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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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I'd like to go back, someday.

[He has responsibilities to his home, and he doesn't think it would ever sit right with him, if he never returned. There are people there counting on him, and so much he still wants to do.

Now, at least, he has the luxury of time.]

But there is much to explore, first. [In the vastness of the universe, and all the spaces between all the different worlds. Viktor feels, now, that it's closer than ever.] I asked Kyle to come with me.

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[Whatever sharpness began to ache in his chest on Kyle's behalf soon smooths. So they would go together. It's romantic in a way that appeals to his youth: choosing to be with someone no matter the universe.

In the same breath, a new hurt blooms. Someday, he'd have to say good bye to Kyle, a more permanent parting than what he's already resolved himself to. Wilhelm swallows it, the sadness that rises up prematurely, shoving his hands into his pockets.]

I'm glad you found each other. And...I hope you get to go someday.

[He hopes that they get that choice.

As for himself, he's already tired of starting over. Picking up and beginning somewhere else. If he could choose, he'd stay in this world.]

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[Viktor studies Wilhelm's face for a moment, knowing that he doesn't need his approval but searching for it anyway. If what he just dreamed of comes to pass, even in any universe, he does not deserve this happiness.

He will take it for himself, anyway, because he is only human. Viktor wants Kyle to be happy, too, and Kyle has made it clear where he wants to be. They can keep each other, for a little while longer.]

Would you leave here, if you could?

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[The difference is that Wilhelm always thought he deserved happiness; he just felt like it would always be out of his reach. Now that he's got it, cupped carefully in his hands, he never wants to let it go. The turn of his head is decisive.]

I don't know where I'd go. My home is in this world.

[In Thorne, despite all its flaws. These days, the concept of home is rooted more in a who than a where. Traveling is fun — exploring new places, seeing new landscapes, trying new things. But coming back to what's familiar is better.]

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Then, I hope you get to stay.

[That's what all this is about--making sure every Summoned has a choice, whether to leave or remain. Lately it's been feeling like their existence in Abraxas is somewhat tenuous, with the Singularity's behavior, but it isn't bad to hope. To wonder if a real life can be made here for them, without the threat of vanishing.]