May 20, 2007 20:04
i didn't want to write another kyouya-with-econs-refs fic. but i'm sorry that exposition-of-doom fic seems to be the only other option. i swear i will write something hemingway-ish instead, someday.
am out of touch with canon -- glühen weiss was the fourth generation, right, with kapitel weiss being the third? rex refers to "godaime no team" in episode 13, after all, when talking about forming the new one. and knight refers to "yondaime Weiss" later on. i have the vague feeling that we got this wrong in that post-series RP, but oh well. also, i went to look up blood types, and -- kyou is a type O? sena is a type A? impossible!
...there are few weiss fans on my flist, so i shall stop here. :x
may 20 | ROI (return on investment)
He knows what Rex thinks about his refusal to appoint Ogasawara. She's wrong, of course. But he'll let her think whatever she chooses to; sympathy helps bind employees to their employers, and for similar reasons he still keeps a certain photograph in his desk drawer and makes sure that she knows it is there.
The thing about Kritiker is that it is a business. As he told Knight: no one is indispensable. But wrong choices are costly and replacing Kritiker agents is expensive, so he has to estimate how long they will last -- how many years he is likely to get out of each one before the job incapacitates them, whether through death or softer means.
His uncle did not seem particularly good at such analyses. And since Mamoru remembers Abyssinian's conduct in the third Weiss team, he is not willing to take such a gamble on Ogasawara.
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