#~A couple months to one year: Flees to the other [redacted name] planet from his character story

[starcurtain]

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have absolutely no information on how long Aventurine actually spent in slavery.

He fled from the Avgin massacre as a young child, and we didn't see him again until he was a grown adult. I doubt he could have survived entirely on his own at that age and Sigonia's conditions seem too harsh for people to randomly adopt orphans, especially from a rival/outcast clan...

We do know that the master we see on screen was not his only master, because he was purchased from someone else, but we have no idea how many masters he had total before his final one, how many times he could have fled and been recaptured, how many times he was bought and sold...

We do know that Aventurine appears to have been kept on Sigonia or somewhere similarly tribal for those missing years, since his first request to the IPC is for Jade to take him to her "chief," but we don't even know how long Aventurine has been out of slavery. He doesn't look massively different in age from his "trial" with Jade to how he looks in-game now, and he did not rise through the IPC ranks over time like Topaz but won his role directly through his gamble with Jade and then later proving himself on Iymanika.

Basically, all this is leading to a big question: Is it possible that the Aventurine we know is only barely out of slavery? That there may be something like five years or fewer separating him from the wastelands of Sigonia? That he learned all these new behaviors, all this new information about how to operate as a free person in the universe, in what likely amounts to 2-3 years of Jade's guidance and his own hard work?

Man, what an incredible character. Really a standout among my very favorites.

[xthelastknownsurvivorx]

tags from @starcurtain

this is just speculation by the way but given that he doesn't appear to have aged noticeably between the scene with his old master then the trial with Jade and all the way to the present of the game I'd estimate the timeline looks something like: killed his master ➡️ ~A couple months to one year: Hiding out on Sigonia to avoid recapture by slavers or arrest During which he comes up with the scheme to scam Oswaldo Schneider's Marketing Department This gives him access to the IPC and he either barters bribes or stows away on a ship to escape Sigonia ➡️ ~A couple months to one year: Flees to the other [redacted name] planet from his character story where he receives aid from strangers and then comes up with the scheme to scam the Intelligentsia Guild at Egyhazo ➡️ ~A couple months: Gets caught and goes on trial with Jade ➡️ ~A couple months: Gets sent to Iymanika to prove himself and then is accepted as a Stoneheart ➡️ ~Approx. 2-3 years of service as Aventurine before Penacony just estimates but I have a feeling the actually timeline is even shorter than what I'm estimating waiting for Hoyo to tell us he's only been a Stoneheart for a year or something wild like that 😂

Sometimes I think about the fact that we have absolutely no information on how long Aventurine actually spent in slavery.

He fled from the Avgin massacre as a young child, and we didn't see him again until he was a grown adult. I doubt he could have survived entirely on his own at that age and Sigonia's conditions seem too harsh for people to randomly adopt orphans, especially from a rival/outcast clan...

We do know that the master we see on screen was not his only master, because he was purchased from someone else, but we have no idea how many masters he had total before his final one, how many times he could have fled and been recaptured, how many times he was bought and sold...

We do know that Aventurine appears to have been kept on Sigonia or somewhere similarly tribal for those missing years, since his first request to the IPC is for Jade to take him to her "chief," but we don't even know how long Aventurine has been out of slavery. He doesn't look massively different in age from his "trial" with Jade to how he looks in-game now, and he did not rise through the IPC ranks over time like Topaz but won his role directly through his gamble with Jade and then later proving himself on Iymanika.

Basically, all this is leading to a big question: Is it possible that the Aventurine we know is only barely out of slavery? That there may be something like five years or fewer separating him from the wastelands of Sigonia? That he learned all these new behaviors, all this new information about how to operate as a free person in the universe, in what likely amounts to 2-3 years of Jade's guidance and his own hard work?

Man, what an incredible character. Really a standout among my very favorites.