While the former-prince-now-king had some time to grow and understand the weight of his new position, he was very aware that he still wasn’t totally fit to rule over the whole Earth Kingdom by his lonesome. There was a reason why he was given ministers and advisors – and clearly the whole Kuvira-Great-Uniter fiasco made it very clear to him that he lacked the power, both physically and mentally, for that much control. Of course that’s not to say that’s what he wanted power this position offered in the first place. He grew up thinking that once he reached the throne, he would just be spending his days living off his family’s riches in Ba Sing Se without ever having to lift a finger.
Now, he had only met with President Moon a handful of times before, but he felt a certain affinity, at least on his behalf, with her knowing that she didn’t really have much of a political background either, but even then he knew she was still more put together than he was.
“Oh,” Wu started. “Going right to business I see.” He cleared his throat as he laced his fingers together, resting his hands on the tabletop which gave a very official air about him. “Well, I don’t have any, like, solid numbers or anything on me at the moment about the amount of Earth states that have completely ousted Kuvira-conspirers, but, uh, I do know that change is happening and there are a bunch of them willing to go through under their own conditions. But.”
He paused, this time unlacing his fingers to spread his hands face down on the surface. “Madam President, this ‘very important meeting’ I called on isn’t really about that. It’s more like…. a check-in. You know. Leader-to-leader.” Quickly his demeanor changed as he leaned forward, now more out of his seat and all formalities dropped instantly. “You doin’ okay? When’s the last time you had a day off? Those are very important, you know, even for those ruling over a country. You could just ask Bolin to drop all your appointments for the rest of the afternoon and just have a little retreat day if you wanted, you know.”
She smiled. Even though there was a serious situation, she still found it funny, but also kind. She never really got asked that much as Varrick’s assistant, though her husband is a lot more apt to asking these kinds of things.
“I appreciate the sentiment, but for one I am governing, not ruling. The people put me where I am and I must answer to them. For another, it’s a lot easier since I don’t have nearly as much as Raiko had to do. We have decided to separate some of the governing powers during this election.”
“Since my time in office is so limited, I don’t know how much days off or vacation I can get, considering that I need to be on top of the goings on around our nation. I assure you, I am doing just fine.”
“I hate to get more down to business, but you and I both know that any Empire holdout is a threat to the great experiment of democracy, which we both believe in. We need to be sure that your elections are successful, and we need to closely monitor anyone seeking high office in the United Republic.”
“We cannot allow anyone from the empire to become a governor, or representative. And we absolutely cannot let them get to this office.”