Freya Mikaelson (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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entrancelogs2017-06-09 03:56 pm
deathlessness) wrote in entrancelogs2017-06-09 03:56 pm
deathlessness) wrote in entrancelogs2017-06-09 03:56 pm
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Part of Freya appreciates Evelyn's ability to get right to the point where so many would likely dance around the harder questions, but at the same time, she feels off balance, not anticipating having this conversation on someone else's terms.
She doesn't want to be the go between, necessarily - negotiations and diplomacy are even less her forte than they are Klaus', and this was usually Elijah's role, but Elijah isn't here, and Freya is the more breakable, almost human face of the Mikaelson family.
And it was her mirror who caused all the carnage in the first place.]
My brother is more than accustomed to facing the consequences for his willing actions, I assure you.
[The emphasis in that sentence being "willing" where this was not. But she should already know that, if she read her conversations.]
However, at the time I had those conversations, I was worried about what Sam and Dan would do, particularly Sam, and I thought there had been enough harm on my mirror's behalf. I didn't think it would better the situation for you to come back to dead friends on top of having died.
[She speaks with a kind of calm affect, where she is aware of what she's saying and what she's implying about Klaus, but she also doesn't see the point of sugar coating the facts, if Evelyn is going to get right to the point. She also knows that her brother would have been defending himself, not picking a fight, so as far as her moral scale is concerned, Klaus would have been in the right.
Her moral scale is not exactly the most lawful, though, so.]
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Given how hard respective parties were lobbying for protections it makes a great deal of sense to know that the wolf was family. Evelyn should have realised sooner, aware of what Freya is (was?). It stands to reason her vehement defence of him is born of such relation. Evelyn would have done the same for her own brother, although everything that Jonathan Carnahan does usually warrants rebuke of some sort.]
Sam is a hunter, as I'm sure you're aware, and Dan is a former mercenary. I appreciate the effort toward avoiding more bloodshed but their reactions weren't entirely unwarranted.
[Had she not been deceased she certainly would have attempted to dissuade either of them from taking rash action, but being dead does not lend itself well to executing persuasive arguments. Even now she is grateful for Freya's candour, a breath of fresh air in a world full of individuals too preoccupied with keeping up politesse for the sake of appearances.]
I'm going to be frank, which I realise is not the sort of prelude most people like to hear. I don't like that the populace does not know the identity of a volatile person in their midst. I've been here for close to six years now, and have died four times at the hands of those whose true natures remained concealed until they wrought devastation upon the ignorant.
[Sensing that the statement might encourage interruption, Evelyn gently adds,]
I am by no means accusing your brother of lacking all control over his abilities. Whatever all this was clearly happened within a select group, but absolution does not come from wishing away the fact that an internal struggle created waves of collateral damage.
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[She tries to keep the frustration at bay because she feels as though she fails to understand the rules by which Wonderland seems to live. The Mirrors were the ones who crossed over, caused damage, caused harm, and yet the blame in this situation is continually being placed upon the Reals without harmful intentions.]
All I have heard since this mess began was blame for those of us who made mistakes but none for those actually committing the actions. Ciso and Fitz created a machine that invited the Mirrors to retaliate, that much is true, but they did not force them to cross over and harm us. Those mirrors made choices, just the same as you or I and they should be held accountable as well. My brother did not choose to turn into a wolf to harm you or anyone else. He was forced to by a spell cast by my mirror, used as a distraction so that she could kill someone else. You are not the only one who died that day.
If this were a true weapon, would you suggest melting the sword and release the blame on the one wielding it?
[She knows, though that Klaus is the one who tore out her throat, and she knows there's no getting around that. But if Klaus were given a choice, he wouldn't have. Evie had done nothing to anger him, nor had anyone she loved, she hadn't tried to attack him, she had simply been there, and the wolf her doppelganger had created was looking to hunt.]
I can try and get him to speak with you, but I won't force him to become a public pariah for an action that wasn't his choice. It would be the same as blaming me for my mirror because my being in Wonderland means that she exists.
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[Certainly, Evelyn was not the only person to die that day, but there is not a finite amount of importance to be doled out when lives are lost. One death does not preclude another, and Mirrors make choices inasmuch as they can, with the express approval of their Queen. They are not free people when a number have been branded for treachery against the Crown.
The false equivalence rankles, the fallacy of relevance, the suggestion that she plans to rally a public force to shun a resident. Were Evelyn in his stead she would accept slings and arrows, in the same way she stepped forward nine years ago to depose a monster she brought back from the dead, if unintentionally. Imhotep killed, but that blood is on her hands.]
I have no intention of socially exiling your brother. This is not medieval England. But I do think it a great disservice to him to suggest that he is an object to be wielded, rather than a person with agency.
[Evelyn cannot speak for Freya's sibling because she is not an (undoubtedly) immortal person, but neither can they speak for her. People tend to give the dead much more credit than they are due.]
Your reticence to approach the subject of your Mirror as a public safety issue rather than one relegated to a specific group of people is alarming. It has already affected others, the influence has passed well beyond the insular regardless of how narrow her intent.
Ignorance gets people killed. [A fact with which she is most familiar, evident in the agony behind each carefully-enunciated syllable.] This will not happen again.
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It isn't that Klaus hasn't earned his reputation. He has. But people sometimes forget that even evil can be broken.]
What do you think I'm trying to do? Willfully ignoring it and hoping she never appears again? My intention is most certainly to kill her.
