Blue Meeting:

[callmegladio]

Who: Gladio + Blue Team and Friends.
Where: Dining carriage. (Change of venue, larger space)
When: Grasshopper 15th after lunch.
What: The first Blue Team meeting with the new Leadership in place.
Warnings: Unknown. Possible cuteness. Snack induced jealousy. Will update if something comes up!

To say that Gladio was nervous would be an understatement. He hadn't been able to get much sleep the night before worrying if this would work out the way he had planned. Would people be receptive to what he asked? Would people even come to this meeting? He had been assured by several people there would be at least some (who could resist lovingly prepared snacks?) but it remained to be seen.

Gladio sat at a table, there was a notepad and a pencil in his hand. He would be taking notes of things he deemed important.

Once people started filtering in, Gladio began to feel somewhat better. Calmer. He watched them milling about with a smile. It was only when he thought there was enough that he rose and gave a call to get people's attention.

"First, I just wanna thank everyone for coming. I know it was short notice, but between the mission and platform day coming up, my hands were tied.

In future I'm going to do my best to have a meeting like this before every big mission, once we get the info. I don't think a little organisation can hurt. And... with that in mind. The reason I wanted to get you all here. I want everyone to get to know each other. And I want to learn more about you all. I'd like, if you're all willing, to assign simple roles within the team to each person for missions. If you don't want to be part of that, just let me know. That's your choice." He smiled wider. "If you do... I'll get to you. If you've any questions, I'm open to them. Piccolo and WangJi are also here to answer your questions and concerns. Not just here and not just for missions, but any you have. We're here for you."

With that his smile became a grin. "Now... I know two of our number have been working hard to make delicious snacks, so do me a favour? Make them happy and dig in! Enjoy them and... chat. Mingle. Get to know your fellow blue. We're a small team, lets make us the best team!"

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[callmegladio]

Gladio laughed and gave a small shake of his head. "Just doing what I can for the team."

"Remind me again what you said you wanted to do for the team?" He grinned. "And just what the heck am I supposed to call you? Wei Wuxian is a mouthful."

[only_one_wei]

"It is?" Wei Wuxian had never really considered it particularly long, it was only three syllables. His title, Yiling Patriarch, was longer. "What sounds good to you? If I don't like it, I'll tell you," he offered.

"As for what I want to do? I make a fabulous second," he said with a shrug. "I was trained to be my brother's second in command, so I'm pretty good with kids, know how to run training sessions, not so good with paperwork, that sort of thing." Also at protecting people to the point of antagonizing those in power, hiding how much pain he's in, lying about how bad a situation is, and prefers potatoes to radishes--even though radishes are cheaper and easier to grow, but that last one might only matter to Wen Qing.

[callmegladio]

Not long, but more formal in Gladio's mind. It was his whole name is was using, surely there was a shorter form of it? "How about your given name?"

"Hmm... And what kind of training sessions would those be? Can you train self-defence at all?" That would be a huge help, if he was honest.

[only_one_wei]

"Ying?" Wei Wuxian gave him a skeptical look. "Usually only Lan Zhan calls me that, anymore. Wuxian could work though, if you like."

"Honestly, the stuff I'm decent at, Piccolo does better. Except Archery, which the shiny guy, Glorfindel is doing. I'm happy backing either of them up, or whatever you need me to do. Oh," he paused for a moment, "I'm also really good at Talismans. Think there would be any call for those?"

[callmegladio]

Where did Ying come from? For a second Gladio looked puzzled, but he smiled anyway and nodded. "Wuxian it is."

"There's always going to be someone better, we just need to play to our own strengths. It's not a competition.

And what kind of talismans?"

[only_one_wei]

Gladio's puzzlement puzzled Wei Wuxian until he realized other worlds might not have the same naming conventions his did. "My world, everyone has two or three different names. My parents named me Wei Ying. My courtesy name is Wei Wuxian. I also have a title, but I don't use it here."

"I'm okay being back up and helping out," Wei Wuxian assured him. "Often times Leaders need help, they delegate, and I am very good at helping out."

"Hoo," he said, puffing out a breath of air as he thought about it. "Talismans are good for a lot of things. Starting a fire, sealing dark energies, driving away ghosts, or summoning them. All sorts of things, honestly. It depends on what you need."

[callmegladio]

"Ah, understood." Gladio chuckled, his confusion lifting at the explanation. It was different from where he came from. He had a title of course, kind of. And Gladio wasn't really his name, but it was just a shortening of his actual name, not a whole new one... So maybe not entirely dissimilar after all?

"I'll keep that all in mind..." Then he grinned. "I'm sure your husband will be happy for you to help him out where he needs it, and that's fine with me." Since his husband was one of the leaders, after all. "And those talismans sound like they'll come in handy... Not sure how, but I'm willing to bet they will at some point in the future."