#stewardoftheking

1) She’s good. She’s very good. Very few of his criminal rivals ever actually earn Giovanni’s genuine respect, but she has without question. In terms of what the Rocket Boss sees as a portrait of a true leader and criminal, Lusamine very much colors inside the lines. Thus, he speaks to her with reservation and caution. If he sees himself as a King, she carries himself as a Queen would. Thus, she demands a real audience from the Capo himself. 

2) Lusamine does something that throws Giovanni slightly off guard when they meet–Giovanni tends to keep a grounded, strong stance, but Lusamine strides through the room with a smile on her face and with a graceful pattern of steps. The way she moves seems choreographed and meticulous, and while it’s pretty sight, it bothers Giovanni. He’s accustomed to meeting Yakuza and brutish gangsters who you have to keep your eyes trained on and your body ready to counter attack a moment’s notice. But Lusamine’s dance-like movements has Giovanni’s feet constantly shifting to keep his stance forward to her instinctively. The trained nervousness buzzes in the back of Giovanni’s mind that he might be found without a strong stance when he shifts. It puts him on edge. Lusamine has noticed. She doesn’t stop. 

3) When he brings company, they almost always hate Lusamine, especially @rebelracket . Clarissa can’t shake her distrust and hatred of ‘aristocratic’ types, and she’s almost always sweating and gritting her teeth whenever Lusamine speaks. Archer doesn’t play her game, and Lusamine hates him for it. Ariana would fight her at the drop of a hat, because Lusamine will be a tad bit more charming toward Giovanni to make Ariana increasingly uncomfortable. Proton finds Aether’s stuffy atmosphere claustrophobic. Only Petrel seems content enough around Aether and Lusamine, perhaps because he actually appreciates a good facade. 

And how like you to sound like a twelve-year-old in exactly everything you do.

questions be damned meme.

PRIDE / what is your muse’s biggest flaw?

that depends on how you want to quantify it, because there are a lot of big’uns. 

“trouble seeing the forest for the trees” is understating it, a little. proton seems to genuinely lack the ability to conceptualize longterm/secondary/inadvertent consequences of his actions while he’s deciding what to do. either that, or he simply doesn’t give a damn. it’s hard to say which. 

on its own, that could be innocuous, but it often comes out in tandem with proton’s proclivity to intense boredom and need for consistent stimulation. 

this becomes a real problem for team rocket as a whole, when proton deems a mission not engaging enough, and rectifies that by adding unnecessary risk. there have been a few notable occasions where he’s put one of rocket’s long games into jeopardy, by exacerbating relations with other organizations, or incurring a police crackdown on crime. 

there’s not much hope for curbing his behavior, either; it’s almost impossible for proton to learn from his mistakes, and he often repeats them over and over. the upshot of this is that it makes him pretty predictable, so it’s not too difficult for someone with sufficient foresight to nudge him away from the usual pitfalls and keep him busy. 

but in a larger, character-structure sense, his biggest flaw is his inability to recognize them. it makes him vulnerable in a way he cannot see, and thus cannot control, and it will catch up to him, eventually. 

YAH / something your muse agrees to 100% of the time.

Adulthood and maturity simply radiate from that pinched face of yours, mademoiselle.

nightmare: what are you most afraid of?

“You know that image, Archer. The decrepit monarch. His shriveled neck is ready to snap beneath the weight of his crown, causing his head to tilt an ear to hungry men with kind eyes and deft pens. They will rule the confederacy to come. It is a system of bankers and despots. New banners will rise with your symbol, your people scatter to hear your word in their time of need. I’d sooner see my head atop that pike. 

Oh don’t worry. She’d need a step stool and stilts to even make it half the distance.

You misspelled Bug-type.