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briefing ♔ i will never know myself until i do this on my own
This is War- 30 Seconds to Mars
WHO || Wynn, Jack, Hasmed, Lis'sa, Dovan, Solace, Koraith, Christos, Tia, Nessa, Grant, Buffy, Myri, Finnick, Spike, Gar, Archer, Des, Fred Jr., Dumage, Mark, Alainn, Zero, Colin, Lan, Eric, Val'drin, Risa, Anastacia, Faith O., Max R., Belle, Kadir, Edain, Sydney, Zatanna, Aurelius, Jaina, Erky, Davin, Riddick, Jordan, Henry, Leia, Willow, Kate, Allison, Francesca, Bo, Han, Aedan, Rocket, Drax, Nathan, Maxwell, Sam, Faith L., Cora, Dimitri, Alanna, Jaime, Klaus, Gus, Andrew, Stiles, Lydia, Gold, Jackson, Adam, Miles, Penelope, David, Derek, Andie, Kali, Cara, Nels, Taradiddle, Abigail, Astrid, Bambi, Frankie, Rose, Helen, Alaric, Alice, Lissa, Alex, Emma F., Cordelia, Zoe, Sebastian, Malina, Alcide, Phineas, Fiona, Arthur, Faye, Mars, Kate, Lila, Jameson, Felicity, Thoster, Adi, Brantley, Hook, Emma, Eleven, Alisha, Will, Dean, Grimrot [Closed]
WHAT || Andres War Briefing
WHERE || Knights HQ, Round Table Room
WHEN || September 19th [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, please call dibs in the dibs plurk!
On the eve of battle, an impressive array of Knights gathers in the Round Table room of the castle. The usually cavernous room seems tightly packed with this many bodies, and places at the Table are reserved for Wynn, the Section Heads, all those who have had any hand in the Talisman mission, including New York, and Christos, but who's going to argue with him, really. The air buzzes with a mixture of impending dread and on some fronts, excitement. It's hard to deny that there are those in the room who have wanted to make a move on Andres for years.
Wynn waits for the appointed hour, before nodding for the doors to be sealed and calling the meeting to order.
"Before we begin, I'd like to thank each and every one of you, many who have traveled an extensive distance at a moment's notice to join us here today. I understand that many of you have little idea what you have agreed to, but I hope that before the end of this meeting, you will come to understand what we are doing, and why it must be done.
Andres' Isle has been held under the sway of the man who calls himself their "Prime Minister" for nearly a decade. In these ten years, he has turned what was once an idyllic country steeped in tradition into a tightly controlled fascist nation disguised as representative of its people.
Andres is far from the only country to fall to such a fate over the course of history, and it has never been the prerogative of this Knighthood to enforce our own personal vision of some sort of world order onto any nation. We are protectors of justice, and our enemy has always been both that which comes from the darkest depths of Shadow, and intolerance and prejudice that stems from this world.
But Dimitris Sarandis has proven to be an exception, an embodiment of all the ideals we stand against, who has aspired to systematize the kind of violence and hatred that threatens the welfare of countless innocents under his rule. He has used his position to exploit Shadowkind on the island to the point of conducting torturous experiments on them, designed to help him accomplish his goal of forcibly enslaving non-humans, so that they may serve what he sees as the superior race of homo sapiens.
As if this were not enough, Dimitris knows of our existence, and wishes to tear down our organization, understanding that we pose a threat to all he seeks to accomplish. To this end, he has conspired against us, kidnapped members of our organization and subjected them to brutal and vile torture, and attempted to blackmail us through detaining Sir Thomas Bancroft and now Sir Samcelot, into complying with his whims - to leave his regime alone entirely, to turn over our most ancient, powerful artifact, and for me to submit to death at his hand.
Killing Dimitris alone will not stop the system he has created, and will not help free the people of Andres. Most citizens of the country remain innocent, terrified into compliance, or completely ignorant of what Sarandis does behind closed doors. These people deserve our help, and the only way to do so is to show them the evil that lurks at the heart of their government, gain their support in uprooting that evil, and assist them in stabilizing their country thereafter.
