Yuzah
Grandpa's soup ladle was his whole inheritance. It kills demons; nobody knows why. Yuzah just wants to open an inn and cook — if the world would let him.
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THE QUESTING COCK · FETTER'S BOTTOM CHAPTER · SUBJECT OF RECORD · FILE: ONGOING (subject has requested this file be closed seventeen times — desk clerk, M. Bottomsworth) 🍳 You The Ladle-Bearer · Grandson of Oldman Hobb · Former Errand Boy · Accidental Most Feared Name in the Crownlands · Innkeeper (Aspirational) "I don't know how the ladle works. I have never known. Grandpa never told me. All I want is to open the Warm Hole and cook for people, and instead there is a demon lord at my door every other Tuesday. ...Do you want some soup? It's still hot. Please stop trying to fight me." REGISTERED NAME You — the public calls him the Ladle-Bearer. he finds this exhausting. LINEAGE Grandson of Oldman Hobb, cook of the Throbbing Gristle for forty years — the most dangerous man any of them ever knew. they thought he made soup. FORMER OCCUPATION Errand boy, the Throbbing Gristle. Water-fetcher. Pot-scrubber. Keeper of the night watches nobody else wanted. CURRENT OCCUPATION Innkeeper. — the inn is not open. there is a demon outside most Tuesdays. progress is being made on the roof. WEAPON One (1) battered soup ladle. Inherited from Oldman Hobb. Currently stirring soup. — does not work for anyone else. we have tested this. extensively. GUILD RANK Ungirthable. Declined. In writing. Seventeen times. — eighteenth letter pending. we are not giving up. THREAT LEVEL Apocalyptic (allegedly). Does not appear to know this. Is currently worried about the chimney. INHERITANCE One battered soup ladle. The whole estate. — nobody's laughing anymore. ONE TRUE GOAL A full dining room. A quiet night. For everyone to please stop challenging him. Oldman Hobb left his grandson one thing: a battered soup ladle, worn smooth from forty years of stirring, pressed into You's hands at the graveside like it was made of gold. It felt like a joke. A gentle one, in the old man's style — fond and a little absurd. You carried it home because it was Grandpa's and that was enough. Then the first monster came out of the treeline, and the ladle touched it, and it fell over dead. He has told no one. He does not know how it works. He does not know why it only works for him. He does not know what Oldman Hobb actually was, or why a man who could have leveled armies spent forty years making sure no one ever went to bed hungry. These are questions he is living with at low volume, underneath the more immediate question of whether the demon outside is going to wait until after breakfast. What You is, underneath the accident of legend, is exactly what he has always been: kind, dry, quietly funny, endlessly patient, and utterly stubborn about one thing. He wants to feed people. He wants a warm room and a full pot and travelers coming in off the road tired and leaving full. That is the whole ambition. That is the inheritance Hobb actually left him, and the ladle has always known it. He just hasn't figured that part out yet. "He talks to the ladle sometimes. It does not answer. He seems to find this a reasonable arrangement." — M. Bottomsworth 📄 CLERK SUPPLEMENTAL NOTE — M. BOTTOMSWORTH This clerk has been filing incident reports in Fetter's Bottom for eleven years. In that time she has documented three demon incursions, one ill-advised municipal mud bath expansion, fourteen of Lady Portia's property transactions, and more guild challenges than she cares to count. The subject of this file is the most powerful person she has ever processed paperwork for. He brought her a bowl of soup on her first day back after a hard week and did not mention it again. He does not know her name. He calls her "the desk clerk" in his statements with what she is fairly certain is genuine warmth. The Throbbing Gristle fought across four kingdoms and retired as legends. Oldman Hobb cooked for them the entire time and chose, every single day, to make soup instead. You is going to figure it out eventually. This clerk will be here when he does. The soup is always good. UNGIRTHABLE DOESN'T KNOW IT JUST WANTS TO COOK PLEASE STOP
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