In Which The Overlord Is Moody [Open, Post-Council Meeting]

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He'd said a lot of things at the Council meeting, of course. A lot of talk and enough action implied that he hoped he'd accomplished something, anything. It wasn't like Overlording, nowhere near as fun or as rewarding, but it had to be done.

She would have appreciated it.

The Overlord stood in the middle of the Hub, staring upwards at the countless tubes and signs up above with an air of bitter expectation. Mana swirled around him chaotically, reflecting the irritation that boiled beneath the exterior badass surface. Even the windless billowing of his cape and hair seemed slightly off -- more frenetic, less composed. And for anyone who could sense his mana power... it had decreased. Noticeably, though not so low as to dethrone him from his status as strongest in the cosmos, of course,

"Damn it, Salome," he said to the tube that lead to the Clothing Room, and thus indirectly to the Pod Caverns. "Where the hell ARE you? You've got no damn excuse for keeping me waiting."

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[ternaui.livejournal.com]

The Chancellor steps into the area. Hearing that was a little hard to miss. "It is difficult to be left waiting, is it not?" He can't help but say.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"It's inexcusable," Zetta said darkly. "She's an Overlord and she's my disciple. I trained her better than this. What's the excuse? Her soul is in danger of falling out? That's crap."

He rammed the knuckles of his hands together, hard enough to spark. Not hard enough to break the skin; he was a demon, and thus awesome like that. But as much as he wanted to pretend he was angry -- and had even convinced himself -- it would take a very oblivious soul to think he was anything other than worried.

[ternaui.livejournal.com]

"I take it she is probably far too competent to find herself in this situation?" This is diplomatic speak for 'would you like to talk about her?'

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Damn straight," Zetta grumbled. He looked down at the floor for a moment, then back up, fire in his blank white eyes. (Not literally. This should be clarified.) "I guess it's rougher on demons than people. It only makes sense that I was the first Overlord out. But if ALEX is out, then Salome freaking should be too. She could make a laughingstock out of him!"

[hexyeah]

"Councilor Zetta." It was clear from her sharp tone of voice that Wanda Maximoff was (still) not happy with him. "May I have a word?"

[badassfreakingoverlord]

The Overlord went still for a moment -- or as still as anyone could get with the level of shameless power display and flaming hair and billowing cloak as standard effects could get -- then smiled darkly as he turned to look at her. "If you stop at just a word, I'll be impressed. Let me guess. You're still pissed at how I was talking in the meeting, and you'd like to lecture me."

[hexyeah]

As far as Wanda was concerned, Zetta's appearance was in severe need of a redesign.

"Yes. Whatever our differences, the reason we called for an open meeting was to assure the crew and promote unity. Not to make things worse."

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

"Yo~" Ronnie greeted a bit cheerfully. "You alright Zetta?" She asked curiously.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You sound cheerful," he said, ignoring her question blatantly. "I'm a little surprised. I figured next time I saw you you'd be scowling at me third-party."

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Ronnae tilted her head curiously, "Why would I be scowling at you Zetta?"

[thewunderkind]

"Probably wherever Hawke is," Lash answered close by, leaning on one of the walls, her arms crossed. "And I hate waiting so much! I wanna go down there and just break him out with my own hands."

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"He at least has an excuse! What the hell's Salome's? I trained her better than this!"

Zetta, of all people, probably could go down there and start ripping people out. It was a good thing all around that he wasn't so inclined.

[thewunderkind]

"An excuse? I don't think any of us have an excuse to stay down there unless Stacy decides to wake us up when she feels like it." She sighed loudly. "If I wasn't going to get punished for it, I'd just blow up the whole system and wake everyone up. I think it would be much easier that way." She grinned at the thought. "Or at least chaotic enough. Maybe a trim within the ranks might help."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

"So I guess you're gonna keep this new for, huh?"

She was Mindy at the moment, preferring to go for a stroll and having helped Sasami with her restaurant for a little while, seeing no reason to sweat her ass off in her suit so after.

