[Red Team. He can't speak for her, but it's not remotely where he'd expected to end up any time soon. At least if they're boned, they're boned together. A smallish measure of continuity in this whole weird shakeup, amazing.
He thinks about pursuing the subject—(Red Team???)—but she gets to the Prospector, first. There'll plenty of time to question Honey's decisions later.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org just by name until now. mikasa asked honey about him.
[There are probably other mentions in the post, but it's a crowded one, and he's still working his way through it. (He's watching that particular conversation a little more sharply, and not just because of the information being divulged. Eren is not as obvious as Mikasa about their weird-ass relationship but that doesn't mean he won't bare his teeth against anything that dares to threaten her.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org sounds like he makes the call about whether or not they're gonna scrap a planet
[ Like him, she found her being re-purposed to the Red Team... unsettling. They were supposed to deal with internal threats, weren't they? It leaves a creepy, crawling fingers clawing from her neck to the base of her metal spine. Like a prey sensing a trap. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org yeah, i did too, but that's more than i could get. [ Which she isn't surprised. She knows (or thinks) there is a barrier to when she asks questions. Paranoia, maybe. In a way, it makes her feel a little... better. Like they know she might be trouble. Double edged sword. ]
[They definitely used to. Apparently that's the newest team's territory now, which at least makes this assignment slightly less of a potential disaster in the making, if only slightly. Direct insubordination is dangerous, and he still has lines he won't let himself cross. (Doesn't he.) Still, any remaining Reds that had actually been willing to snitch to the brass about internal threats back when they were responsible aren't going to stop just because it isn't technically on their docket anymore.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org about dagger you mean
[What he'd been doing to wind up "retired." They'd made some educated guesses on Aquada. Turns out they hadn't been too far off. Turned traitor. Communicating with protesters, "anti-establishment groups"...and, apparently, the Almina.]
[ Seeing Steve on Yellow had soothed her, but only barely. He fits well within the parameters of crew guardian, but it is useful, to her, to see him in the same place as others close to the CDC, loyal to it. Maybe he could be a decoy. Not that she thinks he will. But like him, he figures most Red still pulse with the duty of internal threats and she thinks they won't drop it on an account of a technicality. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org about how not everyone is quiet.
[ Traitors. Plural. Someone out there was trying. She wonders about how long. Thinks of Almina, too. She wishes she could see the files. ]
[At least Honey's little coup (?) seems to have galvanized most of the crew against her.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org you don't do the things the CDC does without making enemies
[Kidnapping, blackmailing, genocide. There will be people who won't stand for it. He's not all that surprised to know that someone out there is fighting back. It would be better if they weren't so far away.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org they just cut us off from the rest of the world so we forget that we're not the only people out here.
[Scattering any resistance that might build up against what keeps them this way, lest they band together, rise up. "World" being metaphorical, in this case. The rest of the universe. Any other universes. All of humanity lived walled within a few hundred kilometers, back home. To the people there, those were the boundaries of the world, even if there was a whole planet outside them to see, to fight for. The CDC had picked him up out of a cage and put him in a bigger one, but they're still confined, cut off.
Dagger had managed to break through that. Almina had.]
FROM: parker@cdc.org you don't get as powerful as they are without overpowering enemies either.
[ Something she knows about very intimately. Against the government, the superheroes, Aegis Corps, the Resistance was a small fly in the web of a very big, bad spider. Everything else had been silenced. Hell, even the resistance itself had. But not for forever. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org and opposition tends to meet a deadly end.
[ Almina. Optimus Prime. Everything they had been shown up to this point was carefully engineered to make them obey, make them stop asking questions. The officers, manipulative enough to coil around a bigger part of the crew. It's why they aren't accepting Honey, but why wouldn't they? She is no different from them. If anything, she's ambitious enough to press forward-- not that she accepts that. ]
[Keep your head low. It's a timely reminder, really. For the first time since his consignment, his Survey Corps superiors are gone—MIA or transferred away. He's not without allies (like Parker), comrades and family (Mikasa, Petra, Jean, Marco,) peers, people he likes. But he's fast run out of authority figures that he respects enough to flat out heel when he's told to, and that's been a big part of what's kept him in line so far in the first place.
He's grown up a lot in the past year or so. Learned caution, sort of, sometimes. But he is not, by nature, prone to policing himself very well when his blood is up. Time to find out just how far he's come.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org you too.
[He'd be pretty damn furious if you got yourself axed, Parker.
On the bright(?) side—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org this is more cdc brass than we've seen before
[Pre-existing personnel on the planet. The "Prospector," who even seems to make Honey nervous. It means they need to be careful, yeah. But it also means things are changing. They're not in the static pattern they'd been holding since Ajna. They might actually find some answers, now, instead of living in isolation and ignorance. Even Honey doesn't seem to know why they're here. It won't be like Macha.]
