[OPEN] Avengers Assemble

[socialbutterfly]

Characters: Members of SEES, new and old, as well as anyone who wants to stop by.
Location: SEES HQ, sort of under minor renovations.
Rating: I want a clean fight, guys.
Time: Dinner-time/Evening
Description: SEES has been without leadership for a while, so it's time to talk about that and other things. Over dinner.
Further Reading: OOC Post 1, OOC Post 2, Network Post 1

The SEES HQ is a humble, unadorned office in the process of renovation. There is scaffolding on the outside (really a continuation of the arcade expansion happening next door) and buckets of paint on the floor inside, stored until needed.

The arrangement of desks in the middle and chairs along the outside give it an almost conference room feeling, except that each seat has a dinner setting of plate and utensils (and chopsticks), and the middle of the table is covered in Kanji's generous dinner spread.

((Action or Log, your choice. Just have fun and let's talk about some baskets.))

Comments

The Meeting

[socialbutterfly]

"Hi everyone... It's good to see everyone here who could make it."

Minato's going to keep this meeting simple because it doesn't have to be complicated.

"This meeting is about how to keep SEES going. As Seta-san and the other Arisato-san have gone home, SEEs is now my responsibility again. It is a responsibility I want to share with all of you because it is your efforts and ideas which really define SEES and make it special."

He smiles at everyone at the table. Really, thank you for being here.

"Allow me to share with you my vision for the future so that I may entrust all of you with it."

((The essense of what Minato is going to say can be found here. Please feel free to discuss it with one another or with Minato. For the open forum, look one thread down.))

[OPEN] Q&A!

[socialbutterfly]

[After all that.]

Any questions?

Re: [OPEN] Q&A!

[scatterflower]

Nope. I think you handled all of that pretty well.

*Chika's smiling, grinning quite a bit as she's looking over at Minato. But then something comes to her.*

Oh, actually, I think I might have a question after all. The whole Team Building thing... should we also try resonating with each other to see who we can work together with and go with that person on missions, or what?

[socialbutterfly]

[Minato looks around the table first before replying]

We can try. If we gather together during training like the Watch does, it'll be easy. However, I'm more interested in building an overall team... one comprised of different partnerships and unpartnered members that is capable of working together effectively during an emergency. Support, assault, healing... anti-Madness...

[scatterflower]

*She nods.*

I guess that makes sense, but well... are people who aren't partnered going to really be much help in that situation. Most Meister abilities need to be used during a resonance, right?

[socialbutterfly]

Mine doesn't... What abilities require resonance?

[scatterflower]

Well, I know of one that lets you fly while you're resonating with someone, but I figured most abilities were like that. What's your ability?

[socialbutterfly]

I can put protective seals around other people...

[scatterflower]

Really? That's kinda cool.

[socialbutterfly]

I'll show you during your next break at work. [He looks around...] It's too cramped in here to do it without breaking something...

The point is, Chika-chan, that individuals without partners can still contribute a lot. We just have to change our focus from partnerships to teams.

ALL THE ASSUMPTIONS. ;; Hope this is okay.

[kuramaless]

Food. There was food. No one told him there was going to be food!

He'd filled his plate before Minato had started, grabbing bits and pieces throughout the talking... and the questions that followed.

What it does, more than anything else is make it incredibly easy to focus on what Minato is saying. With his primary thoughts pre-occupied by food, he can actually take on board the things that are being explained to him, and although he understands, agrees and accepts everything he really has nothing to ask-- Well.

"So, when d'we get one of them band thingies?"

this is okay, although you might have to get answers from Kanji and I for it haha

[socialbutterfly]

The food was really a last minute idea. It hadn't occurred to him to set it up this way at all until the desks, chairs, and food was in front of him. Long term planning may have never been his forte, but working with what was available certainly was.

As for the bands. "When Kanji-kun makes them. You can look at mine first, if you want."

He removes the band from his arm and holds it out. "But be careful... it's what we'll use to make the rest..."

