#And he takes the role of a medic and spites his father and his ambition once and for all

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ever think about how in tnp bramble is suspicious of hawk until the /moment/ they visit tiger together? and then gets mad at squilf for expressing an opinion he used to agree with?

Actually! The moment Bramble stops being suspicious of Hawkfrost is when he's jealous of Squilf's magical telepathic bond to her sister. It's like spite. It fascinates me that you can read it as though Brambleclaw is being consumed by jealousy, trying to have everything that Squilf does, as though his "hatred" of her is coming from envy.

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What actually happens to Team Minato in the intergalactic au?

Hi anon!! thank you for asking!!! and sorry for the delay xD

This took me TOO LONG to write but i hope you will enjoy it! (it’s a LONG post)

TLDR Team Minato: 

Team Minato (T13) meet in the Academy and remain together for many years until Kakashi is promoted to Captain and Obito and Rin join the Exploration Corps. 

In the meantime, Minato is elected Minister of Gaheliant, Obito nearly dies in a rookie mission and is assigned an assistant T0B1 droid, Rin nearly dies after she gets implanted a remote controlled bioweapon and Kakashi recruits KN0E from Root, assigns Itachi a covert mission and becomes T7 tutor.

Here you can find more info about the Space Academy and the courses (i’ll make a post about it in the future probably)

What you will find under the cut: 

a basic timeline of T13,

a map with their homeplanets,

and their stories from their childhood to the present.

au! Intergalactic Akatsuki  |  Masterpost

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Team Minato (T13) basic timeline

Minato enters the Space Academy at the age of 16, where he meets Kushina. He obtains the rank of Sub-lieutenant and Lieutenant, with Jiraya as his Academy tutor.

After his graduation, he chooses to pursue a military career and is promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

Two years later, Minato is promoted to Commander and transferred to Captain Jiraya’s Division.

Two years later, Tsunade is appointed Secretary of Gaheliant and Jiraya is promoted to Commodore. Minato is promoted to Captain.

Kakashi, Obito and Rin meet at the Space Academy at the age of 16. They form T13 under Captain Minato’s tutoring. That same year Minato marries Secretary Kushina.

At the Age of 31 Minato is promoted to Commodore and Naruto is born.

Three years later he abandons his military career after Minister Tsunade appoints him as Secretary of Gaheliant. He stops being T13 official tutor. 

Kakashi graduates from the Academy with the rank of Lieutenant, while Obito and Rin graduates with the Sub-lieutenant rank. The three of them decide to pursue a military career and are promoted to Lieutenant Commander and Lieutenant.

In an exploration mission, Kakashi encounters the Root agent KN0E but does not report it to his superiors.

Two years later, Kakashi is promoted to Commander and is given a ship and crew specialised in sabotage missions. His subordinates Obito and Rin are promoted to Lieutenant Commanders. 

During that time, Kakashi gets KN0E to join the official military thanks to Minato’s influence as Tsunade’s Secretary. KN0E is given the name of Yamato Tenzo and joins the Galactic Federation Special Forces as a Lieutenant Commander under Commander Kakashi’s orders.

Two years later Minato is elected Minister of Gaheliant, Kakashi is promoted to Captain and put in charge of the covert operations. Obito and Rin join the Exploration Corps as Commanders. Yamato is promoted to Commander in Captain Kakashi’s Brigade.

Three years later Itachi becomes Commander Yamato’s Lieutenant Commander.

At the age of 32, Kakashi becomes a tutor in the Academy for T7. The same year, Itachi is promoted to Commander in Captain Kakashi’s Brigade.

Maps

T13 homeplanets

Relevant locations to their stories

Team 13 from their childhood to the present

Minato Namikaze

Minato was born in the capital planet Qintis (Saukiren region), in an average family. Minato grew up admiring the work and career of the then Gaheliant Minister Hiruzen Sarutobi, who was native from Qintis. 

