#i've been concocting a trailblaze continuance.....

[koiturine]

trying so so sooooo hard to be less afraid of making my self insert over-involved/cringe as hell but i think i finally came up w some interesting shit and so be it

SO 👏 koi is ex-ipc and originally a stoneheart

like originally they were coral (the coral of bankruptcy to be more specific) and his bad luck was kind of like a nuke that the strategic investment department would drop down on planets to depreciate the value so they could acquire them at a low cost

koi really only joined the ipc bc he genuinely thought that they were well-intentioned at first, plus the good pay since living in psimante is reeeeally expensive (just imagine it as space los angeles i don't feel like getting into the lore for the whole ass planet i made up rn)

he was a hard worker but it kinda felt like the opposite of a green thumb where every project he was assigned to kinda turned to dust and flopped hard every time, but jade realized that there is a lot of value in someone being so unlucky hence the bankruptcy nuke being dropped (SO young as a stoneheart by the way like probably around 18 when he first joined)

moved to pier point properly when becoming a stoneheart, in terms of being a stoneheart didn't have any real wishes or anything tied to it he just wanted to get paid more and the new career direction sounded interesting

soooo besides um

oh yeah coral is pre-transition

besides the dysphoria fun was had by all until um... The Whole Aeragan-Epharshel/Boothill Incident

it was the first time coral saw everything first hand and was just like "oh the ipc isn't abt peace at all i gotta get the fuck out of here"

but jade's basically all "ummmm... no, you have a contract"

and basically a trade is agreed on where i find a replacement within like 3-5 years Or Else Something Terrible Will Happen To Him

(coral has absolutely zero confidence in that happening but he takes the time limit anyways)

fucks off to that fucked up planet that aventurine was traded on and he ran into coral's place, that whole keeping him safe and helping him out thing doesn't change

but the ipc planning sort of does a little bit

the very obviously looming stellaron disaster makes it so aventurine doesn't really feel safe anymore, and he's just like "everyone else is taking up the offer to be rescued by the ipc why not your ass" "honestly after everything they did i think i'd rather die than take their charity you Will owe them and it Won't be worth it"

explain the whole ex-ipc thing plus the boothill incident but aventurine has a very "nah i'd win" approach to it and wants to get into the ipc anyways as a stoneheart like me

double win of feeling like he has a sense of safety w all the money plus it feels like to an extent paying me back by making it so coral isn't under the ipc's thumb anymore

fast forward escaped the ipc out here living his best life, transitioned and became koi, got scouted to act in some of mr. reca's films bc he felt like koi had great potential as an actor etc etc

running away from that dead planet koi managed to get to psimante and that's where he ran into reca. v harrison ford, v "you look EXACTLY like how i envisioned this character do you wanna be in a movie"

and even though aventurine was a fan he didn't really recognize koi bc he thought koi was dead?? lmao???? plus "coral was a girl wtf" it's not until aventurine gets briefly assigned to psimante that they run into each other and catch up and properly gay it up

WAAAAAY more interesting and fun to work w at least on koi's end, finding out abt the sigonia stuff even though he wasn't involved he feels bad for that too since it kinda... solidified the value for a "coral of bankruptcy" like it indirectly felt like taking advantage of a bad situation

i still feel like there's more to flesh out w the relationship but at least i feel like koi is an inchresting char now