idk my bff minor vandalism

[aenseidhe]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Iorveth
RECIPIENT: All erry1
WHAT: Reacting to this, specifically the part about Rifter phylactaries.
WHEN: Right meow.
WHERE: Kirkwall, the Gallows announcement board
NOTES: Rudeness and vandalism. Open to crystal chatting and action!! Though he'll be storming off pretty fast after this.

[ For a long several moments, silence broadcasts over the crystal, Iorveth having just activated it after reading the announcement on negotiations results posted, lost for words. When they do come, it's like they're being spoken through a snarl. ]

You left to end the blood leashing.

Not push it off on the next lesser group.

[ there is a deafening thud that sounds before Iorveth's voice goes out, and anyone physically standing by the Gallows announcement board will have just witnessed Iorveth pull a dagger (with at least a foot worth of blade on it) free, and slam it through the notice and into the board, metal and splinters jutting out the opposite side, before walking away.

He mad. (And he'll come fix the board later, leave him alone) ]

Comments

crystal.

[thunderproof]

Where are you.

❰ said incredibly seriously, with sounds of motion already in the background. she's not going to have this conversation over crystal, not with what she wants from iorveth. ❱

crystal

[sorcerised]

[ His voice is brittle. ]

You say this as if there's any chance we'll comply.

crystal;

[faithlikeaseed]

[He hasn't read the notice himself because: of course.

But Vandelin had sent word on ahead.

Quietly,]

It wasn't their aim to.

crystal.

[rowancrowned]

My office. Now, if you please.

action.

[champions]

It was not a decision made with relish, nor one the mage negotiators suggested. We fought against it as long as we were able to. None of us are happy with it, I promise you.

( I mean, she's not miserable about it, but she isn't happy.

She stands near the announcement board, peeling an orange so that the peel hangs in a large spiral. A woman in an elaborate dress, low key by her standards, but fine quality silk in bright colours, and so on. )

[gatheringstorm]

[Just as snarly and full of anger--]

Fuck all of them if they think anyone should have a phylactery forced on them, rifter or native. I'll fight anyone who tries to force that shit.

[aenseidhe]

Where do you think?

[ not in the mood to be anything but a bitch right now, thanks. the answer is just leaving the notice board he learned this from. ]

Crystal

[circleprodigy]

Agreed. This is unacceptable.

[aenseidhe]

I'm sure the same was said about the Circles and Alienages before they were implemented.

action.

[thunderproof]

❰ iorveth ur a butt. good thing adalia doesn't care.

when she finds him, there's no pleasantries, no smile, no nothing, and she falls into step next to him almost vibrating with anger. ❱

Have you been told what phylacteries are, here?

❰ does she have to explain exactly why this is bad beyond "native mages don't want them so i don't either." ❱

[aenseidhe]

Perhaps not, but the means were given to enact it.

[ this is painfully familiar to another set of negotiations he'd lived through. too much to let him see with anything but rage and paranoia now. ]

And despite our many, many diplomatically skilled individuals, no argument was made well enough to move it from the table.

[sorcerised]

Oh, I suppose we should just give up and let them do it, then.

[aenseidhe]

If you please? [ he near spits the words. It doesn't fucking sound like an 'if you please', and Iorveth's about done dealing with strangers giving him orders here. ]

I was on my way regardless.

[ to dig through your shit, because you're bad at locks. ]

[private crystal]

[justice_is_blond]

This was Chantry influences. The mages who acted want equality and freedom for all, not to push it off.

[His voice is serious, stern.]

And the religious forces benefit from dividing us. This is not on the mages, and the Rifters are not a lesser group. You are angry, rightfully so, but we want an end to phylacteries, not a spreading of them.

crystal;

[supersonic]

Yes, because surely that was a mage's idea.

I certainly wake up every morning and think about how to give the people who've held my leash power over more people.

[rowancrowned]

Good.

[ no one can do regally detached alike thranduil can. ]

Without further destruction of Inquisition property.

[ he heard that. ]

[aenseidhe]

[ Iorveth is a bundle of raw nerves, and hearing something that sounds even close to an excuse from someone so unlike himself, in race, station, privilege or dimensional nationality, does not soothe that. ]

Clearly not hard enough. Do I seem concerned with how happy anyone else is about this? [ beyond the Rifters. He remembers Marisol from the mission, and she'd been kind and amiable enough then. But Iorveth's in an entirely different mindset now. ]

And if we refuse this? Will they chain us up and force us to manage their demons still? See if a Rifter can be made Tranquil?

[faithlikeaseed]

From my understanding, serah, they were spread too thin to do so without sacrificing the wellbeing of our own native mages.

It wasn't much of a choice, given the powers massed against them.

[aenseidhe]

You'd think an international war would've taught the Chantry and Templars that it's a bad idea.

[ Iorveth snarls, words spat out. Chantry, even. Since when does a foreign religion have say over what's done with him? Oh, right, since humanity came into existence. ]

They'll take my blood off my fucking corpse.

crystal;

[aestivation]

How does the addition of a phylactery change your situation?

[champions]

We are diplomats, not miracle workers. Do you expect water not to freeze if you argue hard enough against it? Stop a body losing blood with willpower?

( She scoffs, and shakes her head. ) If you think reacting like this will be a means to tempering the Inquisition's consideration of the process, then you are naive. Your tantrums will only make it seem justified, and spur them on. "Rifters, so volatile," and so on.

[aenseidhe]

At least some among us think so.

action;

[letoldthingsdie]

[Kylo isn't far behind him when Iorveth has seen the notice board and he's approximately as angry as Iorveth is once he reads what's left of the notice.]

So is that what it is? A leash?

[He didn't know what they were, only that mages carried them.]

What does it have to do with us?

[private crystal]

[aenseidhe]

Andraste is not by god, and is not owed my blood.

[ he's steeped himself in carnage and war for a century against the kind of imperialism this sort of law comes from. attempting to reason with him on it now is not likely to be successful. ]

Nor are the mages here my kin. Negotiations are glorified trades, and for one thing to be gained, another must be sacrificed. Tell me with certainty the mages didn't give our freedom for theirs. [ because that exact. fucking. thing. has happened to him before. ]

[aenseidhe]

The only argument on the table when they left for Skyhold was their own phylacteries, and yet they come back with new ones for us.

Negotiations are trades, one thing for the other, so tell me, who put Rifters on the trading table if the Chantry and Templars weren't the ones vying for release? And who had the right to speak for us on it?