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Araluen and Kieran are the children of Sanguine D. Atlas and Silvers Esmeray. He was the captain of the infamous Blood pirates and she was his first mate and sister of Silvers Rayleigh the Dark king. The blood pirates were some of the best and most rumored to be 2nd only to Gol D. Rodgers crew. Atlas and Rodger actually had an alliance of sorts and started the idea of the pirate Warlords and sectioning areas of the seas into territory to protect. Of course, since the World government had no hand in the arrangement they sought to destroy the balance so they could have a puppet in the new order. They ended up making an example of Rodger and have attempted to erase the Blood pirates from the wide memory of the world.
Atlas is imprisoned in Impel Down on level 6, he has his own private cell and is bund in Sea prism and was rendered mute by Vegapunk at Sengoku's request. He was too dangerous to release and too important to outright kill due to having eaten the Blood demon fruit at a young age. No one knows where it would appear if he was killed so it is better to keep him "alive". Esmeray was also deemed too important to kill for her devil fruit abilities, she ate the Psychic fruit so she could communicate with others since she was born mute. The World Government "brainwashed" her into joining the CP units and helping them gather intel forcefully. Because of that, she's allowed free roam of the seas as long as she sends her reports to Sengoku as well as her boss. Since she's had so much freedom she decided to become a mole for the revolutionary army so she could gain their help in releasing her husband. The plus side to her situation is that she does have full access to Impel Down and her position and abilities allow her to be able to visit her husband whenever she wishes with no repercussions.
Due to the semi-frequent visits she became pregnant with twins 3 years after the disbanding of the Blood pirates. The few people she alerted to the predicament were; Dragon, Rayleigh, Atlas, Whitebeard, and Garp. Garp was only informed because of Dragon's insistence. She ended up having the twins aboard Whitebeards ship with Marco delivering the kids. She stayed aboard their ship for the first 2 years of the twins' lives only leaving to keep her cover as a CP agent. Once the twins turned 2 they were passed over to Rayleigh and Shakky for care as Esmeray had to take on a more in-depth cover since she had been partially absent for 2 years. Rayleigh quickly grew to love his niece and nephew and they had quite a few misadventures around Sabaody to Shakky's dismay. When the kids turned 5 Garp showed up with a letter from Esmeray asking him to take over their care since the government was trying to look into Rayleigh again. Of course, at that time Garp also had Ace and Luffy in his care and was very quickly becoming tired of dealing with 4 kids under 6, so he hatched a plan to use Dandan and her crew as caretakers for the quartet so he could keep the kids much safer. Araluen became fast friends with Luffy and assisted in looking after him regularly as Ace and Kieran loved to go on their own misadventures.
On the island Ace and Kieran quickly became the bane of Dandan's existence due to their constant misadventures, they usually won her favor back with the various animals they trapped though. Araluen usually focused on helping her around the shack and creating trinkets to sell in the neighboring towns to help bring in some income. After a year or so she ended up joining the ASL pirates + Kieran on their adventures. On days when Skanks and his crew would show up, she and Kieran would disappear from the group and always be stuck to the red-haired pirates like glue. They dearly missed traveling the seas and would often join Luffy in begging Shanks to join the crew. Every time he of course turned them down because they were too young. The Twins started calling him "Uncle Shanks" once he reviled to them that he knew their parents and their Uncle Rayleigh. They always badgered him and his crew for more stories about their parents which just fueled the fire of the ASL crew to become pirates much to Garp's dismay. When they turned 6 their mother returned to get them for an assignment. She took them and joined up with the marine commander Donquixote Rosinante to assist in his goal of taking down his brother and finding a cure for Trafalgar. She ended up leaving all 3 kids with Rosinante for a month as she tracked down and stole the Opi Opi no Mi for him. She ended up providing cover for him so he had time to feed Trafalgar the fruit and she then protected and took all 3 kids from the ensuing chaos. She took them to the North Blue and along the way the rescued a baby bear mink from slavers and left Trafalgar and the bear with a trustworthy guardian there before returning her kids to Dandan. When they turned 8, shortly after Luffy ate the devil fruit and Shanks lost his arm before leaving, their mother showed up along with Garp to take the kids off of Dandan's hands. Ace and Luffy of course went with Garp a few days later and the twins left with Esmeray, Dragon, and an unconscious Sabo.
