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The Bodyguard [D| H] #8: "He was left to die chained to a standpipe in the basement of a squalid brothel in Nairobi. Branded. Burned. Barely alive."
x Dembe Zuma is former freedom fighter from South Sudan. He was born the youngest son of Samwel Zuma. When Dembe's father reported a number of low-ranking operatives of a poaching organization to the authorities, the cartel killed Dembe's father, mother and siblings and sold him to human traffickers. He spent eight years in the world of human trafficking and was enslaved until the age of 14, when Reddington found him half-dead and chained to a pipe in the basement of a brothel in Nairobi. Reddington took care of him, nursed him back to health and made sure he got an education. Dembe eventually got a Bachelor's degree in English Literature, learned to speak four languages fluently and learned six others well enough to get by. Dembe has a daughter, Isabella and a granddaughter.
"I have three people in my life. My daughter, my granddaughter, and Raymond."
"You know, twenty nine years ago, in Sierra Leone, there was a farmer named Samwel Zuma, who had the audacity to identify several low level Mombasa operatives to local authorities. The cartel massacred the entire family. All but the youngest son; he was sold to a local ring of flesh peddlers. The majority of children in those circumstances don’t last longer than nine months. He survived eight years. He was fourteen when I found him. Too old, too tall, too angry and dangerous to be of any further value. He was left to die, chained to a standpipe in a squalored brothel in Nairobi. Branded, barely alive, so I took him. Made him well, saw to his education; he graduated university with a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature. He speaks four languages fluently and can get by on half a dozen more.
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Miranda, thanks so much for the new thread!
I really love the new OP. It looks fantastic! __________________
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Omg. The quote. The op! Everything is perfect
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You're welcome. I did have to cut out his names otherwise the title wouldn't fit.
The only thing that I want to add is a gifset of little Dembe from the Mombasa cartel episode but there are no gifs on tumblr from that scene anywhere so I need to find somebody to make them for me but so far I've had no luck finding somebody. __________________
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That's okay, Miranda We'll add it back in when we open the next one (if we don't forget ).
Oh yes, I'm sure you'll find somebody It's so great of you that you are even looking for somebody to make this possible. __________________
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I so badly want a gifset of that scene and if I knew how to make gifs myself I would have done it but I don't know.
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I so wish that you find somebody you can ask Crossing my fingers.
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you guys! Paula is going to teach me how to make gifs! and if I really suck at it, she will make the gifs for me but I am going to try myself first.
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Really, Paula will do that? That's is soooo fantastic!
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Yes. I asked in the fanart request thread on the fanart board if it was allowed to request gifs in there and than Paula replied that she would help me. So sweet of her.
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Aww, that's pretty cool!
And right, there was the fanart request thread. I had totally forgotten about it. __________________
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Me too until I looked at the fanart board and found it again.
So I am going to try to make them next week cause I will have more than enough time to practice. __________________
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And you know how to do it already? Or is the teaching hour still ahead of you?
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I can't wait to see the results
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