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𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒐 ([personal profile] powerhungry) wrote2025-03-09 08:27 am

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kobes: ([:|] dissociating at the office)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-24 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[hm.]

She wasn't especially detailed, aside from mentioning you and Jinx.
kobes: ([:|] wary)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-25 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
[there's no waffling about or hemming and hawing -- koby doesn't know much about the world they come from, but he's beginning to put things together. if caitlyn had been an ally of silco or jinx, she would've been mentioned by now, but thus far he's only heard about vander and jinx's pink-haired sister.

therefore: she's not.
]

Should I be concerned about her being here? Is she going to cause problems? Is she capable of causing them?

[and about a thousand more, but those are the most important ones: what is the immediate threat and does it need to be neutralized?]
kobes: ([:|] that's why u suck)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-25 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[noted, noted, noted. koby has a great void of curiosity for exactly the omissions silco makes: the why, the what happened, the reason why a commander would want a known force of chaos and havoc neutralized. because the fact is that he's pretty sure he already knows why, because it's obvious -- and because, if he had met caitlyn first, he knows damn well he'd likely be on her side.

though -- would he? the koby of a year and a half ago, marine uniform and staunch black-and-white view of the world, definitely would've been. but that was before, before the village, before saltburnt. before jinx.

eventually, instead:
] I see. Thank you.
Like I said, she wasn't particularly forthcoming, but I made where I stand fairly clear to her, just in case.
Please tell me if you need any back-up, Mr. Silco. I know you two can handle yourselves just fine, but
The offer's there.
kobes: ([:(] unimpressed megane)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-26 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[oh. well.]

As much as anyone can, I suppose? It depends on what you mean.
kobes: ([:|] i'm like 5 ft tall)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-26 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[koby doesn't believe that for a moment, that it's just curiosity motivating the question. not from silco. still:]

You believe he's a god, then? A lot of people don't, but
I do. I can feel it. There are some books on what he's capable of, in the library, but I don't think that's what you're wanting to know, is it?
kobes: ([:|] yeah but ur wrong)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-27 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose so, yes. Personally, I believe that he's a very powerful, potentially very dangerous force. I've never met a god, but Set doesn't feel like most of the people here, so it's a definite possibility.

He feels MORE. Most people feel complex, nuanced, but contained. Set doesn't. Or -- if he's contained, it's not by choice.
And I've seen firsthand what he can do. What his powers are.

But if nothing else, he's very close to someone very important to me. And I consider him a friend.
[granted, koby's on good terms with most, if not all of the manor by this point, so that could mean nothing to silco, not aware of the deeper nuance present.]
kobes: ([:|] right in front of my salad?)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-28 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps? I think we have a few people here claiming to be gods -- Tim doesn't believe any of it, but I believe Set at least.
Sailors tend to be more superstitious about omens and signs and stuff. Sea gods, sometimes, but that's more apocryphal than religious.

He's a god of the desert. There's a lot of sand involved. He's had a few millennia to perfect it, too.
He's definitely better at fighting than I am, but that isn't saying much.
kobes: ([:)] here's why i'm right)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-28 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't spent enough time around them to be sure. And I don't like poking around in people's minds without permission.

That's a very kind allowance, Mr. Silco, especially having seen me. I know I'm not impressive, it's okay.
But yes, sand. Sandstorms, too.
kobes: ([:|] now what)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-29 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I think it's admirable that it's not that simple. It means you're discerning.

What DOES impress you?
kobes: ([:(] just a little guy)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-30 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
Conviction, too, I suppose. Confidence. Decisiveness.
A purpose. Even if someone does something I don't agree with
[piracy, anarchy, some light war crimes] I can't help but respect someone who does it wholeheartedly. For a reason.

It's senseless cruelty I can't respect.
kobes: ([:(] moonlight)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-05-31 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[its hard to say -- would koby hold a hard line and condemn silco's acts, or make excuses, clouded by his emotions? probably the latter.

...definitely the latter.
]

I see it everywhere. Here it's a bit harder to find the source, but I see the effects.
kobes: ([:|] now what)

[personal profile] kobes 2025-06-01 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes. Sometimes it's just
Day to day things. I can feel it, spreading through the house like
I don't know.

Blood in the water, maybe. It's in all of us, by now. The parties are just a symptom of whatever's in control, I think.