He's heaving, hyperventilating. It takes a moment. In the midst of it, he stumbles toward Dahut, reaching up to catch a hold of Dahut's shoulder. PLEASE DON'T GET CHINATSU SNAPPED ON HIM, HE'LL MCLOSE IT. HIS SANITY IS HANGING ON BY A SINGLE THREAD.]
Are you... alright?
[He's remembering the trial. He's remembering what Scien said, what they all speculated.]
Dahut disintegrates, becoming ash and also flying away on the wind.
No just kidding, but he's very still for a second or two as he fastly tries to process all of this. MY GOD. Eventually, though, he'll reach up to place his own hand on the hand at his shoulder.]
That should be my question, monsieur... I'm so sorry.
[Both that this happened and that he had to relive it while sharing it with A DAHUT.]
[STOP Viktor just emerges from the void with only Dahut's ashes.]
Please, you certainly don't have to apologize either. [He straightens, then, shifting so he can remove Viktor's hand from his shoulder and holding it between his own instead.]
...I'm speculating that it's the nanites again. This has happened more than once and nothing else has, except for the... parts disappearing. But I think that's just the Helly Belly digestion. [CALL IT ANYTHING ELSE.]
He swallows, feeling dirty for having Dahut hold his hand. The hand that really vaporized her away! And now Dahut is holding it like a saint. (why did my fingers try to type leech?????)]
...Yes. [His chin drops, head lowering with guilt. He looks anywhere not Dahut's face and eyes.] Sky... She was... our assistant.
[YOU REALLY SAID LEECHES YOU LEECHES YOU LEECHES YOU.
Dahut will continue to hold this hand that vaporized a wholeass person into dust, seemingly unbothered by it. i typed vampirize oh no.]
... [Silence, for a moment. His expression shifts into something soft in its empathetic hurt. He doesn't have an assistant to lose, but losing Scien, even for just a short four hours, had been such an awful thing.]
[ME WAKING UP TO REMEMBERING I ALMOST TYPED HE WAS HOLDING HIS HAND LIKE A LEECH.
Anyhow, glad Scien and Viktor continue to be almost the same person in a way. What's the harm in killing some assistants? He wishes Dahut wouldn't look at him like that, like Sidon does too sometimes. He feels so disgusting getting sympathy after doing something so horrendous.]
Yes... It was... a few days before I woke up here.
[NO FEET, LEECHES FOR HANDS, WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE.
This is so funny though they really are the same person in a way. Sickly twink rat version of Scien out here departicling assistants. Dahut cannot help what he looks like or is looking like, so Viktor will just have to perish under unwanted empathy as his evil little blasty paw is held.]
Dealing with that kind of grief on top of everything else on arrival must have been so difficult... What a dangerous thing...
[Viktor's fucking DEATH CUBE OF DISINTEGRATION that is.]
[THAT ISN'T WHAT HE MEANT, YOU STUPID DONUT. LISTEN HERE. Maybe someone else disintegrated their innocent assistant.]
I get it.
[Why there is a lot of sympathy even if he DOESN'T DESERVE IT. There are so many better people to give sympathy to not a man who accidentally ashed a girl who liked him.]
Yes. He's like a brother to me.
[He is so confident in this, but it definitely probably won't end up that way. This is what happens when you stick your science hand into the politic bowl. And also get the hots for one of the council women. Who will you betray? Your dying, sickly stand-in science brother partner, or a very beautiful and intelligent piece of ass?]
Wow this man's cheeseburger sasuke too huh. This is where he and Scien wildly differ...
In the meantime, Dahut listens to him say this with so much confidence, but he has also been alive for 65 years! He knows how these things tend to work out!! Absolute power corrupts absolutely!! So there's truly just several long moments of silence before he eventually nods.]
[STOP. The way Dahut pauses now has the doubt that was already settled in the back of his mind swelling into the front. No, stop that. Jayce has been good to him. Jayce... wouldn't do that to him?
He explained! He explained after the Hex Core, after Sky... Jayce will... understand. He wouldn't. His jaw tightens.]
But Dahut just nods. It's not like he can say anything that Viktor probably doesn't already know...]
Mm. Okay.
[Gives his lil paws a squeeze! As a memory bleeds out between them and i evilly cackle and trap you into a later week pc so i can give you the worse one HEH.]
He jolts when he's flung back, waiting for his brain to catch up with what he had witnessed. NOT SCIEN. Not--a girl? There is just this random young woman there with them.]
He'll reach forward to help keep Viktor stable, looking a little sheepish. He just saw some lady get dusted and now he has to deal with explaining this WHY!!]
Ah, Monsieur Scien and myself? I did mention that we head separate teams before...
[This is why he knows that Jayce is gonna ditch a man's ass somewhere later down the line and also probably go crazy with power or something, damn.]
Mm, well... Disagreements are frustrating. Everything would have been so much easier if Monsieur Scien and I were on the same page for every single thing!