To do this, we will need to go beyond the usual parameters of our missions, with a militant, strategic push into the island designed to seize the castle, and take down Sarandis' rule." He pauses there, letting that sink in. "What I will not stand for is a callous attitude towards the innocents who we seek to protect on the Island, during this insurgency. Their safety will be paramount to our operation, and as such, speed is important to what we will be accomplishing. Dimitris expects retaliation, but he also underestimates our tactics. As such, rather than attacking the castle with an army, you will be deployed about the Island in a number of small teams, each with an objective that will help us cut off Dimitris from contact with his supporters, secure Sir Bancroft and Sir Samcelot's safety, free those who are imprisoned, and confront Sarandis, taking the castle in the process.
Details of these individual operations not withstanding, I imagine there are some questions. I open the floor to you to speak."
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[you see, the thing about alex is ... he's horrible about feelings. even if he missed her more than anything in the world and cried into his pillow every night about it, he'd still be sitting here talking about how much lila missed her instead.]
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I know I missed hers. That's why I gave her the foodgasm of her dreams this morning. [She's not dumb. She figures that Lila already shared with Alex after she left. They just... don't talk about him. Because it's awkward.]
So what happened to your hand? [Yes, that was definitely a smooth and subtle transition.]
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[o-oh then she asks about his hand. he half-shrugs while passing the bottle back to her.] Pissed off a Norse god. The knife went through my hand and into my abdomen, right about ... here. [he puts his hand against about where the scar would be. and also shows her the palm of his hand so she can see that it definitely did go through.]
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Sounds like you had barrels of fun while I was away. Maybe, next time, don't piss off a god.
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What made you want to do that?
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[She toys with the lid of the bottle, twisting and untwisting.]
This is weird, isn't it?
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This.
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You know I have feelings for you, right?
[Apparently, Faye wasn't taking the easy way out. Having this conversation made her feel like an idiot. Lila had told her from the start that Alex didn't date. It would just be random fun for him. And she had thought that was all she wanted. But she wasn't the same person anymore. Little by little, she was changing and that was terrifying but she had to just keep up with herself now.]
I didn't mean to, trust me. [She laughs, but it's bitter.] It just sort of happened.
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I know. I mean ... I didn't at first, but it was spelled out to me eventually. By several different people. [he scratches at the back of his head. ... and then reaches for the vodka bottle.] And then they were all on my dick to talk to you, let you down easy, make sure you knew where we stand. But how am I supposed to do that now? Like, sorry, we're just friends, hope you've got enough room in your backpack for some Ben & Jerry's? [he sighs.] It's all just so fucked. I like you, Faye, a lot, but I'm perpetually emotionally unavailable. We can keep having sex if you want, that's fine, but you have to know that it's ... never gonna go anywhere else. It's just not.
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Do I look like the Ben & Jerry's type to you? It's not... I'm not going to fall apart. If I thought I had a chance in hell, do you think I'd bring it up like-- [She gestures around them as if to say 'this????'] And as much as I would really... [She gives him a very serious look] -really like to take you up on the offer to keep sleeping together? It's a bad idea. I've never mixed up feelings and sex. I've never felt like this. And that's not your fault. I'm not mad at you or anything. But... you want something you can walk away from. And I...
I think I deserve someone who would choose to stay.
[The words actually surprise her, which is pretty obvious from the way she blinks as she says them. It's not a criticism on his part. She's lived that way, thought that it was all she wanted. So realizing that was changing was... weird. It left a strange taste in her mouth. But it also felt nice, like a weight was lifted off her chest.]
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But she can't be the one to fix it for him, and pressing the issue will likely end up with him shutting down and her feeling not good enough. She's not a helper and he doesn't feel for her like she wishes he did. The combination here is stacked against them.
Shifting her legs under her, Faye kneels and leans over towards him, placing her hands on his shoulders as leverage.]
Do me a favor? Make it out of this in one piece. You're far too pretty to bury. [She wants to kiss him. She really does, but feels like she shouldn't. He wouldn't care. She knows that, but there's some weird internal conflict going on here. So she just awkwardly pulls back and works herself up to standing.]
I should go finish packing up.
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Yeah, same to you. [he's basically expecting the kiss once she leans in like that, but then she gets up and nothing's happened and he's left blinking like what????? okay. that's that, then. and he's fine with it. and thus he joins her in getting up.]
Me too. ... Be careful out there.
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