Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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How can you overcome impostor syndrome when you are nothing but an impostor? When your only role in life -- to destroy your sire -- is already done and dusted?

When the police finally found you, after you had quite frankly quit trying to run and instead drowned your self-loathing in the bottom of a bottle, you thought that they were going to take you to jail. (As if anything could compete with the hell of the Underworld that you had already escaped.)

But they came with not a handcuff but a handshake. You kept your eye on the one who called himself Phoenix, clad in the ridiculous lucha libre of the F-Zero races of yesteryear as if he lived in a time where the races hadn't been banned after The Accident because he then said that he *did* come from a time where...hmm, no, the races had been banned, but they had started back up again. The difference between your timeline and his was that instead of a 3 year moratorium on the F-Zero race was its complete elimination, and in its elimination the crime syndicates turned to worse things to feed their demons. This timeline was off because the accident had been worse. Instead of minor injuries was the death of a person key to the timeline.

Your sire.

Only someone of close enough genetic lineage could make things right. Maybe you would have a purpose after all?

This would not have been possible without the original instrumental arrangement and performance that inspired all of this by @SheaViolin : listen to the instrumental on her channel: youtube.com/watch?v=H6yYAtXP_G8

And the vision was brought to life with the pixel artwork of @killerrabbitmedia

🎵 Song: Big Blue
🎮 Game: F-Zero
🎼 Composer: Naoto Ishida

Lyrics:
This is a story about a
“King” of a “castle” disguised in
Shadows and treacheries such that
No one could dare to checkmate him~

When all the “nobles” decided
To take their “horses” and sheriffs
To depose that “king” they could find
Naught but the “king”’s endless victims

But…ev’ry villain…has a weakness.
This…”king”’s sadism…was his thirst for…

Risk, and chance. Gambling with life
Never his own but others
Roll the dice! Edge of the knife
The thrill of watching others
Fight! To Win with no holds barred
If the prize money won’t suffice
A chance…to meet the “king”

Our story’s hero is a most unlikely one
Not a credit to his name, just a no one
Transient hopping from bar to bar
Most likely to be caught smashed in some street brawl
But against the shadows and treacheries, he stands above it all

His past is shrouded in a mystery
Who is he? And where did he come from?
Some say this lowlife became a vigilante after his betrayal in the Underworld…
Some say he’s ex-military, a captain from an era with a civil society
And not this wild west of an intergalactic tyranny of endless fiefdoms
Where your only justice is the warlord that you come from
Could such a man infiltrate and disgrace the most powerful kingdom of crime in our age
If he entered the king’s “jousting tourney” and he won it all
For just a chance to meet the greatest “king”
To depose him once and for all


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