peacocks-pantomime

[peacocks-pantomime]

A white-haired man, face covered by an orange mask, approached Aventurine. His steps were light and deliberate, as if he was trying not to startle the man before him. His purple eyes burned through the eye holes of the mask, showing a look that showed not a single ounce of regret. All his joy, his insanity, shown in one single look of his eyes.

"I haven't seen you here before.. Have I?" He asks, bowing slightly, when he stands up, he hands Aventurine a jester card. Perhaps the figure in it moved and waved at him, or was it just the trick of his eye?

~ 🔆

*Carus grins bemusedly upon noticing somebody approaching him-- likely a fellow Fool, judging by the telltale mask the other man wears.*

*It's said every Fool has one-- and while many are quite physical, other Fools prefer to use their own faces as a canvas, rearranging bright colours and glittering lights to hide away any emotion besides elation.*

*The blonde has to admit, the other man is quite attractive. Intense eyes and confidence... and surely highly witty, to boot.*

"It's most likely you haven't~ I'm sure I would have remembered a face like yours in the crowd."

*Carus snaps his fingers, making the jewel-studded microphone he holds vanish so he would be free to reach out and accept the card.*

"Oh, how lovely..." *The blonde swipes gloved fingers across he surface of the card, studying it.* "What magical paint... and what talent you must have~"

*He extends the card back towards the other man between two fingers, in case the other Fool had wanted it back.*

"And what brings you here, follower of the Elation?"

*The blonde gives Warau a conserved smile, the teardrop-shaped jewel hung around his neck beginning to glow with a dim blue light.* "Or am I supposed to assume you wanted to book a gig?"

[peacocks-pantomime]

hey pookiewoo come with me and ill show you a garden of love and roses where we could spend the rest of our days in happiness and bliss

*The Fool laughs, tracing along the other's body with a lazy gaze and trying to identify this stranger's courage.*

"Happiness? Why, I'm floored..."

*Carus grasps their chin in his hand, the tips of long, manicured nails digging slightly into skin.*

"And who are you to ask, hm? If you knew of the things that would truly make me happy... well, let's just say you wouldn't be standing nearly as close to me as you are right now~"

*He releases the other person, a delighted smirk on his lips.*

"And roses are a hard pass. Flowers do not hold their beauty eternally-- it's fleeting, such as is everything in this world."

"Pretty things can fool anyone into thinking they're worth more than they truly are... wouldn't you agree?"

[peacocks-pantomime]

Good fool, good fool, I do have a question for you - tell me, what is the meaning to the life that we live?

-@nihility-zel

"Ah, is it really that obvious?"

*Carus has a wide grin on his face, colourful eyeshadow sparkling around his eyes. He's barely just walked off a stage, his electric guitar coated in its neon colours cradled against his form.*

"...You're correct, though, friend~ I do so happen to be with the Masked Fools-- although no simple Elation will drive me."

*He sizes up the other person, analyzing their interesting attire. With a snap of his fingers and a small flash of light, his guitar vanishes.*

*The heels of his boots click rhythmically as he approaches the man instead, gaze scanning the other more closely as he circles him, like the Fool's trying to nitpick at some sort of hidden detail.*

"And why do you want to know, hm?" *He tilts his head, the poised grin not sliding away despite the slight shift in his tone.* "Are you... a Memokeeper, perhaps..? A member of Sanctus Medicus? Oh, I know~"

*He stops pacing, tapping the tip of a gloved finger against his lips before speaking.* "One of IX's followers... aren't you?"

*The blonde tilts his head.* "Oh, do tell me I'm right. I have a knack for guessing games, one could say..."

"As for your question~ I believe the meaning of every person's life is what they choose to make of it."

"A life is a game; a gamble. It's measured by its weight in experience and in memory, and equally by how close one has come to losing it, even risking it intentionally."

"It's not measured by what you do or do not accomplish within it, but instead by what you would bet to either save it or annihilate it."

"In the end... what you think of your own life will show you the answer. Whether you wish to live on... or risk it all."

[peacocks-pantomime]

In an empty theatre, teardrops echo like the sound of applause.

All I do is lay down a bet~ It’s out of my control if my opponent decides to lay down their life, isn’t it?

After the chaos, not much was left of Sigonia-IV, yet there were two malnourished children-- Kakavasha and his Big Sis, nearly perishing from the elements on the ruined planet.

One day, there was finally salvation in the form of a light-- a light, and a beautiful woman dressed in elegant clothing peering down at them under a wide-brimmed hat.

She told them that they would be safe, that they could trust her-- and what other option did they have? She looked so different, and seemed so kind compared to the others that have mistreated them... Big Sis had been willing to give her a chance.

And so, Kakavasha was whisked away to another world, offered clean clothes and a room of his own. He fell asleep immediately, curling up on the soft carpet of the floor.

When he awoke, his Big Sis wasn't there. But they said she would be. They told him she would be. So he wanders through the strange building against his better judgement.

It wasn't long before he heard muffled words coming from the ajar door of a bright room. He snuck over to peek into the room and he saw people dressed in simplistic black clothing, taking notes on some sort of devices and huddled around a bed.

And on the bed lay the body of his dead sister. But those people would never acknowledge her as such; to them she was only an experiment. One of the last Sigonians of the Avgin race, a miraculous discovery. And they weren't going to tell him. They were going to hide it from him.

Blinded by the emotions swirling around inside of him, Kakavasha threw himself through the doorway, grabbing the first sharp tool in sight, and ended the lives of all the professionals in that wretched room one by one.

He'd cried the whole time. He couldn't identify the emotion the tears stemmed from-- whether from sadness at the loss of his sister, or from the rage burning bright-- but as the boy stood there, he dropped his weapon, wrapping his arms around himself in horror...

He didn't feel guilty for what he'd done.

That sort of control-- the ability to watch the life of another mortal slip away between his fingers and know that he was the cause...

It was empowering.

Notes from the moderator:

~ Mod also runs the @aventurine-official rp account, so the format is her own and is not plagiarized :)

~ Art (2nd top picture and pfp) and concept credit goes to @day-night-darlix! Their original post is here

~ This Aventurine exists in the same universe as @the-truth-of-nothingness

A famous musical artist and actor, known for masking his true self.

Roams around Penacony but travels the cosmos to perform

Is quite sadistic and will bet others on their life-- resulting in their death, because he never loses.

Longs to destroy the IPC as vengeance for the lies and betrayal from which his sister suffered

The glistening teardrop hanging around his neck allows him to mesmerize others with a glance, if he so wishes-- the glow of his eyes is interconnected

(I might add more details later, or link a headcanon post!)

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#ace of spades ♠️ : Art reblogs

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#life on the line 🎲 : Interactions with Honkai Star Rail blogs

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