OTA TEXT | SO WHERE Y'ALL AT????

[crudest]

[sometime on the third, all the names of people who were sent on group missions (obviously au names only) will be released onto the network for IC knowledge. everyone will be able to see this post if they glance at the network, whether they're in the city or away on groups!

however annotated next to the groups will be the information that group one is going to pesgare, group two is going to respartum, group three is going to bosuma, and group four is going to magatus.]

if you didn't get a call to arms here's the copypasta:

How would you like to help us help you out? Your observation period's up and I want you on this particular assignment. You'll be fine, you're probably not going to die, and we'll be able to monitor you from here. We need help. You've got the skills needed even if you don't know it yet. I know it and that's what counts.

You'll be working with a group (wish I could give you the names, still putting the lists together), but your assignment partner is [INSERT RANDO HERE]. Should you choose to accept this assignment, you will need to meet at the [LOCATION] and we'll go from there.

You'll be rewarded for your success, of course, but this is only if we have an agreement. Do we have an agreement?

hard to do work when you don't have info right
carly's more useful than expected
but he said don't get distracted

anyway
the more you know and all that

[and that's the message!]

[ OOC: please use this as an open mingle for whatever purposes you need! unless directly addressed, baren won't be responding. he just bugged carly for info and shared it. if any adjustments need to be made, lmk!

edit: almost immediately after the initial post goes up, Matt Murdock's name will be edited out into black squares. ]

Comments

[blessmefather]

She likes me as a person so she can't believe it. Wow. I'm a jerk. [ He gives a half-hearted laugh. ]

Cleo is in the police academy, she really believes in the system she's dedicating her life to. I don't blame her for disapproving of vigilante justice. Can't blame any of the other friends I have at the precinct for disapproving.

I don't hate the law, I'm actually an assistant district attorney and I work closely with the police regularly. The justice system isn't perfect though... And I've become... Intimately aware of bad things some people do in the city. When I received the mask from Retrospec it was obvious what I needed to do.

[crudest]

Obvious?

[There's a slow grin at that - Baren's less convinced. It's hardly obvious.]

I guess.

You can be friends with precinct people all you want - I think they're pretty useless. [Harsh words, but there's no real bite. It's his opinion and it doesn't mean anything, in the long run.] If you're actually doing something, no harm in that, right?

If this is what you feel like you're meant to do, do it. And make some friends with people who won't judge you for it, damn.

[blessmefather]

[ Yeah alright, why he started doing this needs more explanation to make sense. Though it sounds like Baren won't mind if he pours his heart out or keeps his lips sealed either way. Funny how the person who had his name just happened to be someone this relaxed about secrecy and less confident in the justice system. ]

It's a little hard to pinpoint potential friends who wouldn't judge a guy for having a secret identity when it's a secret. I get the impression my Other Self had a limited number of friends.

[ He shrugs. He'll have to work on that. ]

Then again he was in an odd position when it came to relating to other people. In most people's eyes he was the broken blind man they pitied. While he could sit in his living room and easily hear and sense everything people up and down the street said and did without meaning to. In November I woke up with his super senses and now you could say I 'see' more than anyone else, including the bad things, many which the police would be too late to stop. As I told my niece, if I'm going to be the freak who knows too much about the people around him I want to at least be the freak who uses his ability to do something good.

[crudest]

[Only a fool would risk their life for a stranger.

Baren had said that once in one of his memories and even now, he can't help but nebulously believe it. He's not the type of person would who be able to stick his neck on the line for someone he didn't even know.... probably. Regardless, it didn't mean that he didn't feel something for the people who could.]

You can tell by the way people talk, I think. The ones who care to tell other people how to live their lives - they probably wouldn't get it.

[ . . . Baren's not one of those people, but he's also not super adept or keen to make friends.]

Being judged for something that's out of your control too—

That kind of thing's exceptionally stupid. Limitations placed by society and others are way too annoying to listen to.

[blessmefather]

Well more of those kind of people, those who concern themselves with rules and regulations, should be expected in my line of work. I can be pretty righteous myself at times, though it sounds like Cleo and I are on two very different levels.

[ To be lawful or to be good? ]

People judge without realizing that they're doing it and it doesn't always come out in insults or exclusion. Even some of the people I consider friends treat me like something fragile, almost child-like. I wouldn't expect people to take kindly to my new ability either if they realized how much it tells me. The last thing I need are people tip toeing around me because I'm not only blind I have sensitive ears too. Wearing the mask, nobody treats me that way. I'll take the vigilante controversy and people's suspicion over it any day.

[crudest]

[Baren glances over - yeah, it takes a fair amount of righteousness to decide to beat people up without giving them a chance to explain themselves. But he gets it. If he saw someone mugging an innocent bystander, he'd beat them up too - even if their circumstances might be bigger than that.

It's all nuanced. Complicated. Complex. Much like how people treat Matt with good intentions but shity execution - ]

People have plenty of faults.

[And he doesn't sound judging, just accepting. It's how it is.]

Keep your secrets. It makes sense. No one will be hearing about your shit from me, anyway, seeing as it's not mine to give out. Just know that you reap what you sow.

[ - so if anyone finds out about Matt's identity, it's not Baren's fault. He'll continue to be neatly hands off about it. It's just.... how he is.]

[blessmefather]

[ There's a reason Matt prays for forgiveness for his violence even if the people he hits are dangerous or unkind, they are after all other human beings. Ah to be a fly on the wall during one of his talks at confessional. Father Karl has been concerned. ]

Thank you for being reasonable and listening to my explanation. I won't cause you any more trouble.