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Viktor ([personal profile] techmaturgy) wrote in [community profile] abraxaslogs2025-01-29 08:44 pm

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Who: Viktor and special guests and YOU
When: end of January/February pre-event
Where: Cadens, the Horizon
What: it’s canon update time baybe and things have become…weird…
Warnings: potential references to suicidal ideation, and also a manslaughter. arcane season 2 spoilers through episode 6.

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[open and closed starters in comments! If you want a custom starter or something specific, just hit me up. Details on the canon update, including new powers are here. I’m on plurk at [plurk.com profile] whitticus and on discord also at whitticus.]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-18 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He notices the uniformity in their clothing, the symbols that spiral across this place, touching everything - how they dress in white, while Viktor drapes himself in dark colors. He makes no comment, expecting by now that little of this is intentional on Viktor's part, at least not that they invoke the trappings of followers while he sets himself apart.

He doesn't even bother pointing out that what Viktor is telling him now is exactly one of his worries.

Instead, he moves closer again, running his hands down the sides of Viktor's arms. He knows Viktor's fears about some of this, about becoming like this man who styled himself a mentor. Kyle still believes they're nothing alike. He touches Viktor's face, brushing back his hair. ]


And?

[ Please tell him you told him to leave after that proposal. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-18 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He nods, toying with the leaf-shaped clip on the front of Viktor's robes - recognizing the symbol from the journal in the lab. ]

The other man? How was he involved?

[ The one Viktor was harboring. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-19 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ So the Doctor had moved on from torturing creatures, then. Or at least planned to, between this man and Viktor. He likes none of this, obviously. He doesn't like to think about Viktor making himself vulnerable to all these people - not just the ones who would abuse him and his power, but in a selfish way he worries about Viktor giving so much of himself to the ones seeking his help. That atonement is part of it.

He lets his palm rest flat on Viktor's chest for a moment, looking down at it. ]


Were you able to help?
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-20 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's still curious about Viktor's power to heal, the actual function of it, and how he wields this new power. But then he mentions Jayce and Kyle looks up to meet his gaze. If he feels anything but positive about the two of them reuniting in the future, he keeps it buried - he wants Viktor to be happy.

He lets his hand fall back to his side with a soft smile. ]


I'm sorry it ended before you met. [ At least he got to see him briefly, even if it ended poorly. ]

Have you seen him at all since... ?

[ They parted. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-20 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ There's the slightest flicker of embarrassment across his features that Viktor thinks he needs to be reminded. ]

I know.

[ These futures may as well be visions of an entirely different life, a different path. More likely, though, they are the future they should expect if none of them can find a way back by their own means, their memories of this place destroyed in the process.

He reaches out to brush his fingers against Viktor's wrist. ]


Maybe you find a way to work together again. [ In that life. His brow furrows. ] But - I know you will see him again.

[ He tries to only sound hopeful for him, even though this is the same as talking about how they will part one day. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-21 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kyle lets their fingers thread together again, glancing into the wide open entrance of the temple - all that golden light causes the entryway to appear darker, obscuring the inside of the structure. ]

You miss him. He must miss you the same. [ A beat. ] Maybe you both needed this space, to find compromise.

[ He generally tries not to speak for this man he never met. But he understands now, bending for these reasons. For someone. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-22 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I know.

[ This time he says it with a small smile, somewhere between faintly sheepish and wry. He turns Viktor's hand in his own, running his thumb over his knuckles. ]

It's easy to tell when you're not unhappy.

[ It's only Kyle finding himself being possessive about what they've shared together now. And other things. He frowns a bit. ]

- it's just that this vision... it makes me think of what it did to John. [ To come into his power. To find himself forced to fight a war. No one knew he was the Rifter, but people still feared him - it must have been isolating. ] I don't want you to go back and... have this change you too.
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-22 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ What happens when someone finally comes to stop you? he wants to ask. Instead, he looks conflicted for a moment, not wanting to lead back into the same argument - one Viktor does not seem to have an answer for yet, anyway.

He turns toward the temple's entrance again, to finally ask: ]


What work do you do here?
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-23 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Seemingly with permission, he will walk inside. Past the threshold it becomes lighter within the inner space. He's not sure what he was expecting from the exterior - maybe something closer to the greenhouse from earlier. He's certainly not expecting towering visages or golden script like the Payshmura's aesthetic, but neither did he predict this space to be so empty and almost colorless. Something about the strange texture in the stone or metal (he can't tell what it's made of) feels off and slightly unpleasant as well, reminding him of the nests of stinging insects. He can't determine how any of it was made or constructed. ]

You meditate?

[ There's a faintly teasing lilt to his voice, an attempt to mask his discomfort with this room. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-24 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ Just because Viktor doesn't consider himself spiritual doesn't negate everything that Kyle is seeing in this place with his own two eyes.

His eyebrows raise slightly at 'psychic plane', his first thought that Viktor has found access to something similar to what they have here in Horizon. He gives a small nod. ]


Show me.

[ He'll save his questions for when he sees it. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-24 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The shift is disorienting at first, he keeps hold of Viktor's hands for that stability as the ground disappears beneath them and the world opens up, his gaze drifting across the endless space. But his focus is soon drawn back to Viktor - and himself - with their hands still clasped he lifts them to either side, unwinding their fingers so that palms splay against palms, and he watches the iridescent colors dance across their skin.

When his gaze returns to Viktor's face, he seems more like himself to Kyle than the version in the commune, his expression less dulled by whatever he'd experienced in those months, the bright gold of his eyes returned. Whatever questions he might come up with are set aside as he draws their hands back, leaning forward to kiss him. ]
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[personal profile] ushiri 2025-02-25 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ When they part he leans into the touch. The expectant way Viktor looks at him reminds him of how he gets when he's excited to demonstrate some project he's working on. His own expression is slightly bemused. ]

It is, but - what is this?

[ What does he do here? Did he create all this?

Kyle lets one hand slip around Viktor's waist, keeping him close as he lets his gaze drift above them.

(all of this is beautiful, but he can't help a part of him that wishes now to go back to the bed they've been sharing in the real world) ]

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