𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒

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MISFIRES

a rambunctious duo in salt has stuck their nose where they shouldn't and now you can all reap the rewards! this is a MISFIRES meme. post a header for your character, and receive accidental texts from your local saltburntian guests. nudes, nasties, confessions of a certain persuasion? things you'd otherwise never write or send? they're all on the table. (meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)

Comments

[poppycock]

The principle of it, I suppose. ( klaus wouldn't be particularly upset in teo's position, either. but he would track down those who released it and make them pay regardless. ) Not all the world agrees, you know. Some condemn you for it. Does that not make fighting for your causes more difficult, with the attention so diverted?

[holyposition]

If I could have stopped whoever released it from doing so, I would have. But it's done.

Why would it? I'm not the face of any movement. Papa's made sure of that. But I don't need to be, I'm not the one who needs the attention.

[poppycock]

Attention to causes are difficult to garner if there are not those with some power and influence spearheading them.

Perhaps you should talk to your father about some damage control he would agree would be the lesser of two evils. Set up a foundation or what-have-you. Not now, but in a month or two, when your name is still recognizable and the brunt of the criticism has faded.

Anyhow, that's what I would do.

[holyposition]

People paid attention when we doused that senator with blood. And when we tore down that statue. And when I blew up that priest’s car. We take dramatic action and then speak out as a unit, we don’t need a figurehead to bowl over everything with their ego.

“A foundation or what have you”

Risk-free, tax-deductible activism isn’t for me. You know that. What is this?

[poppycock]

Your actions have been effective, Teo. I'm not saying otherwise. What I am saying is this risk-free, tax-deductible activism would still serve towards these greater purposes, and perhaps more effectively, with your family's money and resources.

Think about it. For you. That's all this is.

And for the record: no, I haven't mentioned this to your father.

[holyposition]

You start a foundation, then. I work better on the ground. Some things you can’t just throw money at.

But I’ve had this conversation with him a hundred times. I’m sure you know that, too.

sorry he's just (lovingly) this way

[poppycock]

I assumed he might've induced you to legitimize yourself in the eyes of society, but no, he doesn't tell me everything.

I suppose the only foundation I'll start is one for your bail money. There is one thing we can throw money at.

tim bratty in every universe I fear

[holyposition]

Not in the eyes of society. In the eyes of you, and him.

You can start one for my friends. They need it more than I do.

klaus, equally bratty in every universe

[poppycock]

Do you really believe I care what anyone thinks of me, let alone what they may think at all? ( he is the black sheep, hated from birth by his father and raising a daughter out of wedlock with a woman his parents wouldn't see fit to shine their toilets. ) Ah, the ego of martyrs. I'll put your friends' indiscretions on my tab, then. No tool is clean, dear Teo.

[holyposition]

Then why are you lecturing me about what people think, if you don't even care? You have nothing better to do? Read a book. Go to the gym. Get laid.

It isn't a martyr complex, it's reality. I'm very lucky to have the privilege of knowing my family can pay the bail if the police decide to drag me in. Most of the people I work with can't say the same. They have more to lose, and if we need a face, it should be one of them.

If you want to help, start them a bail fund. If you want to lecture, lose my number.

[poppycock]

You're projecting. I've not lectured you on what other people think, though you've mentioned it quite a bit. I proposed an idea in which you use your privilege for good, which you expressed no interest in, and then I did not press the issue. If you're aware of your standing, good. Then you understand the opportunities you are letting slip by in rejecting it, yet reaping the personal benefits.

Well, I suppose that last bit was a lecture. Apologies.

[holyposition]

That's exactly what I'm doing, and have always been doing. Just because it makes your lover look bad to his investors doesn't mean no good is coming from it.

I have work to do. And dad's helping this time, so you're not doing this for him, you're just insulting me for fun. Have a nice holiday, Klaus.

[poppycock]

( klaus sighs and puts his phone away for now, utterly unrepentant. one day, surely, teo will understand it's never been about what other people think, but instead about his father ensuring his son's safety and happiness.

later that day, teo will receive access to a bank account with a small nest egg of money for certain purposes. it's not an apology, but it's an olive branch. plus, klaus is a man of his word. )

[holyposition]

[ And maybe, one day, his father and anyone he’s complaining to will understand that having his feet on the ground and doing the work himself does make him happy. The car bomb got the predator priest to resign and leave when the official channels didn’t, even if Teo got expelled over it. The senator wasn’t reelected. The oil drill had to cease production for months. It’s fulfilling to make things happen with his own hands, more than it could ever be to invent a handful of fake email jobs to allocate money towards shareholder-approved causes.

The account is emptied out the next day. One lump sum to a Marco in Nassau. Comment field ‘bail fund.’ ]