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Jay I DIDN'T EVEN A LITTLE BIT PLAN FOR HIM TO TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT
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it is definitely canon that he just breaks out the heartwrenching anecdotes sometimes, so
Jay
Jedaaaaao. /snugs him
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anyway he is definitely not up for clarifying that things with said unnamed superior included rape - he isn't even capable of characterizing it that way because. like. in his head she was his heptarch and he belonged to her and fixating on that is the only way for him not to have a deeply compromising breakdown he can't afford
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but it super was
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anyway if you are not up for that ever getting clarified lmk
Jay
no, I'm absolutely good with wherever it goes at any point, and... Fives doesn't find any of it all that shocking, other than the part where Jedao could actually escape. Awful, yes, but not shocking
Jay
B/c with as completely dehumanized as the clones are there is just no way in hell I buy that there wasn't a significant subset of trainers who abused their charges in pretty much any way possible.
Jay
In Legends canon some of them set up a fight club and forced little boys to fight to the death, I'm sure there was sexual abuse too, and that they all knew who was involved.
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it's very explicit that she let him go deliberately
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and then surprised him years later when he thought she'd forgotten about him
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"he should have known a fellow Shuos would have a long-term plan"
Jay
oh god, just let him think he was safe so tormenting him more would be more satisfying?
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yes
Ptriciadactyl
Khiaz is so upsetting
Ptriciadactyl
AND THEN. They give someone surgery to make her look like Khiaz to see his reaction when they break him out of storage to use their undead general. Yuck.
Ptriciadactyl
I'm so skeeved out just thinking about it.
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but yeah "she let me go, for awhile" is very
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literal
anstaar
the fact that this is considered the best way to make sure that Jedao hasn't taken over says... a lot
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it really fucking does
Ptriciadactyl
foxes.
Jay
:-(
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this is not even properly going into why he switched from linguistic analysis to assassination track
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but
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he's not ready for that
Jay
Jedaaaao :-(
Jay
yep, Jedao has basically been folded in as a vod
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it's so weirdly terrible how much 'citizen' doesn't mean in the He%archate
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it's like -
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like poker chips
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you can put yourself on the table
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and be an object of value that matters and is played with and toyed with and thrown around and spent and used up
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or you can not do that
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and then you're just worthless plastic
Ptriciadactyl
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you chose to belong to a hex/ptarch when you join a faction, but then at least they'll have some professional interest in not letting the other factions fuck with you
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you don't have to choose to be in a faction but if you don't then best keep your head down and hope the vidona don't catch you praying
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because anyone could destroy you or exploit you for whatever
Ptriciadactyl
Giving yourself to the Kel means giving yourself to Kel Command, which is terrible and fucked up and a literally insane hivemind... and yet /looks at Brezan, who ran headfirst for the Kel and never looked back
anstaar
"Most of our systems would be under martial law if we weren’t, you know, always under martial law."
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a quote I've always thought is very telling
Ptriciadactyl
it's an excellent quote
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(Granted, Brezan is 4th generation Kel.
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Brezan
anstaar
which means he knew what it meant
Ptriciadactyl
it's true, he did.
anstaar
but someone had to serve because they wanted things better
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Brezan
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BREZAN
Ptriciadactyl
The idea of willingly submitting to formation instinct makes my skin crawl. >_> But there are so many good Kel.
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and Brezan wishes it worked
Ptriciadactyl
I know. He knows he's seen as a failure as a Kel because the injection of the emotional need to obey hierarchy was unsuccessful in his case. /keels over in a puddle of feelings
Ptriciadactyl
he's afraid he'll be dismissed because he's a crashhawk.
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if you do app him Jedao will just pingpong so hard between delight and so much pain
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YOU'RE A GOOD KEL!!!!!
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I appreciate that Jedao is still adopting Kel on the Barge.
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Even if they're not technically Kel.
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he went like two whole days all
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'they aren't really Kel, I should be multicultural, I will miss things if I insist on using my own paradigm so-'
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and then immediately cracked THE BARGE HAS SO MANY GOOD KEL AND THEY ARE ALL HIS NOW, GOODBYE
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Brezan: did you adopt ALL THE KEL; Jedao (looking shifty): also some people who aren't Kel...
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yes look, this is Nico, he is obviously my baby shuos analyst who had a training incident and is scared of everything if you yell at him I will skin you
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this is tris she's weird
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don't yell at her either
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for your own safety
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pffffffft
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If I apped Brezan he couldn't yell at Tris, so.
Ptriciadactyl
He'd be safe from that fate.
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'this is Kol he's a stupid Andan but he bit me and bribed me with games so now he's mine too'
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That's bucky, he's not MY Kel, he's my other Kel's Kel
Ptriciadactyl
XD
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'this is rosethorn and I'm trying to convince her I'm an adult DO NOT TELL HER STORIES ABOUT ME'
Ptriciadactyl
Telling Brezan not to do something just makes him want to do it.
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unless it's something like being mean to Nico, because he's not an asshole, gosh.
Ptriciadactyl
You didn't need to tell him not to be cruel to a teenage boy.
