light spears, magic formulas and crystalline magic structure's popping up all over the battlefield as the spears struck the ground, turning it to a field of craters in mere seconds.
A brief silence washed over the battlefield before Tobirama sharply exhaled and thrusted his right arm forward while flaring his dark blue magic around him. The rings of formula's snapped together into the main magic circle with a sharp, metallic twang that was followed by the sound of a single geyser of water. From the opposite side of the sphere of water hundreds of balls of water began firing out in a blur of blue liquid and white froth.
Hearing a distant cry, the soldier and the holo-disc both turned towards where Tobirama was firing to see hundreds of white specks and golden lights beginning to appear and grow in size. A glint of red being caught by the camera which zoomed in to see an Angel with a hole punched through the left side of her chest dropping out of the sky like a plane that had a wing torn off.
"Huh…..that's sort of like the move I used against Riser…."
"Yeah…you two are so alike….." Naruto would have had to be braindead to miss the depression thick in her tone.
More and more Angels were hit, coating their brethren in blood and filling the desert and canyon in blood and corpses. The ten winged Angel leading the charge had a hard look on his face as he seemed to increase his pace; the Angels behind and around him beginning to once again fire back as they got closer. Once within a few hundred meters of Tobirama, he grabbed the sword from his side which lit itself on fire, the barest of slashes turning any of the water bullets into puffs of steam. With narrowed eyes he seemed to phase out of existence.
Tobirama leant back as the flaming sword passed by his face in an explosion of steam, effectively destroying the rest of the water the Devil would have used against Camael's allies. The sword was quickly followed by the rest of the Angel's body as he flipped out of the steam in a flurry of white wings and waving cloth. His sword coming down into a second overhead strike which was met by a magic formula for only a few seconds before Tobirama was sent hurtling into the ground with an earth-shattering boom and an earthquake to match.
Camael flapped his wings and shut into the dust cloud after the powerful water user. The moment he did so the Angels rained down on the battlefield, soon locking into combat with Tobirama's battalion of Devils.
Naruto stared at the hologram with wide, amazed, yet horrified, eyes as he stared at the sheer size of the battle shown to him. The hundreds of Devils and Angels all locked in combat and throwing spells at each other.
Suddenly the sound of a gunshot rang out as a white blur shot out of the dust cloud right before the dust dispersed in a shockwave which blasted all the debris away from the glaring form of Tobirama, still in a punching pose which he soon began sliding out of.
"Did you truly believe I wouldn't know melee combat? Pathetic fool" Tobirama muttered before launching himself after his enemy.
Camael growled and stomped forward, blocking both of Tobirama's punches with his palms, his sword dropping into the ground between his feet almost perfectly upright as the flames extinguished and the blade easily sliced through the dirt to allow it to stand up.
"Filthy Devils. Just allow this post to fall and this war will be over in no time at all" Camael growled and pushed back against Tobirama as the Devil placed his feet back on the ground and pushed back.
"And you Angels are always so conceited. Looking down on others because of your 'purity'. Without you-know-who you'd all be lost! That 'purity' you're so proud of would be what corrupts you!" Tobirama growled back as deep blue water and bright golden flames sprung up around the two of them similar to aura's of magic.
The hiss of steam could be heard all across the battlefield as it spewed out of both the edges of their elemental auras and also their interlocked fists. It began to cover the battlefield and thickened with every passing moment that went by before finally being broken by a trio of warcries as three Angels dove into the steam.
Tobirama's eyes narrowed as he began to make their forms out of the steam. With a grunt of exertion he moved his fists to clasp the Angels own, getting a surprised look from him before his eyes widened as Tobirama flipped over him while keeping their hands clasped together before the Devils feet met the ground and the Angels left it. With a burst of magic for added insurance the Angel was sent summersaulting through the air at ludicrous speeds, impacting the middle of his three allies with a sickening crack and splurt of blood, half of which coated the powerful Angel.
