adamance: (the people are hungry)
lexa ([personal profile] adamance) wrote in [community profile] station72 2016-07-04 06:42 pm (UTC)

lexa | bout it out

observing and strategizing ... or convincing her not to be stubborn

[It should hardly be surprising that a woman who has carried herself as a security guard since her arrival here might not mind a sport that involves hand to hand combat—even in a simulation. Her introduction to the event is met with little fanfare because she has done very little training in advance, having done a couple matches prior to get a feel for the controls and little more. Lexa, having figured it out, is stubborn not to ask for assistance. Even as the Commander, she refused to ask someone else to fight for her, and the thought that she might need assistance here makes her bristle at the very idea of it.

As the matches begin, she settles into a seat to observe, eyes taking in what pieces of information necessary. It isn't only the match that she watches, but the people present, curious about whether anyone who's on the anti-synthetic side of the equation would come here to try to interfere and further ruin Kun-Kun's name. It's what she would do.

Just the same, as her name is coming up (though it's a little bit away), she reaches out to the other Hosts. Her practice with the telepathy link is improving, making it so that her forcefulness makes itself clear:]
( I remind you that I won't need assistance moving forward. I intend to make it to the end on my own merits. )

[And, truthfully, that's in part because the other options available are men like Petre and Kylo Ren.

At least Lexa knows how to behave herself in polite company.]


schmoozing ... or ensuring that someone will be

[Not one to curb herself from dictating and telling people what to do (because Lexa loves doing that, even if she knows most people would rather not listen to her), she reaches out at another point to assess the situation.]

( We will need to secure a private meeting once we've won, under the guise of wishing to speak to our challenger. Who intends to manage this? )

[Lexa could handle it herself, but her cover would make it not make a whole lot of sense.]

misplaced petulance | closed to petre (though they may need someone to interfere)

[Ending up across from Petre hadn't been a part of the plans, but when the brackets had been set up for the tournament, it became immediately apparent that there was a likelihood of it. Tournaments aren't something that Lexa's unfamiliar with, given that Ascending to commander essentially involves one. Of course, this one has much smaller stakes. Given the infiltration group that's elsewhere (a thing that she's worried about, as she tends to worry about Bellamy and Angel these days), they do have other eggs in a basket.

Which isn't a metaphor she would use, but all the same.

Still, she doesn't expect Petre to give up easily. He is prideful, difficult to reason with, and sometimes foolish. She doesn't dislike him strongly, but she does find him to be someone who begins to spit nonsense when he doesn't have a way to win an argument.]


Fight well, [she tells him, and then shifts to the mind link, one they've shared many times before over both significant and insignificant matters:] ( I should win here today. I'm a better representative of our cause. I can't imagine that you will want to speak to him or his representatives. ) [The issue with Lexa's brand of diplomacy is that it's often a blend of reason and being too blunt.

Oh well.]

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