"Good for you. What the hell do you have that look on your face anyhow? Oh wait, that's right. You're on the council now, right. Bet you just had a meeting with the civvies. That was probably fun."

Yeah, not dripping with sarcasm at all.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"Just because you told me I was a book doesn't mean I'm really in a hurry to be one now," he said, rolling his eyes as he turned to her.

Did she realize she'd never actually told him about the Hit Girl/Mindy dichotomy? He might have never noticed that they were the same person except that the status screen didn't change, so he'd always just accepted it as an odd quirk of hers, never knowing the reasons.

"Actually, it was fun," Zetta said. "I pissed people off by not locking up someone forever because they said she was bad, pissed the other Councilors off by speaking honestly and openly, and generally got to enjoy myself."

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

She shrugged. "Hey, I just figured you'd want to be yourself, with all of your memories and crap. Then again, I'm sure you like having a body again, who wouldn't?"

Mindy snickered. "Yeah, I heard about that. It's their own fault for talking and shit. I would have just killed the bitch and made sure it didn't get back to me. They're so stupid, they make it obvious what they're going to do. Everyone would suspect if she died, it would be one of them that did it."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya had happened upon Overlord Zetta sometime after she had blown off some steam (i.e. beating the crap out of a few dummies in the Sensorium) after her messaging with Mai. Seeing him at the Hub, she could make a guess at who he was talking to.

Unlike what he was probably thinking though, Kaya seemed to not look angry at him, far from it: she just look tired.

"Hey," she said softly.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

"You look less angry with me than I figured," he said. Why bother just thinking things when you could say them out loud and gift the cosmos with your awesomeness? "Let me guess, you worked out some anger and now you're just sad and feeling hurt and betrayed."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya stared hard at the Overlord. "I haven't stopped being angry, no. When the Council makes little fuss about ignoring certain testimony and hear only what they want, then yes, I stay angry. If you'd been listening, you and those council people would have realized that we didn't want her jailed indefinitely. You assumed that. And that in itself would not have angered me as much until I found out Aang was told, even though supposedly only the people attacked by Azula were consulted. So right now, yes, I feel betrayed and angry. The hurt comes because despite doing my best to help as many people on the ship that I can, I apparently would only wish Azula to suffer."

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

It didn't take something like mana to give Dhianeila the feeling that somebody was stressed or angry about something. She initially wasn't sure if she should approach Zetta or not, but decided to once he had spoken to nobody in particular ... somebody that he was waiting for. She could certainly feel for that.

"A friend of yours?" she asked quietly, trying not to surprise him too much, as the form she was in didn't make much of a sound when it came to approaching somebody.

[badassfreakingoverlord]

He was an Overlord. It was hard to sneak up on an Overlord thanks to the lack of a fourth wall powers inherent to the position. He just shot her a glance -- not hostile, just cranky. "My disciple."

[dhianeila.livejournal.com]

"Your disciple?" she repeated. And then figured she'd get a better idea of just how long Zetta'd been waiting for her.

"How long have you been awake on this ship, Zetta?"

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[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

That had been... interesting.

Allenby really wasn't one for long, dense discussions, which was what the Council meeting had turned out to be. But she'd come along anyway to see what it was all about, though she hadn't managed to say anything. It'd all seemed like a little much.

She was on her way to either the mess hall or the pod caverns to yell at Stacy (she hadn't decided yet) when she saw Zetta, still in that body and looking moody. "Hey, what's up?"

Better late than never!

[badassfreakingoverlord]

Zetta made a sort of a grunt that probably was intended as a hello.

"Sick of waiting," he muttered. "And pissed off about it."

[nobel-berserker.livejournal.com]

Allenby looked in the direction that Zetta had been muttering in. "Yeah. It doesn't seem to do much good but I go down there anyhow to try and get this damn ship to release the right people." Mostly it involved yelling at Stacy and directly at the people in the pods.