[text] @xXdarkwarriorXx

[fessus]

Who's the worst person you've met here and why? Pref an Outsider but if they've all been cool I'll open it up to whoever

I'm making a list



Bonus: if you guess a number between 1 and 100 and get closest to the one I'm thinking of I've got smth for you

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@shash

[gyve]

Silco

Ten

[fessus]

Cool putting you down as 39

[gyve]

Is that the winning number
If so then go ahead

[fessus]

Not even close, I do enough for you as it is

[gyve]

Now if you want to use thirty-nine you have to write its glyph

[fessus]

Are you trying to trip me up? Yk I can do it

[gyve]

I know you can
So let's see it

[fessus]

[ Okay... thirty-nine. Tens place below, ones above, three below the nine...

Give it a few seconds before a picture comes, taken not of any apps but actually of good old-fashioned pen and paper on a desk. ]

1/3

[gyve]

That looks great Noctis

2/3

[gyve]

3/3

[gyve]

( ... )

It's correct I mean
Good work
You learn quickly

[fessus]

Yeah

Thanks I think it looks great too

[ If you in any way think you're walking that compliment back, you are Wrong. ]

Do I get to push you to write it in my language now? [ He'll even let you choose which one. ]

[gyve]

( DAMN IT................ )

I don't know how

You said it'd be easier for you to learn glyphs
That it made more sense than me learning to write your languages

[fessus]

Dw yk I'm just messing with you

You've been learning my shorthand anyway, you haven't had to ask what something meant in a while

@BAD DADDY

[zauneyete]

I left a mark, did I?

[gyve]

Temporarily Silco
You can't leave a lasting mark on the wind

Sounds like the feeling is mutual anyway

[zauneyete]

[ It's a shame Kaladin can't see his eyeroll at his statement. KALADIN YOU'RE SO FUNNY ]

Oh, well, I just can't stand a little misplaced righteousness. Don't take it too personally.

Or do, I certainly can't stop you.

[ he likes it ok ]

[gyve]

( i said i'd deliver the cringe, I MEANT IT )

We come from similar backgrounds Silco
I tried many times to tell you that
And that wanting to help people isn't weak

If you don't want to listen I can't stop you either
We'll live at this impasse until our duty to Lilith is concluded

[zauneyete]

[ ILU FROOT I'M SO HAPPY HOLDS IT LIKE A BABY BIRD ]

Oh, I am very aware of what you have said. I even believe you.

I've met people like you before, who act like you do. In fact, I've experienced the power of that righteousness and obsession with helping.

You see, the thing is, I know it's a veneer. Something covering up the parts of you that you don't want everyone else to see. It probably upsets you that I can see through it. That I can see that there's something that you don't want everyone else to acknowledge.

[ He's decided kaladin is vander coded, unfortunately for him. ]

It's fine, if you don't see it as well.

[ not here ]

[powderkegs]

[ ohhhh myyyy godddddd this is so cringe ]

[gyve]

You speak of veneers knowing you're hiding the best parts of yourself beneath a layer far thicker than mine
You told me so
The goals you had
Why you persist
There was once a man who cared about bettering the world for his people
Bring him out hypocrite
You seething storming hypocrite
I challenge you to show me his potential because you've totally exhausted yours

🔒 private

[zauneyete]

Who said that I am not still that man, Kaladin?

You disagree with my methods?
That is the price of getting what we want. If I want my people to be given the bare minimum of respect, they must force it.

So we force it. We are not a kind people, we are not a palatable people.

What we are is strong, and able to do so much more than anyone gives us credit for. You say I was once that man, but the real secret is the man before could never have seen it made manifest. That man was killed to make the man who could do it.

I'm not hiding anywhere, Kaladin. I cannot bring him out, because he is already here.. I'm what I had to be. This is precisely the one with potential. Not only that, it is the one that must exist to have it in hand. There was no other answer, only the results of the base violence necessary for change.

🔓 unlocks his own response 😭

[gyve]

The base violence necessary for change is not what you represent Silco
There is a difference between needing to fight back to survive and deriving a sense of pleasure from it

You're lost and I disagree with you as a man
You are an example to all here of what it means to be totally consumed by the selfish pursuit of power
If you can't revive the dead part of you that had sense then you should at least learn to defend your people against yourself
Better yet I'll do it for you

Don't you dare say the people of Zaun aren't kind or palatable
I come from a similar stock of oppressed men and women you speak of now and our strength comes from the traits you perceive to be weaknesses
Recognizing our limitations and pushing on despite them

Don't you put them down to prove a storming point to me

THE PETTIEST MOVE He locks it back 🔒

[zauneyete]

You do not understand us. You do not get us.

It's funny that you speak to us when you have now met two of us. Jinx is everything that a Zaunite is. Everything that they could be, and more.

[ She's the ideal. Everything he puts into Zaun he put into one little girl. Is it really such a surprise that she is Like That? Silco was her father — he loved her so much — that does not mean he was a good father. In fact, much like the network name... ]

It's funny, because you are almost there. Our strength is in pushing on despite our limitations. In taking what makes us dirty little creatures to topside, and becoming stronger, and better. Surviving despite everything they do to us. Is it so shocking that we would become monsters to compensate? The only other choice was quiet complacency.

We already had that. It left us festering, and sick.

We're stronger now than we ever were before.

🔓 unlocked

[gyve]

(

BLINKS RAPIDLY TO ENGAGE THE "UNLOCK" FEATURE— )

I think that's the most overdramatic thing you've ever said to me which is shocking considering how long the list is
There is a choice between becoming a monster and quiet complacency
There are several
Why do you believe you can't exist somewhere in between

Unfortunately for you I do understand
Two people don't represent an entire population and in knowing human beings and all their virtues and flaws I will confidently assume for all to hear that you're lying
There is good in your people and you're misrepresenting them

Why can't we come together over what we agree on Silco
When you speak of pushing limitations and taking your people topside I am inspired
Then you lose me when you go on like a megalomaniac