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Video: Election Results

[ooc: Sorry this was supposed to go up yesterday.]

Please welcome with me our new council! We had a three way tie for our last two spots, so we're going to have twelve members.

These individuals are: Bucky, Curufin, Eva, Feanor, Kaiba, Nerdanel, Nita, Sarai, Yuffie, Ignis, The Doctor, and myself.

Congratulations and we'll have to come up with a good time for our first meeting soon.

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[Tony heads from where he'd been talking in the standard car with a book to find Reigen. He stopped briefly to put his book away and then stepped into the room.]

Hey, Reigen. Sorry you didn't make the council. I was hoping you would.

Should have, yes.

[Edge has a positive opinion of Reigen, surprising as that might be. But this is just more evidence of the problems.]

[He doesn't fold his arms as he leans up against the door frame. Not because he isn't feeling confrontational, but because he wants his hands free. Just in case.]

[He isn't expecting praise from both of them right off the bat, honestly. But hey, at least that means they take him seriously.] Oh, thanks. It's fine, Eva-san and Curufin will probably be needing the extra help later on. So you're not getting rid of me that easy.

[Ok, serious mode now. Reigen folds his arms and looks over both of them.] Now then, fellas. This is what, the second time you two have gotten into it? I know you both have pretty different styles of leadership and all, but it's a bit much to be at each other's throats about it. What can we do to keep you guys from actually punching each other in the face one day?

[Tony smirked at him.]

Yeah, sometime you're going to have to clue me in on what's up with this orange team takeover.

[He wasn't seriously worried about it. The people selected were good ones no matter what team they were on.]

I believe we solved it relatively well when Edge agreed to lay off Peter.

[He looked at Edge.]

After this conversation I'm going to talk to him about what he said to instigate this.

[Edge shrugs. He really misses his cape, which would have added a lot of extra weight to the gesture.] Bringing violence into this would only prove I can't make a stand any other way. Otherwise it'd be way too late to stop us.

What are you even talking about, Edge? I only got angry because of Peter being involved. I don't actually mind you questioning whatever you want to question. You have every right to ask questions and shed light on whatever you think is corrupt. It's not. I went well out of my way to make certain there were multiple people involved to keep this a fair election. However, if you don't believe that, I don't care. You can make whatever stand you want so long as you don't hurt anyone.

[Edge shoots the man a very deliberate glance out of the corner of his eye.]

I mean that if I didn't feel that way, then I wouldn't have hesitated earlier when you tried to call me out to the gym.

[He'll wager his scarf that Stark will claim it was for the purposes of discussion, and that a throwdown was never on his mind.]

[Tony shrugs.]

When you act like an ass, sometimes you get your ass kicked. I don't react well to people attacking those under my care.

[However, they'd managed to keep talking long enough that Tony had stopped reacting like an angry bear standing over his hurt cub.]

Since we're both stuck here on the train, it might be a good idea to establish some kind of truce or agreement to maintain the peace.

Unless the person acting like an ass has a group ready to come charging in and take over, protecting that person from any consequences of their actions.

[Edge shrugs again.]

But don't worry. I've agreed to compromise my morals for the sake of coexistence here, so this should be the end of it. The child won't hear from me again, no matter his behavior.

Thank you.

[He would be addressing Peter's behavior later.]

Which morals do you see as having been compromised here?

[Really? He has to go down that path?]

[Better be clearer.] For the sake of peaceful coexistence, I'll refrain from answering that. I'm bending my principles, let's leave it there. As people keep screaming, this isn't my world.

[Tony sighed. They had a mediator, he'd thought it would be helpful to try and air some of those issues. But.. whatever.]

Very well.

[He looks to Reigen.]

Anything else we can do to make this productive?

[Well, Edge's response sounds like a whole other can of worms: Reigen isn't sure whether to open it just to keep it from exploding later or if it'd be better to hope the worms just stay in the can.]

Teenagers are going to say stupid shit all the time, Edge, it's kind of a part of growing up. You're probably saving yourself a huge headache letting Peter's family deal with his behavior instead.

[Honestly, any time he's argued with a teenager has gone poorly. Pissing Mob off was still one of the worst things he's done--anyway, back to the issue at hand, because Reigen still isn't completely satisfied.]

Compromising sounds good, but we should be clear on what we're compromising on. Edge, I know personal accountability and trusting the people you lead are important to you. Where do you feel like those are being compromised? Besides having to treat Peter like a child, since...kids probably grow up faster where you're from, right?

Sixteen is about the age when training ends and duty begins. Squires take their trials to become knights, for example. [And a dozen other things that getting into would be pointless, like ninjas and karate masters and the distinction between Dark Knights and dragoons and so on...] I'm particularly surprised since he acts like he's of age to do... whatever it is his duties are, but I guess that's not so strange for a kid.

[The rest of it? He really is trying not to get into that for the sake of maintaining the peace. But since Reigan insists on pushing and he doesn't think this alone is enough of a dodge, he thinks quickly for something else to offer up that sounds like an answer without touching the true meat of the matter.]

I'll say this much: I was always taught to own my insults and deal with what they brought, age be damned. When someone insults someone else and then follows it up by saying it isn't an insult and it's their own fault for being insulted? I consider it a moral failing not to put that straight.

[He glances sidelong at Tony again.] You, at least, know exactly what you're doing when you call someone an idiot. I can respect that much.

[Though Edge disagrees with the other man on... possibly everything, he can at least grant that they both seem to take the same attitude towards expressing that disagreement.]

[Tony nods in agreement. If he were insulting someone he most definitely would own it. He suspected Edge to be the same way.]

You seem rather easily offended. Besides that initial calling you out that Peter did- which was wrong and again, I will talk to him about it- I don't believe he meant to insult you as much as you were saying he was. Now, he can be a moron who speaks before he thinks, but he was trying to have a discussion with you on the different government systems. That's something I'm offering here as well, but you don't seem very interested in that.

So it comes off that you want to throw a fit but not actual work toward any resolution.

And when I told him he was being that insulting, he said it was my own fault for being insulted. Not even maliciously. That's just horrible. That's like swinging a sword around, cutting someone, then telling them it's their fault for being in the way and sincerely believing that!

[Edge waves one hand wildly, an expression of the adrenaline he'd been otherwise keeping bottled up.]

There's just so much wrong with that attitude. It's scary when people think what you've done shouldn't have the consequences it did, and it only did because someone else was at fault. It'd be bad enough coming from a normal kid, but people keep acting like kid's something special.

I see...yeah, it must suck when someone won't own up to offending you. Even if he didn't mean it like that, your duties as a king are clearly pretty personal to you, Edge.

[Though Reigen doesn't entirely know what they were talking about. He mostly caught the tail-end of Edge calling out Peter pretty harshly and then threats of asskicking from Tony.]

That's probably another thing Tony can bring up when talking to Peter--obviously Edge was a bit too harsh in some of what he said, but...well, it didn't exactly come up out of nowhere.

Edited 2020-04-29 22:32 (UTC)

He is special, you jackass! I had to watch him die in a very horrible way too. So yes, he is special and what he's been through is more than a lot of people, but besides that he's also a kid, which means he's an idiot. There are consequences and will be consequences to what he's said. If you have any creative punishment ideas I'm all ears too.

[He looks toward Reigen and nods.]

I'd advice you ignore him and I'll tell him to leave you alone.

[That rant just has Edge looking at Reigen while motioning to Tony. See? See what the problem is? This speaks to so many of the issues he has with not only the boy, but the system as well.]

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