[p] born on snake hill

Ithiel de le Poer · 05-04-2012, 02:17 AM

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(362) Actually Inferni currently has a ton of people they're not related to! |: ITHIEL ALREADY HAS A HELPERLADYFRIEND AND SHE SHARES 0% OF HIS DNA AWWWWW YEAH. Cassie and Myri, otoh, have LIEK BILLIONS of distantfuck relations because of Daituki's kids pooping out tons of kids and their kids pooping out tons of kids and more kids being pooped out and oh god.

Also fun fact: Myrika and Cassandra are simultaneously third cousins once removed and first cousins once removed to Itachi... and that is without taking into account any inbreeding (Myri/Cass, Firefly/Haku, wtf ever else happened omg). @_@

Ithiel is by Kitty!

The dusky hybrid understood her predicament perfectly well, or so he thought: he had not trusted any of these cousins upon first arriving in the coyote clan. They had been -- and many continued to be -- meaningless to him. If one held every third cousin twice removed in as high esteem as a brother, one might never run out of new cousins to discover. The coyote assumed most families were like this, with hidden branches and entire unknown roots leading off to other trees entirely, whatever blood relation they once shared growing thin and weak.

She was my father's mother, he said, nodding. We have many cousins in Inferni, but blood is meaningless after a certain point. Parents are one thing, but... the dust-colored hybrid hesitated, wondering how he might phrase the idea. His brow furrowed, but he continued to speak, though it was laborious speech, slow and careful. I judge them friend or false and go from there. We should not look on every cousin as a brother, or treat him as such unless we are treated so in kind. There was madness in his blood, and he would deny his familial tie those who were afflicted with such. He did not like to think of these things, much less speak of them.

Sometimes we even have to treat siblings in such a way, he added, thinking of Ezekiel and frowning toward her back and folded ears. He did not recognize her surname and she had not offered her sister's name -- would it be insensitive to pry? Ithiel thought so, and did not. If you want to see her, you should go. If not, stay away. The rest of us don't really matter. This last was stated plainly, though not harshly -- he thought she might share his detachment anyway, but he wasn't certain and erred to caution. One could carve a life out anywhere in the world, it was said, and Ithiel didn't believe cousins and other distant relations ought to anchor a coyote in place. He was with Inferni because he had sworn an oath to it and Ezekiel, not for love of its members.

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