Russian Roulette: Reloaded

* **Bolded dates** are explicitly mentioned in the story or strongly inferred in other ways.
	+ Sonya is born on December 28, 1950 as mentioned here. That means she turns into the shared last digit of the year. Example: 195**1** -> turning **1** year old; 196**9** -> turning 1**9** years old..
* Trying to do it so there's a new bullet point for *each day*.

## contradictory info

* "*So… the day before your birthday I ended up throwing a hammer through two walls. My current temporary office and the one on the opposite side of the hall.*" Sonya started, nudging the kid to shift a little so she could pull on the capsized couch. "*The day of, I had to go meet with my Boss and a few very annoying vory. I ended up throwing another hammer through six panes of bullet-proof glass. After pinning another annoying person to a wall with one of my axes, but I don't really count him as much.*"

## Potential futures Luce's seen

* Luce warns the others of what will happen. → The others actively hamper Checkerface's work. → Aria is 7 years old when the world starts falling apart.
* Second choice Sky → Verde leaves well before the Curse. → There is a patch over Lightning, but Cherep and soldier Rains leave.
	+ → The rest's life expectancy is cut short. → Aria will be able to have Yuni → But Yuni will only be alive a few months before the world falls apart.
	+ → Aria becomes the Sky after the second choice. → Everyone dies before anything is accomplished, → but the I Prescelti Sette continues on.
* Visions where Skull doesn't have a family, things are rough for him in the beginning and never completely smooths over, and he is brash and sometimes hysterically passive-aggressive.
* Skull has a family he is helpful if still pacifistic.
	+ → Sonya tells Lal the consequences of her military career.
		- → If badly handled, Lal will not join the 'Sette.
		- → Colonello gets the same brief as Lal from Sonya.
	+ → Verde has a secure place to stay until the Fated Day.
* Second choice Sky → Elements end up murdering him due to a messy betrayal.
* Third choice Sky (Timoteo?) → Can't keep the Elements together before becoming Arcobelano.
* Gather the Elements before 2 years (First choices refuse) → None of the second choice Elements survive becoming Arcobaleno, and most if not all are replaced by the third choice Elements. → The first choices find out and are displeased.
* Luce lasts less than a decade after becoming Arcobaleno → Aria will last about as long, just enough time to have Yuni → Will not last much longer, with no break in between Sky Arcobaleno that would be the end of The Giglio Nero line. (30 years)
	+ First choice Elements, one Rain stops the twinning with the other Rain, so there's only one Rain spot. → Clouds are the first to fall. "Via murder, murder and revenge, suicide via overwhelming opponents, grief and stress, or…" → Reborn is last to survive, either nothing happens or becomes Vindice.
		- → Representative Battles are not called even when everyone but Yuni and a Rain (Lal) die. → The 'Sette issues are straightened out. → Kawahira calls for the Representative Battles.
			* → The Vindice appear but back off due to Tsuna and Reborn.
			* → The Vindice appear and refuse to let it continue. → The Tri-ni-set cracks apart and the world with it.
* Break Cloud bond. → Terrible.
* Luce tells Kawahira how the Curse could be stopped cold. → Kawahira dismisses everything out of hand.