Knowing he needed to keep his momentum and maintain the element of surprise he had managed to attain, the dark haired Devil spun on the spot, a tendril of water appearing from out of his aura and grabbing the handle of Camael's sword before twirling and with a flick which created a burst of air sent it hurtling forward.
The polished metal stabbed cleaned between the right Angel's eyes. Sliding all the way in until the guard cracked both his nose and his forehead in another sickening crunch and splurt of blood which caused the body to backflip rapidly as its momentum kept it going before hitting the ground with a muted thump and sliding along it for a meter or two.
"Daviiiiiid!" Camael yelled out before whipping his head around to Tobirama and disappearing with a flap of his wings.
The ten winged angel appeared before his last living ally and created a golden, crystalline shield in a semi-dome around the both of them, blocking the multitudes of water needles which suddenly bounced off the crystalline structure and lost their form, reforming into a massive water mallet. Said mallet winding up for a very brief moment and allowing Camael to throw his ally back before the mallet struck his shield and shattered it in a burst of air.
There was the sound of roaring flames and the water once again evaporated, filling in the mist which had been blown away or condensed back into water beforehand. The crackling of flames able to be heard as a golden light shone through the mist even as thick as it was.
"Holy flames? So I got you to finally use them" Tobirama called out in the direction of the golden light.
His only response was a brief intensifying of the golden light and a roar of flames so loud it rattled loose pebbles and rocks on the ground. A clawed hand of golden flames rushing out of the mist and trying to close around Tobirama only for a magic circle to appear under his feet. A hand of water appearing and grappling with the hand of fire before Tobirama disappeared with the sound of a crashing wave and an explosion of water.
The camera lost focus and blurred for a moment, in which many loud impacts could be heard before focusing back on the action as Tobirama twirled away from a sword strike and struck out with the sword of water formed over his right hand. Said blow was avoided in a similar fashion, Tobirama swapped the style of his blade to a more rapier style blade as they continued. The clash of blades and movements began to grow faster and faster, steam leaving every three or so clashes.
Tobirama, seeing a chance, kicked at one of Camael's ankles, making his foot fling out to the side and unbalancing him. Knowing that this was a chance that he couldn't waste, Tobirama immediately stabbed his sword arm forward only noticing the fire beginning to jet out of Camael's kicked out foot too late. The Angel using his flames similarly to a jet engine and spin his body at blurring speeds even to Serafall as the fire blazed to the size of a bus for a mere moment.
A choked wheezing sound left Tobirama's mouth as Camael spun like a top for a second, blood flying into the air between them as three large cuts over his abdomen were sliced open. The Angel slamming his foot down onto the ground to slow himself down, ending up facing away from Tobirama as the Devil clutched his chest and fell down to one knee, blood dripping down his chin.
"Ah. See this suits you much better, though if I were honest I'd prefer you on both knees. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers" The Angel chuckled darkly and spun around, his sword once again igniting as he looked down at his enemy.
"And Angels will always be short sighted, a shame…" Tobirama coughed out before slamming his bloody left hand on the ground while keeping his right over his chest.
The entire battlefield then began to rumble, the Desert seemingly hit by an earthquake out of nowhere. It seemed to get stronger and stronger, almost as if building up to the true threat.
The battlefield cracked open like a pane of glass.
Water as murky brown as the Desert sand gushed out of the cracks in an instant. Hundreds of thousands of liters of water rising up high into the air before coalescing into eight tendril's which began to try and stab at Camael who began to deflect, block or dodge them. Though considering how much water he had to deal with every passing second he chose the third option more often than not.
The Angel leapt and corkscrewed through the air to avoid all eight, landing in a semi-crouch before standing up straight again, grinning victoriously. Right up until an acute pain in his back was followed by a blur leaving the front of his chest followed by an extremely high-pressure gout of blood spraying out of his back and chest. Shakily turning his head back to stare at Tobirama he saw his hand raised in a finger gun motion right before the medium-sized lake of water hovering above them came crashing down all at once. Landing directly on top of the two combatants and wiping out the holo-disc.
