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Olivia Abbiati
the queen's council [c]
POSTED ON Mar 5, 2020 20:25:13 GMT
a scoff filled the silence, a well manicured hand quickly coming over to stifle it. "pardon me, councilmen, but did i hear you correctly?" league officials from gym leaders all the way up to the commissioner herself popped into existence, their pictures staring blankly at the council. "i am but a fraction of the council?" she turned to face the men in the room as she did so, and in a rare display of exhaustion, both physically and emotionally, her thick sinnohan accent came through. the word fraction sound more like faction. cold glacier eyes moved from man to man before falling to dahlia. "over half of the league is made up of men, woman by far in the minority." she barked, all of the women' faces being silhouetted in darkness. "i am the sole woman on the council, and only one of two present in the room. beyond that, as you all have made perfectly clear - despite councilman cole's impassioned speech on how all our voices matter - that mine is one to be dismissed. i represent half of our population with my voice, the female voice, councilmen. you would do well to remember that before you blatantly express your ignorance and arrogance."
"you want all our voices to be equal, councilman cole? then act it, and not just show support for your own words when they're applied to someone who is not even on the council." olivia declared with an icy bite in her tone. her cool fury moved on to fernando. she clicked a button and all the faces faded away until only one remained, a mysterious figure shadowed in darkness. "you say such funding cannot come from the public, and only league individuals; correct?" she continued, "yet, i presented to you three league affiliated companies for such: the crown is owned and operated by myself, lupin co has signed a contract with the crown and the league stating they will fund the AQUA initiative for its entirety, and finally, our very own Thomas Benoit is a gym leader."
finally, the face in darkness was revealed to be DAPHNE STONE . "then we have miss stone, current CEO of devon co. not at all affiliated with the league on a professional level as her brother once was, true..." olivia pressed the topic, graphs popping up near the woman's face on the holodisplay, "yet, as soon as she returned to hoenn, you, councilman silph, took it upon yourself to renew the contract between the league and devon co to ensure they continue to fund our expenses - as you can see from these info graphs, that measure has been quite successful. so tell me, councilman silph, if the league cannot use 'public funds' from an 'outside organization' or someone who 'does not hold a direct seat' in the league; what would your outreach to devon co be considered? fraud, perhaps? or does this arbitrary rule only apply to those you deem fit."
she had circled the table by this point, standing behind fernando, hands resting on the back of his chair as she looked at cole. "yes, councilman cole, we are all here to protect hoenn." olivia began her slow return back to the head chair, a button being clicked and images from sootopolis and slateport alike coming into existence. they all featured the same thing: destruction. yet, where the two differed, was how. "scenes from the recent incident, a public display of the raw power and strength of these ultra beast and avatars alike. difficult to pinpoint who broke what, I admit that." olivia was nearly back in her seat as she added, "this, however, in sootopolis is clear cut from one person. one avatar."
olivia sat, a button pressed discreetly to bring the sootopolis snapshot into focus: it was a smashed pillar, collapsed and shattered. "my former gym battle area, for those not familiar with silver spire." she explained, "this, however, was not from a pokemon or a battle. it was from someone's loose temper, an avatar's. Balder Schwartz had always been strong, it was his strength that saved me more than once and led me to choose him as my gym trainer and eventual successor; however, he has a temper."
another button had been pressed, as more smashed parts of the castle came into view, dozens of images stacked on top of each other until a single image of a fist imprinted into the white stone of sootopolis was seen. "this was his last act of rage in silver spire before he fled to gods' knows where. a single man, with the strength of a god, and temper of an adolescent." olivia brought her hands together, clasping them as she took a deep breath, "that, councilman cole, is why avatars should be monitored. now, this 'watch list' as you put it, would not be public. the AQUA iniatitve would be a private discreet team of select personnel who will keep tabs on known avatars as one of their responsibilities, in a noninvasive manner. i am not proposing we lock them up in cages and have them on display like a zoo, as you have so incorrectly manipulated my words, councilman cole; simply monitored."
"further, your recordings of myself seem to be saying something you clearly aren't listening to, councilman cole. it is beyond me why you seem to select specific words to latch onto; perhaps youth doesn't offer all, and your attention span can only keep up with so much. i'll repeat myself this once, you have your recordings to review later if this third reiteration doesn't stick: those selected for the AQUA initiative will be volunteers who either the council approves, or we leave it to the leader of the initiative, whose professional opinion i can only imagine you all respect, as she was my predecessor: former councilwoman freya morningstar . as i had explained earlier councilman cole, but it seems you were too busy recording and trying to put together an argument to pay any attention - or perhaps it is the underlying misogynistic views you and anderson have voiced, and you simply do not care for a woman's word." olivia sighed at the end, a hand brought to her heart.
her ocean eyes washed over each of the men until they returned to the screen, chaos and destruction still on display. "as said many times, i am proposing the initiative, not insinuating that i would lead it; but we need such, especially with rouge avatars running about and these ultra beast manifesting themselves into existence seemingly on a whim, and at random locations - so we can protect hoenn, as that is why we are all here."
Orion Lykos FERNANDO SILPH dahlia goode kim cole-essam Laurence Anderson |
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