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[onehole]

Hey.

How much do we all hate being kidnapped? On a scale from 1-10?

Or wanna talk about it? Become kidnapped friends? Friends that are kidnapped?

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[hagrides]

I must return, at some point. I have a duty I must fulfill.

But I am not in a particular hurry.

[onehole]

I see.

Is it okay to ask what that duty is?

[hagrides]

The Ritual. To pass on my power to my child.

[Grimm will die in the process, but that's a little heavy for the first conversation!]

[onehole]

Huh.

Are you in a cult?

[hagrides]

I suppose I am. Though I prefer to call it the Troupe - we are performers, you see.

[onehole]

I don't see!

[hagrides]

Do you enjoy the circus?

[onehole]

That's a difficult question for me to answer, ha ha ha!

I've never been to the circus, so I can't say that I enjoy it. I enjoy the idea of a circus, I guess?

[hagrides]

In that case, you should attend the next time I perform in Lunatia. No rituals involved.

[onehole]

That's kind of you, but I'm afraid the performance would be wasted on me. I'm afraid there's a reason that I never went or watched circuses back in my world, ha ha ha.

But I'm glad that there won't be any ritual involved in it!

Still, in your world, circuses are like cults, huh?

[hagrides]

It would be more accurate to say that my cult is currently like a circus. Different leaders have had it function differently, though the purpose of the god it surrounds remains the same.

After I pass on the title of vessel to the god, I suspect the shape of the Grimm Troupe will change significantly.

[onehole]

Your leader decided to make it a circus just for fun, I take it? Or is there a deeper meaning as to why it's like that?

Then, I guess, your child is going to be the one to decide what shape the cult takes next, huh?

[hagrides]

The people in the lands the Troupe traveled to were always so sad, and I wished to brighten their spirits. That is why I made it a circus.

[He is the leader.]

[onehole]

So it was just for fun. Of course, saying that it's "for fun" makes it sound like it's rather flippant, huh? People forget how important doing things for fun is.

[hagrides]

Indeed. A source of joy is incredibly valuable everywhere you go, including here.

[onehole]

Right? What's life without a little happiness?

[hagrides]

Barely fit to be called an existence.

It is a pleasure to meet you, kidnapped friend. My name is Grimm.

[onehole]

Right?

[ HA HA HA this is getting too close to his many issues so glad to move onto introductions ]

I'm Tamotsu Fukuda. Fukuda is fine, Grimm.

[hagrides]

Hello, Fukuda. Would you like to see pictures of my child?

[This is how you make friends!]

[onehole]

YEAH, SURE! WHY NOT!

[hagrides]

[A picture of Grimm with the family (top image).]

The top left. Are they not adorable?

[onehole]

[ ............... huh. ]

Mmn! They're really, really adorable.

[hagrides]

[sometimes you find out halfway into a conversation that you're speaking to a bug, it happens]

I couldn't be more proud of them.

[onehole]

[ didn't even know bugs could have cults or circuses. learn something new every day. ]

What are their names? How old are they?

[hagrides]

The one who looks like me is Grimmchild, until they inherit the title of Grimm. They are roughly eight years old in human terms.

The other bug is a friend, not my child. They are known as the Knight, and I believe they would be at least a hundred years old at this point.