[HE CANNOT LIE AND PRETEND THIS ISN'T THE CASE it definitely is... His expression softens again, though.]
But I still really, reeeally respect and admire him, and I appreciate everything that he's done for Arpéchéle. No matter where our differences take us, that's always going to be true. I think it's easier to handle the differences because of that.
[His expression sours, but not angrily. He just... can't understand. Clearly, he doesn't know their lives, their histories. He's trying so hard to put Scien inside of a certain shaped hole that just won't fit.
How can someone respect and admire a man who... is so detached and arrogant?]
Are you really going to grovel at his feet just because of his successes when he treats others so distastefully if they don't serve him a purpose?
[At least this is something he can definitely understand, unlike the idea of not being able to work with someone you fundamentally disagree with. There's a light little laugh, a bit of exasperation leaking into it.]
Aha, well! I don't think I'm the type to grovel, really.
[HE'S CONSTANTLY KICKING SCIEN LITERALLY AND METAPHORICALLY. Does he sleep in to let Scien kick people's heads sometimes, maybe so...]
And I won't argue against the fact that he has a really bad personality, either. It's the worst! But he treats everyone distastefully in equal measure, whether they serve a purpose or not, and he'll save everyone just as equally.
That isn't the excuse you think it is. He shouldn't treat anyone distastefully.
[This is why Viktor and Scien do NOT get along. Because Viktor runs on the emotions he still has, and because Scien runs on logic. THE TWO CANNOT CO-EXIST PEACEFULLY.]
Saving others without bias doesn't negate how terribly he treats them when they exist. You can't simply leave it at the door. "Oh, you're welcome! You're alive because of me! By the way, you mean nothing to me at all now regardless. Begone." That's the man you're going to admire?
[THE TWO ARE REALLY OUT HERE WATER AND OILING IT. Now kiss.
Dahut just sighs, not out of exasperation so much as understanding. Scien is so important to him but he can truly only defend his ass so much... Especially in this case, considering:]
I can't really argue against someone who's definitely seen him at his worst. Despite what it sounds and looks like most times, he's a pretty nuanced guy, though! I really hope that the two of you can set aside your differences and talk a little more someday, but he's so annoying when it comes to things like this...
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He's heaving, hyperventilating. It takes a moment. In the midst of it, he stumbles toward Dahut, reaching up to catch a hold of Dahut's shoulder. PLEASE DON'T GET CHINATSU SNAPPED ON HIM, HE'LL MCLOSE IT. HIS SANITY IS HANGING ON BY A SINGLE THREAD.]
Are you... alright?
[He's remembering the trial. He's remembering what Scien said, what they all speculated.]
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Dahut disintegrates, becoming ash and also flying away on the wind.
No just kidding, but he's very still for a second or two as he fastly tries to process all of this. MY GOD. Eventually, though, he'll reach up to place his own hand on the hand at his shoulder.]
That should be my question, monsieur... I'm so sorry.
[Both that this happened and that he had to relive it while sharing it with A DAHUT.]
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You don't... have to apologize. [STOP APOLOGIZING.] I'm sorry...
[IF HE BREAKS DAHUT, SCIEN WILL KICK HIM IN THE HEAD AGAIN!!!]
I don't... know why this is happening.
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Please, you certainly don't have to apologize either. [He straightens, then, shifting so he can remove Viktor's hand from his shoulder and holding it between his own instead.]
...I'm speculating that it's the nanites again. This has happened more than once and nothing else has, except for the... parts disappearing. But I think that's just the Helly Belly digestion. [CALL IT ANYTHING ELSE.]
...Was that-- your assistant?
[YOU BLASTED YOUR ASSISTANT GIRLFRIEND.]
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He swallows, feeling dirty for having Dahut hold his hand. The hand that really vaporized her away! And now Dahut is holding it like a saint. (why did my fingers try to type leech?????)]
...Yes. [His chin drops, head lowering with guilt. He looks anywhere not Dahut's face and eyes.] Sky... She was... our assistant.
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Dahut will continue to hold this hand that vaporized a wholeass person into dust, seemingly unbothered by it. i typed vampirize oh no.]
... [Silence, for a moment. His expression shifts into something soft in its empathetic hurt. He doesn't have an assistant to lose, but losing Scien, even for just a short four hours, had been such an awful thing.]
Was that recent...?
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Anyhow, glad Scien and Viktor continue to be almost the same person in a way. What's the harm in killing some assistants? He wishes Dahut wouldn't look at him like that, like Sidon does too sometimes. He feels so disgusting getting sympathy after doing something so horrendous.]
Yes... It was... a few days before I woke up here.
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This is so funny though they really are the same person in a way. Sickly twink rat version of Scien out here departicling assistants. Dahut cannot help what he looks like or is looking like, so Viktor will just have to perish under unwanted empathy as his evil little blasty paw is held.]
Dealing with that kind of grief on top of everything else on arrival must have been so difficult... What a dangerous thing...
[Viktor's fucking DEATH CUBE OF DISINTEGRATION that is.]
