f2020 | How did she get here?

WHO: Jaina Solo and OPEN
WHERE: Northwestern Imperium
WHEN: Backdated Pre-Synod
WHAT: Jaina has a bad day, Jaina looks for the resistance
WARNINGS: None presently

A- for Ysanne

The thing about being fourteen and a leadership protege is... you still have to go to high school. Get normal education.

The thing about being quantum leaped into a life you've been living for a year is that you get tossed into high school social dynamics you used to know but now sure don't.

The thing about being Ported in from a spacefaring society is that sometimes your teachers are definitely wrong about physics.

Anger may be of the Dark Side, but dropping your school bag on the ground with a notable thud? THat's of the Teenager Side

B- Open

The fit of teenagerness passes, of course. She has enough else going on that she can't stay in a funk for very long. THere's another major challenge to being a teenager in this world. She's too idealistic for it, she wants to do something. And that means looking for people who will help her change it and convincing them to actually take her seriously.It' s not always easy, looking for members of the Resistance. But she wants to help so she's trying to seek them out anyway.

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She knows it's been hard. Being known as the ward of the most powerful woman in the Imperium hardly helps her with making friends. The teachers that don't treat her like a porcelain doll to be careful around tended to be confrontational out of some stupid sense of power.

At least, that was her assessment. She knew Jaina had deep issues with her schooling, but it was necessary. She had to be grounded, if she was to develop better than other imPorts - a normal childhood had kept Ysanne from becoming...well, other imPorts. She was trying to give Jaina as much as she could. But time was growing short, and she had so much to impart.

But there were more important things. So when she heard that familiar thud, she put down the paperwork on her desk, making her way into the stately home's living room to greet her.

"Hello, Jaina. A rough day, I take it?"

The fact that she's turning to Ysanne Isard is just another terrific part of her day.

But who else is there? She's here now. "I'm not sure if the teachers or the other students are worse."

A woman that Ysanne Poirier has never known. A little girl who came through the Porter at the age of six, not knowing death and war. Adopted by French parents on Miquelon, and beneficiary in her formative years from a peaceful, loving life.

It is such that informs her now.

"Oooh, I know what this requires. Fresh Crêpes Suzette. To soothe and distract."

She gestures at Jaina to follow her towards the kitchen.

"And you can tell me all about it, being much more interesting and important to me than mining reports."

Anders knows what it's like to try and be heard, only to have nobody listen to you. He was also just a kid when he had revolutionary thoughts and ideas, even if he thought small when he was her age.

"I hear you've been looking for certain someones. I might be able to help."

You have to be careful looking for the Resistance, she knows that. They tend to be a bit skittish about their identities. But sooner or later people get involved, right?

"I think I could be helpful to the someones."

"I'm sure you could be." Anders takes a casual look around, to see if anyone is watching them. Granted, they might look weird since he's a grown man and she's a kid.

"Why don't we work out the details somewhere more secluded?"

Ashley's identity as a cell leader isn't exactly secret within the Resistance active in the Imperium, seeing as she does like new recruits, though others may have noted that she wouldn't be likely to accept a kid. That said, she's also not too hard to find in her day job on the border, training locals in hand-to-hand and marksmanship.

She's on her lunch break when she spots a determined teenager.

"Oh, hey, are you looking for your adult?" she asks. "Because we don't really do work experience."

"Director Poirier trusts me to look out for myself." The closest thing she has to an adult, here. Since Uncle LUke is... doing whatever he's doing in the Empire of Light. Things he shouldn't be doing.

Really, don't you want help from someone the Director-General trusts to look out for herself? Clearly a good bullet point on the resume she doesn't actually have. "I'm pretty resourceful."

The casual namedropping gets a raised eyebrow. While the Director-General has been a useful ally over the years (mainly for her funds), that doesn't necessarily mean Ashley trusts her judgment on everything.

"Really," she says, tone deliberately even. "And what exactly do you need to be resourceful for?"

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