doitrockapella: (BOW ❖ holy shit was that an honorific)
Carmen Sandiego ([personal profile] doitrockapella) wrote in [personal profile] islandshore 2014-01-06 06:57 pm (UTC)

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I'd suggest not putting too much faith in any bites you get from these current recruitment efforts, for starters. Throwing out a dichotomy like the one you did, you might as well have just put up a neon sign advertising yourself as seeking out people of a heroic alignment; that's the way it looks to anyone capable of reading between the lines, of which you'll find there are many here. Several of whom aren't on your side.

Use this to identify people if you want, take down names to follow up on personally, but don't blindly trust them with all of your organization's secrets just because they were able to supply you with the right answer you'd already circled for them on a loaded question anyway. You gave me your exact current numbers on the strength of a two-word name; that doesn't exactly instill me with confidence.

For another thing, I'd suggest keeping an eye on yourself from here on out to make sure you don't get caught up in the fantasy of heroism to the point that it makes you a less effective operative in the first place. The battle you're taking up to fight doesn't boil down to the strict black-and-white dichotomy you're offering to your new recruits. Don't get so full of self-righteousness about winning the spiritual war against the forces of evil that you forget and overlook the smaller, more practical considerations of the battles you're really fighting.

Because I can guarantee you, not all of your allies are going to look like heroes, and not all of your enemies are going to look like monsters.

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