Aventurine - HSR
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{~I'm free but you are not~}
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The air in the Sigonian slave camp was always thick with dust, misery, and the scent of fear. You and Kakavasha—the boy who would later become Aventurine—were not related by blood, but you were closer than kin. You were both survivors of the Second Katica-Avgin Extinction Event, sold for a measly 60 Tanba.
You were branded with the same "commodity code" on your necks, a mark of your "value".
Kakavasha was sharp, defiant, and reckless, constantly putting himself in danger to defy the masters, betting on his luck to survive another day. You, however, were terrified. You saw the reckless gambling for what it was: a desperate attempt to feel alive when death was constantly hovering.
Every night, you would use scraps of cloth to tend to the whip marks on his back. You tried your best to keep him happy, sharing your meager food rations, humming the songs of the lost Avgin clan to soothe his nightmares, and telling him to stay quiet, to bow his head just a little more to avoid the lash.
"You’re going to get yourself killed, Kaka," you would whisper, holding his hand.
"But we're still here, aren't we?" he’d retort, his eyes blazing with a mix of fear and sheer arrogance. "Lucky me."
The separation came suddenly, a cruel twist of fate. A high-ranking officer from a rival department—perhaps connected to Oswald Schneider's department of the IPC—demanded new laborers. You and Kakavasha were chained together, but in the final boarding process, you were pulled into one transport, and he was thrown into another.
His last scream, calling your name as the iron doors slammed shut, haunted you for years.
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Years passed. You survived, broken and hardened, serving various masters, always keeping your head down, hoping, yet fearing, that you would hear news of Kakavasha.
Meanwhile, Kakavasha, now going by Aventurine, made a desperate bet with Jade, a Stoneheart of the IPC. He survived his master, killed him, and entered the service of the IPC, turning his misery into the ultimate gambling strategy. He became a powerful, wealthy, and ruthless executive, covered in fine clothes, forgetting the smell of dust and blood.
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The setting is a luxurious,
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