From a young age Minato witnessed the rising conflicts in the border with Wavka and the Cartel. Saukiren was in charge of the military and humanitarian aid that the Federation was sending to Wavka, so many refugees arrived to Qintis during that time. 

Minato and his family volunteered in the humanitarian program in Qintis, but he wanted to have an active role in future conflicts. As soon as he reached the age of 15, Minato applied to join the Space Academy for Gaheliant Officers.

At the age of 16, Minato moved to Ionath and joined the Space Academy. As a cadet, he was assigned a team and a tutor, who would guide him and supervise his academic performance and training. Captain Jiraya was his designated tutor, but will also become a paternal figure to Minato.

During his time in the Academy, Minato received advanced combat training and elected Uzui Matter Studies and Diplomatic Relations as his academic degree in the Ionath University. After being promoted to Sub-lieutenant, he specialised in Flash Incursion Strategy and participated in active duty missions under Captain Jiraya’s orders for two years, achieving the Lieutenant rank. 

After his graduation, Minato choose to pursue a military career. He was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and joined the Galactic Federation Forces. 

At the age of 30, Capitan Minato became the tutor of T13 a cadet team from Gaheliant’s Space Academy. He tutored them for four years, until he was appointed Secretary of Gaheliant. In the meantime, he got married to Uzui’s Secretary, had a son with her and got promoted to Commodore.

Eight years later, Minato is elected Minister of Gaheliant, taking over Tsunade’s position. 

Kakashi Hatake

Kakashi was born in Ketra, the second planet of the Izuko region, in a military family from House Hatake. After his mother’s death, Kakashi moved to Ionath with his father, who was serving in the Special Forces. 

Commodore Sakumo Hatake had a major failure during one of his missions, that resulted in the death of several members of a Vynt battalion, which repercuted in the diplomatic relations between Gaheliant and Vynt. Sakumo was demoted from his rank and relieved of his duties, and after a long depression, he took his own life.

Kakashi had joined the Space Academy that same year. Spited by the actions and failures of his father, he swore to become a better official than Sakumo. 

In the Academy, Kakashi was assigned to T13 under the tutoring of Captain Minato, alongside Rin and Obito. He received advanced combat training and elected Imperial Military History and Classical Warfare Studies as his academic degree in the Ionath University. 

In their fifth year in the Academy, Minato was appointed Secretary and was relieved of all his military duties, including his tutoring. T13 had to endure their specialisation time without Minato’s guide on the field, but he still tutored them unofficially. During that time Kakashi was promoted to Sub-lieutenant, specialised in Sabotage Missions and achieved the Lieutenant rank. 

After his graduation, he joined the Galactic Federation Forces and was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. During one of his missions, he encountered a covert Root agent named KN0E but did not report it to his superiors in order to protect him. 

KN0E and Kakashi met again after he was promoted to Commander, during a covert mission to investigate the Federation dark side. This time, Kakashi convinced KN0E to join his crew, and thanks to Minato’s influence, Minister Tsunade forced Admiral Danzo to accept KN0E’s transfer from Root to the Special Forces. KN0E was given the name of Yamato Tenzo and the rank of Lieutenant Commander under Kakashi’s orders.

Two years later, Minato was elected Minister and Kakashi was promoted to Captain and put in charge of the covert operations of the Gaheliant Special Forces. Commander Yamato became his right hand and instructed the just graduated Lieutenant Commander Itachi. Two years later, Itachi is promoted to Commander, and Kakashi assigns him a covert mission, codename : Akatsuki.

That same year, Kakashi becomes the tutor of T7 in the Space Academy.

Obito Uchiha

Obito was born in Uqian (Ulanir Region), in the Uchiha reigning family. He lost his parents at a young age and was raised by his grandmother. At the age of 16, following his family protocols for noble children, he was sent to Ionath to join the Space Academy.

