"More about their personality. Positive or negative. How they interact with each other, perhaps, with you."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Ky has no personality… or… perhaps she has all of them,” Aleth said. May as well tell him the truth; he’d see it for himself soon enough. “She becomes whoever she thinks you want her to be.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“I don’t mind her.” Aleth shrugged. “I just don’t know her well. I’m just giving you what I’ve noticed so far. It’s not a bad thing, I think. It’s just how she is… and I’m sure it suits her well when she needs to make people like her.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“He’s very, very quiet, sir,” Aleth said. “Couldn’t get much out of him at all. Talking about literally anything seems to make him anxious.”
Hopefully this would be helping his case, if he was fucking it up himself. Aleth couldn’t know for sure. But more help was usually better than less.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Good to know." He dipped his head and rose. "I believe that's all I have for now. Thank you for your time."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Thank you.” Aleth nodded to him. Good. That was relatively painless. Hopefully his little idiots didn’t get fucked up by his lies. Aleth had beat into them that they were in no circumstances to deviate from their alibi. Hopefully they were obeying.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Tadaaki was pacing furiously, chest tight with anxiety.
What had he done wrong?
Why had-had why had it gone like it did?
How could he fix it?
What was he even supposed to do now?
What was Ash doing? Was Ky safe from him? Or was he dragging her to the room of consequences now and then sending someone up for him next?
How could he, he…?
Gods.
Gods.
He had to save this. Somehow.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"We've got to make it look like we know already," Gaius told Bay as they both headed up the stairs a few minutes later. "We're not going to do anything to him, just frighten him a little. I'm working on planting some little spots of misinformation; we'll try to convince him the other two gave a different name for the merchant and see where that takes us."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Maybe he wouldn’t try to hide his anxiety. It wasn’t going to work even if he did. And if he tried then they would think he was trying to be stoic.
Perhaps if he let them see his terror then they’d believe him when he said he didn’t know.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
His heart stopped and he whirled around towards it, stricken. He was already trembling and his voice shook as he weakly said, “…come in?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
Gaius entered briskly, followed by Captain Bay, who stood off to the side with his arms crossed. "I learned some very interesting things while I was out," Gaius told Tadaaki coolly, keeping his face as empty as possible. "I'd like to follow up with you on what I was told."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
