Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26104528-20160216181001/@comment-26130256-20160222081940

''So, she's got a brother too, and her old lady's a dentist. Score at least two for things I didn't know.''

"You crazy, doll?" Azulius laughed. "Half the reason I hang out with you Flagg types is so I can talk about myself without dancing around everything.  Just don't get me started on my, ahem, 'summer job' in Atlas, unless you've got a nice secure room to talk it."

"So, my family.  Might as well start with my dear old dad, Sienna "The Sneak".  Little shorter than me, but stocky enough that he won't blow away in a storm.  Besides being the family underboss, he was our big stealth guru.  Hard to believe he and Trigo "The Tornado" are brothers, but he taught me most of what I know about being sneaky.  That, and he's got a serious tea addiction.  I know, a Cardamom with a vice, unheard of."

"Then you've got my aunt Galatea.  Sweet woman, never got heavily involved with the family business.  But holy cow does she have a silver tongue.  Thirty minutes of talking, and you'd take a bullet for her, smiling.  Now she lives in Menagerie, married some official of the National Bank.  Everyone says that when it comes to people skills, I took after Gally more than I ever did my mother."

"Speaking of which, Opal Cardoso.  Easy enough to steal her maiden name for my Beacon cover ID.  Couldn't ask for a better mother.  But believe me, she has her strange habits.  Like how her big hobbies are chemistry and gardening, especially all the poisonous stuff in the world.   There's a reason Vio and I never played in the garden when were kids.  As far as I know, she's never done anything criminal, but she can be plenty scary when she wants to be.  Which is why I try to downplay all the messes I get into here in Vale.  You've seen how protective we Cardamoms can be, then add in a mother's fury and an encyclopedic knowledge of poisons."

"Next up the totem pole is my Grandpa Ochre, the Don.  Short, thin, and every other classic grandparent trope.  Except that he runs the biggest crime family in Vacuo.  Great strategist.  It was him who first buddied up with your boss and got the family a discount on all that good Flagg tech, plus the profit share.  Of course, he's got a lot of skeletons in the closet, even by our standards.  Comes with being the Don, I suppose."

"And then," Azulius's face darkened, and his shoulders fell. "There's my grandmother, Rosa Cardamom.  Riposi in pace.  Her story is just that, a whole other story."