[ he's not sure if he's meant to feel touched or a little concerned by this, if only because yes he is stubborn but he is also aware of how far he will go for progress if it means making things better.
he won't die for this, probably, but he does think this is an undergoing he wants to take on. ]
The arcane... if you're in there, is there any way to pull you out with me when I leave? If it's only you here, doesn't that eliminate the risk of collapse when no one else is connected?
It is too late for those people in the commune in Zaun. If I died, they likely died with me.
[You win some, you lose some.......]
You can try to find the piece we had been missing and connect me fully with that power, or you can sever me from it and return me to being a mere man.
But don't forget, [He lifts one arm and shows it to Kirsten as a reminder.] it saved me once, too. My whole body is connected to it. I can't say what will happen to me if we are split.
The control I've gained now is fragile and at the cost of dreamless solitude.
[ there's a somewhat complicated look on his face because, well, bad. sometimes you hear about several souls just getting obliterated because their source that's housing them gets tanked and it's bad!
i do not know who kirsten is, but kiraman is definitely watching. ]
... hard mode, then. [ understandable, and also, exhausting. ] I'm not going to do anything to unravel you, just let me try to figure this out. I don't know how yet. But there has to be a fix for the missing piece.
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But that still doesn't solve the problem of what we're going to do with you now that you're here. Unless your plan is to maybe stay here permanently?
[ kiraman, unsure how that will work when viktor was a surprise to begin with. ]
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[He seems a tad amused.]
You already know he's going to want to go back, don't you?
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[ now that he can see the potential of viktor being sane... ]
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Yes. Stubborn for the sake of beneficial progress, just like me and Jayce. I hope you can reach me.
[Genuinely.]
Speak with me inside of the arcane collective. It's where I was most like myself before the arcane changed me into something else.
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he won't die for this, probably, but he does think this is an undergoing he wants to take on. ]
The arcane... if you're in there, is there any way to pull you out with me when I leave? If it's only you here, doesn't that eliminate the risk of collapse when no one else is connected?
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[You win some, you lose some.......]
You can try to find the piece we had been missing and connect me fully with that power, or you can sever me from it and return me to being a mere man.
But don't forget, [He lifts one arm and shows it to Kirsten as a reminder.] it saved me once, too. My whole body is connected to it. I can't say what will happen to me if we are split.
The control I've gained now is fragile and at the cost of dreamless solitude.
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i do not know who kirsten is, but kiraman is definitely watching. ]
... hard mode, then. [ understandable, and also, exhausting. ] I'm not going to do anything to unravel you, just let me try to figure this out. I don't know how yet. But there has to be a fix for the missing piece.
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There may be. If there isn't, if you can't find a way, what will you do?
[Just curious about Kiraman's answer. Because he knows Kiraman isn't going to accept anything except finding a way.]
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anyway, because they are the same brand of terrible genius, of course viktor knows exactly what he's going to say. ]
That's not an acceptable answer. [ he will figure out something. ] If one way doesn't work, we try another. And we try another when that doesn't work.
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Yes, that's how it's done, isn't it. Between the two of us, I'm sure we will figure something out that doesn't result in ruin.
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[ it takes a stupid fucking nerd to know a stupid fucking nerd, so. it's fine. ]