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[ she knows. she hates that she knows that now without powder's feelings bleeding through every day. her guilt. her painful need to prove herself. to be useful. to be necessary. to never be left behind again.
but no one truly left her. she made them leave. she's so good at that. the best. she bites down on her lip. tastes her own tainted blood. ]
i know.
watch me anyway.
but no one truly left her. she made them leave. she's so good at that. the best. she bites down on her lip. tastes her own tainted blood. ]
i know.
watch me anyway.
Whether you have heard it before or not, the fact that Death may already have a foot in the door with you still speaks to something, am I wrong? [ as they say, it's always easier the second time. ]
I will be sure to pass your message along one day. But, since we aren't in the empire, you will have to forgive me for being unable to do anything but offer my condolences. [ to which there are actually none. ]
I see. You do all sound rather reliable. Trust me, nobles tend to be far more focused on their own internal affairs. Considering the food may be poisoned, perhaps you all are being spared. I admit, the most shocking thing about all of this is... you have people to call as such.
I expected you to be a much lonelier, solitary man.
I will be sure to pass your message along one day. But, since we aren't in the empire, you will have to forgive me for being unable to do anything but offer my condolences. [ to which there are actually none. ]
I see. You do all sound rather reliable. Trust me, nobles tend to be far more focused on their own internal affairs. Considering the food may be poisoned, perhaps you all are being spared. I admit, the most shocking thing about all of this is... you have people to call as such.
I expected you to be a much lonelier, solitary man.
It speaks to how it often leaves through the same door empty handed, certainly. I suppose it is one way to find me amenable to its charms, by giving me its job.
Oh please, do not worry about the condolences. They would be as meaningless as your food, apparently. All for show. [ JESUS BOYS COME ON ]
Come now, Callisto. Are you not a leader yourself, or is that all a lie? Can you thin of someone more [ lonely?? ] solitary than the one who holds it all in check from the top? Or in our case, the top of the bottom.
[ Like the lightest waste rising to the top of the sump. ]
Oh please, do not worry about the condolences. They would be as meaningless as your food, apparently. All for show. [ JESUS BOYS COME ON ]
Come now, Callisto. Are you not a leader yourself, or is that all a lie? Can you thin of someone more [ lonely?? ] solitary than the one who holds it all in check from the top? Or in our case, the top of the bottom.
[ Like the lightest waste rising to the top of the sump. ]
[ he won't. he'll see.
they'll all see. ]
yeah. i know.
they'll all see. ]
yeah. i know.
Or maybe Death genuinely thinks it's time for you get some much needed rest.
How impudent. My condolences are quite rare, you should have taken it while you had the opportunity. [ lol. ]
Is it so lonely when you have all but steeled your resolve for it? Besides, whether it be ten years or ago, or now... isn't it a fact that there are no more or less people who stand beside such individuals? I merely meant that you thought highly of your own people.
That's the shock.
How impudent. My condolences are quite rare, you should have taken it while you had the opportunity. [ lol. ]
Is it so lonely when you have all but steeled your resolve for it? Besides, whether it be ten years or ago, or now... isn't it a fact that there are no more or less people who stand beside such individuals? I merely meant that you thought highly of your own people.
That's the shock.
Death should keep its opinions to itself.
As should you, it seems.
[ These two are HATERS but hey at least they're mutually hating. ]
Ah yes, because I think so little of the rest of you? Perhaps you should instead consider, that I find my people impressive, by contrast. Many of them I have worked alongside, and fought alongside for most of my life. Those I think poorly of are the ones who have betrayed our cause.
[ Cause, huh? Well that's... a bit more serious. ]
As should you, it seems.
[ These two are HATERS but hey at least they're mutually hating. ]
Ah yes, because I think so little of the rest of you? Perhaps you should instead consider, that I find my people impressive, by contrast. Many of them I have worked alongside, and fought alongside for most of my life. Those I think poorly of are the ones who have betrayed our cause.
[ Cause, huh? Well that's... a bit more serious. ]
Nonsense, you love it so much you can hardly contain yourself.
[ he can tell even through text. π«° ]
I did not say that. I simply thought you expressed more emotion today than you did than when you gave a grieving child a sword. [ he says as if he played no part in that. ] Your cause?
... and how noble a cause would that be for it to come up now?
[ he can tell even through text. π«° ]
I did not say that. I simply thought you expressed more emotion today than you did than when you gave a grieving child a sword. [ he says as if he played no part in that. ] Your cause?
... and how noble a cause would that be for it to come up now?
You and I must have very different definitions of that word.
