@shash

[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. )

Comments

[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?

[gyve]

Yes
Factually I do have lousy social skills
Good observation

But dirty
I don't know what you're talking about
I wasn't even originally talking to you
You showed up and all I did was ask about your home because Silco wanted me to

[powderkegs]

Yeah I can see why you two hard heads don't get anywhere.