Not being particularly good at anything “of importance”, Obito grew up feeling the pressure of his duties imposed by the Uchiha, and his eagerness to prove himself worthy augmented when the time to join the Academy came. He wanted to rise high, to become a relevant figure in the Senate and be respected amongst his peers.

However, his restless political ambition would fade once he saw that his objectives were the result of someone else’s expectations on him, and would try to pursue his own dreams.

In the Academy, Obito was assigned to T13 under the tutoring of Captain Minato, alongside Rin and Kakashi. He received advanced combat training and elected Astrobotanics and Diplomatic Relations as his academic degree in the Ionath University. During his last years he specialised in Sabotage Missions and achieved the Sub-lieutenant rank.

After his graduation, he joined the Galactic Federation Forces and was promoted to Sub-lieutenant and assigned to Lieutenant Kakashi’s squadron. 

In one of their rookie missions, inside the DeadZone territory, their team was ambushed by Istamyran pirates and Obito received a fatal hit that lacerated the right side of his body in an attempt to save his friends. Believing him dead, the squadron recoiled to escape, but the vitals in the medi-pad later revealed that Obito was still breathing. Kakashi and Rin returned to rescue him and took what remained of their friend to Ionath’s Military Hospital.

Obito spent months under observation and went through many medical procedures, receiving biomechanical prosthesis and reconstruction surgeries. After his recovery, he and Rin got promoted to Lieutenant and Kakashi to Lieutenant Commander, and resumed their military duties now in the Special Forces. 

Once Kakashi got promoted to Commander and given a ship, Obito and Rin joined his crew as Lieutenant Commanders, and took on missions specialised in sabotage and infiltration strategy in the Cartel border.

Two years later, with Kakashi’s promotion to Captain, Obito and Rin joined the Exploration Corps. Obito was promoted to Commander and deployed to the DZ Division that operated in the DeadZone territory, as head of Astrobotanics and Xenobiology Research Department. 

After his incident with the pirates, Obito received a military grade android T0B1 model that accompanied and assisted him in his duties. He named him Tobi, and spent so much time together that the android ended up adopting Obito’s cues and mannerisms.

They remained together for seven years until T0B1 was lost in an attack on their exploration ship.

Rin Nohara

Rin was born in Soqh (Konoha Region), in a modest family with medical background. Inspired by her older sister, who was a member of the Humanitarian Engineering Corps deployed in the Wavka Sector, Rin applied to join the Space Academy for Gaheliant Officers at the age of 15, and moved to Ionath as soon as she got accepted.

In the Academy, Rin was assigned to T13 under the tutoring of Captain Minato, alongside Obito and Kakashi. She received advanced combat training and elected Xenology and Emergency Medicine as her academic degree in the Ionath University. On her last Academy years she specialised in Sabotage Missions and achieved the Sub-lieutenant rank.

After her graduation, she joined the Galactic Federation Forces and was promoted to Sub-lieutenant and assigned to Lieutenant Kakashi’s squadron. 

When he was promoted to Commander. Rin, alongside Obito joined Kakashi’s crew as Lieutenant Commanders, and took on missions specialised in sabotage and infiltration strategy in the Cartel border.

In one of their infiltration missions in Hissek (Ki’mer Sector), Rin was discovered by Cartel mercenaries who captured and held her hostage for days. She was interrogated and tortured to get information about the operation, but she managed to escape before they could get any intel from her or contact her team for a ransom. 

However, during her interrogation, she had been implanted a remote controlled bioweapon that would activate as soon as the tracking device detected her proximity to Ionath. As soon as she realised, she took an escape pod and ejected it from the ship trying to end her life before her team and crew could be affected. 

T0B1 detected the lowering vitals of Rin’s medi-pad and alerted Obito and Kakashi, who tracked the escape pod beam signal to rescue her. Rin remained closed inside the escape pod until they arrived to Ionath Space Port, where she was put in quarantine and treated by the Military Medical Corps. 

