Keep you saying that but that does not make it true. We held up our deal a deal negotiated made under duress for that matter. Having a reputation for killing people that start shit with our family and friends is a good thing. Letting him get away with this, just means we establish precedent that people can manipulate Molly into doing what they want by threatening her friends, and family. I assure Mab would not let him go unpunished for this affront no matter the terms of the deal.
We need to make it clear from the outset that the new power on the block does not play games. Go aginst us and get killed, treat with us with honor and we will do that same.
Nobody gives a shit in the setting if you think you are under duress or not when you make a deal. Dont make deals you dont intend to keep. Even IRL when the US bargains for
hostages prisoners being held by countries it doesnt like, its word matters. It doesnt just get prisoners released and then renege on any agreement.
Again, this sort of thing is considered the sort of shit that got the Reds a bad name.
This Hard Man nonsense just gets people killed. Next time, noone will bargain with you.
Noone will take your people prisoner, they'll just kill them.
If the consequences of what you are proposing had come to pass, Izzy and Alec would already be dead. So would the Jade Dogs.
We WANT people to take our people hostage instead of just killing them.
Hostages can be retrieved.
In that case Rashid should also see that BS held Molly's friends hostage. It was an agreement made under duress not a bad precedent to set in his mind.
Or would he not see that? Again going to need to see a specific instance of this postcog because if he has it and can apply it then why does the WC have so many fucking spys in it?
As for the Mothers... They'll see the same thing a deal made under duress. They don't interfere much with the mortal world to begin with and on top of that are Fey. They probably did shit like this all the time back in the day why would they care??
A reputation for breaking your word makes everyone unwilling to make agreements with you, because if you feel justified you'll just break it again. Thats a basic truth of the setting.
And one thats supported by the way known oathbreakers like the Red Court act.
Information gathering abilities that aren't remote viewing or post-cognition, if the post slightly above this is correct.
I know I've pointed out both Mab scrying on Marcone running from the Denarians in real time.
AND Molly performing postcog psychometry on a corpse as an apprentice.
By this token we should stop hiding the crown and start using it to the max, because it, too, will come out, and faster and more reliably than us betraying BS. Setting up the stage for "he was killed by Arianna's death curse / died fighting" is, if not trivial, than doable.
Feel free to spill your secrets in the open square.
So, are you saying that no major faction in the loose alliance against outsiders (Winter, Summer, Archive, church-related organizations, LoC, Odin) has access to these imaginary omniscient clairvoyants to discover Peabody's treachery and inform the council through their contacts? Then who has? And why should we care? Or are you saying that if Mab discovered that White Council was being subverted by an Outsider-aligned traitor at a position of trust, she wouldn't have acted out of fear?
No, this just doesn't work. If clairvoyants of such potency as you describe exist among any of the factions we care about, Peabody's treachery is impossible long-term and would be foolish to even attempt.
Or they dont consider it important enough to be worth showing their hand?
Just like Churchill (allegedly) didnt warn Conventry of incoming German bombers despite knowing of the attack during WW2 in order not to show his hand.
The Archive doesnt talk, period; even bending the rules to drop a hint is hard.
Winter, Summer and Odin play a long, long game, and often act very indirectly.
I dont know who the LoC is supposed to be.
Odin didnt intervene openly in the Vampire War when Archangel fell.
He didnt lift a finger when Dead Beat threatened Chicago, or when the White Council lost 70% of its Wardens. He only got involved during Changes, and even there he kept a lowkey appearance, deliberatley obscuring his presence.
Immortals play a very long game. And have longterm goals.
Rashid did.
Winter did. Nemesis did.
Mouse did the first time he met Molly onscreen, even before Dresden figured it out. Summer does.
And thats just whats been shown onscreen.
Assume the delay between our treachery and Peabody's (which has far more moving parts, is ongoing, and is continuously affecting people) is the same. Six years at least. Do you really think that anyone would care that we took an opportunity to kill Broken Seeker in six years time? When we are most likely an undisputed Empress of large portions of USA's supernatural world, likely have conquered at least one Yomi Hell, and are possibly pushing elder essence levels of power?
Yes.
Just like people care that the Reds do shit like poison their drinks, or that previous fomor acts of treachery hundreds or thousands of years ago is something that the immortals have not forgotten.
Your reputation follows you.
Michael should be trusted to be smart enough not to ask directly.
Michael is a Knight of the Cross. He is not our bitch.
His allegiances are not for our convenience.
He is not going to avoid the question, any more than he avoided knowing about Dresden picking up Lasciel's Coin
Trying to one weird trick a Sword wielder generally ends badly.