[ He doesn't even say it. ]
Please, that grieving child had lived an easier life than any of the children I've known. [ Silco, as always, is so callous.]
I do not make it a point to tell everyone my cause upon meeting them, Callisto. We have had hardly the conversational time. My cause is to give my people more than runoff, an independent state free from those who refuse to even breathe our very air. It is a cause for many of us, but I have been the one leading it for a very long time.
[ He doesn't even say it. ]
Please, that grieving child had lived an easier life than any of the children I've known. [ Silco, as always, is so callous.]
I do not make it a point to tell everyone my cause upon meeting them, Callisto. We have had hardly the conversational time. My cause is to give my people more than runoff, an independent state free from those who refuse to even breathe our very air. It is a cause for many of us, but I have been the one leading it for a very long time.
Love? You are entirely correct. I suppose I should have used a much more realistic word between the two of us. Thoroughly enjoyed? Couldn't get enough of? You'd die for it?
[ dw, he got you. ]
I suppose his life wasn't all too miserable. At the very least, it isn't the end. Thanks to you. [ but, should the kid be thankful when he now lives within neo tokyo in just a precarious a situation as any and with not much more hope than he had in his own hometown? the only difference was now they begged for scraps from the outsiders too. aka, callisto isn't much better in his assessments. ]
Is that so different than acting as the emperor of your very own kingdom? [ the point being on acting. to be honest, while it may sound like treason in some ways, callisto isn't the tiniest bit offended. ]
[ dw, he got you. ]
I suppose his life wasn't all too miserable. At the very least, it isn't the end. Thanks to you. [ but, should the kid be thankful when he now lives within neo tokyo in just a precarious a situation as any and with not much more hope than he had in his own hometown? the only difference was now they begged for scraps from the outsiders too. aka, callisto isn't much better in his assessments. ]
Is that so different than acting as the emperor of your very own kingdom? [ the point being on acting. to be honest, while it may sound like treason in some ways, callisto isn't the tiniest bit offended. ]
maybe ill add some fireworks to it. if theres time.
Delusional, are you? To put words in my mouth like that.
[ Callisto could do the speaking for him... (NO) ]
Perhaps the experience will continue to teach him a lesson worth learning. He will become stronger for it. [ Silco wants to see every kid get fucked up and become a monster though. Just look at jinx! ]
Oh quite different. I could be uprooted anytime if someone thought I was slipping. It is far more precarious than what you all deal with. Besides, I'm one of them. Many of us grew up in the mines together.
[ The few that are left living now. The number has dwindled to nearly nothing. ]
[ Callisto could do the speaking for him... (NO) ]
Perhaps the experience will continue to teach him a lesson worth learning. He will become stronger for it. [ Silco wants to see every kid get fucked up and become a monster though. Just look at jinx! ]
Oh quite different. I could be uprooted anytime if someone thought I was slipping. It is far more precarious than what you all deal with. Besides, I'm one of them. Many of us grew up in the mines together.
[ The few that are left living now. The number has dwindled to nearly nothing. ]
If not in your mouth, then pray tell, where should I have put them?
[ truly (no) him larping as silco ]
Or he will simply crumble by the next year. Not all people acquire strength at their worst hours. [ their ongoing gamble... in a year, we check back on this kid. remind me... ]
I have a hard time envisioning you as a very good miner. You're far more well-suited to being what you are now. [ whatever that is through callisto's eyes. ] As for being uprooted... well, the royal family may not be exactly what you think.
[ truly (no) him larping as silco ]
Or he will simply crumble by the next year. Not all people acquire strength at their worst hours. [ their ongoing gamble... in a year, we check back on this kid. remind me... ]
I have a hard time envisioning you as a very good miner. You're far more well-suited to being what you are now. [ whatever that is through callisto's eyes. ] As for being uprooted... well, the royal family may not be exactly what you think.
[ shoulda put them up your ass]I find words like these are best left unspoken.
If he crumples, then that is his weakness. Does he deserve to continue, if he does? My people are not given that luxury, why should he?
[ damb silco ]
I am better suited for it, the foremen would have agreed with you. To be fair, I had helped them organize. Prior to what I do now, I was quite the community builder. [ Half of one. He didn't do the community stuff, he did the planning, while the amenable half of their little operation did all the social things.
Silco, however, will not mention that. ]
If he crumples, then that is his weakness. Does he deserve to continue, if he does? My people are not given that luxury, why should he?