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Present time
"W-woah…your brother was amazing" Naruto breathed out with wide eyes, staring at the old holo-disc lying on the floor of Serafall's colourful room.
Looking over he felt his eyes melt into concerned softness, scooting over and gently but slightly awkwardly hugging her. The older girl burying her face in his shoulder and clutching his shirt as she began to fully bawl into it. An ugly, emotional, raw crying and hiccupping left her lips as the tears seemed to intensify, beginning to freeze halfway between dropping off her cheeks and hitting the bed/his legs.
"I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! Im so so so so so sorry!" She babbled into his shoulder "I didn't mean to! I didn't mean tooooooO!"
"S-Serafall?..."
"I killed him!" Naruto felt as if she had used her magic to freeze his blood solid in an instant "I-I killed him! I didn't meant tO! I DIDN'T MEAN TO I WAS JUST JOKING AROUND LIKE ALWAYS AND-"
"Explain." His short, almost furious tone seemed to snap her out of the spiral she was going down.
"W-wha?.."
"Explain how you killed him….you said you didn't mean to…..so I want to know. You don't have to tell me obviously but-"
"N-no….I've already shown you the holo-disc. I-I might as well. O-ok so….T-Tobirama and I were twins right? He g-got water and I got Ice. H-he was always so serious and calculating, l-l-like So-tan. B-but we were always there for each other. S-s-since birth, h-he kept me in check and I unwound him. I-it was always just….natural to us, y'know? B-but because of that….because of that…..I-if I could've said one last thing to him. I-it would have been 'I love you'" She muttered meekly, managing to pull her head out of his shoulder a little.
"I love you?" Naruto parroted back, confused.
"We never once actually said it. It was always just implied. A-and back then neither of us saw any problem with that but now…b-but now. Now I wish I could just get one more chance to say it!" She sniffled and furiously wiped the tears out of her eyes "B-but you want to know how I killed him? W-well, he was like you" At Naruto's confused look she elaborated "He liked to create spell formulas and change existing ones. H-he was pretty good at it too. A-a-always had countermeasures in-case he messed one up. B-but this time…m-maybe he forgot? O-or I somehow messed those up too? O-or maybe he couldn't concentrate on all those parts at once. Or- g-gah! A-anyways he didn't seem to have his countermeasures up this time"
Naruto could already imagine the many possible ways this story could be going and some of the less child-friendly options began to make him feel just the slightest bit queasy.
"I-I had been looking for him all day. I had just gotten back from the frontlines the day before but I was too exhausted to talk to him then. S-so I was looking for him that day, right? A-and I had spent hours trying to track down where he had secluded himself. B-because he had so many different spots he visited and h-he never told anyone where he went b-because he hated to be interrupted. So I had begun to get a little annoyed and pent up right?" Naruto nodded to show that he was still listening, even if she wasn't looking at him.
"So I find him. A-after six hours of looking and he's hunched over this massive formula that he had carved into the ground. A-a-and I thought he had his usual measures up. So I wanted to mess with him a little, a-a-and get revenge for making me look for so long…" her voice began to shake and quiver, and the tears once again returned "S-so I waited until he had begun to activate it and I jumped out and scared him. A-and he jumped to his feet, a-a-and he ruined his formula! H-he began to scold me and i-I just began to laugh!" She wailed in despair as she held her hands over her eyes.
"I-I told him not to be such a prude, a-and that, that's why he doesn't have a girlfriend. H-he just kept scolding me and I kept laughing. T-t-then the formula pulsed and he began freaking out. A-and this white w-wispy ball of energy formed in the middle and floated in the air before beginning to suck leaves and rocks and stuff in as it turned i-into a portal. T-tobirama kept getting m-more and more panicked as he tried to shut it off b-before these h-hands! Oh Maou the hands!" Her hands moved to the sides of her head and clutched it as her eyes began to shrink "T-the hands. G-grabbed Tobi. The hands. Oh maou." Her breathing began to increase in frequency.
