oh captain my captain

[nocawsforconcern]

Who: Enna and you!
Where: Network, and then the kitchen car!
When: Imagination 15, morning
What: Enna claims the captaincy.
Warnings: Summaries of the mission, including death and injury!

[The ICPs on the train will all start up, showing Enna's face, looking uncharacteristically serious. And she seems to have figured out the ICPs much better since her last time.]

Cawww... That mission was a mess. It sucked. For a lot of reasons.

[She sighs, folding her arms, her cloak wrapped around her.]

Hi. If I haven't met you yet, I'm Enna. Gienah Alchiba, captain of the Argo Minor. But call me Enna. Or Captain, 'cause that's what this is about.

When we were fighting the bad guys, I called myself the captain of the Voidtrecker Express. That was mostly to make myself a priority target, 'cause I'm the one who had the unbreakable shield. But I meant it, too. A crew this size needs a captain, so I'll do it. 'Cause, that was awful.

We need to make sure this won't happen again. Not just so that we're more prepared, so we can fight through anything, but we need to be careful about who does what. Someone in the group I was in killed one of the bad guys after they were already pinned down. I dunno who that guy is, but that's not something I will allow to happen again.

[She takes a minute to gather herself again, figure her thoughts out as she rustles her cloak.]

I need to know what all happened on this mission. What groups were where. Please report in with what you know of what happened on this mission, what you did. If you know anything about who those enemies were, that's important, too. We can't keep sailing blind. If we get another mission like this and we're any less organized, we might not have anyone survive.

I'll be at the.... There's no helm. Caw. Okay. I'll be in the kitchen car. Come report to me there. I'm going to start making plans for what to do next time.

[The video ends. She didn't even punch the ICP this time.]

(OOC note: This is not an OOCly enforced thing, this is just Enna's own actions. You don't have to acknowledge or obey, the train sure won't. Replies are gonna be assumed to be in-person unless specified otherwise!)

Comments

[nocawsforconcern]

Dunno them. Dunno you? Caw.

[She folds her arms again. Enna doesn't look away- Rather, she meets her gaze. Enna is no stranger to leading herself.]

I couldn't tell. I think red, but in that fight, everyone's clothes were red. What can the leaders do?

[mtsilver_conquor]

Right, I don't think we introduced ourselves last we spoke. Iden'no Eva; Councilmember and one of the Orange leaders. And the one that almost died.

[There's a polite bow, but even as she straightens, there's a wince. Ow ow ow. Myths but is her body still sore.

And a grimace at the reminder of the red her clothes had ended up as.]

Given this wasn't one of us he killed, we can't impose jail time or a punishment- and yes, I know how that sounds.

[A sigh as she holds up her free hand.] What we can do is talk to him about his behaviour and if he has anyone from their world, we can recruit them to help. We can't stop people from going on missions and that is not a path I want to start going down. It leads to a slippery slop I am unwilling to cross.

The best you can likely do is figure out what team he's going with next mission and avoid them. It's not ideal yet it's the best we can do right now.

[nocawsforconcern]

[Enna folds her arms. She doesn't look quite angry, but more... Frustrated?]

I'm not gonna avoid him. If he's going out and might kill people, I'm going to stop him. His crimes don't not happen just 'cause I don't know about them. If I have the power to stop him, and I don't, then it's the same as helping him do it.

[She doesn't seem to like the rest of it, either.]

Why can't we stop him?

And then I am glad Eva is her canon point, yep. |D

[mtsilver_conquor]

[Frustrated is a mood.]

Does this mean if you see him in the act of possibly committing a crime that you'd stop him, or...?

[There's a headtilt here, Eva's voice gentle and seeking clarification before she addresses the rest of what's been said. She could assume, but based on what she knows about Enna, and has seen of her around the train...

She's getting a little be of a 'literal thinker' vibe. Not much, but it's enough to have her pause.]

[nocawsforconcern]

[She is... correct. Extreme literal thinker here.]

Yeah. If it's something I don't agree with, anyway.

[She's also... bad at knowing when she needs to clarify. Like, right now.]

[mtsilver_conquor]

[Eva exhales then grins wryly.]

Can you clarify? like... I'm not going to be mad. I need to know what you're thinking, Enna-san. I can't help unless I know that.

[She's about to get Shin Vibes, isn't she?]

[nocawsforconcern]

Crimes aren't always bad just 'cause they're crimes. Sometimes the people making the laws are bad, so you need to do things that are crimes.

[She rustles her cloak, puffing it up like a bird preening itself.]

Cawww. If he kills someone who is still fighting and trying to kill him, then that's okay. If there's no way to stop someone trying to kill you except by killing them, then you do what you gotta. But if he tries to kill someone who can't fight back, or isn't dangerous, and I can stop him, I will. I'll fight him if I have to.

[mtsilver_conquor]

Makes sense to me.

[Yeah. Shin vibes here. But, Eva's content to let it die, too. Especially when they have more important things to deal with.]

If we stop him from going on missions, it's far to easy for that to slide into finding excuses as to why people can't do various things. It wouldn't happen overnight, but it's a slippery slope that is very hard to recover from.

[A sigh as she takes a sip of tea.] We do need to talk to him and find out his view too; the battle was chaotic enough that even I had a hard time keeping track and that was just within my group.

[Never mind after the explosion.]

That said, if you want a spot of leadership, we do have the council.

[nocawsforconcern]

I don't get it. Stopping him from missions doesn't mean anything for anyone else?

[It doesn't make clear logical sense to her, so.]

... I don't really care about the council. I don't really want leadership. But we need a leader and I'm a captain. I can fix things.

If people listen to me, I can fix things. But people don't listen unless you have power. And power and responsibility go together. So now I'm a captain. I don't wanna be a council. If the council can do what they need without me, then I'm just gonna be myself. And if they can't, then I'll be captain.

[mtsilver_conquor]

We have blind people that go on missions; would you say they can't do missions just because they're blind? No. I understand you're upset about this and so am I, but I also don't know the whole story. Only what you've told me and that's that you had him pinned in the heat of battle while making yourself a target. For all we know, the guy could have had a hidden weapon you didn't notice.

[She sighs, then straightens, every inch the Leader -the Living Legend- she's been shaped into over her life. ]

The Council are the leaders -the captains if you will- of the train; we haven't done anything about the aftermath of the mission because we haven't had a chance to yet. Give us time to worth things out, please.

[nocawsforconcern]

.... I don't think so. But fine.

[She doesn't like it, but fine. She furrows her brows, though.]

How much time?

[mtsilver_conquor]

[Eva shrugs.]

Honestly? I can't say. We're likely going to have a meeting of some sort in the next several days once everyone's had time to decompress and recover, and it'll likely happen after Platform day.

[nocawsforconcern]

.... Fine. But I'm gonna be there too.

[mtsilver_conquor]

[Enna's powergrab had reminded her of Tony Stark's 'this is my train', and that 'I'm gonna be there' only adds to the pile of 'possible Tony Stark situation' thoughts that swirl her head.

All she does is exhale, twice.]

Suit yourself.