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[ragedagainst]

IC INBOX text / voicemail / emails / pack telepathy"Yeah. It's Ren. Text me. Don't fucking call, y'weirdo."Ren Rages-Against-The-Odds O'Neill Homid Fianna Ahroun - Adren (31) Guardian of the Sept of the Relentless Beat Alpha of the Never Say Die Pack Child of Coyote art credit code credit

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[ragedagainst]

[ Even strong capable women sometimes need rescuing from the snakes wrapped around their throats. Ren knows that better than most. ]

He's pathetic and I gave him a lesson. I ain't said shit to him since despite him waving a fuckin' red flag at me.

[ She's seen the flirtatious talk on the network between him and Gala in December after that bard had word vomited all overtime the place. It left a bad taste in her mouth. ]

Fine. Your duty is dispensed.

What'd he want to start with?

[wyldfire]

[Sounds like a conversation that Ren should have with Gala then.]

What red flag? I haven't seen anything that would qualify as such. [And she typically kept an eye out for potential Ahroun baiting knowing the usual result of such actions.]

He wanted me to - hahaha - call you off.

[ragedagainst]

[ Okay, that does at least make Ren laugh hard enough that she has to take a pause before responding. ]

Wow. Wooooow. If only he fuckin' knew. [ Knew how much she'd held back, knew how tightly she had constrained herself from hurting him properly, knew how she could tear him to pieces without barely thinking about it. ]

Sheesh, Jordana, keep your girl on a short leash already, she might bite an overprivileged dickhead.

[wyldfire]

Guess I need to pick up a new collar.

Ugh. Men.

[ragedagainst]

A man would step to me himself and handle it if he thought I was outta line.

He's a manchild.

[wyldfire]

[Jordana groaned.]

Please don't lean into the whole masculinity shit of what makes a man a real man. Maturity standards should be the same regardless of gender.

[#blackfuries]

Cw: sprinkle of misogyny

[ragedagainst]

Alright, alright, don't go all women's studies on me.

[ Ren is fairly progressive for a Fianna. But there are still some very traditional views she'll never shake. Primarily; how a man is supposed to act. ]

[wyldfire]

I am incredibly tolerant for my tribe, Ren, but these things need to be said.

[ragedagainst]

Do they? Do they really? 'Cos neither of us are men, in case you didn't notice, Jordana. And I'm allowed to have an opinion on how men should act.

Just 'cos you say something doesn't make it right for everyone.

cw: misandry, misogyny, toxic masculinity, breeding expectations, homophobia, SA

[wyldfire]

There is a double standard that exists in what's expected of a man and what's expected of a woman, in both the Nation and human society. If there wasn't, my fucking tribe wouldn't exist. I wouldn't have been hounded constantly about when I was going to do my duty and have a child. Gender standards should be equal.

[She mad.]

Telling someone to be a man or man up just perpetrates the toxic masculinity that had been rampant throughout history. Where men have to suck it up and suppress their feelings, because they've been taught expressing them makes them weak, makes them pussies, which makes them feel inferior if a woman is better than them at something a man is supposed to do. So many of them lash out to establish dominance and reclaim their 'man card' or something else just as shitty.

Not every man is like this, but far more are than are not. And I pray to Gaia that this has changed in the ten years I've been missing and that's why you're giving me shit about expressing what I believe. If I'm wrong, I'm take it on the chin. All I was did was ask you not further a misogynistic agenda, because women need to hold other women accountable for this shit too. So many women aren't even aware of it because of how they were raised.

If only every man was as great as your daddy. The world would be a better place.

Now I'm going to go see if my damn den has been cleared of the Void. If it is, the room is yours for the rest of the month. I need to get away from people and track down my fucking rapist.

I'm not mad at you. I'm just angry.

[ragedagainst]

[ Jordana might not be mad at her.

But Ren is.]

I'm sorry what has happened to you happened to you. You know that.

And because I can tell you're hurtin' I'm going to make this easy on you and not take you to task properly for it.

Never again mention Finn Swift-Claw in that way. He was a great man who gave everything to the Nation and he deserves the respect of not being used to score cheap shots. I wouldn't disrespect your sister to get a point over. Don't do it to my family.

cw: attempted murder, sororicide

[wyldfire]

[Well, he was alive when last Jordana was at the sept. She probably wouldn't have gone there in her anger if she'd known. Probably. Maybe.]

I wasn't aware he had given his life to Gaia. I apologize. [Because when she is wrong, she will take it on the chin.] And disrespect Lupe all you want; I should've killed her when she slit my throat with silver.

One of these days, you're going to realize how fucking privileged you've been in your life. But not today.

[Fury Out.]