[ It is that. It is, too, an opportunity. To dig more. To know more. To search, to discover, to learn. It is the only path they can take, has been for a while-- learning about them. Know which gears make the CDC turn, even if they are the smallest of all. Even if it won't further them much, it is still a step forward rather than backwards.
It is still hope. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org we'll keep in contact. i'll talk to you later.
[Not much more to do about it right now, until the Prospector shows his face. Until they can dig out a better idea of what the hell they're doing here.
Though, after a pause, before he lets her go—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org are you from earth
[A lot of the humans on the crew seem to call "Earth" home. Given the rumors flying around after people spotted some familiar sights during the drop, it's probably no mystery why he's asking.]
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guess so
[Red Team. He can't speak for her, but it's not remotely where he'd expected to end up any time soon. At least if they're boned, they're boned together. A smallish measure of continuity in this whole weird shakeup, amazing.
He thinks about pursuing the subject—(Red Team???)—but she gets to the Prospector, first. There'll plenty of time to question Honey's decisions later.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
just by name until now. mikasa asked honey about him.
[There are probably other mentions in the post, but it's a crowded one, and he's still working his way through it. (He's watching that particular conversation a little more sharply, and not just because of the information being divulged. Eren is not as obvious as Mikasa about their weird-ass relationship but that doesn't mean he won't bare his teeth against anything that dares to threaten her.)]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
sounds like he makes the call about whether or not they're gonna scrap a planet
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FROM: parker@cdc.org
yeah, i did too, but that's more than i could get. [ Which she isn't surprised. She knows (or thinks) there is a barrier to when she asks questions. Paranoia, maybe. In a way, it makes her feel a little... better. Like they know she might be trouble. Double edged sword. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org
did you see the log data of her and sturmhond? it answers some questions.
[ Not a lot, but it shines light on some things anyway. ]
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
about dagger you mean
[What he'd been doing to wind up "retired." They'd made some educated guesses on Aquada. Turns out they hadn't been too far off. Turned traitor. Communicating with protesters, "anti-establishment groups"...and, apparently, the Almina.]
no subject
FROM: parker@cdc.org
about how not everyone is quiet.
[ Traitors. Plural. Someone out there was trying. She wonders about how long. Thinks of Almina, too. She wishes she could see the files. ]
no subject
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
you don't do the things the CDC does without making enemies
[Kidnapping, blackmailing, genocide. There will be people who won't stand for it. He's not all that surprised to know that someone out there is fighting back. It would be better if they weren't so far away.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
they just cut us off from the rest of the world so we forget that we're not the only people out here.
[Scattering any resistance that might build up against what keeps them this way, lest they band together, rise up. "World" being metaphorical, in this case. The rest of the universe. Any other universes. All of humanity lived walled within a few hundred kilometers, back home. To the people there, those were the boundaries of the world, even if there was a whole planet outside them to see, to fight for. The CDC had picked him up out of a cage and put him in a bigger one, but they're still confined, cut off.
Dagger had managed to break through that. Almina had.]
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you don't get as powerful as they are without overpowering enemies either.
[ Something she knows about very intimately. Against the government, the superheroes, Aegis Corps, the Resistance was a small fly in the web of a very big, bad spider. Everything else had been silenced. Hell, even the resistance itself had. But not for forever. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org
and opposition tends to meet a deadly end.
[ Almina. Optimus Prime. Everything they had been shown up to this point was carefully engineered to make them obey, make them stop asking questions. The officers, manipulative enough to coil around a bigger part of the crew. It's why they aren't accepting Honey, but why wouldn't they? She is no different from them. If anything, she's ambitious enough to press forward-- not that she accepts that. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org
keep your head low.
no subject
He's grown up a lot in the past year or so. Learned caution, sort of, sometimes. But he is not, by nature, prone to policing himself very well when his blood is up. Time to find out just how far he's come.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
you too.
[He'd be pretty damn furious if you got yourself axed, Parker.
On the bright(?) side—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
this is more cdc brass than we've seen before
[Pre-existing personnel on the planet. The "Prospector," who even seems to make Honey nervous. It means they need to be careful, yeah. But it also means things are changing. They're not in the static pattern they'd been holding since Ajna. They might actually find some answers, now, instead of living in isolation and ignorance. Even Honey doesn't seem to know why they're here. It won't be like Macha.]
no subject
It is still hope. ]
FROM: parker@cdc.org
we'll keep in contact. i'll talk to you later.
[ At least they are still on the same team. ]
no subject
yeah.
[Not much more to do about it right now, until the Prospector shows his face. Until they can dig out a better idea of what the hell they're doing here.
Though, after a pause, before he lets her go—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
are you from earth
[A lot of the humans on the crew seem to call "Earth" home. Given the rumors flying around after people spotted some familiar sights during the drop, it's probably no mystery why he's asking.]