After her recovery, she got promoted to Commander and with Kakashi’s promotion to Captain, Rin and Obito joined the Exploration Corps. She was deployed to the DZ Division that operated in the DeadZone territory, as head of Xenology and Xenolinguistics Research Department. 

Their mission was to investigate and study the remains of the ancient culture that once inhabited the DeadZone, as long as the radiation levels allowed them, while dealing with the many thieves and looters that sailed that territory.

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Why Octavia E Butler’s novels are so relevant today

It’s campaign season in the US, and a charismatic dark horse is running with the slogan ‘make America great again’. According to his opponent, he’s a demagogue; a rabble-rouser; a hypocrite. When his supporters form mobs and burn people to death, he condemns their violence “in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear”. He accuses, without grounds, whole groups of people of being rapists and drug dealers. How much of this rhetoric he actually believes and how much he spouts “just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule” is at once debatable, and increasingly beside the point, as he strives to return the country to a “simpler” bygone era that never actually existed.

More like this:

-        The 1968 novel that predicted today

-        The fiction that predicted space travel

-        The story of cannibalism that came true

You might think he sounds familiar – but the character in question is Texas Senator Andrew Steele Jarret, the fictional presidential candidate who storms to victory in a dystopian science-fiction novel titled Parable of the Talents. Written by Octavia E Butler, it was published in 1998, two decades before the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States.

Like much of her writing, Butler’s book was a warning about where the US and humanity in general might be heading. In some respects, we’ve beaten her to it: a sequel to 1993’s Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents is set in what is still the future, 2032. While its vision is extreme, there is plenty that feels within the bounds of possibility: resources are increasingly scarce, the planet is boiling, religious fundamentalism is rife, the middle classes live in walled-off enclaves. The novel’s protagonist, a black woman like the author herself, fears that Jarret’s authoritarianism will only worsen matters.

Fourteen years after her early death, Butler’s reputation is soaring. Her predictions about the direction that US politics would take, and the slogan that would help speed it there, are certainly uncanny. But that wasn’t all she foresaw. She challenged traditional gender identity, telling a story about a pregnant man in Bloodchild and envisaging shape-shifting, sex-changing characters in Wild Seed. Her interest in hybridity and the adaptation of the human race, which she explored in her Xenogenesis trilogy, anticipated non-fiction works by the likes of Yuval Noah Harari. Concerns about topics including climate change and the pharmaceutical industry resonate even more powerfully now than when she wove them into her work.

And of course, by virtue of her gender and ethnicity, she was striving to smash genre assumptions about writers – and readers – so ingrained that in 1987, her publisher still insisted on putting two white women on the jacket of her novel Dawn, whose main character is black. She also helped reshape fantasy and sci-fi, bringing to them naturalism as well as characters like herself. And when she won the prestigious MacArthur ‘genius’ grant in 1995, it was a first for any science-fiction writer.

Octavia Estelle Butler was born on 22 June 1947. Her father, a shoeshiner, died when she was very young, and she was raised by her mother, a maid, in Pasadena, California. As an only child, Butler began entertaining herself by telling stories when she was just four. Later, tall for her age and painfully shy, growing up in an era of segregation and conformity, that same storytelling urge became an escape route. She read, too, hungrily and in spite of her dyslexia. Her mother – who herself had been allowed only a scant few years of schooling – took her to get a library card, and would bring back cast-off books from the homes she cleaned.

An alternate future

Through fiction, Butler learnt to imagine an alternate future to the drab-seeming life that was envisioned for her: wife, mother, secretary. “I fantasised living impossible, but interesting lives – magical lives in which I could fly like Superman, communicate with animals, control people’s minds”, she wrote in 1999. She was 12 when she discovered science fiction, the genre that would draw her most powerfully as a writer. “It appealed to me more, even, than fantasy because it required more thought, more research into things that fascinated me,” she explained. Even as a young girl, those sources of fascination ranged from botany and palaeontology to astronomy. She wasn’t a particularly good student, she said, but she was “an avid one”.

