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meadowlark2020-03-01 11:45 pm
batricide) wrote in meadowlark2020-03-01 11:45 pm@hafid.alghul
Do you want to make a difference in this world?
batricide) wrote in meadowlark2020-03-01 11:45 pm
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What I want to do is symbiotic with what other people are already doing, regardless of what they seem to think.
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What I propose is something more direct. Applying force to the problem, cleaning up the areas that existing authority won't touch or is too corrupt to resolve. While working to get to the bottom of who is poisoning the well.
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It's all related. What's happening here and other parts of the world, we already know they're connected somehow. Whatever we create will need to start small and build itself up. I want to focus on the city as this is the most familiar ground.
What happens at the top, the people behind why we're here, they've got their fingers deep in the criminal underground. Poverty keeps people both desperate and complacent, and the UNA and its propaganda keep them blind. Police and other justice systems are completely ensnared in all of it.
You start small and clean up small time crime, make neighborhoods safer, put away the murderers and human traffickers, you can work your way up the chain to the people that are protecting them and padding their wallets.
I can't form a plan until I know who wants to be onboard and what their views are. They can either join the team I'm forming, join Morningstar, or they can throw their lot in with the people focusing on charity work.
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Thank you for the explanation.
Does it have to be either/or? Since your goals are symbiotic, would you object to people onboard with you also working with Morningstar?
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I spoke to Gaby and it was already understood that this would probably end up being the case. I still have some matters to discuss with El about all of this and can bring it up when I do.
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If you'd even have me, I'm no hero. But I might be able to make myself useful.
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Have you been trained to fight?
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You already sound like the ideal candidate.
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the smashed in wall in front of him is probably a bad look, but he'll switch to DMs and drop a GPS pin. its an abandoned warehouse.
this whole 'don't be ominous' thing is hard for him. ]
> action
When he gets to the warehouse he doesn't bother sneaking, exactly, but his steps are quiet by nature. He doesn't want to startle someone who's almost certainly an expert fighter so he just slips inside and looks around. He's still dressed in the slightly oversized clothes given to him upon arrival, but it's clear even under that sweatshirt that he's a big guy, broad and muscular.
...hmm. ]
Hafid?
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[ he's away from the damage he's caused at this point. This isn't the building he intends to purchase, just the one he and his brothers had squatted in when they'd arrived. Like sane people.
He's dressed well. What passes for high fashion in New Amsterdam, gloves covering both his hands. he's more lean than he is broad, built like an acrobat but ever so much more muscular.
He extends a hand to shake. ]
You can call me Damian.
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[ Damian isn't quite what Drake expected, but then... he didn't have anything specific in mind, either, so that's kind of moot. It might just be the outfit. He'd pictured something tight and dark, because the person he was talking to seemed way too smart to wear a costume like the idiots that called themselves superheroes back in his Seattle. But it's not night yet, either, and maybe he's picturing a stereotype. Hmm.
There's a lot he's going to have to discuss, but right now the smaller man (teen? he looks young but serious...) is holding out a safely gloves hand so Drake steps in and takes it, shaking firmly. ]
Nice to meet you, Damian. You said to somebody else you've been here a long time?
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[ he gives a firm handshake in turn, business like. ]
As you can see I don't have very many fans.
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[ He tilts his head, considering Damian for another second before just coming out and saying it. ]
I figured I should tell you starting out, I've got a law enforcement background. Usually doesn't go over well with this sort of organization.
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[ he'll just pawn it off to someone more personable. ]
As for your background, I don't care so long as you weren't crooked. My organization worked with the government, and even before we did, my family had a good working relationship with the police of our city.
[ the ones that weren't crooked anyway. ]
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I really didn't expect that. But no, I wasn't crooked, even if my handler was. I was undercover with vice and major crimes.
[ He huffs a soft laugh, relieved. ]
I guess I got used to hiding that I was a cop, at home and back in Hadriel. That was the thing I figured you'd nix me for.
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[ he crosses his arms. ]
But no. I don't care. That background is a valuable asset.
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[ Damian calling him a ideal candidate didn't hurt, honestly, but he misses being part of the Guard, doing good directly. As for the long haul... ]
I do want to ask, what do you think about Morningstar's activities?
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[ gaby might die if she heard him praising them, don't tell her. ]
But I don't trust an organization I can't see every moving part of.
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It's really hard to. Especially when you know that other organizations around are severely corrupt. Is there any reason that you know of to think that Morningstar is complicit with the mistreatment of the Displaced? I don't know all that much about it since I've been here like a week and a half but I've heard some shit.
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