Acting quickly the teen grabbed both of her hands and squeezed them tight, drawing her attention to him. A stern but caring look in his eyes as he stared at her.
"Hey. It's ok. We're here, we're safe. Just calm down ok?" He said in a soft, soothing tone of voice.
"Yeah…y-you're right. S-sorry I just….lost myself" She mumbled in a far away voice at the end.
"You don't have to keep going, really. I can tell it's painful"
"I…..I-I think I need to. E-even just this once…" Naruto twisted his face slightly but slowly nodded "T-the hands….these white, willowy, clawed hands formed out of the energy from the portal. A-and they latched onto Tobi. He….he screamed. So, so loudly. I-it felt like my bones were shattering and my lungs were constricting just listening to it! I- I couldn't do anything. I-I froze! B-by the time I tried to help he was nearly in the portal. H-he tried so hard to fight back but the portal seemed to…..use his energy to sustain itself. A-and then he was….g-gone. I-I heard his final scream. I-it sounded like he was being tortured. L-like he was being ripped apart and then it just….stopped."
"He….died." Naruto mumbled sadly, still clutching her hands before she threw her arms around him and cried loudly, letting every last wall and dam burst all in one instant.
"Tobiramaaa-ahaaahaaaaaaa!"
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200+ years ago, Tobirama's view
Lightning seemed to shoot through every nerve in his body, aggravating his only partially healed gashes through his abdomen. A scream tearing itself from his lips as the pain only seemed to increase the better hold the hands got and the more that latched onto him.
A ball of water swirled into existence besides him before falling to the ground uselessly as a wave of fatigue inflicted him, making his pupils shrink and his lungs burn as the fatigue brought on another wave of pain. His magic being ripped from him forcefully to keep the anomaly open and strengthen the hands. He desperately clawed at the ground and tried to dig his feet in but with more of his magic getting drained every second and the pain somehow getting worse at the same rate it was a losing battle.
'S-serafall! W-why isn't she helping!? S-she's just standing there! S-since when has she ever frozen to fear! W-why…..WHY WON'T SHE HELP MEEEEEEEEE!' Another 'bolt of lightning' passed through his body and every muscle in his body tensed up at the same time.
By the time he had reached the portal his vision swam in and out of complete darkness, his throat felt like it was shredded by barbed wire and his hearing just made him feel disoriented and nauseous. He blinked his eyes rapidly, seeing only the faintest hint of movement from something coloured green-ish before having to slam his eyes shut as a searing migraine roared to life within his head. And with one final roar of sheer determination and excruciating agony he was pulled into the portal which slammed itself closed.
He had no idea how long it lasted, or even where he was flying through, but he could feel his body breaking down. Just prolonging the pain that the hands had caused and physically damaging his body. Eating away at it thanks to his utter lack of magic to help defend himself from whatever it was. He could vaguely see himself nearing a light and he screamed one last, final time. A scream which seemed to warp and shatter and stretch as his body did. Both his body and voice seeming to glitch out like a video-game character before flinging itself into the light which knocked him out finally, after so many minutes? Hours? Days? Of agony that he had gone through.
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An unknown amount of time later
Tobirama gargled and groaned as he awoke suddenly and completely in one moment. Pain ignited through his nerves a moment later and making him convulse around, only for him to vaguely realize that his body wouldn't move how he wanted it too, couldn't actually.
In the process between going through the portal and ending up wherever he was now. He had lost his right foot, everything below his right knee. Six of his fingers seemed to also be missing. His chest wound had been reopened and was joined by a myriad of smaller cuts, burns and other injuries. His eyes also seemed to have disintegrated from whatever that thing was, his right eye forming a concave while his left was just missing a chunk of it.
Believing that moving at all was better than just lying where he was, he began to drag himself by his left hand (with all of three fingers still attached to it). Making near on no progress but still managing to move himself, if nothing else.
'S-she left me! She left me to die!' Tobirama thought to himself furiously.
