GIRL LOOK AT THAT BODY | closed

[limier]

WHO: Alexandrie, Audra, Loki, Thor, Norrington, Benedict, Coupe + Iorveth, Jang, Kitty, Kylo, Resa, Silas, Six, Yseult + Corpse
WHAT: Rescue.
WHEN: Live in the moment, man.
WHERE: The Tevinter Imperium. Like, about half of it.
NOTES: Plotting post.

I'll edit in headers in a moment. Feel free to make your own, I'm not your mom.

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[hassaran]

I am one still.

[ Yseult's head tilts, eyes even narrower. ]

That is quite a chip on your shoulder about that, isn't it. What does 'commoner' mean in your world, exactly?

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty hesitates a moment, debating deflecting the question and asking one of her own. But - only fair, right? You don't get anywhere peppering someone with questions and giving nothing back yourself. So. ]

Not a magician. [ A breath. ] Where I'm from, my home's like Tevinter, but...more. More so. People like me, people without magic, we're nothing to them. [ But. ] So that's what I mean when I use the word here. Commoners, meaning people who - they get looked at, and all anyone sees is someone to shove into a soldier's uniform and die on the battlefield. Someone to farm the fields, who'll probably die come winter, and oh-well-who-cares.

[hassaran]

[ Yseult nods. That makes sense given Kitty's prickly responses to various questions so far. Not that she's not sympathetic, but they're not in Kitty's world, are they. ] I assume you've learned that's not really what it means here. [ Not exactly. The people Kitty describes still exist, but it's not just because they're common, it's because they're poor. ]

The vast majority of people in the Inquisition and the world are common, rich and poor. Hightown is populated by well-off commoners as much as nobles. Antiva is run by commoners. You'll need to adjust your wording and expectations if you want to pass as a native.

[rathercommon]

[ She purses her lips in frustration. ]

Then what is the word for it? All the people who are stepped on and discarded.

[hassaran]

The poor.

[ Yseult's shoulders shift in the suggestion of a shrug. ]

You can say 'the common people', it just may not mean everything you're used to. Plenty of people without noble blood can read; few of the poorest can. I would be careful devising a cover story that relies too much on pushing political buttons until you've had more time here.

[rathercommon]

[ That draws a look from Kitty. ]

I'm not stupid. I know to keep my head down.

[ Which - if it'd been anyone else she was talking to, she'd probably have just nodded and thanked her for the advice, because admitting she has experience in building and maintaining a cover story is revealing rather a lot by itself. But, well, it's clear that Yseult can see right through her in just about every way. So what's the point of secrecy? Of pretending?

It's a sort of relief, honestly. Talking to her. She can be more honest than she has been otherwise. ]

[hassaran]

[ Yseult doesn't contest that. (Perhaps she could, since Kitty just now put so little effort into the cover she offered her, a stranger. But a stranger on her own team, and maybe that is a fair reason for laziness, at least now.) She merely lifts a brow, expression remaining otherwise placid. ]

I wouldn't have offered if I thought you were stupid. Think on it.

[ She steps away then without pause for response, moving back to have a word with someone else in the party. ]