#❝ 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙧 ♤*´. ── vos.

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i  don’t  like  to  be  the  one  who  puts  others  down  for  not  “understanding”  the  nuance  of  media  so  i’ve  just  been  sticking  to  my  own  takes  instead  of  commenting  very  much  on  any  aven  related  discourse  going  on  in  the  wider  fandom  however  i  do  want  to  say  that  the  portrayal  of  jade  as  a  maternalistic  or  protective / affectionate  figure  towards  aventurine  is  not  something  i  want  to  be  encouraging  here  and  it’s  honestly  very  frustrating  to  see.  because  while  it’s  not  spelled  out  for  you,    the  nature  of  her  relationship  to  aven  is  definitely  not  a  hidden  fact  either.  everything  else  will  be  under  a  read  more  since  his  character  stories  are  technically  still  unreleased,   but…

desired,  sought,  cut,  and  sold.  i  suppose  we  can’t  confirm  that  the  first  screencap  is  definitely  being  said  by  jade,    but  it’s  a  pretty  safe  assumption,    and   regardless  she  is  the  one  who  gave  him  a  position  in  the  first  place.  if  what  they’re  talking  about  in  her  first  cutscene  somehow  goes  over  your  head,    this  literally  could  not  make  it  any  clearer  how  she  views  him,     and  what  exactly  the  terms  of  his  freedom  are.  she  is  not  giving  him  a  lifeline.  she  is  not  pardoning  him  from  his  “crime.”  

it  feels  a  bit  silly  to  be  pointing  out  that  this  is  a  threat  when  i  thought  the  implications  were  obvious  enough,    but  i’m  still  seeing  them  put  together  in  a  very  soft  cutesy  way  and  guys  i’m  about  to  put  my  head  through  a  wall.  she’s  giving  him  the  pretence  of  a  free  life that she knows he cannot refuse,  a  platform  to  make  himself  valuable  to  the  ipc,     and  at  the  same  time  putting  him  on  a  tightrope.  the  sentencing  will  still  be  there  when  they’ve  wrung  him  out  and  he  starts  making  mistakes     —     keep  in  mind  that  topaz  says  every  case  he’s  handled  has  gone  very  smoothly.  he  just  hasn’t  failed  them  yet.

we  can  surmise  that  this  is  opal  speaking  for  the  time  being,    but  still,     i  don’t  think  it  could  be  more  obvious  that  the  higher  ups  within  asset  liquidation  have  their  eyes  on  him,     because  there’s  still  a  day  of  reckoning  to  come.

lets  not  say  “fuck  the  ipc”  while  continuing  to  water  down,     misinterpret,    and  excuse  every  character  we  meet.  

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the penacony experience so far

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spent some time writing this morning & i’ll come back to get things queued up after i grab coffee but maybe give this post a lil like and i’ll message ppl about plotting today bc i feel like i’ve lost some conversations between moving blogs and being kept busy with work 😭

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just wanted to say sorry for the sparse activity from me again 😭 i've got one more exam on the 17th and then i'm pretty much chilling until september so there's light at the end of tunnel but i'm !! unfortunately still powering through with all of the work + uni's constant insistence on adding / moving / extending the hours of classes at the last minute and my job's refusal to give me the time i need to actually attend dfkgjhd but i also want to thank those who've been keeping me company and letting me gush about our bbgs !!! i promise there will be a significant pick up in activity here very soon, i'm just stressed and working myself to death atm. ily all very very much for being so patient with me ♡

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what if this was a tentative shipping call. not to disregard any of my rules bc chemistry + development always comes first and i rlly don’t enjoy auto shipping but to open up the conversation

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found the ship tier i made back when the first penacony quest dropped & reposting it here from my multi ,,, i think sunday and ratio can swap places now lmfao

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i think that an easy relationship ( not strictly romantic either ) is something that would lead to such an ... exposing revelation for aven. he doesn't know he wants or needs that. someone close to him who's terms of acquaintance aren't built around layer after layer of mistrust, altercation and reconciliation, vagueness, distance, any of his usual DRAMA so to speak. someone who he can look back and realise, in retrospect, was always on his side. and yes he negates any opportunity for this by nature, yes he pushes people away and a lot of the time ensures that they don't really want to like him, yes he makes it ridiculously hard to know him beyond the embellished surface level. but oh my god if someone somehow was capable of sidestepping all of that they would be sacred to him in a way he wouldn't expect. this is literally just wishful thinking because he makes everything so fucking difficult but. man fgkjhgkjhd

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here's my weekly apology inbox call . like and i'll go through ur rb'ed prompts ♡

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god i woke up to unimaginably good food today

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maybe serval is the last person i would have predicted but yk i'm not mad about this at all

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𝐈𝐍𝐁𝐎𝐗 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋. since i haven't been following the dash very closely this week and probably missed a lot feel free to ♡ and i'll send a couple prompts your way — will probably be going through tags rather than sending unprompted things just bc low energy & i am planning to try and get a bit done here with the time i have tonight.

