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[ A couple of hours had passed since Roman had made his announcement. It took her a while to calm down. After the hard learned lesson about not reacting emotionally from the first time Roman had attacked her, albeit in a very different manner, she knew better than to say anything while she was still reeling. Anxiety, stress, hatred, fear of losing her new friends, and fear of losing what she'd just begun to build on top of what she'd already lost to Torchwick were overwhelmingly keeping her from trying to react without thinking things through first. She'd turned her phone off for a short while- it was probably a mistake, it probably made it look like she was hiding, but the reality was that she was just a teenager who was trying to make some kind of a difference.

But after she'd had a chance to breathe, she worked out what it was she'd wanted to say. Because Torchwick wasn't the one she had to answer to- it was everyone else. The people who had put their faith in Schnee Company here, the people who believed in her and thought she was a good person, and even the people who didn't know what to think yet. They were who was important, not someone using her father's sins to try to destroy her. ]

Here we go.

[ Weiss took a deep breath and flickered the video on, her gaze unwavering as it did. She looked determined, serious. If any member of her family ever came here, she would likely be ruined after this video, but this was the only way to save the life she'd started building here. ]

Many of you may have seen Roman Torchwick's video and accusations earlier. The answer is yes.

Yes, many of those things are true. My father and our company under his leadership have been accused of doing those things and I have personally witnessed some of them. I don't have evidence of some of the things that Torchwick detailed in his apparent report, the source of which I find suspect given that while Schnee Dust Company in Remnant has managed to evade essentially all charges. If a report like that were legitimate, it certainly would've risen much sooner and certainly not in Genessia instead of back home. And I happen to know at least a couple of those are false, but the important ones aren't.

Yes, my family has used money to corrupt politics to get away with.. less than moral business practices. Yes, we...

[ Weiss took another deep breath. This was, honestly, hard for her. She hated the idea that her family's name was being dragged through the mud and that she was confirming it, even if she knew what was true. She wanted nothing more than to scream that Torchwick was a liar, but that wouldn't solve anything. ]

Schnee Dust Company has been known for both Human and Faunus rights abuses, most condemningly the forced labor of the Faunus people. Yes, Torchwick was telling the truth about that, but as usual he ran his mouth without knowing or including the entire story.

My family didn't claim our name in bloodshed or the sweat and tears of Faunus. It was my grandfather's company, and until my father took over it was a moral company. The Schnee family name didn't start off standing for these gross violations of humans rights, and I have no intention of allowing it to stay that way. Perhaps if Torchwick had taken a moment to question why the heiress to the company in question was busy attending a combat school for Huntresses instead of living easily in the comfort of my multiple homes and a plush office on the top floors of Schnee Company headquarters, he would have realized that leveling those accusations here was a mistake.

I chose to become a huntress because I have every intention of taking my family's company back from my father to make certain that the Schnee Dust Company doesn't operate in the dark, because I will need those skills to reclaim it from him. I never brought any of this up here in Genessia not because I had the intent to deceive any of you, but because by saying this publicly, I run the risk of my family finding out if any of them come to Genessia. I don't intend to back down back home, nor do I intend to let Torchwick take Schnee Company down to his level here. Schnee Company in Genessia is going to be a prime example of what Schnee Dust Company in Remnant should operate like.

The entire reason that the people from my world agreed not to start a witch hunt for Torchwick when he first arrived was on the basis of second chances. Torchwick squandered his when he attacked my friend and I, killing her and kidnapping me out of a sick need for vengeance because we've cut a couple of his heists short- a part of our jobs as huntresses.

Don't take Schnee Company and my second chance away from us because Torchwick decided to share what my father is responsible for and I haven't had the chance to fix back home yet.

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I'll go get ready then. Are you picking me up or are we meeting there?

Would you mind meeting me there? I have some things I need to wrap up here, otherwise I'd offer...

I'll wait in the lobby if I get there before you do. How long do you think you'll be?

Thirty minutes? Is that too long? I can have someone else finish this up if needed.

[ paperwork. it was his least favorite part of this job, and he knew he'd be swimming in scrolls if he ever ascended the throne, unless he was comfortable with letting his advisers run the counter, something he didn't see himself being okay with. ]

Thirty minutes is fine. I'm going to need time to change and put my hair up in a way that isn't going to drown anyone who gets near me anyway. I'll see you then.

[ she'll find him sitting on the edge of one of the lounge chairs near the deep end of the pool when she arrives. hopefully the front desk let her in as instructed. they were more than happy to accommodate him for the day in exchange for putting in a good word with fayren's other business owners, as well as the guardians of the other cities.

if he'd had time, he would've ran home to get the fire nation style swim pants he wore to the bonfire, but at least he manged to find something in red. they weren't his style, and he wasn't entirely comfortable in them (the fabric felt... weird, to say the least), but they would do.

coming here wasn't about him or how awkward he felt in modern swim trunks. it was about taking weiss's mind off roman and his attempted shaming of her company. ]

[ Weiss changed before she left, getting dressed in a white swimsuit and covering up with a sarong tied into a dress, so that she wasn't wandering around town in a swimsuit. She had little sandals that weren't anywhere near as high as she normally would wear her heels- but she wanted something easy to get off if she had to wear them in sand at some point, which was why she'd bought them in the first place. Her hair was tied up in a couple of braided areas so that it would hold to the side on its own even in the water.

Once she was directed to the pool area, she looked around for Zuko for a moment before coming over. She had a little bag with her with her towel, some spray-on sunscreen, a hair brush, a pair of sunglasses, and her wallet. When she gets to Zuko, she goes and sits on the edge of his lounge chair, taking the sunscreen out and holding it out to him. ]

Can you get my back for me?

Yeah.

[ he scoots back to make room for her, taking the bottle from her... though he's not quite sure what to do with it. sunburns aren't an issue for the firebending portion of the fire nation's population. they channel the energy from the sun's rays into something that doesn't char the skin. he's not sure what the sunscreen is for (or what it even is). ]

Uh... What am I supposed to do with this?

[ Weiss looks over her shoulder at him, then points up to the sun with her hand. ]

It's sunscreen. For those of us who don't firebend and don't particularly want to start using our aura in 15 minutes fighting off sunburns. My skin is pale enough that I will absolutely start burning in 15 minutes if I'm wearing a swimsuit, so I use that lotion. You just squirt some out of the tube and onto your hand, then rub it onto my back. Cover as much skin as you can and rub gently until you can't see the lotion anymore.

[ zuko squirts some of it into his hands, probably a bit more than he needed to. gently, he smooths it across her shoulders and back, rubbing it into the skin there until he can't see the smears, just as she said. he rubs the rest of it onto her arms and across her collarbone, not wanting to wipe his hands off on her towel or his shorts. agni knew he didn't need the sunscreen himself. ]

If I ever lose my firebending, promise you'll put this stuff on me. I'd probably roast like a fallen buzzard wasp egg on a hot summer's day.

[ don't say things like that, zuko. this is genessia. that sort of thing is entirely possible. ]

[ Zuko can feel her shiver under his touch just slightly from the cool temperature. Though she was almost always a little colder than Zuko was, the sunscreen was a little chilly like that. It didn't bother her, but her body still reacted. Typically she was a lot more relaxed around Zuko, but because of the entire situation, it was just... honestly harder to relax in general. ]

A buzzard wasp sounds like something that shouldn't exist in any world, regardless of animal breeds.

[ Who would put a creature that circles around corpses and the asshole of the bug world together? ]

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