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[gyve]

I was shown by Noctis how to adjust my implant's text-to-speech settings
It's my hope that by the end of the week very few of you will sound like an overenthusiastic woman
Select the voice you want to be represented by using the link below
It'll go a long way in helping me to distinguish your messages from other people's

Thanks

[LINK]

( kaladin's implant reads to him in tiktok's "female-original" voice, but there are so many more to choose from. if you're savvy, you can even record clips of your own and have them uploaded so that it's your voice—personally—telling this idiot to stop using bar soap to wash his hair.

feel free to go wild with it. he'll have no fucking idea. )

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[gyve]

Taken away by your enemies
Those people above you who look down on you right

When did all of that begin
Is it recent within your lifetime or has it been that way for generations

[powderkegs]

That's right. We're just animals. People to be used. Or used up.

And I couldn't tell you! Longer than me, longer than my old man. It's always been this way.

That's why he works so hard. He believes in the dream. The dream of a free Zaun.

[gyve]

Disgusting
It's not fair to be treated like that
As though you're something lesser when it could've just as easily been them in your position
It's hard to make people like that see truth when all they have to do is look away to avoid a change in their lifestyles

But a free Zaun
What does that look like to you
To him

1/??? multiple bear with me.

[powderkegs]

[ this is stupid. ]

[powderkegs]

[ it's stupid because silco is dead. even if the tatters of his dream reside in jinx, she's not interested in carrying it forward. she's not a revolutionary. she doesn't care about the lanes. as if they weren't also grubby, greedy people. as if they didn't exacerbate the hellish conditions of zaun.

child of zaun? what a joke. they are all children of zaun when they pick up a weapon. zaun is in their eye. in their teeth. blood in the mouth. ]

[powderkegs]

[ silco is dead silco is dead silco is dead ]

END

[powderkegs]

[ and.

he isn't.

so let's get on that horse. turn on that merry go round. let it spin a little longer.

she'll be his good daughter. a little longer. ]

It looks the same.

[gyve]

( silence is this room's default. speaking at his implant disturbs it, and for a moment, he doesn't want that. he wants to let jinx's answer for a free zaun sit in nothing until he's ready to address it. not because it's a dream he disagrees with, but because he's felt the same before.

if only nothing had changed. if only he could go back to the way everything was. even though those times were hard, they were much more straightforward than his life is now. he misses having a whole family. a place to sleep that feels like his. a purpose, even if it was given to him forcibly by his father. familiar climes that made him less of... whatever he's become now.

his eyes shut, waiting to grudgingly embrace a cold reality: he never had any other choice. did jinx? )

What about you
Do you still look the same

[powderkegs]

[ ohh buddy. of course she doesn't. she's all shimmered up. and who knows the ramifications of that. ]

'course I do.

I mean I lost a finger recently but I'm the same old Jinx.

[ play the part. silco is watching. ]

Nothing's changed.

[gyve]

I knew your lives were dangerous but it's never easy to hear about someone getting injured
Let's hope any change that does happen keeps the brutality to a minimum

How did you lose the finger

[powderkegs]

[ lmao. okay. sure. realistic. ]

Someone shot it off! Bang.

[gyve]

If it's still healing I'd keep a close eye on it
Our immune systems aren't primed for this world
I was sick for a while when I first got here

Wash it often
Gently and with soap
It'll keep the rot away

( ... )

You seem alright with it

[powderkegs]

It's been a few months. I've had time to adapt.

In the Lanes, losing body parts is the norm. We just build better, metal ones.

[gyve]

Prostheses?

( like a wooden leg, or something soulcast. from a medical standpoint, it's interesting. )

You'll fit right in here then
You can get rid of whole limbs for metal versions
They consider them enhancements
Like you

[powderkegs]

Ours are pretty fancy. But I don't think you'd like them much.

Mine's just a metal finger.

[gyve]

You're right about that

Which finger was it
Pretty important question

[powderkegs]

I'll show you!

🖕

[gyve]

( the implant reads a description of the emoji, but kaladin isn't blind. he looks at it, sees it's the middle finger—a clear diss—and smiles. )

Ha
Figures it'd be that one
Does it feel more or less impactful now that it's metal

[powderkegs]

Eh, it's funny to leave them in suspense as it slowly unfurls.

[gyve]

Right
Well good luck with that

And with your father
He's a hard man

[powderkegs]

Heyyyy now. That's my dad you're talking about.

I know exactly who he is.

[gyve]

So you know he's a hard man
Zero new facts were shared between us

[powderkegs]

How did you think this was gonna go?

You open up my eyes about Silco? I see the light and everything gets fixed?

Are you really that daft?

[gyve]

Uh

No

I just called Silco a hard man because he factually is one
Then I asked about Zaun and I asked about your finger
What about our conversation points to me trying to convince you of something or fix anything

Call me daft if you like but you're wrong about my motivations

[powderkegs]

So. Factually, you have lousy social skills.

C'mon. You were really going to do my old man dirty like that to me?