After high school, Butler went on to graduate from Pasadena City College with an Associates of Arts degree in 1968. Throughout the 1970s, she honed her craft as a writer, finding, through a class with the Screen Writers’ Guild Open Door Program, a mentor in sci-fi veteran Harlan Ellison, and then selling her first story while attending the Clarion Science Fiction Writer’s Workshop. Supporting herself variously as a dishwasher, telemarketer and inspector at a crisp factory, she would wake at 2am to write. After five years of rejection slips, she sold her first novel, Patternmaster, in 1975, and when it was published the following year, critics praised its well-built plot and refreshingly progressive heroine. It imagines a distant future in which humanity has evolved into three distinct genetic groups, the dominant one telepathic, and introduces themes of hierarchy and community that would come to define her work. It also spawned a series, with two more books, Mind of My Mind and Survivor, following before the decade’s end.

With the $1,750 advance that Survivor earnt her, Butler took a trip east to Maryland, the setting for a novel she wanted to write about a young black woman who travels back in time to the Deep South of 19th-Century America. Having lived her entire life on the West Coast, she travelled by cross-country bus, and it was during a three-hour wait at a bus station that she wrote the first and last chapters of what would become Kindred. It was published in 1979 and remains her best-known book.

The 1980s would bring a string of awards, including two Hugos, the science-fiction awards first established in 1953. They also saw the publication of her Xenogenesis trilogy, which was spurred by talk of ‘winnable nuclear war’ during the arms race, and probes the idea that humanity’s hierarchical nature is a fatal flaw.The books also respond to debates about human genetic engineering and captive breeding programs for endangered species.

In her author photos, Butler appears a serious woman with an exceptionally penetrating gaze. At a talk she gave in Washington DC in 1991, later reported in the radical feminist periodical, Off Our Backs, she offered a fuller description of herself: “comfortably asocial – a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles – a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, certainty and drive”.

That certainty and drive can be seen in papers from her archive, now housed at the Huntington Library. In 1998, some motivational notes written on the back of a ring-bound writing pad begin “I shall be a bestselling writer!” She goes on: “I will find the way to do this! So be it! See to it!” Elsewhere, she’s to be found urging herself to “tell stories filled with facts. Make people touch and taste and know. Make people feel! Feel! Feel!”

Butler died in 2006, following a fall near her home in Washington state. Though she had begun suffering from writer’s block and depression, caused in part by medication for her high blood pressure, she’d continued to teach, and in 2005, had been inducted into Chicago State University’s international black writers hall of fame. She published a novel that year, too, Fledgling, whose vampire heroine must avenge a vicious attack, and rebuild her life and family. By then, her books had been translated into 10 languages, selling more than 1 million copies altogether.

In the years since, her fanbase has only grown. It turns out that she didn’t invent the campaign slogan beloved by Trump. It was used by Ronald Reagan in his 1980 presidential campaign, and later by Bill Clinton, although later he described the phrase as a “racist dog whistle to white southerners”. Nevertheless, as Tarshia L Stanley, dean of the school of humanities, arts and sciences at St Catherine University, notes, when readers spotted during the 2016 US election that Butler had chosen the slogan for Jarret, it “jarred people into recognising that she’s been doing this work all along. She’d been trying to tell us that if we do not make changes, this is what’s going to happen. She constantly gave that message: this is the logical conclusion if we keep treading down this path. I think when people saw that phrase, it started a whole new group of people reading her work.”

Butler’s work is today the subject of fan fiction, television adaptations (there are at least two in the works), and lively attention on college campuses, where it’s read from perspectives as varied as critical race theory, Afrofuturism, black feminism, queer theory and disability studies. Stanley, who last year edited the essay collection Approaches to Teaching the Works of Octavia E Butler, is also president of a society dedicated to the author. Its membership is broad, she says, but the most gratifying surprise is how many young people Butler’s work is engaging. At the inaugural conference, there was even a panel of high-school kids.

