As a victim, he would have used the bolt cutters ethically.

the thing is that i think navigius wishes he was deriving enjoyment from acts of cruelty but he literally isn't even having fun. there's a direct connection between harming people and exerting power over them/gaining power through sacrificing people's lives, and certainly he likes that power, but at best he's entirely detached thinking about the logistics of how much blood he needs and how close this person is to dying, and at worst he's making himself nauseous trying not to think too hard about what he went through himself. he is NOT decorating his flagship with blood and fleshy growths and tortured prisoners everywhere. it remains important to him to maintain the thinnest veneer of plausible deniability and also it's icky

i think the accusations in lex imperialis' final trial fight are soo fun as a mechanic and i've enjoyed everything in infinite museion so far as well and then i have to go and do a void shadows fight where the unique mechanic is you cannot hit this guy for a whole round or these enemies will auto dodge 10 ranged attacks no way around it like fuck OFF!

the thing is like is there really any compelling reason for artfight to have points in the first place

i have been doing a funny thing in navigius' playthrough where house orsellio, uh, doesn't know cassia's alive and on the flagship, which i don't think actually prevents her act 4 quest from triggering like i think they end up figuring it out and forcing you to come to aeldari ghost world anyway. but it hasn't happened yet