Do you have any idea how much I want that thing to have a more expressive face? To be more approachable? I think we'd sell him on the arms part first just because it'd be more ways to be productive rather than adding to the robot's aesthetics.

[Viktor is going to 200% hate this, they should present this very seriously.

The next piece is.

Yeah.]

Agreed.

[What catches Alucard's eye next is arguably something that would be suited to Astarion's tastes. It's a large scale oil painting depicting a scene of some great battle in the middle of the night.

Or it would be, if there were not clear marks of destruction over the wood panel it has been painted on. There is a large gap in the center marking the loss, but it has been covered by fabric. Fabric attached to the wood, and then so, so carefully holding up embroidery that tries to fill in the figures and action that have been lost to whatever fire ate it first.

The work is delicate. It captures expressions. Colors. Somewhere Alucard breathes out the word remarkable.]