[@vancexentan]

I'm seriously trying to take this with a grain of salt, but there's so much of this statement I take umbrage with, so I'mma break it down into your four main points.

My effort in this is not to just talk shit, but to reach a general consensus.

So:

[hider=1][i]"No one has yet to ask Archimedes anything. Thus while it seems like he's talking to Leon he's actually talking to the whole group. It is a groups comms channel. He's not hiding anything from anyone. I can't exactly help if no one has asked him anything in the brief amount of time that has happened."[/i]

It is not the task of Scarlett, Elise, or Conner to ask Archimedes anything. Leon is the Team Captain, so the task of calling in "command" is his responsibility. He should be the one that is asking questions, based on intel that we gather.

Scarlett isn't going to call Archimedes to ask him anything, if she doesn't find anything, and she's not about to call him up for a chat.

Furthermore, it looks like Leon is the only person that Archimedes is directly talking to. Period. He only appears in front of Leon, and nobody else. There's no implication that he's talking to everyone, nor that he even has the ability to.

If you wanted to show that, he should have popped up in front of Scarlett and Celtchar directly in the passage where he unsubtly threatens termination, if people don't listen to Leon.

And, just as a side note: having Archimedes make that threat doesn't reinforce Leon's position as Team Captain - it undermines it, because Archimedes just willingly admitted, he has the power to terminate anyone on the team, even if Leon were to disagree, if that's the decision HE makes.[/hider]

[hider=2][i]Scarlett has also shown a direct questioning of Orson of things he can't help.  I'll spoil this ahead of time and put it in such if anyone does care

without spoilers he is in a situation where he's basically just in a spot where he lost his best team, wasn't able to find out how, needs to admittedly throw Team B into the fire and hope for the best, and Scarlett still insults him as if has any other real option on the matter.[/i]

That's her character explicitly. It is clearly stated that she's served several tours of unspoken and redacted duty during her time at the Prague Academy - including a possible service as a Master in a Lesser Grail War, where she got her Mystic Code, Heartstring, from - and that she's moved internationally several times, and only ever returns to the Clock Tower. She knows nothing about Orson, other than he comes off as the typical mage, and she doesn't respect power or lineage for the sake of.

She respects action, and his actions, in her opinion, coloured by years of combat and hard choices, are incompetent and cowardly. Sending barely ready Mages into a war zone with not a moment of thought beyond "Save your betters or die trying.".

Taking that to be the case, she's going to question him on making such a heartless decision so readily, and she's going to get irate because he’s making excuses without just calling them expendable, which is in-character and backed up by her personality and biography sections.[/hider]

[hider=3A and 3B][i]Clocktower mages are still arrogant to some degree even the more reliable ones such as Goredolf, and Waver. So even knowing of her condition he isn't in any mood to have his ability, or authority questioned when he himself is in a position where such a matter he was being openly mocked by someone even with a disability he wouldn't take it.[/i]

Firstly, so what? Scarlett is technically a Mage of the Clock Tower, but her arrogance is backed up by years of combat experience. It doesn't come from her lineage (of which she has none) or her position (from which she is honorably discharged), but what she, herself, knows she's earned over the years with the scars, medals, and nightmares to prove it.

She doesn't know jack-shit about Orson, but the instant he threw his name at her, he checked himself into a box of entitlement by name association. He’s important, because his family is important, and not because he did anything she knows. 

Secondly, PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress DISORDER) is NOT a disability. It can be labeled as such, only if it is so severe that it prevents you from functioning in every facet of human society. Scarlett is a teacher, a life she chose, as to not allow the horrors of the actions she performed, witnessed, and condoned to rule over her. Additionally, PTSD is not simply having panic attacks - it manifests in various ways, from sudden spikes of anger or disobedience to returning to that moment in time and becoming frozen in place by fear.

[i]As it stands Orson is a respectable mage, and person who is currently highly stressed, and could possibly be the person who loses humanity's foundation if he makes a mistake. He isn't the type of person who is going to simply backdown when questioned.[/i]

If you are meaning "respectable" as in, how he's seen in the Mage Association and in general. Then, sure. Maybe, he is. Scarlett doesn't know that, though. At all.

Right now, Scarlett is maintaining her fragile grip on her own sanity at the behest of CHALDEAS; willingly putting herself back into someone else's war, and possibly bringing herself to a psychotic break to ensure that humanity survives, because those are her orders to follow.

And the fact that Orson knows this, and still places his own power, position, and pride over her makes him a terrible person and not respectable in the slightest in her eyes. She isn’t looking for his pity, but there is a part of her that wants to be understood and respected for the situation she’s in and the sacrifice that she is making under his command.

She’s willingly returning to being that which she fears most: a soldier.

Therefore, her "mocking" him does not come out of nowhere, but from that desire and return to the role. Orson’s sending two untested Masters into a Singularity with unprepared intel, freshly summoned Servants, and hoping that shit doesn't go further sideways. And, even taking into account Leon’s claim to Conner to have summoned and served with Andrew Jackson in a Singularity, that’s still meaningless in her eyes, if he’s only ever served once.

That’s akin to saying, you can become a military sniper by training with a BB gun. 

As such, of course, the person with the actual most combat experience - from her understanding - in the group is going to question Orson, and make light of his choices. In her mind, he should be more grateful that she’s even able to see the big picture, and not focus on his hurt feelings. And, if anything, he should be used to this behavior, as I refuse to believe Team A were all Lawful Good and Perfect Angels that never talked back or rebelled once before they were a proper team.[/hider]

[hider=4][i]If the skeletons are an issue fine I put them up front there as well to give you two something to fight, and make sure no one gets bitched out in character for being not careful. I can quite easily just make them unaware or go poof.[/i]

Assuming that we set the scene for a fight. Scarlett made a clear effort to be stealthy about their movement; lowering how fast her heart is beating and making sure they go under the bridge. Out of everything, this is the easiest thing to fix, however, since Archimedes decided to pop in and chastise Scarlett, it can be his hologram that blows her stealth, and therefore puts legitimate narrative tension into the scene, because Scarlett can't control that, and now has to adjust to it and choose to fight or opt to run for her destination and hide out.

Just throwing a wave of enemies at her for the sake of giving her something to fight without respecting the prior narrative is not fair to me nor to the character. Even if Celtchar could just sweep them all away with a single swing, it undermines the effort that Scarlett put forward to be stealthy and the writing I did to convey that intent.[/hider]