To be fair to Uncle Gus, Marzipan is still only 16 years old and since Mizzer went by 20th Century American Laws that is still a minor by Mizzeran standards (Where on Wrangler Planets Humanimals were seen as adults by 13 so humans could seperate them from their parents and sell them sooner, the humans set that standard the Humanimal slaves had no say in it) and since I don't think you've watched Batman the Animated Series, while the cartoon had the Rogues toned down compared to the comics, to Gus's perspective it would be like your niece saying she had become engaged to the son of Jack the Ripper or the Zodiac Killer, Scarecrow experimented in his students by locking them in rooms filled with fear gas and Poison Ivy attempted to kill people she believed had commited crimes against the enviroment by turning them into trees

The next day, things had calmed down slightly as Marzipan and Ichabod got Uncle Gus prepared to meet Jonathan, Marzipan decided to show her Uncle her culinary skills she had gained from her years as a cooking slave.

They went outside to do some grilling, Gus was impressed by Marzipan's skill with the burgers.

"You're doing better than your Dad!" Gus remarked "I never thought you would be so adept at cooking!"

"I had to..." Marzipan said as she flipped the burgers "...Slaves who fail in their appointed work get the axe...Literally...I realized very quickly because humans need to eat as much as Humanimals...We are both living creatures that if I became the best cooking slave ever, made food so delicious it made the wicked soldiers weep to eat it, I could gain an immense amount of power over my captors, I could get privaleges! Bribe them when my follow slaves were in trouble to get them off the hook! I secretly did my reserch to find out what every soldier's favorite food was...I learned the term comfort food was key...Learn the things they loved most when they were children I believe there is a quote from some famous human "What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?"

Ichabod smiled as he sat beside Gus at the picnic table, the two were beginning to feel more at ease around each other, Ichabod couldn't help but feel it was his natural 'underscent' that multiple Humanimals had told him smelled like vanilla flowers and underscent that must have come from his Mother, Humanimals and normal Animals seemed to just be calmed by the underscent and naturally feel trustful towards him, and he had had similar results with Mutant Animals, the only creatures it seemed to have no effect on were the Turtles and Splinter but Ichabod suspected because those Mutants were more...Spirtually advanced, less dependant on their animal instincts that even if they could smell his underscent it had no affect on them.

"Even as I've learnt more to develop my magic..." Marzipan said as she took the burgers off the grill, and began to arrange the sandwiches in ways each of them liked (Marzipan hated pickles on her burger, she knew her uncle liked them, plus another thing that she had hidden up her sleeve) "I haven't stopped my study of cooking, I've begun making my own homemade condiments..."

She pulled something out of her sleeve "Including...Hot sauce...Your favorite..."

Gus's ears perked up, he liked hot sauce on his burger, he realized Marzipan must have remembered that from the time during a summer barbicure, she accidentily picked up his burger and bit into it causing much regret as her mouth was on fire.

"I know you like to apply it yourself," Marzipan said as she put his burger before him, "So here's the bottle."

"My Dear..." Gus said as the three of them settled down to eat their burgers "...To take a culinary expression you took lemons and made them into lemonade, mastering the slave job you've been given and using it to gain some power over the enslavers..." Gus sighed "...I wish the rest of your family was as strong as you."

"What happened?" Marzipan asked "Aren't they alive?"

"They're alive." Gus said "But...They couldn't handle the stress of enslavement, they were too eaily frightened by everything in Viola Strierra...They would have been taken to the slaughterhouse, but fortunatly some Humanimals who knew me...Of course I wasn't in Bluebell during the time of the Invasion...I had been taken to the Tropical Islands near the Equater when I told the Wranglers my performing skills so I was made in Acrobat for the Luau Show but I was popular and well liked among my Fellow Slaves both the Mizzerans and the Natives of Viola Strierra so I told them about my family, and word went round the planet to try and locate them, when Humanimals in the Capital City heard that all my family save for perhaps your little sister were soon to be sent to the sausage factory they were instead spirited away by a network of special Humanimals to the forgotten catacombs deep beneath the Capitol, because Viola Strierra isn't like Earth, there isn't vast swaths of untamed wilderness that reclaimed the Earth after the great dying that Humanimals can escape to, with heards of wild dinosaurs that can serve as prey to large carnivores no there is actually very little wilderness left of Viola Strierra but thankfully the Capitol City has a lot of forgotten places built by the Wranglers of old, that seem to have been forgotten by the current generation...I've heard tell that memories were actually deliberatly wiped by shadowy agents who actually want the Wranglers to be stupid for some unknown reason."

That was when Jonathan finally arrived, the Former Scarecrow, seemed more like a naughty boy who was slowly trudging to his doom...He knew the Mizzer Humanimals were more like 20 Century Humans than the born and bred slave Humanimals...Where those Humanimals were more likely to let his criminal past be rusty water under the bridge because his friendship was more valuable he feared this Uncle Gus would look at him and only see his hideous crimes.

"Hey Jonathan," Marzipan said "Sorry I didn't make an extra burger,"

"I ate before I came..." Jonathan said meekly at the moment his stomach was doing flip flops.

Uncle Gus looked at the man who was known as The Scarecrow...And right away, he could see the difference between Jonathan and Ichabod, while Ichabod was the near spitting image of his Father because Ichabod was in fact a clone (Poison Ivy had to do it that way because of her infertility) other than a few color differences (Ichabod's eyes being green compared to his Father's blue and Ichabod's red hair was blood red, rose red Ariel from The Little Mermaid red, where Jonathan's was the more natural human orange shade) Ichabod's youthfullness gave him a much softer appearance, his complexion was perfect, and he still had some baby fat in his cheeks despite the fact he was approaching his late teens so the same features that made Ichabod simply 'funny looking' and one could say cute in a gawky sort of way, made Jonathan look more like a horrible ghoul! Indeed the fact both men had pointed ears hinted that there was more than human in the blood creatures from the Fae Dimension that sometimes interbred with humans (Though not 'Pure' fairies themselves who can't have living children with Non-Fae, instead we're talking about Elves and other kinds of 'Lesser Fae') Gus at that moment felt sorry for Ichabod feeling the boy seeing how ugly he was going to grow to be...

(Actually a lot of the wrinkles could be attributed to stress and Jonathan simply not taking good care of himself during his criminal career by contrast Ichabod being blessed with his plant genes and simply because he had better habits was more likely to keep his youthful appearance much longer)

Jonathan cleared his throat, "I'll wait till you're done eating because I would like to talk with Mr...Since your her Mother's brother I know Cheshire can't be your last name..."

"My last name is Catkin." Gus said

"I would like to talk with Mr. Catkin alone..." Joanthan said "Man to...Man...I know Wranglers would have found that indecent, but I have learned you're all men and woman where it counts."

That made Gus realize that maybe these Former Rogues were better than the Wranglers...

So I realized that this chapter could have Marzipan doing a lot of catch up with her Uncle and so I could explain Marzipan's past to new readers