#im high tho mb i could be tripping

[rissouu]

it is a FACT no one does anything romantic or sexual with someone who reminds them of their parents and they NEVER will

are u tryna clock my tea or something, im confused.. when did i say anything like this?? 😥😥

[isaacathom]

the inciting incident is..... so fucking flimsy (i almost wrote slimfy pls help)..... like... ok, they on the general would love to garner support for stolisian interests within prominent divinitians (requiring back alley channels and just generally sus behaviour) and they often help people leave the country so that they can come to stolisia..... and they contact Seora because she speaks up before being quieted by the guards, and her reputation. and she goes ‘all this sounds pretty cool. pls contact me further! <3′. and then they decide to just. grab her now??????? using the military????? making it an almost straight up act of war from anyone with eyes (even if seora consents, which she does, that requires a LOT of evidence which they dont really have, especially since seora destroyed the letter she was sent)

like...... w- what the fuck. theyd only recieved one letter. unless.... hhhhhHHHH

like the idea was that because of escalating divinitian tensions (as a response to Thalia going to the border, which is very provocative behaviour from a head of state) they felt they had to move quickly to secure new ‘assets’, in a sense. so perhaps if seora had been in contact for longer??? and if the reason they decided to move was because they actually met Seora (partially by accident. they certainly didnt expect her to SPEAK at the time) and realised she couldnt leave on her own. Seora could have been making hints to that extent, like if she’s on board in general but goes ‘im not sure how much i can do’ and gets the response ‘what CAN you do? <3′ and her response very noticeably excludes ‘leave the country’. esther would have mentioned the possibility of bringing her to Santonia before, as a safe haven so she could think things over, mb visit the Dusk Quarter and get a taste of Little Kysra (thats totally what its called). but its something Seora would never have addressed. so when she makes a short list of things she thinks she can do (talk to her friends, mention it to her superiors, write anonymous letters) thats telling. because it means she doesnt believe leaving the country is remotely an option! and seeing how Seora was immediately shut down by a guard (probably Roderick) birthed the epiphany that ‘oh.... fuck. she CANT leave’

so they send her a letter that only very briefly touches on her last letter before launching into a very specific question. If we were able to bring you to Stolisia, would you accept? and she hesitates, definitely, but eventually sends a reply saying Yes. and then, when the army gets the tip off that she’ll be in that church, BOOM, fucking go time, extraction time.

its still really flimsy because using military personnel rather than say, hired thugs. tho i suppose military personnel are more likely to be loyal and not blurt out. using esther is a substantial gamble, since she has a lot of foreign ties and could probably be tracked with some effort, but that requires santonia to record her as being originally Stolisian and a member of the Stolisian Military, which they likely do not (possibly as part of the deal with Stolisia to let them do some sorta shady shit. theyre cool). so its possible the trail would stop cold in Santonia and theyd assume she was from the Dusk Quarter in some way and theres no explicit ties to Stolisia. if esther were caught its likely that the rest of her group would get away, removing them from the issue. them returning to Stolisia would be sus, but at the same time, where the fuck else are a bunch of ‘rebels’ gonna hide? shits rough. so while using military personnel makes the legal situation EXTREMELY dodgy, they can also POSSIBLY avoid it by saying that the troops were on leave. esther ends up on leave regardless because she takes a demon claw to the arm and has to have a lie down, but the other 3 are also on leave. and since its just a day trip, its not like, an issue. people will have alibis. it would be manageable. they can say they took action against the soldiers. but they werent identified.

essentially esther being caught in the church (which she SORTA was, but that was deliberate) would require some trigger happy guards, which was not what occured. she wouldve yelled if it became an issue, and the nearby-parked car wouldve sped the fuck off, as per the plan. so like.... theyre cool.

so i SUPPOSE that works. they realised that in order to actually get Seora to work with them, they’d have to forcibly extract her (which they’ve likely SORT OF done in the past, but never on such a high profile target and never on a maiden), and they saw an opening, and they made the (perhaps rash) decision to act on it, inadvertently proving Divinice’s fears of the solstice true (even tho the kidnap takes place BEFORE the solstice).

shits uh. shits rough? its rough. but i think that baaaasically works. its means seora has been in contact with Esther for months, starting with a letter 90% written by some diplomat/lawyer type, but with a lot of more personal and friendly letters mixed in, because Esther is friendly. theres a brief gap where she says she’s ‘sadly busy’, likely in Santonia to do some uh, lets say negotiations. so like..... i suppose it works? and it means the letter can seem sorta ominous for a reader. like ‘if we came to take you, would you acquiesce?’ yoooo, full on, chill out. ofc its laden with esther’s typical trappings of begging her to consider her decision carefully, she can delay it if she wants, theres always time, pls dont say yes if you arent sure. if you arent sure, tell us, and we’ll just keep talking and maybe ask later or whatever happens. pls. holy shit.

esthers a sweetie honestly shes scared to death about every single person who comes through her wiggly net to enter stolisia. like.... holy Shit. pls think it through. the simple act of entering Stolisia (even completely legally, as Stolisia does not barr Divinitian passports, unlike the opposite) marks divinitian citizens as a sort of terrorist. shits rough, yknow....

i mean that probably covers it and i should probably stop lol! <3