Audience - Viktor

[holyspirits]

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[hextech]

Perhaps, but they would have made you feel bad about it. [Less Mary would cave and more Lailah has very strong instincts to be volatile in admonishing maybe.]

[holyspirits]

You're overestimating their capacity to make me feel anything at all.

[hextech]

Have you transcended the baser self by removing emotions?

[holyspirits]

I was born beyond my peers.

[ turning to look at him. or at least towards him ]

Is that what you tried to do?

[hextech]

[He returns the look out of casual courtesy.] It's what I will do now going forward after watching others fail. People want better for themselves, but they get in their own way. Their emotions disrupt their reason. Your compatriots think differently, it seems.

[holyspirits]

I'm not surprised. Most people tend to be unimpressed with cults.

[ this isn't even said in a ew, a cult way, just. matter of fact you are in a cult boy ]

Human emotions are an embarrassment, you're right. But forcefully removing them for their own good is a form of twisted I can appreciate.

[hextech]

[IT'S A GOOD CULT!!!!! IT IS!!!!!! He doesn't deny this even if he firmly believes it is not a cult (derogatory).] It's to help them. They won't on their own. They haven't seen... the perfection in the pattern of the arcane. They don't know the suffering of the world is because of their own humanity.

[holyspirits]

[ Is It A Good Cult, Viktor. ]

I think the world suffers because of humanity. [ dry. but: ] The arcane being?

[hextech]

[It could have been... It could have been...] Possibly. [These two need to be separated.] Magic. The magic embedded within our world, Runeterra.

[holyspirits]

[ they seem to consider that whole magic thing ]

So normal people don't have access to the magic of your world and you do. And you think this magic would thrive if you removed their emotions?

[hextech]

It is present in the world, though usually unharnessed. Forbidden. [He shakes his head.] I'm a conduit. The arcane heals those who visit the commune through me, and then it envelopes them into a collective. It is less about the magic and more about stopping them from destroying the peace and prosperity they all want.

[holyspirits]

Of course you live in a commune.

[ they don't even sound mad, just. Ah, Yes. The Cult Commune. That Sounds Right. ]

So you take away their emotions and their individuality? Two birds with one stone. Fascinating. And the arcane is doing it through you?

[hextech]

[LISTEN HERE.] They kept them. They were still themselves. [Well, mostly. Haha...] The arcane heals and embraces them. But that was the problem. Those on the outside brought the same war, and desperation, and destruction in. Jayce, too. He came to end me after all. Everyone would need to be a part of a larger, more congruent collective for peace to work.

[holyspirits]

Keeping individuality in a cult? A bold idea.

[ how many times can i lose notifs anyway they're like. clearly not fully believing that but: ]

Jayce?

[ they could talk about the oooo we need a bigger collective thing but they can only go ah yes. bigger cult so many times ]

[hextech]

It was a courtesy. I wanted to help them, not control them. [Hm.] Though things have changed, it seems. [Now he has to, of course. He has to......] Jayce... was my partner.

[holyspirits]

And now, if you went back, you'd know better?

[ and be more forceful. wow... oh at that they shake their head ]

Ah. There's the flaw in your vision. Romance.

[ WRONG ]

[hextech]

Yes. [oh my god? hello His brows furrow. HOLD UP A MINUTE HERE.] ...We were scientific partners. [no there was romantic subtext]

[holyspirits]

Scientific partners.

[ #DOUBT but also tilting their head at Viktor ]

I thought you said the arcane was magic.

[hextech]

[Don't assign him gay yet when the ending hasn't happened.] It is. I was an inventor. Jayce and I created Hextech, the merger of magic and technology. [Casually breaks LoL lore.]

[holyspirits]

[ it's gay even if you're not dying for and with each other ]

Magic and technology should stay separate. [ it's said without bite, just "obviously?" ] Did he decide to betray you because he wanted the glory? It would be suitably dramatic for such a project.

[hextech]

I respectfully disagree. [He does not sound irritated or mad, but, of course, why would he when he is clearly inhibited by a neutral insanity. IT DOES NOT WANT HIM TO AGREE ANYWAY. Besides, they are RIGHT.] I don't know. He said Hextech was a curse. But he did not say why before he did the deed.

[holyspirits]

Probably the part where you've formed a cult and take away other human beings' emotions. [ deadpan ] People tend to be so sensitive about that subject.

[hextech]

I didn't. [HE DOESN'T DENY THE CULT PART.] They had them. [um sorta] While I was dying, I realized... the emotions are what caused the downfall. It's now my understanding things would be better without them. [New commune, new him.]

[holyspirits]

So he simply objected to the hivemind mentality? A bold move, striking down the leader where he stood.

[ why do they sound impressed at jayce going Time To Murder ]

[hextech]

[His brows furrow briefly, but then relax.] I suppose it may be why. [DON'T JUST BE IMPRESSED BY JAYCE'S INSANITY.] Jayce has always been a bold man.