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"I dreamt that you died." Aventurine says, apropos of nothing.

Veritas lifts his gaze from the book he'd been reading, across the first class cabin they're sharing, and to his colleague. Nothing in his expression betrays any emotion or thought about the statement he let out into the world, as is customary for the gambler. Veritas takes a moment to study him more thoroughly.

Aventurine isn't looking at him. The chip in his hand is dancing faster than usual, he's wearing his tinted glasses despite there being no need for them on the transport, and his other hand is hidden in his coat. Veritas has learned to look for that left hand whenever he suspects something is amiss with Aventurine.

He considers his next words carefully. "In many cultures across the galaxy, dreaming of someone's death is believed to produce the opposite effect. It is considered a good omen that brings longevity and prosperity."

There's a long moment of silence, then the chip suddenly stops. Aventurine had been looking at him from the corner of his eye, an indicator that he was listening as Veritas spoke, but he looks away again now.

"Not in mine," He says lightly, almost sings it.

It sounds like mockery, like Aventurine's typical attempts to get a rise out of him, like contradiction for the sake of it, but Veritas knows him better than that. The gambler may seem frivolous on the surface but he always speaks with purpose. The trick is figuring out what that purpose is.

Closing his book, Veritas leans forward, almost into Aventurine's space. The other does not lean away, and finally looks him in the eye, but he can see his shoulders are tense. His left hand is still hidden in his coat. Perhaps, instead of a non-sequitor, his opening statement was a damning admission, Veritas thinks.

"We both know this upcoming mission will be dangerous." He says quietly, he doesn't expect Aventurine to interject, but he pauses anyway. True to expectation, Aventurine stays silent, watching him intently. Veritas continues. "However, we also both know that your role in it is much more perilous than mine. I believe you made sure of that yourself, no?"

The gambler still remains uncharacteristically silent. Gauging Veritas' reaction to his grim statements no doubt. Veritas has passed many a test in his university days with little stress, so it is a new feeling to experience, this uncertainty. He feels like there is a right and a wrong thing to say in this situation, yet he does not know exactly what it is.

"It is my opinion that you should be worrying about yourself, gambler, instead of me, but if it eases your mind, I shall promise to stay alert on Penacony. Not that I wouldn't otherwise be, as you should well know by now."

Perhaps he's revealed too much, shown his hand, as the resident gambler would say, but he's found himself much too invested in said gambler's emotional wellbeing as of late, so he doesn't mind. Especially as that wary glint fades just a little from Aventurine's vibrant eyes, and he wrestles his signature grin back onto his face.

"True to form as usual." He teases. "I can always rely on you to bring rationality to the table, Doctor."

#honkai star rail #hsr aventurine #veritas ratio #fanfiction

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alea iacta est…remember me fondly, doctor

#honkai star rail #veritas ratio #hsr aventurine

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Acheron did not save everyone from Aventurine, nah, she saw Welt pulling up the Star of Eden and just saved everyone from Welt.

#honkai star rail #hsr acheron #hsr aventurine #welt yang

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it could've been so good...

#nanatsu no taizai #nnt ban #nnt jericho #nnt elaine #banlaine

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Fandom Problem #4818:

I think one of the things that fandoms need to come to accept that a piece of media isn't always necessarily 'garbage' or just 'written bad'. Sometimes, a piece of media just isn't for you and that's fine. Just because something wasn't to your liking doesn't mean it's not good. This doesn't mean it shouldn't be criticized and given your honest opinion but sometimes you should have more of an open mind than just "I didn't enjoy this so it must be bad!!!"

#fandom stuff

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veritas ratio :3

#honkai star rail #veritas ratio

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#honkai star rail #serval landau

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I love that X-Men ‘97 brought back Gambit’s pronouns of Gambit/Gambit (with the occasional but rare He/Him) from the original series. Truly my favorite part! 💖

#marvel #marvel xmen #xmen the animated series #xmen 97 #remy lebeau

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

#the lord of the rings

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★ 【Kiko.L】 「 Firefly 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

#honkai star rail #hsr firefly

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Endless X-Men 97

#marvel #marvel xmen #xmen 97 #marvel rogue #untagged

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アベンチュリン

#honkai star rail #hsr aventurine

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Horniness is not intrinsically less pure than any other human motivation

#fandom stuff

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ブロゼレ ※If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source!

#honkai star rail #bronya rand #hsr seele

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Acheswan save me

I still have homework but I got bored I needed to draw to survive

#honkai star rail #hsr acheron #hsr black swan

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больше ахесвонов ~

#honkai star rail #hsr acheron #hsr black swan

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Still insane about Acheswan getting out of their date with Acheron going “such a pretty lady from the garden of recollection…. a pity she didnt give me her name…” while Black Swan has legit experienced The Horrors

#honkai star rail #hsr acheron #hsr black swan