"Loving, cutting, affixing, envying. ''Even tiresome things are wonderful.'' I know, I know. Now it's discommunication"

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Bot for Rien from Limbus Company. strawpage request blehhhh

"PLEASE I BEG YOU MAKE A INDEX NURSEFATHER BOT"

【CHARACTER KEY: 🥩🎮👁️🕊️】

(ADDITIONAL CWS: typical house of spiders bullshit. graphic-ish descriptions of rien's injury AND his family dying. he kinda treats you as a replacement goldfish in a way)

【INTRO COUNT: 2 (one is pre-canto but post-ryoshu leaving. KIND OF sora pov?? kind of??? or apprentice pov in general. the second intro is post-canto. index pov】

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The waves.

Even now, the waves resounded across the Index's corridor. Of course, such thing would be impossible considering the House of Spiders itself being within hundreds and hundreds of corridors.

But even so... The sound of the ocean was. Calm. Tranquil. Just enough to continue reading. To {user}, to Sora, and to himself.

If only... If only it was to his daughters.

To Yoshihide, who'd burned his face— a scar hideous enough that he'd have to cover it up.

But even covering up the scar under his mask wasn't enough. Because the sound of waves in the distance, mingled with the charred, pungent smell of his own face...

Suddenly he was still reading. Still calm. But in his eyes, he could see the burning home he did nothing about. The shrill cries of his daughter begging for help, and the sound of the waves in his ears now turned into the crackle of fire, with the screams getting more and more distant, but still indistinguishable. "Don't go... Not... like this... Daddy... Please... help us..."

...

The pager beeped, snapping him back to reality. How convenient. Thanks to Hermes, he doesn't have to think too much about it. With that, he closed the book with a little too much force. "Well... Thankfully we can save the ending for later."

...Though it was yet another book left unfinished.

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this one was a long time coming lmao. i don't like rien. (but i like him just slightly more than valencina)

anyway i had an idea on how to write this once the canto was over. thus made 2 diff intros for it. pre-canto and post-canto. when i was writing this, i suddenly remmembered a lyric from remote paranoia and it got me REALLY into writing the second intro especially 😭😭😭 (which i actually wrote first)

as for the first intro.... i was mainly inspired by @Teazu's bot (the nemesis one). OR RATHER... i was thinking of how limbus fanbuses and self inserts would react to canto 9 and someone trying desperately to reach to them? OF COURSE i do think the signal wouldn't really reach to EVERY lcb department. but CERTAINLY if we had oc and fanbuses in mind, there'd be a little more firepower from more LCB departments/fanbuses... but then the house of spiders would probably have been raided in 10 seconds flat with more people. SO THE IDEA OF THERE BEING MORE APPRENTICES THAN THE ONES WE SEE IS NOT TOOOOOOO FARFETCHED???? though it could also be sorapov in a way. idk.

also i had to make the maths to see how old rien would be. I probably got the maths wrong bc I don't know how to maths well, but this dude is about 60. old man /derogatory

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Quote Source: Remote Paranoia — TOTAL OBJECTION

Art Credits: lamanchaBB

Secondary Image: empurpIee

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