From there the twins grew up as part of the revolutionary army and that's when they started realizing the legacy impact their parents had on them. Both twins could speak telepathically, move small objects without touching them, set up a permeant telepathic link with permission from the recipient, and go into bloodlust fueled rages if pushed far enough. Kieran specifically could extend the rages longer than Aralune and had a partial blood devil transformation. Araluen on the other hand could hijack den den moshis and control 1-2 liters of blood. All at age 8. After the discovery of these new abilities, Esmeray left them with Dragon for the next two years for more extensive training. Once the kids were 10 Kieran had full control over his partial transformation and bloodlust and Aralune had been training with the medics honing her control over blood as well as the den den moshis. At that point Esmeray returned with 2 small boxes for her children, the boxes contained some new experimental devil fruits she had stolen from the government under the cover of a revolutionary raid. All that she knew about them is that they were sea water-based and would allow the kids to keep their ability to swim even after eating them. Both fruits were mainly blue one was shaped like starfruit and the other like lychee. The Lychee one had small rainbows bordered in black swirling around it while the Starfruit one was shifting tones of the blue like the ocean. Kieran chose the Lychee shaped one while Aralune took the starfruit shaped one. The lychee one turned out to be a Tatsu Tatsu no Mi: model Sea dragon, a Zoan type devil fruit allowing the user to take on the strengths of a Sea dragon or Leviathan and transform into one at will, while the starfruit one seemed to be a Mizu Mizu no Mi crossed with an Ara Ara no Mi, basically a Logia type devil fruit, allowing the user to control the ocean and create oceanic natural disasters. Esmeray stayed with them for the next few months working with them on how to control their new powers better as well as taking Sabo under her wing and training all 3 more Self-defense and Melee combat skills. After 6 months she turned their care back over to Dragon and the revolutionary army before she left to continue her cover as a CP agent. Because of Sabo's memory loss, the twins refused to set up a permeant mind link with Sabo when he requested. They both agreed they would when he got his memory back. Dragon also forbids them from granting his memories back until they were much older.
~time skip 6 years~
At 16 the trio heard that Ace had created the Spade pirates and was wreaking havoc on the grand line with his crew. The twins attempted to pressure Dragon into allowing them to restore Sabo's memory so he could join in their joy for Ace but he flatly refused the request. At that point, he started pulling Sabo away from them and pushed them into specializations. Sabo was training to be the chief of staff, Kieran was being trained with hockey and was sent to Rayleigh for more specifics, Araluen was sent to the front lines of the revolution to be trained as a Medic and Jill of all trades. Kieran and Aralune keep in contact through their mind link during this time. After 2 years Esmeray took Aralune for a year for more in-depth espionage training. That was where she started to gather information about the wider world. She found out that Trafalgar had his own crew of pirates, Ace and the Spades had joined Whitebeard, Garp was an admiral of the Marines, Dressrosa was a fallacy of the highest order. What really piqued her and Kieran's interest was that Luffy was still determined to be a pirate. It was at that point they decided they would find a way into his crew or at least a way to protect him at all costs.
~Time skip 4 years~
Now well versed in the ways of deception, interrogation, blood control, healing, and the powers of her devil fruit Aralune was asked to join Dragon on a mission to Logue town. Kieran was well versed in all 3 types of hockey, still lacking complete control of his commander's though, as well as his transformations into the Zoan forms so he also decided to leave his Uncle Rayleigh's care and journey out into the blue.