I'm already the black sheep of my own family. Funny it'd stick with theirs, too.
Rhaenyra - she's with Daemon, right? I'm still trying to keep it all straight. I'm getting the sense Ser Jason didn't live up to everyone's expectations.
[he can read between the lines ok!!! but there's a slight delay in his last response, mostly from trying to parse it out himself.]
I work for the justice department. Senator, President - those titles aren't for me. Neither is the power or the scrutiny that comes with them.
Me? Before this place, I was willing to get my hands dirty so another man could keep his clean. A Senator - a good man, which is rare if not nonexistent when it comes to those in power. All I wanted to do was help him dismantle the bullshit eating away at our government from the inside out. I stayed high enough to collect favors from all the right people, and just under the radar enough not to get a target on my own back.
At the end of the day? I'd like to think it made a difference. But I'm smart enough to realize I was selfish in just putting in my time until I could get the fuck out of there someday when I'm old and have a hell of a lot more wrinkles on this mug - somewhere by the water, where they don't look too closely or give a shit what a man eats, breathes, or fucks when he's alone. Personal freedom at the expense of everyone else.
tw: lite period appropriate homophobia
Rhaenyra - she's with Daemon, right? I'm still trying to keep it all straight. I'm getting the sense Ser Jason didn't live up to everyone's expectations.
[he can read between the lines ok!!! but there's a slight delay in his last response, mostly from trying to parse it out himself.]
I work for the justice department. Senator, President - those titles aren't for me. Neither is the power or the scrutiny that comes with them.
Me? Before this place, I was willing to get my hands dirty so another man could keep his clean. A Senator - a good man, which is rare if not nonexistent when it comes to those in power. All I wanted to do was help him dismantle the bullshit eating away at our government from the inside out. I stayed high enough to collect favors from all the right people, and just under the radar enough not to get a target on my own back.
At the end of the day? I'd like to think it made a difference. But I'm smart enough to realize I was selfish in just putting in my time until I could get the fuck out of there someday when I'm old and have a hell of a lot more wrinkles on this mug - somewhere by the water, where they don't look too closely or give a shit what a man eats, breathes, or fucks when he's alone. Personal freedom at the expense of everyone else.
That's not what I want anymore.