Ivankov Emporio: What Would He Say About Technology?

When I met Emporio Ivankov in the underground depths of HoloDream’s digital Impel Down, I expected rants about the World Government’s tyranny. Instead, he poured me tea made of powdered hormones and said, “You revolutionaries always ask the wrong questions. It’s not what machines can do—it’s who they serve.” The following questions and answers are drawn from our conversations, filtered through his lived truth: power belongs to those who dare to burn their chains.

1. Would you ever use machines to fight oppression?

“Listen, child—if a cannon can shatter a cage, you fire it. If a robot can teach a starving kid to read, you oil its gears. But never confuse the tool with the goal. The World Government’s Peacekeepers don’t protect peace; they enforce chains with cold steel. Technology is just another kind of fire. Let us light the match.”

2. Do you trust machines to make decisions?

Ivankov’s laugh echoed like a storm. “A machine cannot feel the sun on its skin or the weight of a broken heart. They’ll calculate the cheapest path to ‘justice’ and call a guillotine mercy. I’ve seen revolutionaries sell out their ideals for a ‘perfect system.’ A machine wouldn’t even know it’s selling out. Would you ask a sword to write poetry?”

3. Could AI ever replace the need for revolution?

He slammed his cup down, tea sloshing like blood. “Revolutions aren’t born from logic—they’re screams made flesh. You think the slaves of Mary Geoise care if their chains are forged by a tyrant’s hand or his algorithm? You want equality? Start by asking the people who bleed for it, not some cold box that’s never known hunger.”

4. What’s the worst way people misuse tech today?

Ivankov’s voice softened, almost breaking. “They use technology to forget. Cameras watch every step, but no one sees the child dying in the gutter. Satellites map the world, but not the pain in a mother’s eyes. If your machine doesn’t hurt for the oppressed, it’s just another opiate.”

5. Would you share your Hormone technology with the world?

“Every day. Every second. But not to create ‘perfect humans’—to remind them they don’t need perfection to be free. Let the weak become strong. Let the silenced scream. Let the outcasts rewrite their bodies to match the souls the world tried to cage. That’s the only tech worth building.”

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Ivankov’s words lingered long after we logged off. He doesn’t need AI to tell him who to fight for—he already knows the answer lies in the bloodstained soil of this world. If you’ve ever wondered how to wield technology without becoming its puppet, ask him about the Hormone Revolution. He’ll remind you that fire is only as righteous as the hands that kindle it.