@gaby

[vns]

Things are changing soon. Have changed. The new safehouse is nearly open for business, and while it's Morningstar property, Morningstar security and Morningstar interests, it's still yours. We've transferred the deed over, but we've set up a system where that can be handed back to us if anything goes wrong or if anyone disappears for good. It's set so we can pass it on. Plus: we don't disappear.

[ "we" = Morningstar. "we" = the people of this world. Gaby is no rhetorical genius but she knows what it means to draw that line. ]

Which is one of my two points.

1. We move to the new safehouse on the 1st of November. We have transportation to get over there, and it's a garage, so we can walk in like normal looking people hoping to start a business there. This place will be closed down. Detonated and cleansed. If you have anything here that's yours, get it out before then.

2. I've intended to stay on. El must stay on given zeir setup of your lives when you get here. But I realize some of you think you're going to be more independent than that. So, I'll leave it open. If you demand my absence – fine. But bear in mind that I am the only local resource and the only one who won't disappear. More than that? I'm invested. But if you say go, I go. It's up to you.

Discuss.

[ there is one big thing she's leaving out: the end result of the conflict with V. better to leave that for now, until she knows her status, and to pass it off then. only then. ]

Comments

@rey.nolo

[forcevisions]

Stay.
We're trying to help you. What's the point if we don't have you here to help us consider the perspective of the people who actually live in this world?

[vns]

I want it to be clear: if I leave, it won't be my choice.

@xuanyu.mo

[laozu]

Am I reading your message correctly?

I didn't imagine any of us would be so foolish as to try to reject your helping hands, when we're but a transient collective. I would hope that they do not push you away, for the same reason [Bad username or site: rey @ nolo] has stated among others.

@matches.malone

[reneger]

you still owe me that friend date

@markus.manfred

[saviorexe]

A vie for more independence doesn’t mean that we should sever all prior connections. You’ve been nothing but a help to us, and I don’t see why a working relationship can’t continue. I don’t want to see you leave.

So thank you. For making all of this possible.

[The new business and the new safehouse would’ve never gotten off the ground, otherwise.]

@jon.snow

[998]

[be cool, jon]

Anybody that wants you gone will have to answer to me.

@leo.fitz

[retravel]

[ they started this at the end of june, dropped on gaby's doorstep by another agent entirely, fresh from a mission she didn't approve of, and they're still here now in october. couldn't have done it alone. ]

I agree with Rey and Markus.
I arrived with the first of us, four months ago, and you've looked out for us since then, even when we weren't receptive to your aid. Only once did you ask anything of us, and even then, we had a choice.

[ said because there are new arrivals who might lack the context. ]

I'm glad you want to stay on.

[ not surprised, but, y'know. ]

@daisy.johnson

[evite]

i don't have a problem with it.

[ which might be a surprise, but it's sincerely meant. ]

you're playing consultant for morningstar. if you've really handed over the reins, i don't see the problem. nobody's being forced to live in the safehouse.

@x'rhun.tia

[verflair]

Quite frankly, I would rather you stay. As others have stated, ‘twould be foolish to sever so important and constant a connection to this world and its people.

We may not have spoken directly before, but I see enough of what you do for us that I do not think your involvement would hinder our efforts for some measure of independence in the least. Quite the opposite, in fact.

[vns]

Wouldn't it be more foolish to assume you'd take the help from this point forward unasked for?

[vns]

Did I actually agree to that?

[vns]

It's only right to give you all the choice.

[vns]

No, they'll say what they think is right. You'll accept that.

[vns]

I'll have to ask you for another mission if I don't, but we needed to start here.

[ Gaby does think that half the push for independence was a matter of trying to push for organization. but it still brought it up. made this discussion necessary. best to not assume after all that. she didn't take part, and she doesn't mean this as a path to ridicule their discussions.

only show that she knows. she's aware. ]

[saviorexe]

Something that won’t be forgotten.

[Markus especially won’t.]

But I have a feeling I won’t be the only one of this opinion. You might be stuck with us, Gaby.

[vns]

I'm playing consultant because you all listen, and because you're all so damn powerful that I'm afraid of what happens if I'm not here. It's not the you that worries me, but the future you – I know I've helped with that.

[ candid and for a reason. she knows why Daisy was frustrated, has even spoken to Peggy about it recently. going big because it feels necessary – Gaby wishes it were that simple.

but it's no longer about how hard it is to be a Morningstar agent, but Morningstar at all. left without any comrades save her regular check-ins with El. ]

[vns]

It's already starting to look that way.

I mean what I said to Rey. I wasn't planning on leaving. Even if you're a pain in the ass half the time, I've risked too much to turn my back on this now. On you all.

[ what isn't spoken to any of them is that she's seen as a point of contact by whoever's doing the drop offs. what would happen if she departed? that doesn't make her more entitled to this role. far from it. ]

[vns]

I don't know. I did once steal a stolen dog back from one of the occupants. That may be hindering some form of independence.

[998]

[fine........]

We need more allies in this, not less.

[vns]

You do.

Turning on your fellow Displaced because they showed me the door isn't the way to make or keep them.

[evite]

we do?

[ that's news to her. or maybe it's just that daisy's a hard-headed idiot who doesn't listen to good advice given with good intentions. at least she's trying. ]

people are going to complain no matter what you do. they want to feel like they're in control, they want to feel like they have their own space, i get it. problem is, we're not in control, we don't have our own spaces, and nothing in this century is free.
you gave us a place to make our own, and nobody had to die or sell their soul to get it. i don't think it's unreasonable for you to want to keep an eye on things. if somebody seriously has an issue with it, they can figure out their own place to live.

[vns]

Fair enough.

Though if they don't like me while they're job hunting, they can suck it up. I won't tell someone to sleep on the streets because we had a disagreement. I'll just ask around if it gets too bad and find them a couch to sleep on. Better for everyone involved.

[ Gaby won't kick someone out in need, unless they've proven to be a major pain in the ass. a murderous pain in the ass. it takes a lot. ]

[retravel]

Oh, I'm sure we could find something to keep you busy.

[ pls gaby

'course she and el hear what they get up to: they're so bloody loud. ]

On the pulse, as ever. Are you hoping to maintain the same remit?

[ just for clarity's sake, then, with organisation and roles a piping hot topic. some of their own might not realise what she does for them. ]

[998]

You're as much my fellow as anyone here.

[verflair]

I somehow do not think that quite qualifies as enough of a hindrance to see you gone.