Talk:Koon Aguero Agnis/History/@comment-26854521-20160815223818/@comment-26484417-20160816235332

Question by question for structure: “First of all who would adopt him, someone from one of the branches previously competing with his?” My suggestion was the main branch; we know that adoption into Great Families isn’t unheard off. And when even completely unrelated Rankers can join (i.e., be adopted by) Great Families as we learnt from Ren’s conversation with YHS, I see no reason why inter-family "adoption" should be an issue.

“Could they ever trust him and if not could they still satisfy his ambition with tasks that don't require that trust?” Trust doesn't appear to be very common even among members of the same branch family, but--either way--trust can always be built / earned.

“How would his accomplishments be seen from the outside?” As quite impressive, or so I imagine. If you meant something else, then I didn’t quite understand the issue addressed by this question.

“Would it actually benefit the branch he was adopted in if someone adopted achieved something impressive?” That quite depends on whether it’s an achievement that benefits the individual exclusively, or the family he represents, but essentially yes; why would the Great Families allow unrelated Rankers to join them otherwise if there were no benefit to the Family?

In any case, I’m not insisting that this is the only course of action in case they knew of his involvement, but I maintain that--if they knew for sure, or were sufficiently confident in the rumours--they would definitely at least consider having him on their side before they would attempt to get rid of him. Especially since he was so young, they would have far greater chances of moulding him into someone who is on their side even without anything one would call "manipulation".

Even with your preferred wording, the essence of what I said still applies. Anyway, we will have to agree to disagree on the issue of whether he cares/ed about his own branch family or mother; I suspect that the first / only thing he eventually grew to care about was Maria. And that a decent treatment by the main branch (or other branch that would adopt him) would likely go a long way to remedy his lack of care.

It would still make for a good story in the future, just not for the same story you have in mind; it's essentially in a creative writer’s job description to be able to do that.