006 careful creature made friends with time

[theladyofwinterfell]

Who: Sansa Stark
Broadcast: Fleet-wide
Action: Starduck
When: during the Drift

( Sansa hadn't been aware of fanmail until recently and while she's aware that the Atroma watch them and they have ratings, it is something in the back of her mind most of the time. The idea that those who watch them would send them letters is a bit intriguing and she goes to pick hers up, wondering if she can get insight into those who have them held hostage and see what they'd like more of and, possibly of more importance, what it will take for them to let her go.

She's actually quite surprised to see a thick bundle of fanmail for her and she decides she'll open it in a video; how better to cultivate more ratings than to open these letters and see what things have been said about her? She can see rolled up drawings, too, and she wonders if there are any of Lady or Tyrion. Those would be wonderful to keep. What she finds takes her breath away. The first drawing she unfurls is of Lady, her piercing eyes at the forefront. It's beautiful. Sansa unfurls another, eager, and instantly regrets her decision to broadcast this.

It's she and Bucky in the gym, only neither of them are clothed and she's sprawled atop him so she's more exposed than he is. Another drawing is similarly lewd, only it's she and Tyrion in a bath. There's one with a woman she doesn't know. There's written letters and she reads one, ripping it in half when it describes things she's not even done in bed with Tyrion, much less Wanda. She addresses the camera, face white and hand trembling. )

Please, I beg you, if you get fanmail and it mentions me do not read it. Everything...the Atroma have painted me as some sort of whore who...I've not done any of these things!

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[poisontippedcure]

I don't think it's you that owes anyone an apology. Rather, your fans...they certainly are the interesting sort, aren't they?

[Rose is, admittedly, used to being targeted. But this is something new.]

[theladyofwinterfell]

They seem to be very interested in what I do in my bedroom, yes. I don't think it's that interesting but they do.

( Perhaps it's because Sansa is so timid in bed that they think this way. )

[poisontippedcure]

People are awful, and delight in the suffering of others. I doubt they're as interested in what you do in the bedroom as much as they're interested in your reaction to the fanmail.

[theladyofwinterfell]

Very true. I have known those who delight in humiliation. They're not the sort of people I've met in the Fleet, of course, but back home. I suppose I just forgot about that sort of thing because I got comfortable.

[poisontippedcure]

It is deceptively easy to get comfortable here.

I suppose that there are those who delight in humiliating others on Eorzea, too, but most people would be afraid to do so to me.

[Killing gods does give you a certain reputation.]

[theladyofwinterfell]

Oh? Are you some sort of fighter, then? My sister knows her way around a sword.

( And most other weapons, Sansa imagines, but whenever she thinks of Arya she thinks of her Needle. )

[poisontippedcure]

In a way, yes. I make my living fighting back home.

[And leading revolutions, but she's still not too happy about that part.]

[theladyofwinterfell]

Ah, are you a mercenary then?

( Sansa has only ever known one hired sword, Bronn of the Blackwater, though she thinks the Lannisters no longer pay him. )

[poisontippedcure]

Not quite. I used to be an adventurer, that was probably something similar, but now I work as an agent for a group called the “Scions of the Seventh Dawn.”

[And she’s just...not gonna mention what that might entail.]

[theladyofwinterfell]

Do you work for a government, then? Or are you outside of the government?

( Scions of the Seventh Dawn sound like the Faith Militant, almost, but Sansa supposes that's only because it mentions the Seven. She doubts the Seven are known outside of Westeros. )

[poisontippedcure]

[Rose pauses. That’s...a good question, actually.]

We don’t work for a government, but we do work with them. There was a big to-do about it several years ago, and we had to move our base to avoid looking like we were pledging allegiance to any one city-state.

[Not that it stopped Rose from all but being sworn to Ishgard, of course.]

Right now, I’m the only one of us that’s still conscious, unfortunately.

[theladyofwinterfell]

I am sorry to hear that. There's a group in my world, they're called the Faith Militant. They're sworn to a religion, though, no government. It's...I wouldn't say they do good in the world, though they are convinced they do.

Do you right wrongs regardless of who commits them?