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he has gotten Attached
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as he does
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he just wants to be clear
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he's bad clarity, as a shuos, so he is trying really hard
anstaar
Jedao introduces people on the barge is hilarious
Ptriciadactyl
I want a "how would your character introduce mine" meme.
Ptriciadactyl
but I really enjoy Jedao's introductions the most.
Ptriciadactyl
(Would Jedao really say that Brezan has to be allowed to chew on everything, like a goat?)
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Jedao's welcome to the barge tour would be AMAZING
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yes
Ptriciadactyl
I would stalk the fuck out of it.
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definitely
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100%
Ptriciadactyl
al;dfj
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yOU KNOW HE LIKES HIS FARM METAPHORS
Ptriciadactyl
I demand an absurd announcement at some point if I app him, then.
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you will recieve
anstaar
how could you say such an announcement could be anything but purely serious
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this is very important
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he is dead fucking serious about no one getting his goat
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/dies laughing
anstaar
now I'm imagining Horseriver's introduction to people on the barge, it would basically just be a long list of: I have no clue who that person is but I would bet their not particularly important. if i cared enough to bet
Ptriciadactyl
Halfway through Jedao's announcement he has to dodge a thrown knife. Does so with ease.
Ptriciadactyl
Tris would give a fairly serious tour of the barge.
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but not let on about how much she cares about Certain People On Board.
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...it shows up quickly enough without being included in her welcome packet.
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lmao Jedao's impression of bill
Ptriciadactyl
what would he say about Bill, now I want to know.
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"that's the fucker who thinks he can go around using the Shuos sign even though he is a BAD CAR SALESMAN"
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"he made a cow ocean once tho"
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"that was weirdly cool"
Ptriciadactyl
.....what
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Jedao is personally offended that Bill is one yellow eye
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he should be sneakier if he's going to look like that!!!!
Ptriciadactyl
no, I was wondering about the cow ocean.
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oh mabel-half of Bill did it in the enclosure during the event
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there were many cows
Ptriciadactyl
what if we gave Jedao a pet goose on the Barge.
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look I'm not saying he isn't considering several plans to make this happen
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but after he acquires a bunny for Nico
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that's next on his list
Ptriciadactyl
Tris would ask the Admiral for pets. She's always surrounded by them, after all.
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he would have asked iris but the timing didn't quite line up
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alas
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Jedao is Unsure about admiral-provided animals
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the ones in the enclosure seem totally normal, but
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are not
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so
Ptriciadactyl
true. None of Tris's come from the Admiral. Rosethorn brought the dog back from port, Zeph is one of Alan's constructs, and Chime came with Tris from home.
Jay
man, Jedao, you actually have become the first 'official' adoptee XD
Jay
you're Being Kept
Ptriciadactyl
Jay
oh, and that was 'you're welcome, my brother,' (or sibling, it's a non-gendered language)
Ptriciadactyl
Fives and Jedao delight me.
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Jay
he doesn't quite know what to do with him, mind, b/c he reads as a superior officer and an equal/brother BUT he's also an inmate
Jay
but he's keeping him
Jay
that a tense, bad touch thing with the neck?
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no he's just like
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'now is not a time for ambiguously intense moans, lets' not do that, we're having a feeling'
Jay
LOL
Jay
awwww
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the neck touch is super nice
Jay
good, 'cause he's not stopping. It's his default spot for touching--on guys who wear armor 95% of the time, even with it on you can make yourself felt there
Jay
the forehead touch is the same--it's actually a stand in for a kiss that evolved from a culture where most people are in armor most of the time. 'Keldabe kiss'
Jay
well, back of the neck or back of the arm above the elbow where there's a bag in the plates... otherwise it's nice, hard hammers on the armor
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things I desperately want to know
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are there any other Shparoi left or not!!!!!!
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like it's heavily IMPLIED no
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no one else speaks the language and his planet is gone
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but living ethnic groups lose their languages in sprawling hegemonic empires all the time right now
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so like they could have been a multiplanet minority that just assimilated somewhat
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or they could actually be wiped out and WE JUST
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DON'T KNOW
Jay
aw man
Jay
Fives would be happy to swap languages if Jedao wants, he's very good with them. And is already going to learn Kryptonian from Clark, b/c why not, right? >.>
Jay
also, Jedao might have just lost all hope of ever having personal space
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personal space is for dummies who did not spend most of 400 years alone in a box
Jay
lol
Jay
poor Jedao. Come have your personal space invaded on the regular, you've been adopted... in a very weird sort of sibling sort of not way
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he's into it
Jay
just ignore the casual sort of incest, it's all good >.>
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there's definitely canon consensual regular incest in the hexarchate
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Jedao thinks it's weird but he is a fleshborn country bumpkin so!!!!! whatever apparently creche babies do this stuff!!!!!
Jay
it's all about consent
Jay
lol
Jay
such a bumpkin
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also look fives you gotta understand
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his actual brother? such a nerd
Jay
Fives doesn't even have the concept
Jay
LOL
Jay
shame, his brothers are pretty hot... most of them, anyway ;-)
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look I'm not saying Jedao would buy tickets to that show but he super definitely would
Jay
awwwwww
Jay
make him swim in the farm pond, Jedao, and get chased by geese
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