"Somewhere just under half by weight, because he's an idiot and Alex is an asshole." Pause, sigh. "But yeah, we're brothers as far as I'm concerned, and I'll grudgingly let Alex and the cousins stay, but the rest of the Yu family sure as hell isn't my family." The best part of being the weird alien in the family is being able to choose that. There's a reason he doesn't have the name, with all its fames and infamies.

Ghost looks Soldat up and down, and then finally says, "You know, I'd guessed you were military, but there's definitely a theme there." The Asset, it sticks to his mind like reaching under a desk in high school and finding mostly-fresh used chewing gum there, gluey and a visceral reminder that other people could be absolutely fucking disgusting when they didn't care who might be affected by it. "You don't have to explain shit about it, but, well, I noticed."