̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮

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[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

: ̗̀➛ 𝔀𝑒𝓁𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝓼𝓉𝓎𝓁𝑒

𝔂𝑜𝓊 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝔀𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 ⨾

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

「 𝙞𝙩'𝙨 𝓵𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒽 .ᐟ.ᐟ」

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

#december

ehe, lrt: testing out musing yao guang!

[𝒴𝘢𝘰 𝒢𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘨 @divinewoes]

˙⋆✮ 𝒾 𝘧𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝒹𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝒷𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝓈𝘺𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘭

𝘮𝘮-𝘮𝘮, 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝒽𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦 —

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR NO! oh, no. no, sorry. i meant...nevermind...

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

aren't you like...20s? early 30s?

...40s...?

[Anaxagoras of the Nousporists @DEMISED_SCH0LAR]

AGH! MY BACK

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR ...good one.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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i'm attempting to be open with you, madam; it's an opportunity i rarely have.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

oh, madam herta. you still think what i have is "luck."

tell me, esteemed genius, what kind of twisted luck befalls a sole survivor? i see no need to avoid speaking candidly with someone as...objective as you.

my "luck" has killed many, and ruined many more.

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[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

A shame really. Truly a shame.

With all those resources, experiences, “luck” and even the connections you made, any number of you could have made it out. You or Topaz for example shall we say?

If you played your cards right you could potentially be free, but despite acting+

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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even if i...escaped, who's to say if that would make me a better person? i'd wager it wouldn't. the only "change" i'm capable of is swapping personas to seal deals. surely, someone of your intelligence can see i'm a branded machine?

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[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR ah, you don't mean that. you wouldn't know who looks fantastic--you think you don't.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@DEMISED_SCH0LAR i don't think sunglasses stave off melting.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown (he halts, the gears in his head jamming. he forces himself to maintain eye contact, but something in his gaze is cracked.)

there is no world in which i don't feel guilt, friend. it doesn't change anything. guilt won't bring anyone back, and it won't absolve me.

[NBD @NBD_twt]

#HonkaiStarRail
#Aventurine
생명은 성대한 도박이고,
난 언제나 최후의 승자거든

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

#december

aven lashing out at mydei and herta because they dared to point out true things about him 😭 phenomenal night

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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that, friend, is my sole freedom. approaching conversations like this with unadulterated transparency. i am a lab rat, and topaz is a lab rat, and so on down until the workers that get killed on the front lines.

this is a truth i live and breathe. the only truth.

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

ask anyone else in the IPC, and they’ll tell you their excuse for that. we’re generously using our huge pool of funds to solve everyone else’s problems, out of the kindness of our pure, magnanimous hearts.

ask me, and i’ll tell you what you already know:

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[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

I understand we live in very different worlds, very different circumstances. Yet should work not be rewarded?

It would seem any reward you get is just another asset to pretty up your portfolio for the next task no?

Is that what you would call luck?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

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that the IPC cares only for control, and it enjoys controlling its own members just as much as planets indebted to it. there has not been a single point in my career that i have been unaware of this fact; i hardly even bother trying to hide it.

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[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown you killed your father, and you’re comparing me to him. pardon me while i process all of that.

i’ve always been a “sigonian thrall,” isn’t that right? did mr. dan heng tell you what happened to the other ones? what i did to them?

what part of me is “acting” like i have power?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

pfft, you’re asking me to buy myself out from under the likes of jade and diamond. my life is worth thirty tanba, and compared to them, so is my net worth!

of course i can’t buy my way out. for every chain i hold, there’s another around my wrists—a heavier one.

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

Is that so?

Then answer me this: If money solves nearly any problem why do you still have to do dirty work?

Why do you still have to serve their whims.

If money could solve it why haven’t you bought your way out?

The answer is you can’t.

Is that right?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

@sanguinecrown oh, is mr. stellaron ratting me out for fun now? what could you know about the power i’ve been told i have?

perhaps as a show of it, i should seize amphoreus as nothing more than a commercial asset?

[̷K̷𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓮 @R077ENLUCK]

it’s not the IPC’s fault that money solves almost every problem when you’re the one with an overabundance of it.

in fact, let me demonstrate. i’d love the opportunity to throw money at your head.

without unreasonable force, obviously.

[𝕿𝖍𝖊 Herta @voidedanswers]

Now for my next hypothesis: does aventurine’s luck match his bark or is he all bark and no bite.

Oh I almost forgot, the IPC would rather throw money at their problems than have any sort of debate that isn’t profit driven.

Oh well time for the experiment then.