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[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-03 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ A soft scoff of a laugh. Perhaps between Tezcau and Set, he would have a chance, but he wouldn't put any faith in the rest of the gods. Not enough to save him should he need it.

Tezca kept speaking, and Silco's single eyebrow drew down in thought.
]

I didn't realize they were real, souls. Everything we have in the undercity, it is just the physical, the here and the now. Religion is... well, there is the occasional cult, but it is nothing like what he tried to take from me.

[ He'd been so, so ignorant. See, Silco is smart, ish. He's a back-alley thug who used his quick thinking, wits, and talents with numbers to get out of the mines, but he wasn't exactly building things for the people of Zaun. He was administratively? Sharp, almost a genius. Even with people — at least with the ones he dealt with in the Undercity — he knew how to work them.

When it comes to the theoretical? He simply can't fathom it. He's learning. He can at least research it, and he's been doing it in spades since Sebastian had pulled the wool over him. But he's still just simply... behind. He doesn't have the interest in it, it's all just information to use.
]

I do. [ he said, bluntly. Still, he shook his head, and sighed. ] Unfortunately, I'm rather used to not getting what I want. If I see the opportunity? I would take it.

[ His implant hummed unpleasantly behind his ever-open eye, and he winced with his mouth only. ]

However, I know the folly of being too fervent. In making oneself his sole focus. [ He'd been privy, after all, to quite a bit of it. What he had done to others in Kenos who caught his attention. ] I know better than to be stupid about it.
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[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-04 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ He got there, Tezca... it just took him a bit. Blame his uh. Brainworms. ]

Do they come from different worlds to your campfire?

[ He asks it, and it's idle, but perhaps... perhaps...

Well. Silco knows someday he will die. It is a fact he's intimately aware of. Death at this point is his acquaintance that dogs his steps, always chasing after him, ready to reach out and take him at the first opportunity. He can feel death at his back, breathing down his neck. It is the promise of death that led him down his current path, after all. All of it.
]

Sebastian is... creative. Cruel. He understands people in a way that I think others will miss. Even I have missed things that he picks up on, and I'm only human, but... [ Silco's power is manipulation and thuggery. Of course, without his money and power, he has to rely on other things, but he doesn't lack for it. He's just... he pales in comparison compared to immortals. ]

He is smart, beyond what you could think, because he has infinite time. I have seen him learn new techniques, either in service, or... for his own personal pleasure.

Once, he installed a hag's eye into another shard-bearer, did you know that? Because she upset him. [ Okay, it was way more than that, but Silco's telling it and he doesn't have all of the details. ]

I only know, because it was mine. I could see through it, and I knew it was against her will.
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[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-05 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ They do, he answers simply.

He wants to ask more questions, but Silco also knows that it's not likely to yield much in terms of results right now. Not when their topic of conversation is on something else — more important, he would attest.

Silco's eyes shifted to the side, and there's a look on his face that says, very clearly, that he might be in trouble about this one.
]

Ah, well... I think unfortunately... he knows that I know what he is.

[ Oops? ]

I can try, but I think that he has already noticed that I know what he is.

[ He doesn't add that he might have already... done a Whole Thing about him, and that the demon already had the scent. ]
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[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-08 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ to be fair to him, he did think he was playing a game with him.

It isn't like that wouldn't be beyond his ability.
]

Who knows, maybe it will.

[ He shrugged, before he took another long pull of the thing. It's been a long, long time since he did this, but it isn't like Silco hasn't been microdosing harder drugs for years. ]

I'll come up with something. Either he will... let me be, or...

[ Or not

He knew it was or not, but let him sound hopeful, at least.
]
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YELLS TEZ

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-14 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Silco's lips quirked, slightly. ]

Please, if this is luck...?

[ He knows he's a Zaunite, everything they have is from sheer determination, and luck? Luck has so little do to with anything. He'd consider himself unlucky, but like most, disbelieving in it is easier, and more automatic than simply discarding it. ]

You know I am a careful man. I don't intend to make this easy.

[ curb your enthusiasm theme starts playing in the background. ]
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🎀

[personal profile] zauneyete 2025-01-19 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ Tezca, unsurprisingly, has more awareness than Silco does about himself. He's... well. It's going to take a lot to get him to experience a modicum of self-awareness, so he's 100% correct, even if Silco would say otherwise.

Because of course he would.

He inhaled, and blew out the thick plume of smoke.
]

Hm.

[ He's still stressed, fretting, worried, but at least there's a relaxed pressure in the back of his head, like a beam holding up the cascade of thoughts, stresses, and everything else he has. It's at least enough that he's not winding himself up, putting together plans and little things that will take an elaborate (and likely deadly for himself) turn if he isn't careful.

He closed one eye, but the other is still focused on Tezca.
]

I suppose I am. It's appreciated, Tezca.

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