the phantom catchall

[hextech]

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[hextech]

[The emotions are strangely subdued, but there doesn't seem to be any malice or lying beneath whatever cap is on them. Just a peaceful neutrality.]

[foreverphantom]

...if you do anything to me, just know that I will kill you painfully and slowly.

[ offers a hand back to him! ]

[hextech]

It's a good thing I'm not going to do anything untoward. [He clasps the hand with his weirdo indigo one. The flesh is cool, the texture a little strange, but more than that, pieces of cold and golden metal cap parts of his hand. He extends a vision; no, a memory of what exactly it is he does. The very first time he had.]

[foreverphantom]

[ jesus i already knew this show was beautiful but damn is it BEAUTIFUL

anyway as soon as he sees the memory, brimstone immediately yanks his hand away like he's touched a hot stove. he's back to radiating wariness, but now also, alarm. ]

Looked like some pretty violent healing.

[hextech]

[AAAAA, the animation is so good!!!! Viktor allows Brimstone to draw back without any kind of pursuit. Just showing the very beginnings of the glorious evolution.] It is not as bad as it seems. The end result is freedom from pain and suffering.

[foreverphantom]

[ on the one hand, he literally just saw that for himself firsthand.

on the other hand, it's too good to be true. ]

Not all of it. It can't be.

[hextech]

Yes. It is. We flourished in a village of peace and prosperity. [They were a cult hivemind, that was the trade off, but it's okay......] Until others brought their disagreements and their wars to our doorstep.

[foreverphantom]

[ scoffs ] Yeah, I'm sure.

How'd your peace and prosperity fare after that?

[hextech]

I cannot say because I am here. It fell to ruin, I imagine. Without me, the commune would fail. Those healed and integrated would perish. [RIP.] A travesty which could have been avoided really.

[foreverphantom]

That's not a commune. That's a dictatorship.

[hextech]

I respectfully disagree. It was a municipality. The people who came to me of their own will were told how the healing worked. They could leave if they wished.

[foreverphantom]

Uh-huh. Sure. [ not that he buys that in particular ] And there were never any disagreements in your perfect little commune? Nobody ever had any fights?

There's no such thing as perfect peace and prosperity even in a group of two. If you had that somehow, then you did something to quash any rebellion.

[hextech]

[Well, he is not wrong, but unfortunately, Viktor is too hexpilled to understand the wrongness of what was happening.] There were never any fights. There is no reason for disagreements when everyone is a part of a single collective.