making the worst shop advertisements rn with my trackpad on my laptop because i cannot find my tablet pen
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anyone else have a word they absolutely cannot spell as in no matter how many times you read or write this particular random word your brain just absoltuely will NOT play ball for me its "genius" and "parallel"
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Hear me out. I know it's unlikely that Ratio would ever have been foolish enough to directly get taken in by a scam, but considering that we know:
One of the groups specifically tricked by Kakavasha before he joined the IPC was the Intelligentsia Guild
What he tricked them about was Tayzzyronth's Swarm remnants, the exact same thing we see Ratio investigating in his very first appearance in the game, and
The researchers were described as "extremely cautious"
I am surprised that "Ratio was at least somehow connected to the Intelligentsia Guild team fooled by Kakavasha before he was ever even a Stoneheart" isn't more popular with the Ratio and Aventurine fandom.
Like imagine being Dr. Ratio. You tell your colleagues, "This seems like a scam. Are you sure you should trust this 'local guide' you've made contact with? Tell me about him. A picture? Does this even look like an Egyhazan native to you? I won't save you fools from making idiotic decisions." (You end up having to clean up the aftermath of their idiotic decisions anyway. There is sand in places on your body you didn't even know existed before this. How mortifying for the Guild. For you, by association.)
Then, next thing you know, you get a mission briefing slid across your desk from your IPC connections. They want you to work with their new Stoneheart. You open the packet to see... that little bastard with the enthralling eyes who had your moronic colleagues scrambling in the dirt on a backwater planet for months. Apparently he's made a career out of fooling you your supposedly competent guildmates.
You run off to confront him. You never met him personally back then, but you deserve compensation for the idiocy you were subjected to nonetheless. He deserves to know how much of a pain in the ass he's been in your life already without ever having met your eyes--
He proceeds to shove a gun into your hands and tries to make you an accomplice to a suicide. Apparently, this is normal behavior for the man now called Aventurine. Somehow, it's supposed to prove to you that he is a sane and reliable individual.
Absolutely nothing in your life has been normal since Egyhazo.
You would like to have mundane problems, sometimes.
How do you keep ending up in this beautiful manic clever conman's orbit, and why, like binary stars, can you not escape the gravitational pull?
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Y’know what would’ve been better, narratively?
If Longtail had been Tigerclaw’s first apprentice and not Darkstripe
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Bad Habits
Kim has developed a bad habit.
Ever since Mae died, he hasn’t been able to sleep alone. Pa never entertained this weakness, even when Kim went sneaking into his room at night for comfort, for the familiar scent of Mae’s perfume that was steadily fading from their pillows, so he began sleeping with Tankhun, instead. Khun never minded. He always told Kim how nice it was to have his own little heater to keep him warm at night.
It helped that Kim didn’t take up much space; he was small for his age, even smaller when he curled up into a tight little ball for Khun to cuddle, like a bearded dragon around a heat rock.
Kim doesn’t sleep with Khun anymore, though. Not since his brother was kidnapped and came back wrong. Frightened and distant, his body an empty shell for his shattered soul. He can’t stand to be touched. Not by the doctors or the guards or their father. Not by Kim.
The first time Kim sneaks into Khun’s bed after a nightmare, Khun wakes screaming, kicking and clawing to get away, his nails raking stinging welts into Kim’s arms. The guards outside come running in and Kim slips out behind them, an ache in his skin and his eyes and his heart.
Kinn finds him sometime later, after Khun is settled and sedated. Kim is hiding in the music room, beneath the piano, curled up as small as he can with his arms wrapped around his head. One of the scratches is bleeding.
“Khun says he’s sorry,” Kinn says softly, after bringing Kim to his own room, examining the scratches. “He didn’t mean to scare you.”
Kim doesn’t say anything.
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Kim still doesn’t sleep alone, but he doesn’t sleep with his brothers, either. Khun still can’t stand to be touched and Kinn doesn’t want him around. He’s like Pa, thinks Kim shouldn’t need to sleep with someone else to feel safe, like a baby.
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