I think part of the thing here is that although OOC we know about Morningstar's motives and history and all that, IC it's something where it really depends on the character how it comes across to them, if that makes sense? Like OOC I know Morningstar is just helping out, but IC a character who has reason to be suspicious of an organization going through all this trouble purely out of the goodness of their hearts might not be as inclined to believe it, especially if they feel like they're expected to be appropriately thankful for something they never asked for in the first place. For those characters it feels like there are strings attached, even if they're purely social (and even if they don't actually exist.)
And that's basically what got Lance off on the wrong foot with Gaby; their initial conversation on his post felt like an attack for just asking questions, which is one of those huge red flags in almost any situation that there's something that's being hidden (some frustration at answering the same question over and over is something he'd consider normal, but not quite that kind of hostility.)
But after they talked more and he spoke with other Morningstar agents he was pretty much back to neutral on Gaby (and more positive on the rest of Morningstar as a whole) until the safehouse thing before the Aerie; as far as he was concerned, if the Displaced are running things, then it felt like a major overstep for her to do that (especially instead of just talking to him.) And then with how their conversation (or at least the first part of it, since once they got to talking about the messages that was fine) went, he was pretty much back to being incredibly suspicious of her.
But as far as the network conversation goes, like he told Clarke he was very specifically not mentioning Morningstar (or anyone else) as the people to be upset with, because it wasn't about that; of course new arrivals could probably put the pieces together, but they could do that without him ever having said anything. So as far as he's concerned, what this all translates to is 'you can't talk about this at all' because it would always reflect back, and then Gaby's message basically reaffirmed that to him (and that it seemed like she was willing to get back at him personally by threatening the Displaced as a whole very much didn't help.)
Also, for some extra context, Lance got murdered by his own organization at home for investigating corruption, and then that basically happened again in the Aerie, so he's even more on edge about this sort of things than usual, so like. Perfect storm and all that.
So basically, tl;dr Lance is very suspicious and doesn't like Gaby personally due to their interactions, but also wasn't actually doing anything to try to cause problems; he doesn't want anything to happen to other Morningstar agents or to her, even though he doesn't like her. But that's all IC stuff; OOC the only confusion I had was on the details of the safehouse (like who was actually running things/making final decisions.) Hopefully that all makes sense too and kind of explains what I'd been working with IC and OOC!
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I think part of the thing here is that although OOC we know about Morningstar's motives and history and all that, IC it's something where it really depends on the character how it comes across to them, if that makes sense? Like OOC I know Morningstar is just helping out, but IC a character who has reason to be suspicious of an organization going through all this trouble purely out of the goodness of their hearts might not be as inclined to believe it, especially if they feel like they're expected to be appropriately thankful for something they never asked for in the first place. For those characters it feels like there are strings attached, even if they're purely social (and even if they don't actually exist.)
And that's basically what got Lance off on the wrong foot with Gaby; their initial conversation on his post felt like an attack for just asking questions, which is one of those huge red flags in almost any situation that there's something that's being hidden (some frustration at answering the same question over and over is something he'd consider normal, but not quite that kind of hostility.)
But after they talked more and he spoke with other Morningstar agents he was pretty much back to neutral on Gaby (and more positive on the rest of Morningstar as a whole) until the safehouse thing before the Aerie; as far as he was concerned, if the Displaced are running things, then it felt like a major overstep for her to do that (especially instead of just talking to him.) And then with how their conversation (or at least the first part of it, since once they got to talking about the messages that was fine) went, he was pretty much back to being incredibly suspicious of her.
But as far as the network conversation goes, like he told Clarke he was very specifically not mentioning Morningstar (or anyone else) as the people to be upset with, because it wasn't about that; of course new arrivals could probably put the pieces together, but they could do that without him ever having said anything. So as far as he's concerned, what this all translates to is 'you can't talk about this at all' because it would always reflect back, and then Gaby's message basically reaffirmed that to him (and that it seemed like she was willing to get back at him personally by threatening the Displaced as a whole very much didn't help.)
Also, for some extra context, Lance got murdered by his own organization at home for investigating corruption, and then that basically happened again in the Aerie, so he's even more on edge about this sort of things than usual, so like. Perfect storm and all that.
So basically, tl;dr Lance is very suspicious and doesn't like Gaby personally due to their interactions, but also wasn't actually doing anything to try to cause problems; he doesn't want anything to happen to other Morningstar agents or to her, even though he doesn't like her. But that's all IC stuff; OOC the only confusion I had was on the details of the safehouse (like who was actually running things/making final decisions.) Hopefully that all makes sense too and kind of explains what I'd been working with IC and OOC!