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I'm sure I'm not the only one here dealing with that sort of situation, so... You don't have to baby me.
[His jaw tightens at the last bit, though. Ashamed, he turns his head away.]
The Hex Core is dangerous. I asked Jayce to destroy it. He promised.
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ALSO HE'S PRETTY SURE THAT VIKTOR IS THE ONLY PERSON HERE DEALING WITH DISINTEGRATING THEIR ASSISTANT but he doesn't say that.]
I don't mean to baby you. I think that anyone who's experienced something like that deserves to have the difficulty of it acknowledged...
[SHIT IS WILD OUT THERE. His brow furrows a little at this last statement, though, and he hesitates for a second before speaking again.]
...You trust him, right? Jayce.
[Because the Hex Core is dangerous but it also seems quite powerful, and isn't that a tale as old as time.]
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I get it.
[Why there is a lot of sympathy even if he DOESN'T DESERVE IT. There are so many better people to give sympathy to not a man who accidentally ashed a girl who liked him.]
Yes. He's like a brother to me.
[He is so confident in this, but it definitely probably won't end up that way. This is what happens when you stick your science hand into the politic bowl. And also get the hots for one of the council women. Who will you betray? Your dying, sickly stand-in science brother partner, or a very beautiful and intelligent piece of ass?]
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Wow this man's cheeseburger sasuke too huh. This is where he and Scien wildly differ...
In the meantime, Dahut listens to him say this with so much confidence, but he has also been alive for 65 years! He knows how these things tend to work out!! Absolute power corrupts absolutely!! So there's truly just several long moments of silence before he eventually nods.]
...Then I hope that he won't let you down.
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He explained! He explained after the Hex Core, after Sky... Jayce will... understand. He wouldn't. His jaw tightens.]
He won't...
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But Dahut just nods. It's not like he can say anything that Viktor probably doesn't already know...]
Mm. Okay.
[Gives his lil paws a squeeze! As a memory bleeds out between them and i evilly cackle and trap you into a later week pc so i can give you the worse one HEH.]
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He jolts when he's flung back, waiting for his brain to catch up with what he had witnessed. NOT SCIEN. Not--a girl? There is just this random young woman there with them.]
Who...? You don't... agree?
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He'll reach forward to help keep Viktor stable, looking a little sheepish. He just saw some lady get dusted and now he has to deal with explaining this WHY!!]
Ah, Monsieur Scien and myself? I did mention that we head separate teams before...
[Back when Viktor was being a SULKY BABY.]
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I know that, but... The fact you still work together. You still--work closely together. You were sad when he...
...I'll never understand.
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Now he's just looking at Viktor with a bit of a faintly confused expression, though.]
...Is it really so hard to understand...?
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DON'T LOOK AT HIM CONFUSED.]
Yes? Yes, it is! I couldn't imagine trying to work with Jayce if we didn't agree on how everything was meant to function.
[THIS IS VERY FUNNY........... FOR HIS FUTURE WHICH HE DOESN'T KNOW YET.]
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Mm, well... Disagreements are frustrating. Everything would have been so much easier if Monsieur Scien and I were on the same page for every single thing!
[HE CANNOT LIE AND PRETEND THIS ISN'T THE CASE it definitely is... His expression softens again, though.]
But I still really, reeeally respect and admire him, and I appreciate everything that he's done for Arpéchéle. No matter where our differences take us, that's always going to be true. I think it's easier to handle the differences because of that.
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How can someone respect and admire a man who... is so detached and arrogant?]
Are you really going to grovel at his feet just because of his successes when he treats others so distastefully if they don't serve him a purpose?
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Aha, well! I don't think I'm the type to grovel, really.
[HE'S CONSTANTLY KICKING SCIEN LITERALLY AND METAPHORICALLY. Does he sleep in to let Scien kick people's heads sometimes, maybe so...]
And I won't argue against the fact that he has a really bad personality, either. It's the worst! But he treats everyone distastefully in equal measure, whether they serve a purpose or not, and he'll save everyone just as equally.
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[This is why Viktor and Scien do NOT get along. Because Viktor runs on the emotions he still has, and because Scien runs on logic. THE TWO CANNOT CO-EXIST PEACEFULLY.]
Saving others without bias doesn't negate how terribly he treats them when they exist. You can't simply leave it at the door. "Oh, you're welcome! You're alive because of me! By the way, you mean nothing to me at all now regardless. Begone." That's the man you're going to admire?
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Dahut just sighs, not out of exasperation so much as understanding. Scien is so important to him but he can truly only defend his ass so much... Especially in this case, considering:]
I can't really argue against someone who's definitely seen him at his worst. Despite what it sounds and looks like most times, he's a pretty nuanced guy, though! I really hope that the two of you can set aside your differences and talk a little more someday, but he's so annoying when it comes to things like this...
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His brows furrow. He knows Dahut has his own history, and he also knows Dahut is trying (uselessly).]
All of our conversations devolve into bickering. I don't think we'll ever have one thay doesn't.
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