"Can't blame him for wanting to get away from the Astrals... or at least Bahamut." It comes out more a curse than a name, heavy with disdain. He'd been firmly on the Fuck Bahamut side of things even before finding out they were fictional. Why did they get the version of Bahamut that's an asshole?

"Portland... As in Oregon?" Because of course one of he many books he'd devoured immediately upon getting back to the facility was geography.

"I... well I know who you are because I've been helping Ignis with his research for the last 4 years. Up until about 11 weeks ago. I got... uh... drawn into a version of Earth, part of a ritual to appease an ancient god by an organization that had no idea what they were messing with. It was... pretty miserable but we managed to convince them to stop the ritual and now we're helping make sure things never get that bad again. Most of us anyway." And as he speaks he reaches up to tug the baseball cap he's wearing off, holding it out to Ardyn so he can see the SCP logo.

"I've been researching as much as I can about that version of Earth, especially America since that's where we we're stationed. And the worlds the rest of us came from."