(backdated) day: 37

[exhuxperation]

[ Hello everyone, here's a gentle knock or nudge on your mental doors. It's as polite and crisp as the person behind it– Hux is never one to overlook formalities, regardless of the fact that everyone is linked in the brain. So once he's relatively certain he has most people's attention, he'll get more to the point. ]

( If I have interrupted your activities, I do apologize. However, I have something I would like to pass across to the rest of you should it be of interest.

Considering the growth of the Nest that we've experienced, it may benefit us to begin coordinating efforts and communication on a larger scale.

I realize this may seem redundant when taking the mindlink into account, but for those who are newer or those who do not have as much of a handle on their newfound powers, it could be helpful. Moreover, the progress we've made collectively on this mission could be pushed with more cohesive organization. )

[ Does it sound like he's practiced this? He probably has. Anyone who might be familiar with him would recognize the speechifying. ]

( All in all, I believe this group is rather talented and driven, just lacking on the communication aspect. If you've input on any of these points, I would be glad to hear them. )


[ ooc: Hux is essentially seeing if people want to share power descriptions so it makes it easier for other characters to tap people for missions! This is completely optional. He'll also be making notes and probably being nosy I mean checking in on broods re: temperature checks. Feel free to volunteer if you want dad Hux to bother your character about their feelings about the nest : ) ]

Comments

[sensitively]

( The last thing anyone here should be doing is allowing you any semblance of control or order of things. )

[ bitter Resistance sympathizer, reporting for duty! ]

[exhuxperation]

( Hello, Rey. While some may or may not agree, I'd rather hear any opinions that are on topic. If you have an issue with me, please take it up personally.

Either way, if you've any ideas on how to allow for the Nest to do better as a cohesive whole, I would be glad to hear them out. )

[ Translation: Bruh pitch in ideas or see yourself out!! ]

[sensitively]

( I was under the impression that being inside someone's head is about as personal as it gets.

Have any of these people - besides Ren - found out exactly what it is that you've done?!)

[ if the tone of her thoughts in his mind sounds at all harried, it's because she's realizing the obvious. no one knows - or perhaps cares. ]

[exhuxperation]

( Normally I would agree, but considering the mental link, it is more akin to speaking loudly in a common area.

I've seen no reason to announce my previous decisions, nor have I asked for anyone else's. What matters is how we perform in the now. )

[sensitively]

( What matters is that you've single-handedly and without provocation destroyed an entire planetary system, taken countless -billions- of innocent lives, and yet act as though you have the well-being of others at the forefront of your thoughts. )

[headinjuries]

( Whoa whoa wait, he did what? )

DRAMATIC HAMSTER MUSIC

[snippycup]

[BACK THE FUCK UP.

Ahsoka's shock, and then slow-dawning anger--betrayal, is like an iron that slowly grows scalding hot.]

( What? )

[vocalis]

He... Hux did what?

[ Aoba can't believe what he's overhearing. He has good feelings about Hux. Sure he's a little intense, but he always seems to mean well. He helped Aoba get a better hold over his mental walls. Helped figure out what was wrong with his allmate. He even helped him clean.

He can't be what this girl says he is. ]

Please tell me you're joking. How do you know this?

[sensitively]

[ sorry, Aoba!!! ]

( I'm not joking. In the universe I come from, he's destroyed five planets' worth of people.

Ren can verify it, if you don't believe me. He knows exactly what happened. )

[exhuxperation]

( Did the lives of those who served in the Order's ranks not matter to you then? I had their well being in mind when I gave that order to fire. I thought of every person who'd been wronged by the Republic's inaction over the years. People's whose lives were destroyed, broken, or ignored simply because they weren't at the forefront of the Republic's mind, even if they asked for help. I did exactly as I thought would give all of them a better future.

Do not tell me that I care little for the people in the nest when you've not even been here for two full weeks. )

[batmotif]

[Bruce reaches out to her, trying to keep his disposition even keel, despite the bomb she just dropped.]

(How do you know this?)

[decommission]

[ wtf hux ]

[adamance]

[Were it a few months ago, Lexa may have been angered by this revelation. But things have changed, and she can only see how this can pose a threat to Hux—and therefore herself. (Not to mention the operation: they both see eye to eye on the matter.)]

( It may be prudent to end this conversation quickly, General, or else we'll have to explain the toils of war to everyone. )

[There is the sense in these words that she isn't dismissing his actions as mere war, but it's an exit line that she hopes he can utilize.

That said: she isn't pleased. The number of dead tells her a great deal about how he does go to war. Additionally, he now has a target painted on him, and it's a matter of inconvenience, one she is ill-prepared to handle at the moment.]

[exhuxperation]

( I doubt the subject will be ended so swiftly. )

[ There's already too much indication that this won't blow over easily. Hux would normally be more angry about this, but instead, he's starting to feel the edge of mental exhaustion. The turmoil of emotion has never set well with him.

Part of him is slightly grateful for Lexa trying to step in, something he passes along before shutting himself off mentally. ]

[narcissithstic]

(And you think you're capable of swaying them?

Your friends aren't here to support you, Scavenger; you'd be better off knowing your place.)

[exhuxperation]

( Ren, I believe she's more than aware. Let her speak if she wants. )

[narcissithstic]

[Don't tell him what to do, General!

That said, with a stunted burst of raw irritation, Ren's projected thoughts go silent: Fine.]

[exhuxperation]

[ If you want to take it out somewhere, he has suggestions like: go for a run or idk take a shower. Chill. ]

[sensitively]

( -You- shut up. ) [ hissed into his mind with a frisson of pain that shoots up along the length of his spine, reminding him all too well of what he's done. ]

( This has nothing to do with the Nest at large, and everything to do with the Hosnian system. Don't forget you are as much to blame as the man who gave the order to fire! )

[narcissithstic]

(Because I served the same master?

Or do you imagine I stood at his side when he gave the final order.)

[Because spoiler alert while he's bitterly wincing in mild pain: that attack on the Senate was a Vote of No Confidence in Kylo Ren. General Hux's ploy to regain lost footing and earn Snoke's favor.

All in all, he didn't much care for it at the time, either.]

[sensitively]

( I can't imagine you were anywhere else, to be perfectly honest. )

[ except that doesn't completely add up, even in her anger, because it was shortly afterwards that Ren had landed on Takodana... ]

[narcissithstic]

[There, at least, a glimmer of logic between bitter breaths. How much they mirror one another, for all their differences.]

(Search me if you want - I'll hold nothing back.)

[Not that she hasn't already pried into his thoughts with all the efficiency of a twisted knife. An eye for an eye.]

CRASHES IN HERE

[unsea]

[ -- the hum and the sway. the pressure of a thousand and one eyes opening, slowly. ]

OH HELLO~

[sensitively]

[ Rey is aware of the shift in pressure in her head, the sense that the Darkling is watching her, listening in, and following her abruptly-ended exchange with Ren, she turns her thoughts to him, as one would tilt their face to the sun at its zenith. ]

( ...You heard that, didn't you. ) [ a flash of sheepishness; she's already caused their Brood enough trouble by fighting, and then interrupting the vigil. ] ( I had to say something. )

LMNFSDJFA pretend this has been a closed convo

[unsea]

( As though you were crying out in a crowded room. )

[ He's not pleased, and that sentiment is a perceivable weight now. How it reflects back on the brood, that one of their own acts out so wildly. Among them and out in public. It's become more than personal, at this point. ]

( Yes, I understand that what these men have done is - unconscionable, and you bore witness to it ) [ to some, not all - he does not add. ] ( Yet, you are sowing strife among all of us. You've drawn more of us into your vendetta. )