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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

(Anyway. Dwelling would, in fact, lead to worse than simple reflexes.) (Flipping that same hand over and holding it out expectantly. This time for not-gross-looking Mega Corn™.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

(Simple reflex, it seems. Maybe no more than the overreaction of a bug only recently learned in the way of reacting at all. At worst, whatever startled discomfort has faded, leaving him seemingly unfazed as always.) (Pointing at her bag.) Its visage resembled that. Orange pustules. Radiant.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Dispose of it. (Could mean simply ‘remove it from sight’, given his track record for reflexively demanding phraseology. He only learned from the best, after all.) (Gradually relaxing. Such a reaction is unseemly, he knows.) I do not like orange. Learn of the Infection, and you will see what I do.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

(Arching up like an alarmed cat with an apprehensive clicking rumble to match, easing a small step back in the process.) (He can’t manage actual words. The Dream Nail is only relaying a garbled static hiss like a drown radio.) (Not a fan of round, largish, glossy orange things, it seems.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You misunderstand. I was—am—royalty. Decadence surrounded me. Was forced upon me. But it was not to my taste. The matter of choice and preference was not mine to make. The premium cuts of bitter delicacies they chose to dine on were frequent obligations. To them it was gold. To me, a poison.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I lived it twice before I learned I had a choice. I found it unnecessary. (Ten million error windows popping up his brain at once. One can practically see the loading circle during his pause.) … It was unfair to me.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Not waste. Frequent indulgence of rare cuts unseen by those outside royal walls instead. What say you to a concept such as this?

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yes. If I find them agreeable, I will have them grown along the arbors outside.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I have long been encouraged to intellectualise and give word to my thoughts. Doing so unprompted remains unnatural.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

… Wymond. You have the diction of a learned creature. Are you?

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

(Wymond.exe has crashed. wdym not everything is his fault?? ?) … (Offers hand to shake. Water under the bridge. Or something.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have done no such thing. My earlier statement indicated I care not for both nuts and banana bread separately. Unless my goal is to suffer, why, then, would I choose to combine them?

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I find your claim that two unpleasant things combined would produce something pleasant to be baffling.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have yet to experience most things. The privilege of “living” was denied to me but recently.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Choose another analogy. I know not what a “rainbow” is.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No. No benefit to combing two things I do not enjoy separately. That is what I was taught.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Banana bread is an atrocity. Just leave them as-is.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

(Anyway, there are what appears to be the remains of a stress toy littered across the floor here.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

(Something something, give a Hollow a king’s idol or stress toy shaped like him, and they will either care for it gently, or destroy it.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Still conscious; merely spent for the moment and ever at the mercy of those around him. It's no answer, but it's clear he is no immediate threat.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

But the inescapable reflex of obedience, of demanded and expected perfection, convinces him it is not his place, not needed. Who would listen, anyway? The strength leaves him. Exhausted of any fight, rather than charge or raise his nail as the elf might fear, the hulking vessel collapses to a knee.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The promise of respite being unexpectedly ripped from his grasp takes the wind out of his sails. The enormous bug settles where he stands, limbs sagging and an airy rumble venting from his darkened form like a steam engine extinguished. He means to speak. Means to explain if not plea his case.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The order stops him dead without so much as a first thought. He cannot quite consolidate expectations with the reality now faced. Were soft bugs, like this yellow-headed one before him now, not kind and trustworthy things? Had he been wrong? Had he met exception after exception until now?

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And what of excess? Is that common among your people, too? (Normal again, and seemingly genuine. It’s really rather hard to tell.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

// With this guy you only get to see me go full tilt devastating narration mode in private threads, basically. Everywhere else it’s watered down because he’s a bit much even for me if I don’t break it up a bit. Self care is stored in the duality of writing him anyway for catharsis and also memes

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

// Unlike the train wreck that happened with Lantana, the meme use/language is and was always intentional here. And the posts are reflective of Things That Actually Go On instead of parody pandering in a vacuum. The wording is just a lot less….. everything. on purpose. or else they’d get me. /lh

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

// If I played this guy 100% completely straight they’d burn me at the stake. So go my “class clown but hiding the most tragic dark backstory imaginable except it’s a whole RP account” vibes.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s a curse to be able to think. He’s caught in a loop over what he could’ve done, should have done, who to blame for it.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

He’s tetchy today, rumbling his discontent to an otherwise empty room. A bit like mixing oil and water, his usual routine’s backfired somewhat. Solved a problem, made another worse. Solved that problem, and now he’s still tense as a string pulled taut.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

What point to mourn the loss of one who did not mourn you.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

May he rot in the same eternity he intended to condemn me to.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

What was done is done. It happened to me. It cannot be undone. It cannot be undone.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

If one insists on haunting the narrative, he must be equally prepared to accept the humiliation of having died at all.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It would be nice to have something like this in the mansion, maybe.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Found a koi pond. It’s his first time seeing anything like it. Oddly tranquil, almost captivating. He’s been here for hours.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

(Something something, if it’s too broke to fix, cope about it with ironic use of edgy memes.)

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

With unsteady but purposeful steps, he lurches in the elf’s direction. The massive blade of solid metal, previously used as a walking stick, is dragged absently behind him. Too tired to lift it now. Too focused on seeking aid. Unaware, it seems, how alarming his otherwise silent approach must seem.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The gleam of pale, ghostly white in the shape of an arm shines dimly from behind the front of the royal cloth it wears, and for a moment, the would-be creature does nothing but bear down on the stranger in silence. A soft bug. Rare, but a concept known to him, and known for an inclination to help.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The sound of footsteps turns his head in time for the approaching elf to see it. An uncanny, terrifying sight—a figure looming at around five meters even in spite of its top-heavy slouch, dressed in otherwise pristine white flowing beneath decorative pauldrons that almost seem to double its size.

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〖 ᴡʏᴍᴏɴᴅ 〛 @tarnished-crown.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Dark air, common forest. This was not the place he had thought it was. It was hard to think at all, really; harder than usual. Senses muddled by chronic lack of sleep—approaching now a level of severity he had not known in ages—the towering thing struggles to accurately comprehend his surroundings.

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