## References

1. ↑ He had been doing this for a millennia, he was really tired of being the Tri-ni-set Administrator. -Chapter 110 (April 1970)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "*Yes, although I have no idea why this man was ever mentioned in your books. Pierre-Antoine Carpentier was born three hundred and twelve years ago in Bordeaux, to Marie and Joseph Carpentier. Was a mason by trade, journeyman level, never attained a mastery. Until about sixteen-eighty-one, when any reports or mentions of him vanish.*" -Chapter 26 (Friday the 16 th of August, 1968)
3. ↑ A Storm mason? That was… interesting. Dockyards and ports were havens for criminals, though that much she probably should've guessed on her own. "*One of my books mentions him as a friend of my own country's Regnant Sophia Alekseyevna, in sixteen-eighty-five.*" -Chapter 26 (Friday the 16 th of August, 1968)
4. ↑ [...]He never liked tending to his sacrifices to ensure they would remain alive just long enough to be of use to him, although he was prone to doing it more and more until his recent two century 'break'. -Chapter 110 (April 1970)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "*For Ottavia's Fifty-fifth birthday, dear.*" The lady who had possession of her fingers informed her in an aside. "*We're going to put on a little show, but the suggestion was to have one girl of every Flame type participate. I figured the danger inherent in such a thing would give us a bit of a step up.*"][...] "*Are you going to be available on the ninth?*" The Misty Miss Tweets asked suddenly, looking for all the world like a cat sighting a particularly plump pigeon. -Chapter 30 (Wednesday the 25 th of December, 1968)
6. ↑ Ramiro Loggia, born October first in the year 1928 and died just two weeks ago. -Part 2, Chapter 22
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Problem was, the older Mafiya woman was thirty-six-years-old already. According to the Italian-born nurse, named Celia by her name-tag, now was the earliest she had to start any Sun Flame based therapy. To correct some of her internal damage in order to be able to conceive, before it would become more than just a little risky by nature to try. -Saturday the 14 th of January, 1967
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Peter was *almost* thirty, or thereabouts from what he had managed to extrapolate from the dates he could puzzle out from the not-quite-old newspapers around here. -Chapter 42 (Thursday the 10 th of April, 1969)
9. ↑ "Invasion attempts? Anywhere from once or twice every few months, if a coalition of groups get together might get up to bi-weekly or even more. How often has someone been successful in actually taking over?" Digging out a new white sapphire for him, the thief slid it across the table with a shrug. "It has happened. Last time the Italian criminal superpower Vongola took over for two weeks, and banned the drug trade from being allowed to pass through here. That was… almost thirty years ago." -Chapter 48 (Sunday the 27 th of April, 1969)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "…seven years? At best?" Guessed the hitman, ticking off whichever measurement of time off on his fingers as he counted backwards. "…six years and three-almost-four months. He's a little bit away from being thirty, but Ottavia held off on trading off with him until he was more than old enough." Part 2 Chapter 11 (Friday the 29 th of May, 1970)
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 11.7 11.8 11.9 As of the year 1970, by June, everyone is at the following age
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "As a matter of fact, around eighteen was exactly when I was in Mafia Land with the intent to never look back."[...]
Decades before her youngest foster daughter decided that wasn't entirely correct and sought out the Italian Sun Flame using nurse to prove it with Valera's conception and birth.
Between Arseniy getting six years for home invasion and assault, taking it for another vor so there was enough reasonable doubt to prevent him getting longer of a sentence, and the confirmation of something she had been scared of… Lisa hadn't exactly been in the best frame of mind.
Sure, now those old contacts and her work for those seven years meant she could help the youngest of her foster children rather well… but if Arseniy hadn't decided that he didn't want just anyone and only her…
"After Arseniy got out, vor and all, he didn't like that I was gone. I may have wanted children, but to him it wasn't really a thing to be bothered with. After confronting me about it in Mafia Land, he came back here and specifically worked another year to get the position he's in now. The vor who had been in charge was around our Pahkan's age after all." -Chapter 58 (Saturday the 14 th of June, 1969)
13. ↑ Shortly after Tatiana's fourteenth birthday she set her Dying Will Flame research to the side and asked Lisa where the damn moving island was now. -Chapter 6 (Thursday the 19 th of July, 1962
14. ↑ Skull very pointedly held the receiver far away from his ear as physically possible until Sonya stopped trying to belt out 'Happy Birthday' for their older sister.-p2 Chapter 19 (Sunday the 19th of July, 1970)
15. ↑ "I was seven, and it was my first kill." -Chapter 27 (Saturday the 21 st of September, 1968)
16. ↑ He could easily pass as a short sixteen or seventeen-year-old even if he was only barely fourteen, his years on the streets would likely always make him seem older than he was. -Friday the 1 st of March, 1968
17. ↑ "My father died from a wasting disease at age twenty-two. In front of me." The nurse hissed back viciously. "I will not lose another family member the same way. Suck it up."
18. ↑ "My parents basically aided and abetted my kidnapping at… five. I think. Might've been four. I don't remember too well now what age I was. Frankly, if Sonya hadn't happened along to make a fuss over it, I might've forgotten what year I was born on and my own birthday." -Chapter 62
