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We won’t talk about why I cranked this out in three days. (I really needed to unwind apparently TvT)

To provide some context, Noa Jones (Cassandra’s husband) is an archeologist that oversees the Nexus Museum, which is an extended section of the Nexus Hotel and primarily focuses on yokai historical artifacts from around the world.

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When your imaginary ghost friend lore dumps and accidentally teaches you how to trigger your uncle with one word.

I got inspired by a comment on this post.

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Peepaw’s starting to piece things together with CJ’s imaginary friend-

I love baby CJ

I need baby CJ

GIVE ME (US) BABY CJ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...please!?

It doesn’t have color yet, but I do have this!

Junior’s perpetually stuck at 15 years old, and this is CJ at the same age.

(Sorry for spamming, I just love them. 😔)

The whole family is pretty protective of each other, kind of the whole “mess with one of us, mess with all of us” ordeal. Especially when it comes to the kids.

However, there is one specific occasion that always sticks out in CJ’s mind.

He isn’t particularly close with his Uncle Leo, since the old turtle tends to be a bit more closed off with CJ than with the other cousins.

It’s not intentional, and Leonardo doesn’t even realize he does it, but it’s always bothered CJ (even when a certain ghost friend told him the story of Junior.)

CJ reminds Leo so much of his former student, and the pain and guilt the memories evoke hurt him a lot. Of course it’s not the kid’s fault, but it takes a long time for Leo to move on.

One day, CJ wandered off when his parents weren’t looking during a festival in Yokai City, not thinking much of it, and accidentally took a wrong turn into an unpleasant neighborhood.

Some older kids decided the youngster was fresh meat to entertain their time. . . Or they did until Leonardo showed up. Trust me when I say the guy can be quite intimidating when he wants to be.

What I'm asking, is can Casey see the effect baby CJ's words had on his sensei? Is he able to be there for Leo right now, even if Leo doesn't know it?

Also how do you portray so much emotion in your comics it's killing me you're seriously amazing 😭

Okay, first of all thank you so much! Emotion has always been important to me so I’m glad I’m able to get it across how I hoped!

As for Junior and CJ, it has a lot to do with how I perceive ninpo to work, some of my own personal headcanons on the matter.

While Junior did die, his spirit continued to live on thanks to his own mystics he developed from spending so much time with the Hamatos (it kinda rubbed off on him to put it simply, especially since Leo basically adopted the kid.)

The spirit plane is no respecter of timeline branches, and when his and Leo’s timeline linked up with Mikey’s, Junior’s spirit was able to latch onto CJ’s when he was born. It’s what keeps him around in the physical realm.

HOWEVER. He can’t wander very far from CJ, as much as he would want to spend more time with his sensei. On top of that, CJ is the only one who can interact with him in this realm.

Oh my gosh, you've ruined me XD

I will never not be able to think of Junior as Telemachus anymore haha.