Everything Has Changed || Colorwild
"The one benefit about town gossip is it doesn't last very long," he pointed out; what was stirring one week was just as likely to fade away the next. Sometimes things stuck, that was true, but the degree to which people cared about gossip revolved almost exclusively around how much who was involved was known. And he'd put Nick in the uncomfortable position of being known by proxy.
If he hadn't taken that step from the Board to mayor there wouldn't have been enough of anything notable about him for gossip to latch onto. Isaac knew that. His family had been the subject of town drama often in the past but he was largely the most forgettable of his siblings. He'd struggled with it in the past but older, with a family of his own and reasons to enjoy being forgettable? Isaac had come to value it.
And he'd disrupted that part of their life, most of their life, not considering what he was doing when it had felt so much like he'd needed to do something.
So maybe his argument on that fell short and Nick was smart, he knew it was more grasping at straws.
But it made it only seem fair that he dealt with the family questions more than Nick would have to, that scrutiny; they were his family. Messy as they were.
"Yeah, whatever you're okay with. We don't have to tell them all at once." Sometimes the Moreys were easier handled one on one; there was a lot of noise when there were a lot of people involved in a discussion.
"Maybe start with Mama and Papa," he suggested; the foundation of the Morey family was strong despite all the mess because of the stability of their parents, after all.
@wilde-fun
"It's true. If I was something like a vampire or a werewolf it would be a much bigger scandal."
If he was one of those supposedly scarier dark Magicks, there would undoubtedly be an uproar. A known liar, also a type of Magick believed to corrupt people that close to the Mayor of the town? It didn't matter that the reaction would only have proved him right, there would be plenty who wouldn't leave them alone.
Elves were easier to swallow, particularly here in the UK in a large part. He was still a liar and still untrustworthy, but beyond some criticism over that, he would eventually be forgotten.
After all, he was very good at making sure he was forgotten.
But before he could get to that point, he did have to face the rest of the Moreys. Better to get it over with.
"Sounds like a plan. Perhaps I can make something ahead of time to act as a bribe. I'm sure I can remember that old recipe for gulab jamun." Joke. If Isaac laughed or teased that was.
@isaac-morey
In a way Isaac might have welcomed it.
The argument against dangerous Magicks was a sore spot where being Mayor meant he had to somewhat temper his own opinions to stay mindful of how people were afraid. He struggled at times with it; he didn't believe dangerous was a fair label for anyone.
Any Magick could be dangerous, any Mundus with a weapon could as well. Jess was his closest friend, Martin's spouse, while Isaac didn't know exactly what they were, gave Isaac the impression of dangerous when cornered, and they had plenty of residents in town carrying on perfectly normal lives who might have been dangerous by the typical definition. There were plenty hiding as well, he suspected.
A scandal like that might have lent more weight to how flimsy the label actually was, but he selfishly didn't want his own family to struggle with the burden of it. Maybe if it had only been Nick and himself, but for Avery's sake his first priority had to be making sure he grew up safe and without fear trailing him.
He felt like a hypocrite in that; how was he supposed to tell their son he belonged like everyone else if there was a line that said, no, some people belong less than others?
Isaac only smiled, nodded, and wanted to shut his eyes for a moment but he gripped Nick's hand more tightly instead. "Mama might insist on giving you a few suggestions," he chuckled.
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