=D

[kuramaless]

It was the best idea, really. For someone who had been living off ramen cups recently, this was amazing.

"Ah-- Right. Where'd you get yours then?"

A quick wipe of his hands down his pant legs 'cleans' his hands before he reaches out to take the band, putting it up against his arm.

"You reckon... they might have 'em in orange?"

[socialbutterfly]

"It's from my world... they're all red back home, so I hadn't thought of different colours..." He supposes it is possible. They're probably only red because Mitsuru preferred red. "Wouldn't they be hard to see on your clothes if that was the case, though..?"

[kuramaless]

"Oh." Actually, he took that to mean that he wasn't going to change the colour, but at Minato's observation, and after a quick look at his arm he slumped even further.

"Guess it kinda would be hard t'see." It would match the symbol on his back though-- at least there was that.

"I don't mind red."

[socialbutterfly]

"Maybe we can give you an orange hat as well..."

[kuramaless]

That's enough to make him lift his hands to touch his head.

"A hat? Er, I dunno one of them red bands'll be alright."

[socialbutterfly]

"If you're sure." Minato smiles easily, reaching his hand out for his SEES band back. It is, after all, the original, so he'd like to keep it close.

"It'll help us identify one another in an attack as well. Red stands out."

[ritsu_kouyou]

Akiha waited a moment, mulling the information over, before indicating she had a question.

"Are all aspects of this group's purpose expected of its members, or is it possible to focus on more than others?" She wasn't exactly a friendly face with the sharpness of her eyes and the way she tended to look at people like she was judging them.

Because she was.

[socialbutterfly]

Minato found that unfriendly look profoundly interesting. Maybe this was the female version of Shinjiro from a different dimension...

"The group as a whole focuses on all aspects. However, it is up to individual members to decide where their talents best lie and to contribute according to their skills and interests. Additionally, any member can suggest further areas of focus so long as they promote SEES' mission."

A long-winded explanation, but since he was already talking so much, there was no point in being terse or vague about it.

Turning it around. "What specifically were you thinking of focusing on?"

[ritsu_kouyou]

If she didn't have to hold hands and sing songs with the clueless when they arrive - as she was sure most of the newcomers in general didn't grasp the situation as quickly as she did - she could put up with the other less appealing aspects.

"I have little patience for idiots or the ignorant. I'm a very direct woman that prefers to act than sit around waiting for something to be handed to me." Which may seem to contradict her mannerisms as her rich upbringing was quite evident. "I have more of an interest in the investigation and protection aspects."

[socialbutterfly]

"That's where my personal focus is also, so I hope you don't mind working together with me." After all, when he started SEES, it was singularly focused on the protection part of the equation. Everything else came to be under different leadership: valuable, but not what he was good at. However, that also meant that the investigation and protection aspects were new to the formalized SEES.

In contrast to her hard expression, he smiles warmly at her. "Since we're all volunteers, you can choose not to involve yourself with the other aspects. It's better if we specialize, after all."

[ritsu_kouyou]

"It is better to be excellent at a few things than to be mediocre at everything."

Akiha wasn't sure what to make of Minato just yet, and she didn't respond to the smile, but she wasn't using her colder glares. "I see no reason to object to your leadership, Arisato-san." There was an unspoken 'yet' there, but that's just how she was.

"My name is Tohno Akiha. And even volunteers need structure or nothing gets done."

[socialbutterfly]

"My name is Arisato Minato. My speciality isn't structure, but I'm good at getting things done. It's why I've chosen to rely on everyone here. Together, we will augment our strengths and cover for our weaknesses."

Then he lifts a shoulder in a carefree manner. "I hope that SEES proves sufficient to your needs and helps to bring out your best, Tohno-san."

[ritsu_kouyou]

Minato was showing himself to be someone Akiha was having trouble reading. He seemed equal parts determined and go-with-the-flow. Like a river. Hmm.

"I will have to talk this over with my partner, but I believe it will be suitable."