a) Yeah, the quoted part is their cutscene dialogue when we see them discussing their mission upon first showing up on Penacony. The one in parenthesis is the "translation" given the resulting plot they act out against Sunday.
b) I mean, Aventurine canonically has a slave background, so fics do have lots of potential for going into dark/angsty/edgy places. It's just that, at least the writing will be more likely to be supported (and limited) by lore than the weird AUs that force dark/edginess on the JYxDH pairing. And yes, even the ENG fics for JYxDH has a ton of weird and whacky AU. Like, non-CN writers trying to write Imperial CN...or smush them into Western Feudal setting is just...ugh.
c) Aventurine is a great sustain in at least 3 playstyles: follow-up teams (where attackers/teammates get a lot of extra auto turns in between manually triggered turns), shield teams (for SimU preservation path), debuff teams (where the damager is buffed when the enemy has more debuffs). So there's a lot of flexibility in team building and he's a straight up improvement over Geppard (the standard banner 5 star preservation tank).
The only other 5 star limited Preservation we have right now is Fu Xuan, and she doesn't conflict with him in the area where they excel. Fu Xuan excels at defending against single target one-shot bosses, while Aventurine excels at defending against AoE bosses.
Last time he came up, I skipped him because I already had two limited 5 star sustains: Fu Xuan and Luocha and didn't need another one for gameplay. Now, I just want to pull him purely for shipping purposes. Because unlike JY and DHIL who don't function in the same team together, Ratio and Aventurine synergize perfectly in the same team. <3<3<3
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b) I mean, Aventurine canonically has a slave background, so fics do have lots of potential for going into dark/angsty/edgy places. It's just that, at least the writing will be more likely to be supported (and limited) by lore than the weird AUs that force dark/edginess on the JYxDH pairing. And yes, even the ENG fics for JYxDH has a ton of weird and whacky AU. Like, non-CN writers trying to write Imperial CN...or smush them into Western Feudal setting is just...ugh.
c) Aventurine is a great sustain in at least 3 playstyles: follow-up teams (where attackers/teammates get a lot of extra auto turns in between manually triggered turns), shield teams (for SimU preservation path), debuff teams (where the damager is buffed when the enemy has more debuffs). So there's a lot of flexibility in team building and he's a straight up improvement over Geppard (the standard banner 5 star preservation tank).
The only other 5 star limited Preservation we have right now is Fu Xuan, and she doesn't conflict with him in the area where they excel. Fu Xuan excels at defending against single target one-shot bosses, while Aventurine excels at defending against AoE bosses.
Last time he came up, I skipped him because I already had two limited 5 star sustains: Fu Xuan and Luocha and didn't need another one for gameplay. Now, I just want to pull him purely for shipping purposes. Because unlike JY and DHIL who don't function in the same team together, Ratio and Aventurine synergize perfectly in the same team. <3<3<3