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think its funny when people hc sasuke as a good cook cus like in the data book kishi says he only eats things for their function and health benefits not for taste and that is why he likes tomatos.... so what im saying here is he doesnt use spices and he eats raw onions like theyre apples
thought about this too much and now im upset... young sasuke so numb, so focused on just surviving that he can’t even enjoy the taste of food.. so preoccupied with getting stronger that he eats things that taste terrible to boost his strength.. casting aside pleasure in the name of utility. so many of his memories of his clan and his family revolve around eating and sharing meals... maybe learning to love and learning to cook go hand in hand ;_;
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Following Topaz's explanation that Cornerstones are made to fill the hole in the user's heart, what "hole" in Aven's heart do you think his drag queen powers are meant to fill? Especially since Topaz remarks he's the only one with such showy powers
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So cunty, and for what???
Anyway, first, when Jade talks about the Stonehearts' "voids," the alternate reading above that word is actually "ambition." And she mentions that the reason she risked reaching out to Firefly is that she views herself as similar to Firefly--Jade is someone with an unfulfilled wish.
I think there's enough here to suggest that the Stonehearts' voids are not quite what we would normally think of when hearing the word "void"--rather than being best understood as something removed or something lost, their voids seem to be "something desired." An unfulfilled goal. An unmet need. A burning ambition. A secret wish. They all have somewhere they want to get to, and they've signed on-board with Diamond's Preservation project because his power is the fastest way--maybe the only way--to get there.
The implication here, by the way, is that the Stonehearts are acting out the very act of Preservation itself with Diamond. The goal of Qlipoth is for the universe to be saved, an unshakeable resolution to stop Destruction's wanton obliteration. Thus, Preservation itself can be understood as "A desire that must be continuously protected and relentlessly pursued." To live. To endure.
In using the power of an emanator to protect and provide the Stonehearts with ways to pursue their own desires, we replicate in miniature the exact resolve and endless pursuit of perseverance that Qlipoth is acting out in the broader universe. The will of Preservation empowers the Stonehearts--and in turn, the Stonehearts swear an oath to aid in Preservation's mission. It's a mutually beneficial arrangement, and it also simultaneously imitates Jade's shop perfectly: I'll give you exactly what you want, if you give me what I need.
I should clarify that I don't actually think the cornerstones themselves fill the Stonehearts' voids. Rather, they seem to me to be a tangible symbol of the oath between Diamond and the Stonehearts--"I'll give you this power to fulfill your deepest wish, if you work for me." Jade suggests that the power of the cornerstones provides Stonehearts with the means to fill their voids (I.e., having superpowers makes it possible for you to pursue your wish), so I think their individual cornerstone abilities are best understood as "The exact power I need to achieve my particular goal."
So what does that say about Aventurine's "showy" transformation?
[Ferally] I think Aventurine's whole life can be best understood through the lens of a zero sum game, where one side's win is the other's equivalent loss, all governed by huge, all-encompassing forces that crush everything in their way.
Even the genocide of his clan is in a way a result by this kind of mindset, as shown in the Sigonia planar set description (the orb). The Avgin and Katicans had to be abandoned in order for the other clans to experience progress through Preservation:
Then, Aventurine had to kill 35 people just to stay alive during his enslavement. Hell, even his gambling works that way - he can only win if someone else looses. In this reality, everything answers to the zero-sum game and the only way to not be kicked to the curb is to be on the winning side. The problem is that the ones who win are the ones doing the kicking. All of that is maintained through one side having all the power and being able to use it against someone else. Aventurine was, in general, always on the side that had nothing, which made him an object with no agency in his own life (which also translated to other people being literally allowed to treat him as an object).
And I think part of that is that his gift of luck makes it so that he will ultimately end up on the winning side - he will survive at the expense of 35 other people, he will become rich and powerful at the cost of other people loosing to him at the table. But it also doesn't shield him from the actual reality that works on the basis of the zero-sum game. He will still be exposed to the worst of it, but he will always come out alive. In a way, "survival" and "things that make his life actually livable", are also on the opposite sides of the game. Which is also just amazing because that means that nothing in his life but existing and the things he needs to ensure it, are not actually guaranteed survival. Things he loves and things he wants are still likely to end up on the loosing side. He is kind of doomed to keep loosing because the game is vicious and his survival is paid for with everything else going to shit.
What Aventurine himself wants at this point is the ability to have control over his own life and to have some sort of agency, right. He had that taken from him time and time again, he couldn't save his loved ones, he was at the mercy of those stronger than him. It makes sense that he would want to take that control back. Well fuck that because the only way he can have a semblance of that is through force. And as a Stoneheart he has wealth and influence and can use that in a certain capacity, but obviously that is not enough to be free. But if he shows it off, makes himself seem stronger, bigger and more in control than he actually is, he can at least have some of that and protect himself from being taken advantage of (from being on the losing side where someone else can exert that same power over him). The thing is, he can only get that through a curated facade, that doesn't leave space for him as a person.
And, while that might seem like a tangent at first (it's gonna come full circle, i promise), I want to refer to this analysis post that talks about Aventurine's wants and desires, because it's so good and it was actually my starting point to even thinking about this. You can see that desire for control and for power to have it through Aventurine's boss form:
The op of that post makes a point that this form is almost monstrous and inhuman and we are meant to understand it as inherently dehumanizing. I think it kind of represents the mask devouring the person - the persona he puts on at the IPC which makes him seem strong and powerful drowning any signs of Aventurine as a person who very much does not have any meaningful control without it. Despite all the cuntiness, there is no actual skin visible on his boss form, you can't see his slave brand (visible representation of his trauma and of the time he was at his most powerless), you can't see his eyes (the sign of his heritage, the reminder of what happened to his people and of his "failure" to be their salvation (if you want to think about it in that way i guess)). All of it is a protective shell, even as he is actively throwing himself into battle and thus endangering his actual life (which he doesn't really care that much about but that's for a different post lol)
And I'm referencing that because I think it makes an interesting point: to be powerful, Aventurine can't be a person. The zero-sum game is between power and humanity. If power here is able to give him control and "agency" and is complete with the violence necessary to take it, then it comes at a price of loosing humanity. As long as the zero-sum game continues, he can't be both in control of his life and the person beneath the mask. And that aligns with the fact that Aventurine also doesn't really even want to be himse- *gets shot*
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