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[ Weirdly enough, not OOC for his canon. ]

Not much else to do, if I am honest.

[ The day's dedicated to welcoming back the dead, and well, Viktor supposedly never died but he is basically one of the gang now. It's time to get to know this fella. Besides, he's free to fuck off whenever and however way he wants, he's free. ]

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[I thought it when I typed it. Unfortunate.

He will let Marcoh, and everyone else in other threads, lead him around like he is a tourist who paid for a guided local tour even though he has actually seen these places from the other side. Not that they all know that.]

Jing Yuan told me you talk to frogs.

[This is such a way to open conversation.]

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[ So you do think of these words...

Listen he was told that the Neighbourhood is new. He's not a tour guide type of guy though it's really a brief (points at that thing) tavern, inside is Basilio, type of deal. ]

...

[ Jing Yuan why. ]

Sometimes...

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[He prefers this? Simple, to the point. If he has questions, he will ask them. Maybe the commune was just simple, and that is what he liked the most.]

I "spoke" to a few of the renegade ones released onto us a while ago. Unfortunately, their conversation amounted to just cries of "spritz, spritz" since I assume they wanted to be watered.

I collected them and put them in the botanical garden.

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[ To be fair sir you made that commune. ]

Oh. Right. Akihiko wrote me.

[ JUST SENT HIM A LETTER BEING LIKE WE ARE INVADED BY FROGS PLEASE ADVISE? AND THEN MARCOH WAS GOING THROUGH IT TOO MUCH TO ANSWER. WHAT WERE YOU CHUCKLEFUCKS DOING. ]

...

[ Some frogs don't like being dry. ]

Did it make them happy?

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It was a little chaotic for a while. There was also a goose, but I preferred the frogs.

[Some things happened while you were going through a mental and emotional crisis, Marcoh, sorry.]

It did, yes. They enjoyed the garden and said little else except chirps of what pleased or displeased them.

Now that I think about it, we should have brought them with us.

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... Maybe it isn't just the frogs of Prehevil. Maybe all frogs think this way...

Glad you solved your... frog invasion problem.

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Who knew frogs from every place enjoyed the simple things in life like gardens and being hydrated.

If only people were so fortunate to be the same.

[Thank you, Marcoh.]

We did.

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I was thinking more that they don't bother saying much besides saying what they like or don't like.

[ Thinks about every frog Marcoh met in Prehevil while he had Mastery Over Vermin going out of their way to be like you're not my master and you never will be. Why were they like that. ]

Sure. It would be a lot more simple if people were... like frogs.

[ Throwback to how this is the person Shadowheart was so convinced was a homosexual because he wrote bizarre yet compelling letters. He's thinking about that too. He supposes Viktor is enigmatic. ]

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Yes, but is that not simplicity in its finest form?

[Frogs are valid. ALSO WHY DOES THIS PING SOME KIND OF GAYDAR, HELLO!!! It isn't wrong, but it's the principle of the argument.

He is just a nerd gone rogue hippie. We are electing to ignore the deeper iceberg of how he has issues with imperfection and hiveminded a whole commune's worth of people when healing them (including those sweet little frogs on the other side), and distrusts emotions as a whole now, something Lucas would destroy him for.

He's just a guy.]

Unfortunately for us, we get in our own ways.

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[ Shadowheart's theories were so funny and they did have a high chance of being right considering the general type of people we play but it being about Viktor in hindsight is outrageously funny. Also, HELP. YOU ARCANED THOSE FROGS??? ]

Sure, I don't like complication. But in a way I guess that is just a part of life. Not much to strive and be better for if there weren't.

[ Though that being said he'd really love some stability. ]

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[I felt extremely called out when Siz was just throwing these things out there and being right. I could feels Siz honing in on me, knowing it was me and Viktor out there.

ALSO LISTEN. Damn, the way he has now arcaned your rats and also the tiny wizards.]

This is very rude to the frogs, Marcoh. They have their own hopes and dreams. Like being watered.

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I think it is okay if frogs do not need to strive to be better...

[ They should be allowed to just loaf around... ]

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[Marcoh is so tender on the frog rights. Like Anders, but... less. Just. Less.]

Maybe they want to be better. At catching flies, or hopping.

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[ Trying to gauge if Viktor is serious or fucking around. Like this is a vibe either way but he's just trying to gauge whether he's being made fun of lowkey. 'It could be banter' he's not good with banter, he takes things too seriously. ]

They can do that if they want.

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[Maroch is so serious. That's okay. Viktor is relatively serious if only because he's been hexpilled. But there is still Viktor in there somewhere. He has a bit of sass.

So there is a hint of teasing and amusement somewhere beneath the strange energy subduing his emotions. He never seems to really do much of anything emotive - laugh, smile, get angry. He will occasionally frown.

But there's a faint upturn to his lips.]

You are kind to them, thank you.

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[ Hrmmmmrghgh. He wrinkles his nose slightly at picking up the energy. How dare he be teased by Harold. ]

...No reason not to be.

[ He really likes critters... in particular, the kinds that most people tend to dislike because they're often considered vermin. Frogs, toads. Rats. The works. ]

You like them too, I'm guessing.

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[Yes, he's being teased by Harold, the peach giver.]

I don't mind them. They have their own charm. Interesting ones always lived in the Undercity where the water and air was polluted and the environment dark.

I am fond of plants a little more now. It was satisfying getting them to grow down in Zaun.

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It sounds not dissimilar to the slums.

[ Undercity is broad and he doesn't know what Zaun is, but he relates to this bit. ]

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Jacopo said something similar. It could be called the slums, I suppose. Piltover's sister city buried below it, full of outcasts and the poor. Zaun. The place I was from.

[It was the slums!]

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Yes. Although most of the Vatican was a little dark, but that is just how it is near the Ministry of Darkness.

[ Wow wonder why they got THAT name. Amidst a whole load of other reasons. ]

The upper city, where the Churches are, is pretty different.

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[Why does Ministry of Darkness sound like such Looney Tunes Harry Potter??? Both of Viktor's brows raise slightly. Who just calls it the Ministry of Darkness......]

Like a council...?

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I'm not really a historian but it is a branch of religious orders that made its base where is now known as Vatican City.

[ Priests are called Dark Priests and it's Fiend Pietr's Basilica instead of Saint, but the Bible is just the normal Bible most of the time? Like, Marcoh outright mentions Sodom and Gomorrah. It's very funny and goofy, when your religion is kind of slightly to the left. ]

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[We just take a little Christianity and give it the ol' razzle dazzle.]

Hm. The other then? The Churches. Piltover had a governing council for both cities. However, no one from Zaun ever held a seat.

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[ That's you, machine Jesus. ]

The Church runs everything in Vatican City. [ True theocracy... ] I don't know much about any other councils.

[ I guess you could say the mafia tends to run the streets though. ]