Ooooooh awesome thank you; there's so much good stuff here! I love that this whole plot thing has sprung up; it's super interesting. c:
As far as the agents being disappointed, Lance is pretty empathetic and so them being upset would bother him a bit; he definitely didn't mean to make any of them feel that way, and so he'll just agree and tell them he understands why they're disappointed and that he appreciates that they're willing to talk to him anyway. If any of the agents want an actual explanation for why he didn't come to them first, he'll offer that he genuinely wasn't aware that was an option, and thought asking Displaced was the best place to start, which is true (though unless he's directly asked he'll avoid doing this so as not to sound like he's dismissing their concerns.)
During conversation about why they joined, he won't be pressing too much--he doesn't want to push his luck with potentially upsetting someone with feeling like they need to talk about a bad experience or something--but as much as they're willing to say he will be interested in more details about the sort of things the UN has done and why that's garnered such hatred for them, as well as wanting to know agents' beliefs as to why more people aren't a part of Morningstar. That's a curiosity thing rather than judgemental; he's trying to get a better sense of the social climate in general, and why native citizens might choose to act or not act.
The information about the Displaced and past interactions between them and Morningstar helps him a lot with context, and he'll make it clear that he appreciates that and is getting a better idea of why the situation might be a little complicated.
He'll probably stop for now with just the agents in New Amsterdam, both because that's a lot already and he wants to think it over before deciding what to do next, though he'll tell Gaby he might be interested in talking to the others in New Beijing in the future.
For questions (including some things I kind of mentioned above, just organized here to be easier):
• Would the Morningstar agents' views about Gaby being known as a pacifist be something they were upfront about in general?
• Any stories/beliefs on why the civilians would or wouldn't be interested in joining Morninstar?
• Although there are clearly different ideas on what methods to use to get there, he'd ask agents what their own ideal outcome would be; would it be that the UN was dismantled and something better takes its place, would they prefer a new government, no government at all, etc etc? It's pretty clear that they want people to have better lives in general, but beyond that, what are they hoping to happen?
• He'd also like to hear what they think their biggest obstacles are to achieving that goal; the UN itself, public sentiment, horrible monster attacks, something else?
As a last note, while talking to the agents he'll be genuinely friendly (if reserved) and will be trying to read their responses/the tone of the conversation and reacting to that, instead of directing it. He has zero interest in upsetting any of them, both out of his general sense of empathy and because he did assure Gaby he wouldn't cause any problems and he meant it. So if any of them decide they don't want to answer something, or even just seem hesitant, he won't pressure them (and will go along with any deflections or changes in subject.)
Relatedly, if they have any questions for him, he'd probably be willing to answer (to an extent since obviously some things should be offlimits) so if there's anything that would come up like that please just let me know!
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As far as the agents being disappointed, Lance is pretty empathetic and so them being upset would bother him a bit; he definitely didn't mean to make any of them feel that way, and so he'll just agree and tell them he understands why they're disappointed and that he appreciates that they're willing to talk to him anyway. If any of the agents want an actual explanation for why he didn't come to them first, he'll offer that he genuinely wasn't aware that was an option, and thought asking Displaced was the best place to start, which is true (though unless he's directly asked he'll avoid doing this so as not to sound like he's dismissing their concerns.)
During conversation about why they joined, he won't be pressing too much--he doesn't want to push his luck with potentially upsetting someone with feeling like they need to talk about a bad experience or something--but as much as they're willing to say he will be interested in more details about the sort of things the UN has done and why that's garnered such hatred for them, as well as wanting to know agents' beliefs as to why more people aren't a part of Morningstar. That's a curiosity thing rather than judgemental; he's trying to get a better sense of the social climate in general, and why native citizens might choose to act or not act.
The information about the Displaced and past interactions between them and Morningstar helps him a lot with context, and he'll make it clear that he appreciates that and is getting a better idea of why the situation might be a little complicated.
He'll probably stop for now with just the agents in New Amsterdam, both because that's a lot already and he wants to think it over before deciding what to do next, though he'll tell Gaby he might be interested in talking to the others in New Beijing in the future.
For questions (including some things I kind of mentioned above, just organized here to be easier):
• Would the Morningstar agents' views about Gaby being known as a pacifist be something they were upfront about in general?
• Any stories/beliefs on why the civilians would or wouldn't be interested in joining Morninstar?
• Although there are clearly different ideas on what methods to use to get there, he'd ask agents what their own ideal outcome would be; would it be that the UN was dismantled and something better takes its place, would they prefer a new government, no government at all, etc etc? It's pretty clear that they want people to have better lives in general, but beyond that, what are they hoping to happen?
• He'd also like to hear what they think their biggest obstacles are to achieving that goal; the UN itself, public sentiment, horrible monster attacks, something else?
As a last note, while talking to the agents he'll be genuinely friendly (if reserved) and will be trying to read their responses/the tone of the conversation and reacting to that, instead of directing it. He has zero interest in upsetting any of them, both out of his general sense of empathy and because he did assure Gaby he wouldn't cause any problems and he meant it. So if any of them decide they don't want to answer something, or even just seem hesitant, he won't pressure them (and will go along with any deflections or changes in subject.)
Relatedly, if they have any questions for him, he'd probably be willing to answer (to an extent since obviously some things should be offlimits) so if there's anything that would come up like that please just let me know!