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Renoir Dessendre | Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

[betenoir]

Axon

NAME ▷ Renoir Dessendre

AGE ▷ Old

RESIDENCE ▷ The Manor

FAV. FLOWER ▷ Gerbera

Getting to know you!

Q: Do you have any personal traditions or hobbies that help you feel more at home?
A: Painting. Here, I feel like the ground is constantly changing beneath my feet. We all share that feeling, I suppose. But for a moment, as I paint, I find order among the chaos.

Q: What are your favorite things to do on vacation?
A: Ignore colleagues from work.

Q: What has surprised you most about Etraya’s culture or technology?
A: The constructs scattered throughout the city cook our meals and deliver our coffee. Many claim that such artificial beings cannot create true art. Does that make the works they create meaningless?

Q: If you could bring back just one thing from your home world, what would it be—and why?
A: My wife. There are plenty of us who miss our loved ones, and I miss her dearly. It would be nice to feel my heart beat again.

✅ ❌

un: grayscale

[arever]

Surely your colleagues are no so aggravating as to be your primary joy in vacation. They all seem perfectly respectable.

[She doesn't want to talk about Maman.]

cw: spoilers all the way down

[betenoir]

There are some respectable faces in this crowd, ma cherie. But I was referring to my colleagues on the council.

How else do you suppose I secured all those weeks when you were free to slide down the slopes?

[arever]

Don't tell me you've yet to take a vacation while here. You will overwork yourself, Papa.

[betenoir]

Alicia. You worry too much. There is enough time between missions to indulge myself more than once.

Besides if I must work myself to death, let it be for love of art.

[arever]

You continue to lack a sense of fun, Papa. There might be joy in visiting the distant places of this world.

[betenoir]

I visit occasionally. Namely when the urge to paint overrides my faculities.

[Is she telling him to touch grass?]

[arever]

[Maybe a little bit.]

Only occasionally? A world free of Nevrons and uncharted by us, and you have no curiosity? You've grown too stuffy, papa.

text | un: ceo

[theknightshift]

Wouldn't anything an artificial being created be the invention of their creator? They don't think independently. Just what is part of their programming.

[betenoir]

That depends on the definition of independence. I suppose. Is it programming to be guided by the behaviour of our parents? Or our siblings? Then there are the people around us...

[theknightshift]

Machines don't make choices. People can.

[betenoir]

You speak to me of choices. But what would you do when one machine makes a choice you consider impossible to make? Art, to me at least, is about the expression of emotion. The choice to create is a choice these machines can make, surely?

[theknightshift]

But you're an artist because you've chosen to be one, correct? No one has to ask for a painting for you to desire to paint one.

[betenoir]

No. Nobody needs ask me to paint for me to feel the desire. But one might decide to paint to please the other. The same way a child desires to please a parent.

[theknightshift]

You think a machine has that capacity?

text | un: west

[wattage]

What's your wife like?

[betenoir]

She is the kind of woman who makes a man barely able to think straight.

I don't mind admitting I enjoyed getting lost. Better than battling through life alone, non?

[wattage]

[ Not quite what he was looking for. ]

That sounds nice, I guess. She must be very kind.

[betenoir]

[Give it time, Wally.]

Kind and patient. Because a man who loses himself is no man at all.

[wattage]

Did she say that?

[betenoir]

Not in the slightest.

[Not until much, much later.]

voice: un; valentine

[loveandsin]

Perhaps the works of the constructs are not meaningless, but are they good? They make coffee, but it's not particularly good.

[betenoir]

Good is neither the word I would use, monsieur.

But when one has experienced having neither food or water, even a mediocre coffee is better than the alternative.

[loveandsin]

Unless one does not require food or water, in which case, mediocre coffee is just a disappointment.

[betenoir]

Strange. Such sustenance is often touted as a perk of employment.

[Strange because don't think he didn't notice that little reveal. But also don't ask him. He married into "fuck you" levels of money.]