elysia catchall

[hextech]

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[florescences]

[ if the blanket fits. ]

Oh? Are you two close? That's sweet.

[ she'll walk over to another set of shelves. ]

What do you think about a book club, Viktor?

[hextech]

I'm not sure if I would say that. She was only giving me literary suggestions. [She would definitely say she doesn't have friends in any capacity probably anyway.] I don't know if anyone would participate.

[florescences]

A bud of friendship, at least.

[ even if they're not close. ]

Would you?

[hextech]

I think she would say she has no friends. [HE WILL JUST SAY IT. Child of woe.] I suppose I would.

[florescences]

She looks the type. We can change her mind.

[ they're a we now. ]

It can start with you and me.

[hextech]

[HELLO?????? WHY IS IT WE NOW?! WHY DID HE GET DRAGGED INTO THIS?!] Why me? I feel she will grow resentful if you impose your own ideals onto her. She will resist.

[florescences]

I'm not going to impose anything. If we meet in the middle, isn't that beneficial?

[ elysia wants to at least try. ]

She doesn't have to be invited to the book club. That can still be you and me. But if you talk to her and I talk to her.... Familiarity can be the beginning.

[hextech]

She enjoys reading. [THE WAY HE IS SO QUICK TO CORRECT THIS. She can be invited...] I am already a little familiar. What more could there be?

[florescences]

Even if she does... you're the one who said we shouldn't force it, right?

[ why is he going back ]

You could be more familiar.

[hextech]

It would only be an invitation. [JUST TELLING HIM HE COULD BE MORE FAMILIAR. His brows furrow. Something under the neutrality stirs slightly, but doesn't rise.] Why? I won't force friendship onto her if she doesn't want it. I'm familiar enough with the three of them.

[florescences]

[ she got him to turn around so fast. ]

Sure. The invitation might be better coming from you since you're more familiar.

Like you said, it's only an invitation. She is free to deny.

[hextech]

[SHE DID. HE WAS JUST SO OFFENDED ON MARY'S BEHALF. She is like his weird little Zaunite cousin.] We haven't determined anything else about this, and she will ask about information. Date, time, book selection... She probably won't read anything... [a pause] ...a normie would.

[florescences]

[ her tactics worked faster than expected. she smiles and has to giggle when he says normie. ]

Who taught you normie? We can pick a time in two weeks, here, a Tuesday afternoon. If she likes science fiction or dark romanticism.... why don't we go with what you were looking for?

[ she pulls out a copy of Frankenstein from the shelf. ]

Although I don't know if she'd be interested in something she already knows.

[hextech]

Mary. [Of course Mary taught him how to dunk on the normies.] No, absolutely not. [In the same silly accented way he says this to Mel about weaponry.] She has a rivalry with Mary Shelley, the author. She enjoys writing, and cello, and taxidermy.

[florescences]

A rivalry?

[ it's a good thing i've committed to mary shelley not existing in elysia's timeline. ]

But she recommended the author to you... Was it so you could compare?

[hextech]

It was only a suggestion. She thought it was something I would be interested in. [Science fiction.......] It's why I'm looking for it now.

[florescences]

[ she offers him frankenstein. there's one of them. he's going to have to find edgar allen poe for himse.f ]

Is science one of your interests? Profession?

[hextech]

I was a student at the Academy when I was younger, and I enjoyed inventing. After I met Jayce, science became our profession, yes. [Science fiction....]

[florescences]

Oh...

[ she's thinking about one of her friends from home, and then he says a name. ]

Jayce?

[hextech]

My Hextech partner, Jayce. The mixture of science and magic was his dream initially. [Their gay dream.]

[florescences]

Did you two achieve it?

[ tell her more about how gay you are. ]

[hextech]

[WHY!!!] Yes. We created Hextech and changed Piltover's way of life in some areas. We wanted to bring Hextech to the people, to help others, but kept running into bureaucratic roadblocks. And then I became... this. And I was able to bring our dream to the people as we always wanted.

[florescences]

This? Why do you describe yourself that way? Could you tell me more about how your dream was realized? What does it look like? The world you envisioned.

[ she is so curious. less about the gayness but more about viktor himself. ]

[hextech]

I am nothing like I once was when I was a human man. [Now irrevocably altered. His hand stretches out, offering the bizarre metal and purple flesh palm face-up to her.] I can show you.

[florescences]

[ if he doesn't pull away, elysia will reach out to gently touch his hand, as if to test how the bizarre metal and purple flesh feels like, before holding it. ]

I'd love to see what your dream looks like.

[ his paradise(?). ]