You Still remember that day, Do you not?
When you understood the place that the world has given you.
You were young, weak, poor. And you asked why.
Why should you be content to silently view the world from the background, alone and silent? Why was it that you had to share with those children the coins that you worked for?
You hated that, didn't you? Having your hours of work be thrown to the side as someone else reaps the spoils of your work?
It was unfair.
Why was it unfair? Why was it that while you worked, they reaped the benefits?
"Happy Birthday Kiddo, I got you a present!" Each year, you smiled when the Agent came to give you a visit, hoping that he finally found someone willing to have you, willing to take you away from all the other children, to give you a stable roof to live under, away from these rats who did nothing but benefit from your work.
And each year, that smile grew dimmer and sadder, Nobody came to take you.
"Sorry Kiddo, But hey, Look here, I got you this," The Agent smiled jovially as he gave you an old hand-me-down of some handheld console, "I know this isn't really your style, Kids like you should be out there playing Basketball and all that, but I think this will give you a bit of entertainment you can't get out there,"
That Gameboy Advanced was the first thing you were ever gifted. It wasn't payment for work, but an actual Gift.
And it was yours.
"Hey Guys! Look what I Found in BLUEBLOOD's bag!" Marcus, one of the bigger kids in the Orphanage, smiled widely, showing off his dirty yellow teeth as he waved in his hands something that wasn't his.
"Woah, Is that Kirby? Isn't that a Girl's game?" One of the other children ran up to the bigger boy, laughing at the image on the screen of that Gameboy.
"Yeah! BLUEBLOOD plays with girl toys! BLUEBLOOD plays with girl toys! Haha!" They laughed to themselves, Their oily hands smearing and dirtying the console. Your console.
It wasn't theirs to touch.
"Give it back!" You yelled at them, but they laughed at your face. And why wouldn't they? They were taller than you, bigger than you.
Stronger than you.
"You want it back?" Marcus laughed, "Catch!" The fat boy yelled as he threw the console over your head, into the hands of another child.
"Hey!"
"Haha, Stupid BLUEBLOOD thought we'd give him his girl toy back," The other boy laughed as he threw the Console back to Marcus.
You ran after it, jumping to try and catch it, but Marcus was still taller than you.
He caught your console, holding it above his head with his one hand, and used the other to push you back.
"This isn't funny!" You cried, your little hands barely reaching over the boy's head as you struggled to get your gaming console, "It's mine, Give it back!"
"Nuh-uh, It's mine now! And you wanna know what I'm going to do with it?" Marcus smiled, his face never looked more punchable than it did in that moment, "I'm gonna' do this!"
You watched helplessly as he threw his arm down, the Console flying out of his hands and smashing into the ground, breaking apart as old and used plastic collided with the cold concrete floor.
That second-hand, hand-me-down, old Gameboy Advanced, lay shattered on the floor, the screen cracked beyond repair, buttons loose, and plastic ruined.
It was your first gift, It was yours, not his. And this Child, this Bastard, broke it.
How dare he? How dare this stupid, fat, insolent Idiot break your gift, your treasure.
"Hahaha- Hey Wait! Let me go! Hey-"
So you broke his nose.
You didn't stay in that orphanage long after that, they moved you to another one across the city.
Where you could hopefully start anew, get some friends, meet a family that would take you in.
But you didn't care. Why would you? Friends are useless, All they do is leech off your hard work, take what's yours for themselves, and reap from what you sow.
"No more," you promised yourself, No more will you be pushed around and taken advantage of. You'll become someone who'll never be pushed around, Someone who'll never have to bow to anybody else, to listen to the demands of those bigger or stronger than him.
You'll reach the top of humanity, the one-percent of the one-percent. The best of the Best.
Number One!
You don't need friends for that, they'll just drag you down. All you needed was knowledge and money, a lot of money.
Money that you didn't have.
So you got to work, You studied at school harder than any other student. Outside of school, you worked part-time jobs to raise more money.
Fast Food, Retail, Babysitting, You did it all. You couldn't be picky. Being Number One is a hard task, you'll need every advantage you can get.
And once you finished high school, you Immediately joined the Navy, becoming a dog of the government. A Good credit score, Free College education, and a fast pass to rising higher in society.
You might not end up as the President, but a four-star commissioned officer is fairly close. Perhaps you'll even do the impossible and become the first Five-Star Commissioned Officer in the Navy in over Sixty years.
It was a good job, and you were good at that job.
"BLUEBLOOD, I am Major Harold McConway, and I have a proposition that I think you'll like to hear." You were good enough, that the higher-ups decided that you'd be more useful somewhere else.
"I'm listening..."
And so you transferred from the Navy, joined a team of Marines, and began doing jobs the government wanted to do but couldn't publicly authorize.
How sneaky of you.
"From now on, as long as you are with us, These nicknames will be your new name, is that understood?!"
"Sir Yes Sir!" You shouted, trying to hold back the pride in your voice, as they stood beside the three other soldiers chosen to be part of your little group.