[She holds up the book in her hand, an old magic reference that she hopes will give her a workaround of some kind.]
I know that I cannot do it by my own hand, but she is not easy to kill, and I would rather have a plan of attack to follow before people volunteer and get themselves killed in my stead. I wish to have a means to protect people. These things take time. I am not one to speak before I know what I'm speaking to.
[And she's used to having to do these things alone. In Freya's mind, teamwork does not make the dream work.]
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[Evelyn isn't stupid, she knows why Freya is here. Wielding texts that look that old, she's digging into something ancient and Evelyn has been there, helping Dean Winchester search for solutions to the Mark of Cain, assisting patrons in locating the sort of obscure texts hidden in the recesses of the stacks.
She knows this library like the back of her hand. There are others still who are well-versed in the supernatural, in magicks - not asking for help is ridiculous bordering on sheer lunacy.
Having maintained a steadfast calm for the better part of this conversation Evelyn feels something inside of her snap.]
You've already involved other people. Victims before volunteers, unwittingly, yes, but you can't possibly be so arrogant as to think that this is a problem best solved alone.
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[It's a snap truth, but it's the truth all the same. She doesn't know who she can trust, and if she can't focus on people she knows, those she can tell whether they're Mirror or Real, then she doesn't know how she'll be able to succeed, questioning the loyalties of those involved while she tries to work.]
You are not one of them, because sadly, I do not know you well, but Sam is.
[The trust is tenuous, because she doesn't necessarily trust that he won't go after Klaus after learning the truth, but she trusts that Sam will want to do the right thing and stop the threat. And he knows far more about Wonderland than she does.
And she's already met his mirror.
She hopes that will be enough.]
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Evelyn wrests her cultivated calm back to her breast with both hands. This is still a library, after all.]
Let me see if I understand this properly: You don't trust me, and yet you gave me your brother's name. Clearly you either trust me enough not to publicly out him, or you trust me insofar as you realise that if I went to the network you could chuck some spell at me for silence's sake and hope that it sticks.
[Evelyn is too close to not take offence, and not at the lack of trust toward her - any sensible person would be reticent toward outstretching their hand under normal circumstances, even if these circumstances are far from normal - but at the irresponsibility of it, the recklessness. The contravening statements and actions, the increasingly obvious fact that none of them are accustomed to making compromises outside of those they propose themselves, and Evelyn is beginning to see that immortality does not necessarily equate to wisdom.
Dropping in Sam's name as though it were a redeeming garnish on an otherwise unpalatable entrée is an even greater irony, given the strong and abiding nature of Evelyn's relationship with him. Freya would not know that, but it rankles nonetheless.]
You hastened to inform veritable strangers of the identity of the true perpetrator in the wake of my death; in fact, you were extremely receptive to them offering their assistance. Either you were lying to concerned parties eager to help, or you are purposefully excluding me in the hopes that I can be shooed away like a fly over a teacake.
From where I stand, all you've done is feed me contradictions.
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I didn't give it to you, actually, you just happen to know who he is and I allowed you to make the the connection. But given that you know who he is, I trust you not to publicize his name because if you know who he is, you likely also know what he is capable of if put on the defensive. And you want that even less than I do.
[She tips her head to the side.]
As for whom I trust, I've known Sam pretty much since I arrived in Wonderland over a year ago and he knows more about Mirrors than I do. I've also met his Mirror. And to be clear, I didn't ask for Dan's help, he insisted on it, and I didn't tell him no. I am not intending on involving him completely until I have a solution to the problem.
[It's clear she sees him more as muscle than involving him in the research phases, but that's not an underestimation of him, but more her keeping everyone at arms length. It's just how she rolls.
Lucifer also offered his help, but again - Lucifer is her friend and someone she trusts. Regardless, it's clear that paranoia in the Mikaelson family is a bit of a genetic trait.]
Those are the only people that I have addressed this with. No one else has come to me looking to help beyond you, and to be quite honest, that is about all I am comfortable with. I don't particularly do well in teams.
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Elijah Mikaelson was once forthcoming with her about such family matters in another time, and while he never mentioned Freya by name Evelyn knows of his brothers, Kol and Klaus. Their reputations were, in the most genteel of terms, formidable, and attached to unparalleled bloodshed.
The greater irony is when she brings up Sam Winchester once again, a man Evelyn has known for years, trusts implicitly, and very much doubts is perfectly amenable to the situation as it stands. It is not in his character to let something like this lie. Neither is it Dan's, but as far as Evelyn can tell with her limited experience it is a Mikaelson trait to vastly underestimate others.
If not that, then as a family they hold a very anxious view of perceived outsiders.]
I think you need to get used to that. [She replies plainly, more imploring than cutting.] Many hands make light work, and I know this library better than anyone. Paranoia is only going to make your work slower.
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There needs to be a compromise somewhere.
So she swallows, and neither denies nor concedes, but strives for something in the middle:]
I'll need to speak to my brother.
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For a very long time, Evelyn executed her own research in much the same way. She trusts her methods, and those of others can be unpredictable - or in the case of work belonging to many men back home, wholly inaccurate. Here she has adopted an attitude of collaboration for the benefit of everyone. Doing otherwise has proven dangerous in the past.
Taking a steady breath Evelyn sighs, stepping aside that Freya might pass.]
No man is an island.
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At least not yet.
She glances to Evelyn, if only to acknowledge that she was heard even if Freya won't necessarily listen, before taking a deep breath and striding out of the library with another word.]