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dynamics that i crave for aven rn are with robin (normal) and blade (unhinged)

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165cm is so ridiculous btw i was already wondering if i went a little too short with 171 😭

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some  quick  and  rambling  thoughts  about  2.2  that  are  actually  timely  for  once  yippee      *  only  talking  about  aven  centric  things  here  but  100%  come  scream  and  cry  with  me  about  everything + everyone  else  bc  i  am  still  totally  reeling 

getting  my  biggest  concern  out  of  the  way  first,     aven’s  current  standing  with  the  ipc.  i  was  working  with  the  assumption  that  while  most  of  what  aven  did  in  penacony   ( his  scheming  in  order  to  smuggle  jade’s  cornerstone  into  the  family’s  territory  +  keep  his  own  on  his  person,   making  some  light  attempts  at  negotiation  with  the  family  to  ensure  there  was  not  a  simpler  course  of  action  that  the  ipc  could  take  before  things  started  to  get  chaotic,   messing  with  the  auctioned  items  &  econ  etc )   all  went  very  smoothly  in  accordance  with  a  pre-approved  plan,   but  that  luring  acheron  out  to  confront  him  was  a  decision  he  made  on  the  fly  that  only  ratio  was  fully  aware  of  /  alternatively  figured  out  on  his  own  before  it  actually  happened     —    what  with  her  presence  in  penacony  being  uninvited  and  his  comment  about  ratio  catching  on  quickly.  however.  i  do  think  that  the  strategic  investment  dept  at  least  predicted  that  he  would  use  the  penacony  assignment  as  an  opportunity  to  find  an  “out”  for  himself  and  in  the  aftermath,   most  definitely  understood  what  he  had  tried  to  accomplish.  they  let  him  believe  that  freedom  might  just  be  attainable,   whether  to  test  him  or  simply  torment  him  i  don’t  know,   but  he  has  very  evidently  not  escaped  the  ipc  and  they  were  never  going  to  let  it  happen. 

almost  funny  how  reminiscent  this  is  of  the  conversation  between  topaz  and  aven  when  he  was  first  teased  in  game.  i  believe  jade  is  most  definitely  rubbing  it  in  his  face  here  that  his  only  gains  were  for  the  company’s  sake  and  not  anything  personal  or  meaningful    –   there’s  a  quiet  apprehension  that  she  does  know  exactly  what  he’d  been  thinking  he  may  be  able  to  achieve  with  his  grand  death  in  play,   and  also  that  he  has  a  little  more  to  answer  for  than  simply  breaking  the  cornerstone  and  tapping  into  the  emanators  power.  it  will  go  punished,   he’s  already  evidently  been  pulled  from  the  assignment,   but  i  don’t  think  that  this  will  be  a  reason  for  them  to  use  their  power  and  have  him  executed.  if  only  because  jade   ( and diamond )   isn’t  very  likely  to  act  on  that  threat  until  her  “investment”  in  aventurine  has  turned  all  of  the  profit  that  it  can,   or  he  steps  too  blatantly  out  of  line.

found  this  dialogue  very  interesting  too.  naturally,   aven  isn’t  interested  in  high - risk  low - reward  bets  and  he  knows  that  almost  anything  he  puts  on  the  line  right  now  would  be  inconsequential.  the  ipc  will  not  elinquish  control  of  him  nor  alter  the  agreement  he  made  with  jade     —    it  feels  like  him  being  subtly  put  back  in  his  place  beneath  all  of  the  pretenses  of  their  conversation.  noting  that  he  hasn’t  forgotten  jade  holds  that  power  to  have  him  killed  when  she  pleases,   betting  his  life  in  the  very  next  breath  regardless,   all  the  while  they  are  not  using  the  voice  changers  we’ve  seen  in  official  meetings  before:   jade  doesn’t  have  full  control  over  what  happens  to  him  in  regards  to  the  cornerstone,  but  this  is  purely  between  she  and  him.

*     i’ll  probably  still  write  up  an  au  verse  in  which  aven  did  successfully  fake  his  death  at  that  point  in  2.1  since  a  fair  bit  of  plotting  has   revolved  around  this  general  assumption  that  he’s  won  his  freedom  already,   so  dw  about  that

anyway  moving  onto  more  assorted  things:

argenti  and  aven    …     if  we  don’t  get  any  additional  information  about  them   ( which  i’m  certain  we  will )   i  am  begging  for  plots  +  dynamics  because  i  love  the  energy  of  their little  throwaway  comments  about  each  other  and  i  just ???  think  they  could  be  a  really  fun  duo  to  play  around  with.  what  was  that  about.

boothill and aven … i sincerely sincerely hope we get to see them actually teaming up now and while i’m assuming that would take the form of aven fulfilling the role of an informant to him while still returning to pier point with the ipc, i’m also living for the idea of him going mia and hunting down oswaldo with boothill starting immediately fdgkjh something i was talking to layla about just before the update dropped was how aven speaks of wanting to make his family proud of him before they can be reunited — in his mind he has a lot to reconcile himself with, a lot that he has to make up to them. there are many different ways he could go about doing so and revenge is not the best one but i can see him believing that taking oswaldo out would be a good start, as well as one of the first things he can do for himself in a long, long time. i for one think he MORE THAN deserves to take revenge anyway.

ena.   this  is  more  of  an  interesting  little  observation  than  a  solid  take  on  anything  because  i’m  frankly  too  eepy  to  keep  rambling  for  much  longer  but  trust  i’ll  touch  back  on  the  subject  again  later   dfkjghd   anyway.   given  the  implications  that  sigonia  was  likely  a  planet  under  ena’s  gaze  despite  not  acknowledging  the  aeons   (  what  looks  like  the  planet  being  seen  in  their  art,  sigonia’s  history  lining  up  somewhat  well  with     “the ancient planets that once fervently worshiped order would shine briefly before their total collapse...  perhaps this is the "path" of these planets.”    and  most  obviously  their  eye  being  a  mirror  image  of  the  avgin’s )   AND  thinking  back  to  sunday’s  question  to  aven  about  whether  or  not  he  had  the  ability  to  read  /  tamper  with  or  manipulate  people’s  minds     …     i  just  find  it  very  interesting  that  when  the  puppets  emotional  dials  were  locked  under  the  influence  of  the  order,  that  was  represented  with  ena’s  eyes ??? yeah idk where i'm going with this one either but stay tuned

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i hope everyone has fun with wuwa but i simply won't be playing because i don't have a pc and i refuse to put myself through the pain of playing on mobile

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are we ready to admit that he was right now btw