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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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.]