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[neonleon]

Mmokay well we're gonna come back to that memory problem later, but peanut butter incident is exactly the kind of low stakes arguments we're talking about.

[othellovonryan]

Exactly. Something easy to get over.

Perhaps even something that was kind of fun at the time?

[pyrighteous]

I don’t know about FUN. I was - just trying to help! Luz asked for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to take to school that day, and I was helping Camila with lunch prep that morning.

So. I made her what she asked for. Peanuts, butter, and jelly!

[neonleon]

Oh. Oh my god.

[He's laughing but it's not unkind! That's just. Adorable.]

Okay, I see the confusion there. If you aren't used to human stuff, not your fault.

[othellovonryan]

[Oh no]

[He can't help his own laughter either.]

For reference, 'butter' can apply as a state for several kinds of food. Normal butter is milk. However, any butter that is proceeded by a legume means a smooth paste made out said legume. There is also things like apple butter...

I'm not entirely sure why that is different from a jam. Something to ask Mikey in the future.

[pyrighteous]

[ RUDE ... Hunter goes rather pink. ]

W-well it should be called something else then! I did the best I could! A-and she said she kinda liked it anyway!

[neonleon]

[Pats his shoulder gently.]

You're fine, Hunter, innocent goof.

But that's the kinda low effort sibling arguments we're talking about.

[othellovonryan]

Oh, if only names were more accurate. That's why most of my inventions are acronyms, put the description in the name itself.

Precisely. There is no real consequences to fighting about it.

Though not everyone enjoys the fight as much as Leo and I. I think its very rare that Raph enjoys a verbal argument?

[pyrighteous]

[ SIGH. He slumps a bit. ]

Well I haven't had MANY of those. And I still - uh - I presented myself for punishment to Camila afterwards, and she made a REALLY weird face.

[neonleon]

...Yeah, she probably would. That isn't a real normal thing people do.

[othellovonryan]

Yes.

I applaud her ability to handle it with grace, I'm rather certain most would be horrified at that.

[Glances at Leo for confirmation.]

[pyrighteous]

[ ?????

Hunter meanwhile looks baffled. Still. Camila had explained, of course, but... ]

That's what I had to do with Belos. If I messed up and he found out before I could fix it, it would be so much worse.

[neonleon]

I think we've confirmed Belos was neither good nor normal. Dude was made of acidic goop! Forget him.

[othellovonryan]

He really was not.

Punishments are not meant to be so terrifying you'd rather turn yourself in for the lesser versions of them than what he would do if he found out. We hide bad things we've done from dad all the time to avoid punishment and risk the worst one.

[neonleon]

Right, right. And if someone knows what's good for him, he won't talk about any of agreements that may or may not have happened.

[pyrighteous]

[ Hunter opens his mouth to protest about having a castle of people who would report about him -

And. Pauses. ]

What agreements?

[othellovonryan]

Agreements of mutually assured destruction.

I was not going to explain any of those, it was a generalized statement.

Besides, after Piedbald, and dad finding out we were doing hero work for months on our own, if he doesn't assume we are hiding at least some sins, then he is a fool. Father is no fool, he just doesn't know what they are to determine how angry he has to be.

But no matter how angry, as long as it doesn't involve the accidental isolation of one of our sisters for the better part of the year, none of his punishments would be traumatic.

[neonleon]

[Pointing his sword at Donnie.]

I should kill you for saying that much.

[pyrighteous]

W-wait, wait! What's this about isolating a sister?

[othellovonryan]

Do it and the records I have on a six month timer will reveal everything without my deadman's passcode.

Our father had a pet goldfish. A pet who, while we all loved and adored, was still an entirely normal animal at the time. Through a series of mishaps, we lost her to the sewers and had no means of tracking her down.

Then a year later, she was mutated like we were and came home and found out we had lied to dad. She was understandably very upset by the entire affair, as was dad. After a whole to do, she obviously couldn't be considered a pet since she was sapient, so upgrade to sister.

[neonleon]

I will remember this.

In our defense we didn't know about it at the time. So it is not our fault. Even if one of us did take the blame for it since he was the mastermind and all around brains of the operation and it would have never been an issue if it hadn't been for factors outside of his control.

[pyrighteous]

...........

[ Hang on, Hunter needs to picture Belos a) having a goldfish for a pet, b) that pet becoming sapient, and c) what kind of punishment Hunter would have gotten in a similar situation.

(Just like losing a palisman? Probably. Except Belos would NEVER have called such a person kin.) ]

How exactly did you lose her...?

[othellovonryan]

The passcode is a unique password from anything else I have, just FYI.

Its not our fault she ended up traumatized since a fish would have a difficult time fully conceptualizing all that happened.

As for losing her. [He looks at Leo.] It was extremely accidental.

[neonleon]

It really was.

[And for Hunter, he... sound really genuine in that.]

We're getting away from the point here though, which is that your creepy goop uncle is evil and also gone, so you can relax and get to know what siblings are really like.

[pyrighteous]

W-well - it's hard. For me. I lived with Belos all my life except for the last couple months. So

I'll probably keep saying weird stuff and asking questions.