"See, that's why we ought to show 'em off or something. I know that's complicated," he adds, quickly, and gives her fingers a little extra squeeze to demonstrate that he's on her side. "So I'm mostly taking the piss, all right. But the best way to get kids on your side is to show 'em something brilliant. And since you are brilliant... it'd be easy."
He does know that respect isn't necessarily bound to obedience, or vice-versa, for that matter. Went along with a load of orders as a kid while hating the templars, so Matthias knows that well. But he also knows about being an impressionable kid--something Laura (all coolness and quietness and loads of trauma, never having time to play at impressionability) wouldn't know.
"When I was them, all we ever did was talk about how incredibly wicked the older mages were. Like--Marcus Rowantree. He's here now, joined up with Riftwatch, and came along the mission with us and everything--we used to piss ourselves trying to get a glimpse of him when we were at Andoral's Reach. He didn't even have to show off for us, we just knew a squillion stories about the brilliant things he'd done--and Voss, she's with Riftwatch as well, dunno if you know her but she's this," he sighs, and holds up his free hand, empty, "force, and we'd go on about her as well--oi, there we are! What if I tell them tales about how brilliant you are? Then you wouldn't have to do anything and they'd be in total awe. It'd work, trust me."
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He does know that respect isn't necessarily bound to obedience, or vice-versa, for that matter. Went along with a load of orders as a kid while hating the templars, so Matthias knows that well. But he also knows about being an impressionable kid--something Laura (all coolness and quietness and loads of trauma, never having time to play at impressionability) wouldn't know.
"When I was them, all we ever did was talk about how incredibly wicked the older mages were. Like--Marcus Rowantree. He's here now, joined up with Riftwatch, and came along the mission with us and everything--we used to piss ourselves trying to get a glimpse of him when we were at Andoral's Reach. He didn't even have to show off for us, we just knew a squillion stories about the brilliant things he'd done--and Voss, she's with Riftwatch as well, dunno if you know her but she's this," he sighs, and holds up his free hand, empty, "force, and we'd go on about her as well--oi, there we are! What if I tell them tales about how brilliant you are? Then you wouldn't have to do anything and they'd be in total awe. It'd work, trust me."