Wine, Venison, and Homecoming
At the Marmaduke homestead, Matt juggles venison, wine, and family as T’mari teases, Angelina laughs, and T’monn arrives to a table already full.
Matthew Johnathan Boone Marmaduke
At the Marmaduke homestead, Matt juggles venison, wine, and family as T’mari teases, Angelina laughs, and T’monn arrives to a table already full.
On a Missouri backroad, Matt Marmaduke and T’mari face blood, banter, and an unexpected deer strike—proving love endures even in the mess.
Matt Marmaduke summons Calvas Win for an unexpected job interview—pizza, trust, and a future as chief of intelligence for the Freehold and the V’ren.
The morning after the gala finds Matt and T’mari navigating groceries, grilled cheese, and a growing sense of shared future. She’s taking over his kitchen, he’s offering her his home—and together, they’re redefining what it means to move forward without erasing the past.
At a university gala in Columbia, Matt dons a barong to honor his roots, while T’mari navigates the politics of academia with poise, charm—and a hidden plan to earn her doctorate in first contact protocols before Matt finds out.
In a quiet Columbia morning, Matt and T’mari trade heat for humor, coffee for memory, and a cultural breakfast for a light-hearted war on tradition. It’s not the Freehold—but it might just be home.
Storms roll in as Matt and T’mari retreat for the evening—into comfort, confession, and connection. Between shared ribs, remembered ghosts, and one stubborn bobcat, they lay the foundations of a life lived forward. If intimacy is a form of governance, this is one of Matt’s most honest acts of rule.
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Matt reasserts his authority over the boardroom, outlining the future of agri-tech, logistics, and interstellar integration—with a reminder that he’s the one keeping everyone fed.
T’mari wakes tangled with Matt and ends the morning in a purple muscle car, her first taste of Earth opulence—and trust. Their intimacy deepens through quiet rituals, shared secrets, and a very personal garage tour.
Moments after the cameras stop rolling, T’Mari is given something no media outlet could capture: the weight of memory, the truth behind a name, and the burden of becoming its keeper. In a quiet room above the quad, diplomacy turns personal—and sacred.
On a warm June afternoon, Matt Marmaduke and Officer T’Mari visited the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus—once a symbol of American higher education, now a crossroads of post-collapse resilience and galactic diplomacy. What followed was a trio of interviews revealing the grit behind engineering breakthroughs, the complexity of new alliances, and the media fascination with a reluctant folk hero and his alien communications officer.
On a winding Missouri road, Matt and T’Mari finally speak the truths they’ve been carrying—about restraint, regret, duty, and the quiet hope of a shared future. What begins as an apology becomes a proposal, and what follows may change the course of two peoples.