Audience - Viktor

[holyspirits]

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[hextech]

[It's probably fine... He carries on as if he doesn't notice there is anything concerning about himself. There isn't! He's good! (ignores kiraman)] I would often do things with those in the commune. Play with the children, farm our gardens, listen to some sing or play music. [He did not have fun so much as fulfillment maybe based on the way his emotions shift placidly and neutrally through him. It doesn't peak with joy or amusement or nostalgia.] Before I became the Herald, I would invent things. It was fun... until I became terminally ill. The fun turned into desperation. [He's at least self aware about this one part.]

[sprayandpray]

[ her emotions are generally pretty stable, so having something dim them is like... not drastic... but still very very weird. ]

It's too bad that something you enjoyed became more of a necessity than it had been, though.

But it sounds as though you stepped away from it and found joy in being social? [ MAYBE? PLEASE? ]

[hextech]

[HELP ME!!!] When I had time. They were my people, after all. But I had an obligation to heal those who would come to me for help, and then I had to tend the arcane plane to make sure everything was stable. There was often little time to participate in their better lives.

[sprayandpray]

Sometimes obligations come first. But there's such fulfilment in helping others.

[ so she sees nothing wrong with that part.... help ME....... except. but. ok. but. ]

The... arcane plane?

[hextech]

[LAILAH PLEASE FIND MORE THINGS WRONG WITH VIKTOR AS A PERSON. She's too kind.] There is. [He loved helping the Zaunites. :(] Yes. I can show you if you if would like to see it.

[sprayandpray]

[ she genuinely has to think about this because on one hand she is cautious and reasonable, and the arcane so far has kind of sounded like the chroma. which can flip your mystic to terror, which is. bad.

........ on the other hand she's curious, and feels safe in heaven, and wants to understand viktor better. besides, a girl can come back to her senses as a terror... kind of... so it's fine. it's probably a totally different thing. ]

I'd like to. If that's alright with you.

[hextech]

[She is valid. The arcane is not only dangerous, but will destroy the very foundation of years worth of lore. He turns and politely offers her one of his weirdo indigo hands, palm up.] It's alright with me. You'll be okay.

[sprayandpray]

[ it's fine! they just completely blow up the lore every 10 years! so around when the mmo comes out they'll blow it up again!!!!!! WAHOO!!!!!!!!

well. she takes his hand! ]

[hextech]

[YOU GET SET OFF EVERY TIME IT'S SO FUNNY AAAA your love-hate. He closes his fingers around her hand then reaches over with his other to place the fingertips against her forehead. Light starbursts behind her eyes. The sensation creeping into her is cool like steel, artificial in an industrial sort of way, yet equally electric with a dark, primordial current. Its song is only a reverberating hum, but a song in the dark nonetheless. When her vision returns, or maybe she finally opens her eyes, it's difficult to tell if she is floating or falling. There is not anything relative to her in the chasm of stars and nebulae for comparison except Viktor. He looks a bit as they saw the guardians before: an iridescent, sometimes translucent, glowing silhouette aside from the whole of his visible face. He is different - healthier, fuller, with shorter and fluffier hair (or what would be hair), and his eyes are honey and alive. He smiles actually; amusement surprisingly bleeds through.] There.

[sprayandpray]

[ thank you for writing these beautiful words i will continue to write like a caveman. wow pretty!!!!

but also he looks healthy, and more noteworthy than that: emotive. ]

Is this... Where is this? [ a pocket dimension? another plane? inside of his soul? ]

[hextech]

[i understand i am simply a neurotic writer enjoy. I FORGOT TO SAY SHE LOOKS LIKE HIM BUT SHE DOES YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS I KNOW. He looks like a person, not a controlled vessel!! Yay! The question makes him laugh a little.] The collective. Or... it would be if they were all here.

[sprayandpray]

[ okay but she would look so pretty with her long glowy hair? (my real reason for allowing her to do this.)

anyway. how to broach this delicately... ]

You're different, here.

[hextech]

[SHE WOULD!!!! The only reason to be in this hellhole.] Am I? I feel like my usual self.

[sprayandpray]

You look more... honest.

Happier, maybe.

[hextech]

[A bit of confusion trickles out.] Honest? It must be because we're in this place. [IT IS BUT NOT THE REASON HE THINKS.]

[sprayandpray]

[ what does that MEAN ]

Are you more comfortable here than elsewhere?

[hextech]

[........Hmm. He has never considered if this was a thing or not, so he has to pause for a bit to think it over.] A little, yes.

[sprayandpray]

[ she assumes that he just feels safer here since it's a kind of isolation. but she doesn't really want to say that directly. ]

Why do you suppose that is?

[hextech]

[Stop making him think about his preference for being himself!!!!!! His brows furrow. He lifts his head to glance out at the expanse. Why...?] It's where I can do the most important work.

[sprayandpray]

Connecting with people?

[ she's not sure what else you would do in a skybox space that seems to just show people in a... vulnerable state. ]

[hextech]

Yes. [His mood perks a bit.] Connecting with all of them. Knowing their thoughts, taking care of them. They were all here, every one of them. [Sorry that you are in the husk of a hivemind, Lailah.]

[sprayandpray]

[ luckily she is stupid so this is like. fifty degrees less unsettling than it should be. (but, like, still a little...) ]

And is that not a matter of an emotional connection?

[hextech]

[Girl......] It's a mental one. But I understand what you're trying to do here. I never had a problem with the emotions, but the commune became collateral because of them. Because of others.

[sprayandpray]

But that's always going to be a risk.

It has to be. Should be.

[hextech]

A group of happy pacifists should be collateral?