19. ↑ Sure, now those old contacts and her work for those seven years meant she could help the youngest of her foster children rather well… but if Arseniy hadn't decided that he didn't want just anyone and only her… -Chapter 58 (Saturday the 14 th of June, 1969)
20. ↑ "You did. Why do you think it took him only three years to find you biological father, when the man had successfully hid himself from slavers and the vory of Saratov when they were actively hunting for him, you, and his miserable whore of a wife? He only found the bitch's corpse halfway through that search, the vory of Saratov stopped looking when Arseniy swore to them you were with me."
21. ↑ "You were also like, seven. Stalking an eight-year-old boy. That was cute, this is…?" Clarified the nurse unhelpfully, sitting back with a full plate of Korean food to munch on.
22. ↑ The preteen, who was by that point eleven to her eight years of age, almost burst a rib laughing at the irony.
23. ↑ Kind of scary and liberating after ten years of being informed of what he'd do or risk excruciating pain, but his new boss had never cared what he did as long as he wasn't useless. A few months of that against a few years of more restrictive living didn't exactly solve anything, but his being able to set the pace himself did. -Chapter 60
24. ↑ She spent a lot of time in January working up the nerve to steal a few building plans of high-end shops she intended to sharpen her cat burglary skills on. Then planning on how to get around the security systems and any possible guards, pricing what she was likely to pick up when she went so she'd know the order to prioritize, and how she was going to get to Kaluga and back with her 'hot' loot.
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 …did Cherep ever take that Vow himself? The thief took hers at nine, Tatiana at twelve… but she couldn't recall if he had.
26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 Skull very pointedly held the receiver far away from his ear as physically possible until Sonya stopped trying to belt out 'Happy Birthday' for their older sister.-p2 Chapter 19 (Sunday the 19th of July, 1970)
27. ↑ "My first ex-girlfriend? We were together two years." He informed her bluntly. "We were sixteen, not too shabby for a teenage fling. Broke up mutually just before I even knew you existed, because we were going in different directions and the effort to just stay together didn't outweigh the benefits. Natalina still works in Mafia Land, I'll introduce you two if you want." -Chapter 94 (Saturday the 27 th of December, 1969)
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 I have to do at bare minimum two contracts a year. Mafia Land's fiscal year ends the same as everyone else, which means the thirty-first of December.
29. ↑ 29.0 29.1 The first one Lisa helped her get had been a one-year type deal the thief could've let go after it expired, at twelve she got it redone for three years. At fifteen and right before she left with Cherep for the circus, she had it renewed. Her latest renegotiation was actually just an upping of the so-called 'life insurance' policy in return for adding another year to how long they had her services contracted for.
30. ↑ Fiorella huffed a rather breathless and tired laugh, but then alarmingly she started to tear up as she picked a way to the flagstone path leading into the back-patio of the castle. "He lied to me for eight years, after I had three children with him, and every day of five years of marriage. What the fuck?" -Part 2, Chapter 6 (Saturday the 16 th of May, 1970)
31. ↑ "*…the last time Arseniy took us here for dinner, Lisa's birthday before Tats left home, she got the shashlik and let us have a taste.*" Sonya offered slowly after puzzling over his request for a moment.
32. ↑ CXLI "The… incident this summer actually started about late last year," Renato informed her over the restaurant's table once they were done eating, "I took a hit that ended up being a contract kill for the last living son of some Don with a respectable reach, even if he lacked the power to effectively operate that far outside of his sphere of influence."
33. ↑ Chapter 96: Grey eyes narrowed on the files in her hand, then those eyes flicked up to him. "No, wait. You were… six? When we met and Shamal was three at the end of that year. He's six now, you're either ten at best or nine."
34. ↑ A week tasked every shred of social competence she had, and Dimitry had to rescue her from a conversation more than once.
35. ↑ The ass could've warned her that was happening when they had dinner earlier in the week to hash out what were the details behind each other's recent actions.
36. ↑ The hitman simply shrugged. "Less mutual, but I was apparently not what she wanted in a man. She broke up with me, about three years ago. I don't know where Irene is anymore. She used to work the hitwoman's trade with me, but she doesn't anymore. Odds are that she's dead, or went back to her originating pocket of the mafia for the rest of her life and failed to tell me." -Chapter 94 (Saturday the 27 th of December, 1969)
37. ↑ 37.0 37.1 There was the sheep's head in Norway, which she could've gone her whole life quite happily without knowing how that tasted, to the recent crocodile meat back in Edfu she didn't really mind all that much. Crina had happily informed her that the thief had missed out on the monkey brains and scorpion soup, which Cherep had tried just before the circus left China, and the dung beetles from when they got into India.
38. ↑ "Tomorrow, eight in the morning, I'm taking you into the Thieves' Hall. I'm picking out the next couple contracts, and you'll watch me do it, so eventually you can line things up for me while I'm gone." -Chapter 23