[ damb silco ]
I am better suited for it, the foremen would have agreed with you. To be fair, I had helped them organize. Prior to what I do now, I was quite the community builder. [ Half of one. He didn't do the community stuff, he did the planning, while the amenable half of their little operation did all the social things.
Silco, however, will not mention that. ]
[ annoying! especially since there are things she would like his help on. questions she still wants answered! conversations that are all packed in her head! and she can't. bring. it. up.
it bubbles up in her, toxic and severe. how she tamps it down, she doesn't even know. ]
so im teamed up with everlight. also new in revelation.
whos useful.
it bubbles up in her, toxic and severe. how she tamps it down, she doesn't even know. ]
so im teamed up with everlight. also new in revelation.
whos useful.
[ Ignorance is bliss, isn't it? He soldiers on, oblivious.
How long can he remain so? ]
In Revelation, Set is reliable. If you ask for something, he will provide it, and he is a god. [ He doesn't say that it is because Set and Silco have an agreement, about their children. It persists. Set would burn cities, if it meant Jinx's survival. ] Lilias and Jinwoo are also reliable on the team. They seem to be willing to offer aid if needed. Nanami owes me, and may be willing to help in a pinch, and of course...Kaladin cannot help but insert himself if he thinks it is the right thing to do. [ ugh ]
On Everlight there is Hunter, and Raidou is an obnoxious meddling type, but can be directed if he thinks something is the right thing to do. Yor is stronger than she looks and Laios will do anything for kaiju parts. Godzilla is easily incensed and directed, if needed, but is quite large, and I would not recommend without observing his behavior patterns first.
How long can he remain so? ]
In Revelation, Set is reliable. If you ask for something, he will provide it, and he is a god. [ He doesn't say that it is because Set and Silco have an agreement, about their children. It persists. Set would burn cities, if it meant Jinx's survival. ] Lilias and Jinwoo are also reliable on the team. They seem to be willing to offer aid if needed. Nanami owes me, and may be willing to help in a pinch, and of course...Kaladin cannot help but insert himself if he thinks it is the right thing to do. [ ugh ]
On Everlight there is Hunter, and Raidou is an obnoxious meddling type, but can be directed if he thinks something is the right thing to do. Yor is stronger than she looks and Laios will do anything for kaiju parts. Godzilla is easily incensed and directed, if needed, but is quite large, and I would not recommend without observing his behavior patterns first.
[ something about this wording feels so different. he's not even listing uses, he's listing qualities. it takes her aback for a moment. ]
youve been here long.
[ that's all she can say. he has this whole life here. she has her life there. she's . . . jealous. ]
youve been here long.
[ that's all she can say. he has this whole life here. she has her life there. she's . . . jealous. ]
Half a year, give or take.
[ It's all so complicated. How does he describe this, or what was before, or β
So he doesn't. She's here, isn't that what matters? ]
Long enough to get the lay of the land, and understand the personalities at play, at the very least. In between dodging the giant monsters. Unfortunately, it also means that most of them also know me.
[ Silco's so used to working in the shadows, where people don't see his every move, but he's been tracked from the very beginning here. It's inconvenient, though he's adapted. Make big moves in one place, so nobody notices when he does something else where they can't see. ]
[ It's all so complicated. How does he describe this, or what was before, or β
So he doesn't. She's here, isn't that what matters? ]
Long enough to get the lay of the land, and understand the personalities at play, at the very least. In between dodging the giant monsters. Unfortunately, it also means that most of them also know me.
[ Silco's so used to working in the shadows, where people don't see his every move, but he's been tracked from the very beginning here. It's inconvenient, though he's adapted. Make big moves in one place, so nobody notices when he does something else where they can't see. ]
[ damn... rejection.
but, at the mention of "my people" again— ] Do you not think that borders on obsession? You will find most "people" like to be cut loose sometimes. [ says callisto. ]
Is that what we are calling it now? A "community builder." You did seem to do a decent job on the streets here, as well. From what it sounds, it seems the people may be easier to move here than back in your lands.
[ didn't silco say something to the effect at the gala, or was he simply presuming the man's objectives would remain the same in any place? callisto finds that people's character was the hardest thing of all to change. his own included. ]
but, at the mention of "my people" again— ] Do you not think that borders on obsession? You will find most "people" like to be cut loose sometimes. [ says callisto. ]
Is that what we are calling it now? A "community builder." You did seem to do a decent job on the streets here, as well. From what it sounds, it seems the people may be easier to move here than back in your lands.
[ didn't silco say something to the effect at the gala, or was he simply presuming the man's objectives would remain the same in any place? callisto finds that people's character was the hardest thing of all to change. his own included. ]
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