Being a long lived species that does not go through menopause gives you a lot more time to have kids, and the kids can have much larger age gaps. Anzhong and Ryoku actually have a half brother that was alive during the Sengoku period.

Anura's original due date was in late October, like Emi's, but Minerva had to have an emergency c-section due to medical complications. She had a high chance of survival, but it was still very scary for everybody.

The EUP is divided into four branches: The Royal Guard (RG), The Air Guard (AG), The Land Guard (LG), and The Water Guard (WG). Their closest US counterparts are: the Secret Service, State Guard, police, FBI, Department of Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security for the RG; the Air Force, State Guard, and CIA for the AG; Army, Marines, and State Guard for the LG; and the Coast Guard and Navy for the WG. Each guard is responsible for the research and development of their personnel

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Anzhong purposely keeps his accent think to make people think he's fresh off the boat. This causes people to underestimate him, and he can throw people off their game. This has proven helpful in the courtroom and when negotiating deals.
Brigid does it because she prefers the sound of her native accent and finds it hilarious when people assume she's some uneducated hillbilly and she ends up being able to "science 'em up a tree".

In order of when they learned them.
Brigid: Irish, English, Spanish, French, ASL, Japanese, Russian, Mandarin, Navajo, German, Norwegian, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Ponish
Sunset: Ponish, Thestral Pegasin, Griffonian, Minotausian, Zebrican, Dragon Tongue, English, ASL, Japanese, Irish, French, Legalese

Brigid is inspired by the Irish tri-goddess of the same name, and Minerva is inspired by the Roman goddess of the same name with a little bit of Athena thrown in there. Back when the Romans occupied the British isles, the goddesses Brigid and Minerva were combined to create the goddess Brigantia.
This was a complete accident. I had no idea about Brigantia when I created the characters.

When Cypher was 17, he and his friends were drinking in a clearing in the Everfree Forest known as Inebriation Land by CHS students and alumni. Cypher got black out drunk, and next thing he knew, he was waking up in the hospital, missing his left eye. All of his friends say that they don't remember what happened either, but he doesn't believe them. He suspects that a friend of his that was jealous of him did it and the others are covering it up. He no longer speaks with any of them, and

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Since the first EQG movie came out in 2013, that's been my jumping off point. That puts the year that Sunset came to Earth as 2008.

It's the drawing Brigid made to demonstrate to Sunset that she and Anzhong were going to take care of her.