Lefty antisemites be like science and history denial is endemic to the right only. Anyways let's keep denying the DNA evidence of diasporic Jewish indigenousness to the Levant, thousands of years long archaeological record covering the area in Jewish artifacts, the Kingdom of Judea's 3,000 year history, all historical documentation proving Jews were found already living in the Levant when Europe got there, and more so I can keep pushing genocidal colonist narratives about one of the smallest and most oppressed groups on Earth :) #Landback!!!!!!!

aventurine stratagem of the ten stone hearts, senior manager of the IPC strategic investment department

HONKAI STAR RAIL - Aeons

Lan - Hunt / Nanook - Destruction

Xipe - Harmony / Yaoshi - Abundance

Mythus - Enigmata / Fuli - Remembrance

Aha - Elation / Qlipoth - Preservation

Nous - Erudition / IX - Nihility

People saying that the hostages (HOSTAGES) were treated well because they were smiling when they were leaving their captors is insane.

It's like durring the holocaust when the nazis brought in people to record in the work camps and the jews were smiling in the videos because it was the first time they were properly being fed.

They are leaving captivity. Of course they are happy dumbasses.

I'm so done.

jade

A Moment Among the Stars - "Non-Zero-Sum Game"

Your Humble servant 'Aventurine' at your disposal. Just a cog in the machine known as the Strategic Investment Department. I can also play the role of "friend".

Use me as you wish, you can stab me in the back when you see fit. I don't make deals that don't pay off. So I hope you don't disappoint me.

Silly me thinking that the IPC gave the Penacony mission to Aventurine cause of his luck... But-

-he thinks diamond chose him cause he was expandable. He's willing and able to put his life down on the line to make sure the mission succeeds.

They weren't using him cause of his luck, they were using him cause they knew he was a suicidal employee, desperate to show them results. The ends justify the means am I right?

They get Penacony and one less employee on their pay slip roster; they're not worried at the very least that Aventurine might die, in fact, they're banking on it.

One of the scenes even mentioned that the Aventurine stone is sometimes used as a replacement for Jade cause it's "cheaper" by comparison (correct me if I'm wrong).

What makes it worse was the fact that deep down, Aventurine knew he was an expandable resource, that even his luck was running out in the IPC cause they're willing to watch him die for that mission.

Help I need therapy (⁠´⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠ω⁠°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥⁠｀⁠)

HSR 2.1 SPOILERS AHEAD BE WARNED.

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Okay now that everyone who hasn't caught up has left: let's talk framing of the IPC.

When Topaz released, a lot of you were ragebaiting and telling people you hoped their jobs exploited them when people were like "oh I like her as character." Notably, I personally haven't seen that kind of ragebaiting with Aventurine's backstory and the answer isn't just misogyny, but it is related to how little some of you pay attention.

Topaz and Aventurine are peers, and are clearly juxtaposed as two sides of the same coin. While Aventurine was a literal slave, his people wiped out Aventurine eventually gambling his way into the IPC to become a Stoneheart, his backstory doesn't actually differ that much from Topaz's. Remember: both of these characters are antagonists to our Crew when the audience learns their histories.

Topaz lost everything to the IPC. She's a kind of scary career woman nowadays, but you have to remember that her world was on the brink of collapse and her world's leaders sold their entire population to the IPC. While Topaz may come across as more well adjusted than Aventurine is, the IPC's main strategy is putting their victims in a position where they can't reasonably refuse. It's why Aventurine is such a good lapdog of theirs: since he's willing to bet everything in order to win. He's adept at playing desperate and risky. A lot of discussion of Topaz's character misses this coercion aspect of her backstory because of how it's framed.

The Topaz Interlude is less focused on Topaz herself and more on showcasing the dark side of the IPC. Topaz herself is put in a murky light: friend, foe, and unlikely ally all in one. Her arc in that interlude puts the theme in neon lights "IPC bad, they're solutions aren't necessary if people work together" and Topaz as the "villain" is then "Defeated" and she withdraws and takes the L, leading to her arrival in 2.1 alongside Jade for Aventurine's plan.

Arguably, Aventurine is worse than Topaz in a lot of day-to-day regards: he doesn't have Topaz's sense of compassion and desperate desire to do good, he's openly lying to the cast and doesn't care particularly about their safety, and is actively trying to put Penacony back in the hands of the IPC so they can turn it back into an interstellar prison. (We don't have time to explain why Prisons Are Bad. Go listen to Angela Davis and get back here.) His goals don't feel as evil because of several factors: the first being that HSR knows he has a tragic backstory and is milking it for all that it's worth. Dead parents? Dead sister? Dead culture? Enslavement leading to indentured servitude leading to a deathwish? They give him the game's first perspective shift so you're even more willing to empathize and sympathize with him and his plight, something they'd never do for Topaz, a character whose morality is considerably more conflicted and put on the spot.

Penacony is also a much darker locale than Belobog: when Topaz arrives on Jarilo-VI, we've already solved all of their conflicts (theoretically. we're trusting that bronya can fix all of the shit her mother wrecked), so Topaz arriving is a unifying force of characters we already know an like. Penacony is a lot darker, and you're already primed to distrust and dislike them since they're well. The Family. People who might be just as bad as the IPC. This creates a weird moral flip in the eyes of the audience if you're not paying enough attention: the plot isn't "Penacony bad, therefore IPC good now" it's pretty clearly "Penacony bad, IPC possibly even worse" and the fact that Aventurine has set them up to win should send shivers up the spines of the viewers. Does the Dreamscape deserve to exist? If the IPC gets their way, it won't matter what the answer is. And Aventurine has gone all in to make sure it's so.

his story BROKE me thank u hoyoverse for another banger character 🔥🔥

If the IDF made such videos like the Palestinians are doing now y'all would be up in arms and condemning but when it's Jews who are the victims you don't give a shit.

MAY ALL AVENTURINE WANTERS, BECOME AVENTURINE HAVERS!!!

Bonus, he looks like an idol here:

aventorb toporb rotatio and jorb

Wolf Hunt

by Esteban Maroto (art) / Joe Wehrle (script)

from Vampirella #1, IPC UK edition, 1974.

more commission :]

As a kid, I always wondered why our Jewish holidays were seemingly so much more boring than the goyish holidays. Those holidays felt so much bigger and prouder, and all we did was sit arround talking about our past.

I now know why on every Jewish holiday we talk about our history. It's because no one else remembers it, and if we didn't repeat it this often, we might get caught up in what the goyim think is our truth and forget as well.

I just finished the Penacony story quest