WAR TABLE MISSION: People of Riftwatch

[bouchonne]

WHO: Diplomacy interviewers and interviewees
WHAT: As outlined in this ooc post, Diplomacy members have been asked to interview other members of Riftwatch to gather information so they can have pamphlets written about them.
WHEN: Whenever
WHERE: Diplomacy office
NOTES: None as of yet

The Diplomacy office has a rather nice set-up: there are a few comfortable chairs and couches, and the offices themselves are well-supplied with coffee, tea, and drinks of a stronger nature. So, at the very least, the interviewers and their subjects will feel relatively comfortable during their conversation.

If things go according to plan, each interviewer will be set up in the office when their interview subject arrives. Benedict Artemaeus will have opened the door and shown the interviewee inside and will have gotten them a drink of their choice. From there, it falls to the interviewer to ask the first question.

Comments

[elegiaque]

After a brief pause, visibly deciding how to word this, Gwenaëlle settles on, “I didn't agree to it, no, but I wasn't given the option of declining. It was required of me regardless of my feelings or wishes, and the lengths I would have had to go to in order to exert my own wishes would have been...distasteful.”

Could she have leaned on her grandfather? Probably. Would he have brought his weight to bear, if she'd asked him to, and prevented this from happening? Probably. But at the time, she was more prepared to be forced into something that terrified her than to be seen to hide behind his influence— in part a matter of pride, and in part because it wouldn't always be there.

It wouldn't always be there, but people would remember how she used it. And they'd remember that when he was gone, and she wasn't able to any more. She isn't above exploiting that connection, merely judicious with its use and consequence.

“Initially, I was taught to handle daggers. The reason I was in Forces as a noncombatant— when I originally joined Riftwatch in the role Silver holds now, master of information, I joined as a member of Forces because I felt it'd be inappropriate to be a member of the division my then-husband was then responsible for, and of the other division heads at the time, Commander Coupe was the only one I trusted not to force me into a situation that would get me killed due to my inexperience and Riftwatch's lack of alternative competent hands.”