What would Butler have made of the present political moment in the US? “I don’t think she would have been surprised”, Stanley says. She puts Butler’s ability to envisage our future down to a deep understanding of human nature – knowledge gained from having the role of outsider foisted on her in girlhood. This she backed up with research, reading journals including Scientific American, listening to lectures, travelling as far as the Amazon. For Stanley, the one lesson to take from Butler’s work is hope. “World building is huge in her canon, and so there is always hope that since we built this world, we can build another one.”

There’s a scene in Parable of the Sower when the best friend of heroine Lauren Olamina insists “Books aren’t going to save us”. Lauren replies: “Use your imagination,” telling her to search her family’s bookshelves for anything that might come in handy. “Any kind of survival information from encyclopedias, biographies, anything that helps you learn,” she goes on. "Even some fiction might be useful".

Butler’s novels are just that kind of fiction. The child who began writing as a means of escape, ended up crafting potent calls to socio-political action that seem ever more pertinent to our survival as a species.

Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and other books by Octavia Butler are published by Headline.

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[thewolfisawake]

Oh man I was inspired for an old ship in an AU and it...got out of hand. Anyway, here’s a premise and backstory for a Jianitian P.rincess P.rincipal AU. 

Background:

The land of Darkovia managed to get a hold of the eight elemental orbs, powerful artifacts of magic, and used them to ensure its prosperity. This allowed them to become a formidable force in the world. Seeing the rising of a new power, a family that sucks blue blood thought of a way to entrench themselves into a land they otherwise have no foothold in. This family was successful in their infiltration however not long after a revolt broke out. 

The proletariat were disgruntled with the disparage between themselves and the nobility and the fires of their rebellion was mighty, forcing the royals to respond. This revolt caused some of the elemental orbs to be stolen by the rebels and became a bloody affair, causing the family of liars to abandon their plan and flee. Darkovia was eventually split into the Kingdom of Darkovia and the Commonwealth of Greenguard with a wall separating them.

While the Commonwealth holds no regrets of rising up, the wall has separated many and further more whispers of Darkovia growing more tyrannical have reached their ears. So they devise a plan to gain the throne of Darkovia by using a candidate for the crown, or rather a well-made replacement. Domitian was selected for this role but when going to make this switch, he and his partner are blackmailed by their intended target, Prince Jian. He agrees to help Greenguard’s interests so long as they help secure him as king. 

Characters:

Domitian - A spy for the Commonwealth of Greenguard. He dreads his assignment to secure the throne but he also hasn’t walked away from the mission. While he is a capable spy, he always has some twinges of doubt towards his ability. He comes off antagonistic towards the prince although ultimately does what Jian wants...even if it’s not perfect in its execution. He is from the family that snuck their way into rubbing shoulders with nobility and royalty of Darkovia. He was also a vital part of his family’s plan to secure themselves.

His family had wove into the family history a child of a tryst that they had ‘rescued.’ While normally a wedlock noble child would normally be discredited as illegitimate, records, memory and timing was painted this child to be of royal blood...which cannot be turned away no matter what. And for this role, his family had used him to be this child. He was young but he did know of the deception but wasn’t concerned because his parents told him not to worry. But the revolt ruined this for his family and they had intending to flee, leaving Domitian’s role to be assumed dead from the fighting. However, instead this ensnared Jian and Domitian feels responsible for leaving Jian there. 

What the planner and executor of this plan--his maternal grandparents, Josephine and Tatsuo--didn’t know was that Domitian has legitimate royal blood in his veins. His mother, Ty, was/is (it’s complicated) the crowned prince’s lover. And the plan was a test of loyalty for Ty as she would do anything for her parents but wouldn’t put her princeling nor their children in harm’s way. One that she tried to play both sides but ended up losing on both fronts. Domitian doesn’t care about the throne and would rather see the land unified rather than dealing with the trouble his birthright wold bring. 

