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Boom smiled, giving him a shrug. “Hey, don’t worry about it. When you have a noisy, itchy brain, you do things you probably wouldn’t now. I’m usually ignored on my world, because, like I said, airhead.”

Dread smirked, his gold tooth glinting in the light. “I don’t think ye’re an airhead. Ye seem pretty wise, to me.”

Boom chuckled. “And you don’t seem like some smelly ol’ pirate to me. Just a guy who maybe needed a friend.”

The pirate chuckled back, and held his hand out. “Aye. We are well met, Boom.”

Boom reached out to complete the handshake. “Right back atcha, Dread.”

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A little Knucklesverse ficlet, for your reading pleasure.

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“Rennie!”

Dread’s voice cut through the quiet of the Sanctuary, a wide grin spreading as his portal closed behind him. There weren’t many Knuckleses around at the moment, just Cyber, of course, a snoozing Q, and Ren.

The pirate made a beeline for his younger brother, eager to commence their usual pattern of insults and banter. Living life as a ‘respectable pirate’—whatever that was—made for smoother sailing with his crew, but sometimes he just felt like being a gremlin, and poking someone for a good bit of back and forth.

“Jus' the lad I been lookin' f'r! How's about ye an’ me have a nice game o' . . ."

Dread paused, noticing Ren’s lack of reaction when called his unwelcome nickname.

"Lad?"

Ren didn’t even turn Dread’s way. He sat with his back to him, his arms crossed and resting on his bent knees. At Dread’s call, he pulled his shoulders up, almost curling in on himself as he let out a huff.

"Get lost, Dread. I ain't in the mood."

Well. That was different.

I love when (any) Knux goes all wide eyed. He looks so innocent. Just wanna squish that little face of his.