voice;

[ She didn't want to do this. Even after it, she'd hesitated to post it. It had taken her some time to come to the conclusion that it was either post this and make Winter understand why what she had posted wasn't okay even if it got results or end up with Winter refusing to talk to her forever and continuing to piss off more people than their father had yet. It'll either make things better or a whole lot worse, though.

It's voice though because she's well aware she looks like a guilt-ridden doe-eyed deer the entire time se's trying to record this, even if she can manage to make her voice sound authoritative from practice. ]

First off, I'd like to start by apologizing for my recent attempt to conquer Nova City. It was wrong and while very few people were actually hurt, it was out of line. Nova City Co-Guardian Vakarian handled the problem to the best of his abilities while Co-Guardian Black handled other situations at hand.

That said, there is one particular instance of incorrectly handled leadership and relational responsibility that I am particularly disappointed in. Winter Schnee, Captain of the Royal Guard from Fayren, failed to identify the problem for what it was despite speaking directly to me. Despite being quite literally in a costume and in the depth of Fayren's problems, she lacked any of the investigative reasoning to infer that I had been to Fayren given that I was wearing an outfit very different from my own. She also lacked the worldly knowledge to recognize that the outfit was that of a comic book villain from my world, and dismissed the matter as "clearly beyond the jurisdiction of Fayren, so it seems there's no need for [her] personal interference."

This shows an irresponsibility for the effects of Fayren's Halloween-induced nightmares that dismissed anything beyond clothing choice as a potential threat from the city. The costumes from Fayren clearly affected behavior and abilities, and she chose not to intervene when others clearly recognized that something was amiss. What is even further and more personally disappointing to me is that she didn't recognize her own sister was behaving erradically beyond anything worth a raised eyebrow. I very nearly killed our father in my Fayren-induced mad pursuit of power and the Captain of the Royal Guard didn't think there was anything that needed her personal attention.

Should such an inobservant and inacting individual, who refuses to act simply because it's no longer in her city despite that her city clearly caused it, have such important responsibilities? I honestly hate to say this because she is, in fact, my sister, but the clear lack of deductive reasoning and social skills would indicate that she has a direct need to be a student more than someone with the right to insubordinately criticize the office her station works for. If Winter Schnee wants to continue in her position, she needs to take the time to learn to respect the people she works for, the people she works with, and the people she works to protect both in and out of Fayren. She needs to realize that inaction is sometimes worse than the wrong action for the right reasons.

locked to Winter
I hope you understand why this is an unacceptable way to communicate issues to someone you respect now.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Weiss, you pardoned a murderer and now he's a city Guardian. I hardly think Winter is throwing away all future chances of happiness with one strongly worded message.

Yes, and half of my friends wouldn't talk to me after that until I was literally murdered.

Which only serves my point. If people can get over that, they can get over her tongue-lashing. I just think that this was as knee-jerk of a reaction as you accused her of. Or do you truly think a public statement against her, when she's already assuredly lost favor, is really best for her?

Again, that literally took getting murdered and some of them still refuse to work with me because of it. I've people messaging me that they're going to run for Fayren's Guardianship just to overrule her and I really don't think sitting around doing nothing is going to solve anything either.

So what if they do?

You still didn't answer my question. Do you believe that this course of action was truly in her best interests?

[ She takes a bit to respond. Whitley when did you get like, insight. ]

What else am I supposed to do? Winter doesn't listen to anyone except for General Ironwood. She literally tore up Beacon's courtyard with Ruby's uncle because he upset her one time which.. I encouraged at the time because he really was being rude but it seems like any time I try to communicate with her and it isn't agreement, it's just an automatic shut down. And not doing anything and just accepting that she's going to hate me forever because I disagreed with her once is not an action I can accept. Just because you dislike her doesn't mean I'm okay with that.

[ He has nothing to gain right now from the two of them arguing. Being a force in bringing them back together, however, could be largely beneficial to him in the future.

See, THESE are the kinds of "brownie points" he knows are worth working for. ]

It's been three days, Weiss. That's hardly "forever". As for my relationship with Winter, I've already spoken to her privately about trying to foster something of a better relationship. This place presents a unique opportunity for us to be siblings together, again.

I don't enjoy seeing that opportunity torn apart from either side.

[ Three days is too long to fight with Winter, Whitley. Weiss looks up to her this sucks and she's basically imploding because literally most of the time she either just gets smacked upside the head and called names or just goes along with everything Winter wants. ~~What a healthy family relationship..~~ ]

Really?

[ Whitley actually wanting to bring them back together despite everything, and their father not being involved in it at all honestly sounds nice. ]

So what am I supposed to do? I'm really not looking forward to getting smacked and she's not talking to me over the network. [ Literally Whitley you are the only one in this family who hasn't smacked her. ]

[ He thinks for a moment, before offering a little shrug. ]

Then I suppose it falls to me to be the mediator.

I'm conceding to the extent that I'll admit I was wrong to post this but not that she wasn't wrong to post hers in the first place. Otherwise, I'll do my best to cooperate.

That's quite alright - honestly, I don't disagree with you. I understand her intentions were in the right place, but she's not exactly a master of tact.

We all want the same thing, in the end. I think that will come through.

I'm relatively certain the level of tact we're all capable of inverses with our ages.

[ Weiss is somewhere in the middle, Whitley is best and youngest, and Winter is worst and eldest. This is weirdly backward.

At least it's a compliment toward Whitley though, he's good at that. A little too good, but eh. ]

But it's directly correlated to our relative experience with it.

[ A soldier has no need for tact, only efficiency. A Huntress can more personable, but their actions speak louder. But when you're in the field of business and raised for exactly that purpose, your ability to be personable (or at least fake it) is critical. Too much bad PR can spell doom. ]

I'm sure this will find itself resolved well enough.

And need for it, I suppose.

[ For example: ]

Even if you can be a bit of a brat sometimes, you're a good brother, Whitley.

Trade "sister" for "brother" and I believe that sentiment can be easily returned.

[ This is him being a bit of a brat ]

I can't argue against that one.

[ Such a brat but an endearing brat at least. It's nice not being enemies with her siblings, she appreciates this. ]

voice;

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

Re: video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private

video; private