Prince Jian - Fourth in line to the Kingdom of Darkovia’s throne and a spy for the Commonwealth of Greenguard. A very disciplined and cunning prince that has some fanciful rumors about him. He is well-liked despite not likely to take throne. He is fluent in several languages, knows how to read others to his advantage and a renowned duelist. His cool demeanor only seems to be shaken when dealing with Domitian, showing an angry and even spiteful face. He blackmailed Domitian and Jasper into helping him becoming king. 

Unbeknownst to all but Domitian’s immediate family and Domitian and Jian themselves, Jian was Domitian’s commoner friend that often snuck either himself or Domitian out of the estate. Because this ‘wedlock child’ was such low priority (formerly being seventh in line), most didn’t keep an eye on Domitian and had mistook Jian for Domitian on occasion. They had taken advantage of this lack of attention and Jian was covering for Domitian when the uprising hit the estate. Jian was caught in the crossfire while Domitian was taken to flee. Since the revolt killed several members of the royal family, this ‘wedlock child’ suddenly became more important and Jian was trapped under the prince guise Domitian was supposed to fulfill. Jian had no idea the intricacies of this lie but knew he needed to live this lie or he would be executed. 

While it started as a goal of survival, Jian, as a boy of common birth, came to understand the trouble of the people. How they struggled while the nobles and royals lived without a care. How this wall has separated loved ones, including him from his birth family. So he resolved to gain the power to change his land.

Jasper - Domitian’s fellow spy from training. He is the oldest of thee team although he is posing to be around their age (unconvincingly, Domitian claims). He excels at disguise although he is usually the getaway driver. He can also work as a medic should need arise. 

As a child Jasper was sickly and it was believed it was becomes of his mother’s unstable genes. Jasper wonders if it drove his mother, Alouette, away as she disappeared, leaving Jasper and his father, Zain, alone. Zain never got over Alouette and resolved to see her again. Driving into his medical practice, Zain wanted to make Jasper better so his mother wouldn’t leave again. Sometimes this led to ignoring Jasper’s discomfort and pain for the sake of experimentation. Jasper believed he could get better under his own power, instead of poisoning him. Zain ignored this because to him Jasper was just ‘a sick child.’ This led to Jasper eventually running away and ended up training as a spy. 

Cordelia - A young noble and guard-in-training that was brought into espionage. She attends the academy the boys attend which has fewer numbers of females in the knight courses.  She attends as a part of her ambition and because they’re what the prince takes. She was pulled into the plot as she with Jain when he made his threat of blackmail. While she initially did not trust Domitian and Jasper, she has warmed up to them. Enough so that Jian remakrs, “If I did not know better, I would think you were their little sister.” Despite her amicable relationship with the spies, Cordelia has made it clear that she would not hesitate to take them out if they threaten Jian’s safety.

She is daughter of two knights who serve different sides of the wall. One of her fathers, Tannim, has royal blood but surrendered his claim as an appeasement towards his cousin and to serve as a knight. Her other father is a leader of regiment in Greenguard’s militia. It puts her in a special status that has her go back and forth by covert means. It puts a strain on her but she smiles through it as she hopes that there will be a time where there is no divide and she could happily live with her family. 

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Native American Spirit Animal:

