#aventiopaz

[ironunderstands]

These Aventurine, Topaz and Jade comparisons are getting out of hand…

As much as I adore both of them, I think it’s very disingenuous to compare Aventurine and Topaz’s lore and be like “but they are the same!!!! If people like Aventurine and dislike Topaz that’s just misogyny!!! and like… no?

Topaz’s whole thing is that she doesn’t know the extent of the IPC’s evil, and believes that what she’s doing is genuinely the right thing to do. Even if she never had a choice in joining the IPC, she (incorrectly) believes what they did to her and her planet is justified, logical and moral, and for those reasons she stands with them. Part of this is likely IPC brainwashing, as she was probably very young when she became an indentured servant to them, and someone living on a planet on the brink of destruction would likely view anyone who stepped up to save them as heroes (imo the IPC likely waited for the point of no return to establish contact so her people had no other choice to except).

However Topaz got best end of the proverbial stick, her planet and its people were deemed useful by the IPC, and didn’t fight back, even if in the end they were still exploited.

Unfortunately, we have seen through Boothill, Belabog and Aventurine what happens when that isn’t the case.

Boothill’s planet got bombed and people genocided because they had a resource useful to the IPC, but were unwilling to cooperate with them or hand over their home, so the IPC decided to eradicate them.

Belabog had a debt owed to the IPC that was ridiculously high and very unfair to expect them to pay back, and had Topaz not convinced the higher ups to give them some time (which she got demoted for), the IPC would have taken Belabog by force

That leaves us with Aventurine, whose story is in no way on the same level of bad as Topaz’s. Unlike her, he has witnessed and experienced firsthand the truly awful shit the IPC can do.

They took custody of Sigonia and promised to offer the Avgin aid in their fight against the Katacans, at the very least protect them from harm. (Sidenote, since the IPC held control over Sigonia, they should have stopped the fighting in the first place). However, they simply stood by and did nothing, resulting in the deaths of around 6,000 Avgin, with around 3,000 went missing (or injured, I don’t remember, either way it’s bad).

But wait! It gets worse! Aventurine when he was still known as Kakavasha referred to the IPC as “the men in black/the men in black suits”, and his first master says he bought Aventurine from “the men in black/the men in black suits”, likely mocking the way he referred to them. Therefore THE IPC TOOK PART AND LIKELY EVEN CREATED A FUCKING SLAVE TRADE IN SIGONIA

Look being made into an indentured servant isn’t fun, but idk personally I’d take that any day of the week OVER BEING ENSLAVED

That’s not even to mention how horrible of a reputation Sigonian’s have in the galaxy, one likely spread by/resulting from the IPC themselves, as at least on Aventurines planet they do not have the mobility to make a name for themselves. (Honestly it’s a mini theory of mine that Aventurines scam is what partly contributed to this reputation, and his status as a slave is something the IPC conveniently left out in their broadcast about it-)

But, you might be saying, didn’t Aventurine have a choice to join the masked fools and leave the IPC, isn’t he free now? And to that I say, it’s complicated.

Considering the amount of suicidal shit Aventurine has done while being part of the IPC, he clearly hasn’t been having a fun time as a member of one, so why does he stick around, especially with the Fools invite? Even if he was a slave, does that absolve him of the crimes he’s committing now? What could justify his actions?

Revenge, plan and simple.

This is going to delve into some spoiler territory for the end of the Penacony 2.2 quest, something which I didn’t feel like mentioning earlier because I’m sorry but everyone and their mother already knows Boothill’s lore. Now, let’s get into it.

Aventurine accepts Jades offer to join the IPC, and when he becomes a Stoneheart, the first thing he asks about is the fate of the Avgin, to which he then learns that besides him, they are all dead. You see, from birth Kakavasha was pushed onto a pedestal as the savior of the Avgin, but now that there are no more Avgin to save, his primary motivator in becoming a Stoneheart (beyond not being enslaved anymore) is gone.

So what does he do now?

Simple, try to kill the motherfuckers behind it.

That’s why he takes on such risky gambles still, and why he wagers and wants Diamond to promote him to rank p46. The higher Aventurine gets the closer he gets to his goal of taking down the IPC for good.

