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- dick grayson (dc comics),
- giovanni auditore (assassin's creed),
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[ 2 ] video;
[It's been quite some time since Connor has posted to the network. Besides his busy schedule keeping him from using the tablet more casually, he's been wary of leaving messages 'out in the open', so to speak. Who knows what scheming Initiative members and Templars might be watching?
But desperate times do call for desperate measures. He chooses the video option even though he still thinks there's something decidedly off-putting, maybe even dangerous, about recording your face on these window machines.
His hood is up and the background suggests he's on another roof.]
Are you all so concerned about your possessions that you would overlook murder?
[Someone's furious. Someone's beyond furious. (The United Earth and the Initiative might as well be made up of a bunch of Charles Lee's right about now.) There's a good bit of venom in his voice and at times he simply yells, half at the tablet, half at the city around him.
Needless to say, this wasn't what he was expecting to return to when he came back from his recent Outlands trip.]
The Initiative have made it very clear that not only do they intend to relocate us, but they mean to leave their own people behind to die. The excuse I have heard is that they have not the power to save them.
A bold-faced lie if ever there was one.
I have seen you all in battle. I have seen your weapons and how the spirits put inside them have transformed them! I have been witness to your power, the magic you use! I do not doubt the Initiative themselves are weak and useless, but the people they have enslaved to fight for them are strong! You are strong! Will you turn your back on the Exiles now, without making the slightest of efforts to lend them aid?
All I know of these bombs the United Earth uses, I have learned here. Perhaps it is true the city cannot be saved, but we must do everything we can for its people. I propose we take the Exiles away from this land. The United Earth may be out there, but the world is large and they cannot be everywhere. We find the Exiles a safe place, somewhere hidden, then we make our own plans to put an end to the threat that is the United Earth.
[Connor shakes his head, gestures off at the city, a snarl baring some his teeth.]
Help me. The people must know the truth. They must have the chance to save themselves or otherwise be saved. It is wrong to tell them nothing, to leave them to their deaths and run off to some... some fort on the moon! A fort the Initiative have wasted no small amount of our time building, it would seem!
[He isn't even trying to wrap his head around the whole moon deal. Everything is mad here, always has been, always will be. He pauses briefly to breathe and glare off at something in the distance. Probably the Hold.]
I hear the Initiative are trying to convince everyone they will change this through use of their machine, but I ask you: what progress have the Initiative actually made toward reversing any of the United Earth's crimes? How many of its leaders have they sent us to kill, either in this time or the past? What steps have we taken to undermine their power, to cut into their resources, to hinder their plans? Has anything we have been told to do really helped?
A whole world was lost because of the United Earth. Have we made it so that that did not happen? No. We have built a fort. On the moon. It is almost as though the Initiative knew this attack was coming... and rather than send us out to ensure the United Earth's plans did not come to fruition, as they say they will after we are moved and their people suffer terrible, needless deaths, they prioritized the construction of their fort.
To what end? And what pointless missions will they send us on next in lieu of action that might better the situation we all face?
You need only look around you for proof of what I say. What changes do you see? Ten months I have been here and the city and its people are the same. The United Earth are as powerful as they have ever been - or at least as powerful as they need to be to win this war and ravage this world and other worlds further.
Do not buy into the lies the Initiative and their blind supporters tell you! It is not right, what they would do. It will never be right again, not if they have their way in this matter!
[A hiss, somehow that much more vehement than the rest of his message, and not particularly meant for his fellow Transports-]
You do not leave your people to die!
[Huffing and sneering, he looks away one last time.]
Help. Please. Meet me at the apartments if you will. We must move swiftly.
But desperate times do call for desperate measures. He chooses the video option even though he still thinks there's something decidedly off-putting, maybe even dangerous, about recording your face on these window machines.
His hood is up and the background suggests he's on another roof.]
Are you all so concerned about your possessions that you would overlook murder?
[Someone's furious. Someone's beyond furious. (The United Earth and the Initiative might as well be made up of a bunch of Charles Lee's right about now.) There's a good bit of venom in his voice and at times he simply yells, half at the tablet, half at the city around him.
Needless to say, this wasn't what he was expecting to return to when he came back from his recent Outlands trip.]
The Initiative have made it very clear that not only do they intend to relocate us, but they mean to leave their own people behind to die. The excuse I have heard is that they have not the power to save them.
A bold-faced lie if ever there was one.
I have seen you all in battle. I have seen your weapons and how the spirits put inside them have transformed them! I have been witness to your power, the magic you use! I do not doubt the Initiative themselves are weak and useless, but the people they have enslaved to fight for them are strong! You are strong! Will you turn your back on the Exiles now, without making the slightest of efforts to lend them aid?
All I know of these bombs the United Earth uses, I have learned here. Perhaps it is true the city cannot be saved, but we must do everything we can for its people. I propose we take the Exiles away from this land. The United Earth may be out there, but the world is large and they cannot be everywhere. We find the Exiles a safe place, somewhere hidden, then we make our own plans to put an end to the threat that is the United Earth.
[Connor shakes his head, gestures off at the city, a snarl baring some his teeth.]
Help me. The people must know the truth. They must have the chance to save themselves or otherwise be saved. It is wrong to tell them nothing, to leave them to their deaths and run off to some... some fort on the moon! A fort the Initiative have wasted no small amount of our time building, it would seem!
[He isn't even trying to wrap his head around the whole moon deal. Everything is mad here, always has been, always will be. He pauses briefly to breathe and glare off at something in the distance. Probably the Hold.]
I hear the Initiative are trying to convince everyone they will change this through use of their machine, but I ask you: what progress have the Initiative actually made toward reversing any of the United Earth's crimes? How many of its leaders have they sent us to kill, either in this time or the past? What steps have we taken to undermine their power, to cut into their resources, to hinder their plans? Has anything we have been told to do really helped?
A whole world was lost because of the United Earth. Have we made it so that that did not happen? No. We have built a fort. On the moon. It is almost as though the Initiative knew this attack was coming... and rather than send us out to ensure the United Earth's plans did not come to fruition, as they say they will after we are moved and their people suffer terrible, needless deaths, they prioritized the construction of their fort.
To what end? And what pointless missions will they send us on next in lieu of action that might better the situation we all face?
You need only look around you for proof of what I say. What changes do you see? Ten months I have been here and the city and its people are the same. The United Earth are as powerful as they have ever been - or at least as powerful as they need to be to win this war and ravage this world and other worlds further.
Do not buy into the lies the Initiative and their blind supporters tell you! It is not right, what they would do. It will never be right again, not if they have their way in this matter!
[A hiss, somehow that much more vehement than the rest of his message, and not particularly meant for his fellow Transports-]
You do not leave your people to die!
[Huffing and sneering, he looks away one last time.]
Help. Please. Meet me at the apartments if you will. We must move swiftly.