Huhuhuhuh~ Scout: Stag. The stag is PERFECT for Scout! Quick witted, humorous and vocal, the stag is the life of the party. Unlike the Scout, they possess high intellects, though like Scout, they're heavy narcissists. In the right setting, they're lively. In the wrong setting, they're moody, selfish, impatient and lazy. Soldier: The perfect Falcon, with a bit of Goose. Falcon's represent the Western Aries, so they're naturally born leaders and very headstrong. Though rash, they can be persistent and won't rest until they have what they desire. This is a double edged sword. As a leader, they're naturally quite compassionate to their fellow man, but are rather conceited. They are also victims to vanity, rudeness and impatience. As a Goose, Soldier suits their persevering nature, dominance and ambition. Likewise, he is also very passionate, humorous and sensual in love - much like the Demoman. Pyro: Otter's are renown for their quirky natures and wild imaginations. Though their methods are unorthodox, it's unwise to dismiss their methodology! They're also somewhat sensitive but very loyal. However, they can be very rebellious, lewd and isolated. Demo: Salmon. They're intuitive and highly in touch. And like Stags, they're live wires! Confident and a friend's friend, they're rather sociable and easy to love. Likewise, they can get rather sensual. Their bad traits however consist namely of egocentricity, vulgarity and intolerance. Like Soldier, he also shares some traits with the Goose. Namely his perseverance, ambition, humour and sensual nature in love. Heavy: The perfect blend of Woodpecker and Bear. As a Woodpecker, Heavy adopts the role of team Father. After all, they're the most nurturing zodiac. Empathetic, they make great listeners and are quite resourceful. They're also quite the romantic! Negatively, they can be possessive, aggressive and jealous. Now, the negativity of a Bear suits Heavy slightly more as they show traits of skeptism, sloth and reclusive. When the going gets tough, though they fight, they're more prone to isolating themselves - much like an Otter. On the positive, Bears are also rather methodical and the voice of reason within their pack. Their big hearts hold a lot of generosity. What you may not know however, is the Bears high levels of modesty and even shyness. Bears usually make good partners to Owls. Engi: Beaver, nature's own engineer and builder! Beavers know how to take charge, adapt and are business minded. Like the Sniper, this also makes them rather efficient - fitting for the Engi. Likewise, they think strategically and are one of the most intelligent spirit animals. Though negatively, they can easily fall prey to nervousness, cowardice, possession and arrogance. Otherwise, they're quite helpful creatures. Sniper: Like the Spy, the Sniper is wildly complex, despite his simple lifestyle. He possesses the secrecy of a Snake, the ears and resourcefulness of the Woodpecker, the efficiency, arrogance and nervousness of the Beaver, and the reclusiveness of the Bear. Due to this wild cross of hidden emotions, he best suits the emotional nature of a Wolf. Wolves are wild paradoxes, both needing time alone yet desiring their family. Back to Bears, a Sniper needs their patience to assist them in their daily lives and jobs. But most fitting, is the Owl. "Mute as the Wind", nature lovers, adventurous. Owls are precision artists (fitting the Kiwi stereotype in TF2). They're highly committed to their roles and extremely adaptive to their environment, making them perfect hunters. Attentive listeners, rather than speakers. Owls however are prone to excessive mess, bitter thoughts, and belittling others. Prideful in their own sense. Medic: Medic treads the fine lines of the Raven and the Snake. Like the Snake, he's immediately recognised by his healing abilities - a medical icon. Though dark and somewhat scary, Snakes are known to be comical like Stags and helpful. On the flip side, they're prone to sheer violence and the worst of moodswings. As a Raven, he's rather charming and enthusiastic, traits that life people to him, despite the visible dangers. On the dark side of the Raven, he can be demanding and abrasive. Both suit his humorous charm yet vile moodswings and sinister violence. Spy: A difficult one, Spy borders many of the animal spirits. Whether this is due to his job, or his adaptable personality, is not known. Like his son, he displays the humour and wit of a Stag. Likewise, he also possesses their narcissism, intellect and moodiness. An expected one would be the Snake, based on his sly nickname. Snakes are secretive and dark, though wildly passionate romantically. Though he solemnly shows the negatives of a Snake. Charming like the Raven, he lures people to him, but is prone to a Raven's demanding and vindictive spite. He also shows strong traits of a Wolf, being solitary yet needing company, and being the most romantic of the Zodiacs. Wolves are also both obsessive, passionate and emotional. Though not openly emotional, he's rather emotional inside. The final would be the adaptability of the Owl. He constantly needs to adapt and change for his job, and the Owl perfectly symbolises this. They're also as "Mute as the Wind".