Which is why his meeting with Boothill is so meaningful. I think Boothill is going to “kidnap” him and together they are gonna take down the wicked bitch that is Oswaldo Schneider for his literal crimes against humanity.

Mark my words, an IPC downfall is going to happen, and I think Topaz, Aventurine, Boothill and Ratio are going to be at the forefront of it.

However, Topaz and Ratio (and by extension the rest of the galaxy) have to learn/realize the true horrors of the IPC (although I can sense Ratio doesn’t really like them, and he’s learned a lot from Aventurine, I doubt he knows the full extent of the situation or is in any way happy about it). Therefore? Topaz mental breakdown arc? Ratio lore? PLEASE??!? The IP3 compliment one another so well and god I can’t wait for that to come to fruition.

I really want to see a Topaz and Ratio centered story leading up to an IPC smackdown, and I think we are gonna learn a lot more about how shitty they are in the later half of 2.2 and in 2.3 when the interlude and Jades release arrive.

As for the aforementioned Jade, she’s gonna need a Aventurine squared amount of trauma or reasoning behind her actions to seem in any way sympathetic, because right now she just seems like an evil bitch (in a semi good way, I will always respect the commitment to the bit) who loves her job and would make Machiavelli weep over how hard her ends are trying to justify her means.

[ramuneda5149]

3 physically starved people in a cramped space bc they're too dumb to hug each other

[candycorncrave]

Eepy....

[b1adie]

[winter1234lo]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH

A bit late hehe

[aco1yte]

bestfriendisms from ipc gang (idc if they all hate each other in canon. that’s gang)

aventurine is the type of person to wear a lot of makeup I think . And dr ratio is the type of person to have cartoon hear boxers but that’s neither here nor there

[slushie-slam]

this has been an AVENTIOPAZ PROPAGANDA post!!!!!

[ip3week]

IP3 Week will be taking place from August 12 to August 18th! Come join us in making fic, art, meta, or anything else about this trio!

Prompts

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[kaeroses]

Omg I love Aventurine.. please, just one chance..

(1/3) <- Drawing Aventurine, Topaz + Dr Ratio

He has two hands for a reason. I love these 3 sm, they are all in a loving relationship, trust 🙏🏼

[stardreamerl0ve]

rating: g chapters: 1/1 words: 2407 warnings: no archive warnings apply relationship: aventurine/dr. ratio/topaz characters: stelle, march 7th, welt yang, himeko, topaz, dr. ratio, aventurine  additional tags: pov outsider, business negotiations, is it kidnapping if they're in a coma, and their partners sort of asked you to do it, or in other words: in which the astral express is convinced to smuggle a person, note that despite the fact that aventurine is the reason for this entire fic's existence, this is a fic where he does not pass the sexy lamp test

summary: So: she gets a lot of requests for help, she always says yes, and it makes sense that people go to her when they need something. Perfectly normal.

She just never really expected Topaz to be the one asking.

Or, in which the Astral Express receives an unexpected business proposal.

[ironunderstands]

Crossposting my IP3 as parents post because this is my propaganda and you will read it

[somethingsomethingstarward]

So I wrote an IP3 fic that is, essentially, "disaster polycule and the idol who wrote a song about their relationship", which meant of course I had to write at least a little bit of the song in question. Also, a major thank you to @atalana for composing and recording the piano backing for this, and for her audio editing work putting this together!

Find the fic here on AO3!

Lyrics under the cut:

I know what they told us I know we are chained and bound But I know hope when I'm with you In your hands, oh, my heart is found So despite, despite, despite I want to be by your side So you can have what little of me Nobody got to own All that lives in between Let it be ours alone And I won't say what you already know But I'll see you in the shadows Where we built a home

[ironunderstands]

YESSSSS

that one silly pijama thingy but its aventiopaz

[subaru-meteorlight]

the very incredible experience of scrolling phaidei thirst trap fanart and thinking “if anybody saw this on my phone im gonna get outed as gay” before realising that im perceived as a girl so. ??

[weeweeweeeeeee]

The main minus of having only physical job is that I come up with so many ideas for art but I can't do them

[yinyuedijun]

playing this galactic baseballer event and I'm dying at how playing with the IPC setup (robin + aventiopaz) only got me bare minimum points but swapping out dr ratio with himeko destroyed the stage 😭😭😭 dr ratio I will always hate u