39. ↑ "*I fail to see why I should behave in any manner than the one I want to, even if I am on vacation.*" Insisted the thief, sticking her own fork on the last of her chicken to give more of her attention to her sister. "*I am going to raid bookstores for something to read on the beach, hire a private investigator tomorrow, and generally be lazy in not stealing or thinking about how to steal something for a month. Cherep will be so proud of us.*"
40. ↑ Sonya was now fully dreading of what else the redhead would try dumping off on her. The man from last night had been a little too eager to see what a Russian girl was like in bed, and way too crass and upfront about it. -Chapter 26 (Wednesday the 7 th of August, 1968)
41. ↑ "I did. Damn school posted this shit at the last possible minute, I suppose." He informed her flatly, shoving the brim of his hat down over to shade his eyes just to scratch at the back of his head. "I accepted my next set of contracts yesterday, then got this thing bright and early." -Chapter 28 (Friday the 27 th of September, 1968)
42. ↑ However, maybe he could get her more interested in the vory back home before she brought home some foreign man. Like the hitman lurking in the corner keeping most of his eye on his ward and the other half on his damn foster daughter. "Dmitriy got arrested."Humming absently, she place a finger on the text and looked up at him. "I was wondering how he managed to duck Galina for a month or two long project. How long has he been putting that off?" -Chapter 29 (Monday the 23 rd of December, 1968)
43. ↑ "*No, actually, that's not bad.*" It took her a year to consciously do it, herself. Slow, steady work on it did seem to be the faster method to gain control rather than an instant use/no control route. "*That's more than enough for right now. After the first of the year, head back to Moscow.*"
44. ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 Sonya spent three days and two nights carefully pawing her way through countless offices, following oil-field money to where the ever loving hell it was going.
45. ↑ The third night, she broke into a prison. Of course King Idris I imprisoned political dissidents, who didn't in this world?
46. ↑ Two days of playing messenger girl might be it, too.
47. ↑ "Dama *is not here.*" Bjǫrn interjected rather exasperatedly, tucking his files under one arm and glaring at the both of them. "*She will be at the end of the month at best. I can take a message, but that is it.*"
48. ↑ "*Nono's eldest.*" Renato volunteered after scoping out the extent of the damage done to the room. "*A kid more than half a year younger than him.*"
49. ↑ Lisa would admit he was a bit ornery and stuck in his ways, but Gedeon was doing more than looking pretty and thuggish standing in a corner of his father's office. He was a slightly younger contemporary of Arseniy's actually, a friend as much as vor could be to each other with only a decade of difference between them. Being taught Sun Flames by his youngest foster daughter was a bit galling, but he was keeping an admirable open mind about it all. -Chapter 33 (Wednesday the 26 th of February, 1969)
50. ↑ 50.0 50.1 "Forgive me for letting you have your own way, I had thought you wouldn't appreciate being ordered around much by a girl a decade younger than you." -Chapter 44 (Tuesday the 15 th of April, 1969)
51. ↑ "*Fadei sent us Irinei first, obviously. Kazimir only the third to pass over to us actually, Zarya is doing secretary things for Gedeon and has been for… almost two days now.*" -Chapter 39 (Tuesday the 1 st of April, 1969)
52. ↑  "Sonya," Galina called out before the Storm-Cloud could exit the imprisoned Rain's office, "Tuesday you have a meeting with the two-eighty-one School District Intendent." -Chapter 38 (Saturday the 29 th of April, 1969)
53. ↑ Almost twelve years in age, and in a position even more awkward than Sonya's. The oldest of the Zolotov Mists, but the youngest of the Flame users the thief had specifically taught something to. Second 'generation' so to say, after her, Tatiana, and Dimitry.
54. ↑ "The Wo Hop To Triad paid us a visit yesterday." Galina chipped in for him, sorting her pile of papers one last time then pulling the letter in Middle French to try translating for her. --Chapter 41 (Tuesday the 8 th of April, 1969)
55. ↑ After them it was Andrei and Usov. Which… one was a Sun without a serious dedication to murder or theft and the other a fucking twelve-year-old Mist.
56. ↑ "*I have a visiting slot with Dimitry coming up next week, I would like for the Rains to gain a bit of closure before I remove the option entirely.*"
57. ↑ Especially since this weekend was the slot she had gotten to visit Dimitry within, and the three salvageable Rains would be using that to independently confirm the necessity of her actions.
58. ↑ 58.0 58.1 "Tats has volunteered to heal you tonight and tomorrow. Today you risk only burns and maybe a few superficial cuts. Tomorrow, broken bones and amputation. The day after, we will head out to the abandoned sector to do a bit of demolition work using my fist and your body." -Chapter 49 (Tuesday the 29 th of April, 1969)
59. ↑ "*Today?*" Renato demanded, easily keeping what was apparently a piece of incriminating evidence out of his grasp. "*Apparently last week.*" Shamal crossed his thin arms over his equally child-sized chest, forcing her to compensate for him shifting around without him holding on as well. "*Or at least according to the teacher's gossip.*"
60. ↑ Mirror Lady Anna was the one to return Shamal to them, looking… distinctly amused as she did so. Another of her too-young Flame users, she was barely two years older than the Mist lead… who was twelve.
61. ↑ Physically the Zolotov Pahkan was healed up, as fine as any man nearly seventy-two might be in their dirty careers. -Chapter 65 (Saturday the 28 th of June, 1969)
62. ↑ …slapping a three-year-old because the boy was just miserably missing his mom and you didn't want to hear it, or wouldn't shut up when told to, was another thing entirely. -Chapter 82 (Thursday the 23th of October, 1969)