Dean Kesseli
Location: Stark Tower - Top Level (Floor 93): Main Area
Dean didn't move, despite the attempted reassurances of the Brotherhood members that they meant no harm. In movies and books, it was the sort of thing that he would have loved to see - two warring sides forced to work together to ensure survival. And even as Magneto said that he couldn't kill Jakobsen, Dean couldn't help but feel uneasy. Wasn't that Magneto's solution to most things - violence? He knew that the Brotherhood was built on the idea that mutants deserved to rule the world and that only then would humanity be unable to oppress them.
"So it's the Kobayashi Maru then..." Dean muttered, hearing Thalia's opinions on the matter.
They couldn't attack Jakobsen without validating his viewpoint in the public eye - and if they did nothing, the Mutant Registration Act would be passed. Both options were genocide. He picked at his nails, scrapping at the side of his left pointer finger until the skin started to peel. There wasn't any sort of easy way out of this situation. He could tell that some people in the tower had lost faith in their leadership - and he felt Xavier's absence. They were on their own, like it or not. They had all of the help they were going to get.
"So....If we need to expose O.M.E.N., please tell me someone had Stark - sorry, it's Guina right? - bring something with her so she can get evidence on him...That's what she's trying to do, right?" Dean asked. The plans had been talked about so much and it went a little bit over his head, so he wasn't even quite sure what the objective of the talks were. Unbeknownst to him, that was exactly what Guin was aiming to accomplish by talking to Jakobsen - get the proof they needed to shut him down for good.
Pietro managed to get up and over his fear enough to punch Dean in the arm,
"I am the only one who can call her that, you aren't even pronouncing it right considering the name is Serbian you idiot!" Dean looked at him with confusion, rubbing his arm slightly since it did hurt a lot.
"...Her name is Serbian? That's a huge coincidence then - since aren't you from there?" "No you idiot, that's how you pronounce Guin in Serbian." "...Honestly Pietro, why do you stick around with these people?" Wanda interjected.
"Because we're good people trying to do the right thing and I'm not an idiot, man...." Dean mumbled, putting his hands in his pockets. He was ignoring the slight tingling sensation in his arm that was signifying the formation of a bruise. He was just hoping that the speedster would manage to get his mind back on the subject - making sure the group they were sending would actually try to get information on O.M.E.N. - rather than a debate over what people were allowed to call his girlfriend.
"Well don't call her that still! Only I can!" "...Good people does not necessarily mean good brains."
Folly Valeska
Location: Jakobsen for President Campaign Center: Jakobsen's Office
It had been a long time since Folly had seen Jakobsen in person - it felt like almost a lifetime ago. She had met him shortly after she first killed - though to her, it had been simple self defense. There was a manhunt out for her, in an attempt to prosecute her for a crime she had not committed...the murder of her mother, Fiodora. It had been a long and painful journey, despite really lasting less than a week, that had brought her face to face with Jakobsen - and the Norse Goddess of Death. Thalia had been there too, showing her power as a dragonling for the first time.
Sometimes, she had wondered if she should have killed Jakobsen the first time that she met him. And although she knew all of the evil he would commit, Folly still saw the man she thought she knew when she looked at him. He looked much older, likely due to stress, and his words were laced with venom, as if he were auditioning for the part of a villain in a new Sherlock Holmes film. And while she could feel sympathy and compassion for him, she knew she couldn't afford to show him mercy. Whatever needed to be done to secure their future - especially Mary's - she would gladly do in a heartbeat. No price would be too dear to pay.
"Congratulations on the promotions," Folly said quietly to him, before she fell silent. Jakobsen hadn't agreed to talk with her - he had made the meeting with Guin, after all.
Guin Stark
Location: Jakobsen for President Campaign Center: Jakobsen's Office
Guin gave Jakobsen a bit of a smile as she came in, messing with her hands as she looked around the room.
"Photo of you and Bush Jr.? Nice," Guin commented, pointing at it. She spotted another photograph that was Jakobsen and her Uncle Rhodey, as well as countless others. Some of them were autographed, but most seemed to be candid shots among friends.
"Wow, even got one with Obama? No offense to everyone else on here, but that one is easily the best," she said. Her hand slipped something onto the side of his computer - a small circular device that was about the size of a fingertip.
It was the same device, in fact, that her father had used on a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier in order to break into all of Fury's files. It wouldn't be long until J.A.R.V.I.S. had infiltrated all of O.M.E.N. and she continued to look at the pictures on the wall, spotting one of Jakobsen and his running mate, Ricky Goldsworth, in the ruins of O.M.E.N. HQ following the attack in early 2017.
"But I know you're really busy sending murderous robots after school children, so I won't waste your time and instead, we can just skip past the entire part where you explain your motivations for being a dick." She was doing a fairly decent job of keeping her cool and hiding her internal fear and terror. She was looking at the face of evil.
"I read the S.H.I.E.L.D. files about what happened to you with Hel - and I get it. You lost so many good people that day. Psychologically, I can't even begin to imagine the ramifications of that...But you're becoming the thing you swore to fight against, Jakobsen. You'll be responsible for the genocide of an entire people - hell, you're already ordering attacks on American citizens on U.S. soil. It's unconstitutional and you know it...You were in the Air Force to fight to protect people...But now, you're fighting to slaughter the same people whose liberty you vowed to defend." "That's what your legacy is going to be...Death and destruction. And the last guy who used murder on a mass scale in order to enforce his idea of genetic purity...Well, he committed suicide before Steve Rogers could get to him. It's your choice if you want that to be how you're remembered, Jakobsen...And I know it's tough as shit. My family fortune is built off of war profiteering, of exacerbating conflicts and selling under the table for both sides, but my dad chose to put that behind us and fight for a better world. You don't fight to destroy what you hate...You fight to protect what you love."
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