( CLOSED ) and an open cage

[unprays]

Who: sansa stark (unprays) & a buncha people
What: holiday ball & january plot things
When: december & january
Where: olympia, the south outpost, somewhere around wyver
Warning(s): your standard game of thrones warnings apply, just in case

( individual starters in comments!! feel free to either write up a starter for us, leave a blank comment and wait for me to write us something, or poke me @ celen for more specific plottings!

just as a heads-up, i'll be in japan from dec 21 to jan 5, so tags will be very slow going until i'm back! please bear with me in the meantime ♥ )

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[shashka]

[ he can't help but grin a little at that, noticing her expression. good.

(still, he hasn't told her anything that he might hide back home) ]

I was actually the commander in my area. Had a chance to be a General, but I preferred being on the ground with my men. [ well, that... and it was easier for him to disappear from time to time when he was just an officer. it's far harder to make excuses when you're a general. ] My country tried to invade another, to support a government of their choice. If you ask me, it was a huge mistake.

[ and he's sure it's one of the reasons the Soviet Union was going to be brought down. ]

[unprays]

[ starting small for both of them, then...

the information makes her tilt her head as she processes it all: why would anyone turn down being a General, she wonders? only, for Ocelot, it seems to make sense. with less responsibility comes more freedom. ]

With your men? [ a raise of her eyebrows is enough to show that she doubts his words on that — perhaps it's the truth, or part of the truth, but to her, he's never seemed the type to want to work in a bigger group, or together with those who are less efficient than him. ]

It isn't easy to disagree with the decisions of those in power.

[shashka]

[ a smirk spreads across his face as she shows her doubts plainly. he really can't help but be amused. ]

Of course. Back home, I was actually pretty good at training soldiers. I wouldn't want to stop doing something I was good at, or something that I liked. [ not just soviet soldiers, but... no one needs to know that. ] I tried my best to be a good commander, and my men always liked me, right from my first command.

[ this was also true. even if a lot of the men in the Ocelot unit ended up dead in the beginning, he still kept their loyalty. as to the rest of what she said... ]

Of course it isn't. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't. While I wouldn't go against my whole country [ openly ], I did oppose my first commanding officer when he gave us bad orders.

[ some more information. it is up to Sansa to choose what to do with it. ]