“Dragon is an absent father”
I personally like to imagine that Dragon, at 36 years old, a decade or two into building his rebel organization after defecting from the military and going rogue, seriously had no intention of having a child and, when faced with the fact that he knocked someone up, was well within the realm of common sense to stand there thinking “girl I’m hoping we can squat in this abandoned warehouse long enough to do the arms deal next Tuesday without being raided by the cops or caught in a trap.”
Like I too would’ve sent that kid off to someone who had raised a child and who I figured would at least be able to feed it with a legally acquired salary.
“But he took Sabo!”
Yeah so 14 whole years later, about 12 years after Roger’s execution, with a well established operation (going on 30smth years) and base, he was rescuing civilians from a fire and saw some lil British brat fall in the street in front of him and essentially go “I hate being a world noble I hope they all rot”. Next day he sees the same lil blond bitch’s dinghy get KO’d by a celestial dragon’s bazooka. Dragon pulls the kid from the wreckage, gets him to the only doctor he can currently trust, and they find out the kid lost his memory and knows only his name and “fuck the government” and refuses to go back to the world nobles.
So fine ok they decide to teach the kid how to lie better and defend himself, except turns out he’s got a black belt in something or other and a lot of unchecked rage. At that point literally where else can you put him??
Give me dragon who did NOT want children and is staring at Ivankov in panic “Iva the ten year old who has the drive and ability to kill cops keeps quoting Marx at me and just said he wants to go hunt dinner for us I don’t want child soldiers but I’m honestly not sure how ethical it is to release him at this point.”