'It was sudden! You saw that look! That wasn't a look of malice! We would have done the same if the roles were reversed!' Another side of his mind argued.
'It was sud- IT WAS SUDDEN!? We dragged that out as far as we possibly could and she still didn't do ANYTHING!'
'We don't know if something was stopping her! We don't know if the hands stopped her from getting close to us! It wasn't her fault!'
'FUCK YOU! She was always jealous of us! We were always better! Always calmer! Always the winners! She got rid of us on purpose!'
'Do you hear yourself!? WE were the ones that fucked up the formula, not her! This isn't her fau-'
"F-finally! A body!" Tobirama froze as he heard the weak voice and hagged breaths from someone next to him, followed by a muted thud "Y-yes! Finally a body I can inhabit! I-its severely damaged but the take-over process will reverse or fix that I just have to-" Tobirama was flipped onto his back, leaving him completely helpless "YES! An open chest wound! That makes this so much easier!" And Tobirama's mind went blank.
By the time that he came around again, he had to pinch himself to make sure that he wasn't dreaming or just hallucinating on the brink of death. The sight of purple leafed trees above him, after what felt like days of pure darkness, was an almost instant indicator that something had changed. Managing to give his vision back, the weak words he had heard before passing out passed through his mind and he looked down at his hands while sitting them up, seeing them caked in blood and dirt, like the rest of him, but otherwise spotless. His legs were in much the same situation.
"Did he take over my body?...whoever he was? But I still feel like I'm in total- hrgh!" he hunched forward and clutched his chest as a blue glow emanated from it.
The glow brightened and the pain spiked for a moment. His magic going wild as his Evil Piece rattled and shook unstably within him. A strange sense of anger overcoming him as he on instinct coated his hand in magic and yanked his Evil Piece out of him. The small blue King piece trying to shake in his hand as a pair of sharp, insane eyes rattled around inside it.
"How dare you, you little shit! Your body is supposed to be mine! MINE! I found you on the brink of death fair and square! Your soul was on the way out and I was just making sure your body didn't go to waste but you just had to fight back and trap me in this shitty antique! Who do you think you are!? I'm a Demon you hear me!? A COMMANDER-3 DEM-" Tobirama snarled in anger and crushed the Evil Piece in his hand, opening his fingers and allowing the shards to fall onto the ground.
"Fucking asshole. Who does he think he is? Just trying to take my body? Well I fucking showed him! I killed that little fuck- What am I doing?...This isn't me. I don't talk like that. I-I don't feel anger like this." Tobirama stumbled back and placed a palm on a tree while holding his head in the other.
A whine left his lips as a headache resonated throughout his skull for a moment before settling down into just a dull ache. Taking his hand off the tree and resting his back onto it instead, raising his free hand, he created a flat pane of water above it. Another uncharacteristic snarl leaving his mouth as his water came out as ice instead, though the reflection it made was much clearer than if he had used water.
His eyes had changed from blue to red and his hair from black to grey. Three red lines now streaking up his left cheek, right cheek and chin respectively. His calm features twisting almost instantly into pure rage as he crushed the ice mirror into crystals and let out a scream to the heavens and hell.
"S-she ruined me! She tried to kill me! She's made me mutate into this….this thing! I'm not even me anymore! I act different, I look different! She was so fucking jealous she had to take everything I had from me! She…She will pay. Serafall. Serafall Sitri. She will die. For trying to kill me. For turning me into this. For abandoning me. She'll pay for it all! SHE'LL PAY FOR IT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!" Tobirama screamed and slammed his fists onto the ground, sending a wave of flash-freezing water out in all directions and turning half of the forest into an instant-tundra as his furious screams echoed off the branches and leaves.
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AAAAND DONE!
How'd you guys enjoy that?~ I was quite fun to write. Though it did take a while to finally get it started XD
Regardless I hope you like it and as always if you have any constructive criticism, any ideas, or even just want to tell my headcanons you've though of. Feel free to review or talk on my discord xP
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