"The names you had before this moment, forget about them! They don't matter to us! They do not exist to us! Is that understood?!"
"Sir Yes Sir!"
The Major yelled, and you repeated those same three words, like a good dog barking at his owner's commands. It's almost pathetic to look at.
He passed by you all, giving you your Nickname, your new names for the foreseeable future.
"You know me as Major Harold McConway of the US Marine Corps. I want you idiots to forget that name right now! From now on you will be calling me Pelican!"
"Sir Yes Sir!"
Birds, How Original for a Black Operation Unit.
"Ensign BLUEBLOOD! Your new name will be Kingfisher!"
"SIR YES SIR!"
Oh Dearest Nephew, Looking at these Memories of yours, So cute.
You really fit your new Name.
Platinum.
I'll be looking forward to when we next meet, It is getting mighty boring here in Limbo. Bring some new memories for me to look at, Your mind is the most entertaining thing I've seen in Centuries.
I'll Be waiting.
Toodles~
Blueblood reminds me of THE LIONSMITH, from Cultist Simulator
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I don't anything about Cultist Simulator, but the card art has the numerals VIII which are the same as the Tarot Card for Strength, which fits Blueblood very well.
Now he just needs to become an Orangutan and wear a captain's uniform.
To quote the Wicked Witch of the West,
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He’s already got the boat, so he’s halfway there.
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THE LIONSMITH is an Hour, and a god-from-flesh, meaning he is someone who ascended from a human to the highest beings in the CS world. His aspects are EDGE, HEART, FORGE.
EDGE is the principle of violence, betrayal, cunning, and pain. Its followers are characterized by cunning, bloodlust, and often a sense of artfulness in their violence.
HEART is the principle of life, preservation, protection, union, and the drumbeat and dance that must never cease. It is unstoppable in the face of adversity, and its followers are often characterized by relentless cheerfulness and obsessive determination.
FORGE is the principle of transformation, artifice, fire, and destruction. Its followers are characterized by ingenuity, mechanical thinking, and superhuman strength.
Thus if you combine all his aspects you have an unrelenting force that eternally strives to remake itself stronger in the fires of violence.
The Nature of THE LIONSMITH is to be stronger; to be seamless; to make monsters.
Also THE LIONSMITH as an eternal rivalry with THE COLONEL. Which is known as the Corrivalry. I won't get into the COLONEL, just know that The Uncle reminds me of him
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Seriously, why does every story devolve into harems???
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It's not a Harem tho. Harem means 1 guy with several girls simultaneously. Is Twilight considered a Harem because Bella has both Edward and Jacob?
It feels like you can't write a story with romance in it that has more than one love interest without someone calling it a Harem.
Love Triangles aren't Harems, Having a one-night stand with someone doesn't make them part of a Harem just because you had sex.
Harems have very specific definitions, this story isn't a Harem, I think the fact that I wrote almost 100 chapters of this and even had an entire Arc where the characters all but spell out how their love life works, should already go to show that this story isn't a Harem.
I have no clue where people get the idea that if a story has more than one love interest, it's automatically a Harem.
Is Harry Potter considered a Harem story? Harry dated Cho Chang, basically dated Hermione, and even ended up with Ginny, Does that make Harry Potter a Harem Protagonist? Of course not! That would be fucking stupid!
Saying "The Love Interests were going to be Cosmos as the main focus with Raven as a lesser Focus," Is like saying "Edward was going to be the main focus with Jacob as the lesser focus" When talking about Twilight, which is obvious to anybody who ever read a book.
Of course Edward was going to win in the end, He's the main love interest for most of the books, and Jacob only existed to throw a wrench into the story and spice things up, People might have liked him, but everybody knew he wasn't going to end with Bella.
Cosmos is the Edward here, Raven Inkwell and literally every other love interest are Jacob, They spice the story up, and some people might root for them, but it is obvious they're not going to end up winning the MC's heart at the end of the story.
That does not make the story a Harem, And it is so frustrating needing to explain this extremely simple concept.
People need to learn what a Harem is before commenting about a story turning into a Harem, It's frustrating.
TLDR: Having several love interests does not make the story a Harem.
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I apologize, I am not caught up in reading and was going off what that guy said. So long as it remains non-harem, I will continue to read.
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Oh. I thought you were caught up since your comment appeared on chapter 91, lol. Sorry.
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Yeah it's a site issue, when folks comment from the chapter list page it almost always puts the comment on the latest chapter, regardless which chapter the comment they're replying to comes from. This also prevents the original commenter from getting a reply notification. 😇
The problems with black ops is that things are off the book. If you are caught, you are alone on your own, perhaps hunted by another black ops to vlean up.
Eben if successful, the moment you might want to retire, you become a lose end. No honor under the ruthless and the mercyless. Just another job, that never happend.
SII loreeee
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If you think this is Lore, just wait for April 27th :)
Well well, his life sucked.