Fun With Light Cones (Dr Ratio/Aventurine)
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the final victor (and the creation of a fledgling language) by AppleSharon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
10 Mar 2024
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“Seems like I'll need to get you up to speed on how I do things if our cooperation remains amicable,” Aventurine says.
His fingertips linger on Ratio’s deliberately as he places the revolver in the doctor’s hand. Aventurine strokes the inside of Ratio’s palm, watching with perverse joy as Ratio shudders almost violently in front of him.
Ratio’s hands are warm underneath Aventurine’s fingers and Aventurine soaks it up eagerly, revelling in how responsive Ratio is, even in the doctor’s obvious confusion. As he moves the barrel of the gun against his own chest, Aventurine wonders if Ratio even knows how much he gives away.
Perhaps the mask has done Ratio no favours and, unused to having to hide his emotions, Ratio is now overly-expressive without it.
Dr. Veritas Ratio is called into a meeting with IPC strategist Aventurine that turns out to be far more entertaining than he had imagined. (Based on the amazingly homoerotic Final Victor light cone art featuring the two of them.) Now with Aventurine's POV.
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baptism of pure thought by AppleSharon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
17 Jan 2024
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“Aventurine,” Veritas says, nodding his head. “To what do I owe the…honour of your presence?”
“Pleasure,” Aventurine says with a wolfish grin.
“Pardon?”
“The phrase you meant to say is ‘To what do I owe the pleasure.’”
“Hardly.”
“Don’t be like that, Doctor.”
Aventurine sends another obnoxious smirk in his direction before letting out an obscenely suggestive groan as he sinks into the bath. Soon, only the sharp curve of his neck and head are above the water, hair pooling on the surface like liquid gold.
After a long and trying day, Dr. Veritas Ratio goes to the IPC bathhouse to organize his thoughts. Aventurine helps him clear his mind in a different way.
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trend of the universal market by AppleSharon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
26 Jan 2024
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“I also have it on good authority,” Topaz says, “that you nearly forced a certain Intelligentsia Guild member to kill you before fucking him.”
“Where did you hear that?” Aventurine asks quietly.
Unlike his other interruptions, which have been more to purposefully annoy Topaz than anything else, the one is genuine. Aventurine hasn’t told anyone about that particular incident and he hadn’t thought Ratio would be one to brag about his sexual conquests.
Not that Aventurine had required any forceful subjugation.
“Wouldn’t you like to know,” she says with a leer.
He would, actually. Topaz seems to already know this and her smirk becomes more smug and self-satisfied by the second.
After a revealing chat with Topaz, Aventurine returns to his office to an unexpected visit from a certain Intelligentsia Guild member.
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Destiny's Threads Forewoven by AppleSharon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
24 Feb 2024
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Scoffing, Aventurine glares up at him. A curious expression twists his facial features into a bitter grin. Aventurine is always smiling. Veritas cannot remember a time where, regardless of whatever Aventurine was saying or doing at the time, the IPC Stoneheart hasn’t been smiling in some way.
“Have you considered that your efforts are patronizing at best?” Aventurine asks, his voice dangerously sharp.
Immediately, Veritas notes that Aventurine doesn’t bother to fill in the usual “at worst” part of the thought that conventionally comes afterwards.
“How magnanimous of you. I must say, Doctor, this—” Aventurine spreads his arms and gestures towards the books in Veritas’ arms, all while idly flipping a bettors’ chip in the air. “—is a lot of effort just to make an excuse to see me. You, of all people, have a permanent standing appointment.”
While on Penacony, Veritas Ratio and Aventurine come to a realization about each other and the situation they're in.
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Inherently Unjust Destiny by AppleSharon
Fandoms: 崩坏：星穹铁道 | Honkai: Star Rail (Video Game)
31 Mar 2024
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Veritas had hardly expected to meet anyone who could inspire romantic feelings from him, never mind someone like Aventurine: a degenerate gambler determined to test the limits of his own good fortune until the day when it would mean his own life.
And Aventurine’s life could very well be the cost of the gambler’s latest scheme.
Tapping the pen more soundly against the tabletop, Veritas clicks it open and begins to write.
Now that he has met Aventurine, Veritas finds it a waste of his and Aventurine’s time to leave these affections unsaid.
Before accompanying Aventurine to Dewlight Pavilion, Veritas Ratio writes him a very important letter. (Alternatively, Ratio's thought process around the small note he gives Aventurine in 2.1.)
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