Thread: [4.4 Discussion] "The Reunion"

I almost expect Shadowhunter to mysteriously and Totally Coincidentally take his leave of Alphinaud and Maxima mere minutes before the rest of the Scions arrive, and Alphinaud goes "who was that gallant and amazingly cool man", and the Scions go "we never saw him, but if he helped you through the Burn he must be a good person", and half the playerbase expires from orbs azure.

Originally Posted by Enkidoh

Well, ironically enough Nero appeared to be the most rebellious of Gaius's tribunes - Livia and Rhitahtyn were both zealously devoted to him, where as Nero simply went along with him for his own ends (not surprising then that he alone wisely realized when it was better to cut his losses and run after we beat him up, rather than his counterparts who fought us to the death, and paid for it with their lives). So yeah I too am keen to see a reunion between them... I imagine it would be very awkward.

And both Nero and Gaius were well aware that Gaius's first choice was always Cid, which would have been exceptionally annoying to Nero's inferiority complex. I'm not sure Gaius ever saw Nero as anything more than settling for what he could get, and Nero responded to that level of (lack of) loyalty in kind.

However, if they had both laid it out in the open (and I would imagine Gaius to be the sort to do so) from the beginning, then I'd imagine their professional relationship to be fairly acceptable. Both were doing their jobs, both knew what each expected of each other, and both had no hard feelings either way. If either one were the sort to let personal feelings interfere, I'd actually expect it to be Nero.

Originally Posted by YianKutku

I'm not sure Gaius ever saw Nero as anything more than settling for what he could get, and Nero responded to that level of (lack of) loyalty in kind.

I kind of don't think this is quite the case. While Nero is certainly second to Cid in terms of engineering ability, Nero is the one I'd trust more then Cid to deliver what he promised when he promised to do it. I can see Nero replacing Cid as a lead engineer, but I can't ever see Cid as a Tribunus.

The very reason Jessie even hires Nero on is because Cid really isn't cut out for running the Ironworks. He's really bad at keeping the business side of the Ironworks going on a day-to-day basis and can't seem to get that the Ironworks has to make a profit off of what he's doing. In fact, what he's doing is usually making sure various technologies don't spread. Which given the type of technologies he comes across is understandable, but still... Cid's seems like the kind of guy who comes up with all the prototypes, but never bothers figuring out how to mass-produce them. That's everyone else's job at the Ironworks. Only recently, it sounds like he hasn't even been making prototypes because he's so busy helping the Scions... I can easily see Jessie hiring Nero because she knows Cid will focus on what Nero is doing once he finds out about it (as opposed to not wanting to work on anything he doesn't feel like working on).

Oh man... I just thought of something hilarious... Jessie and Giaus have worked with both Cid and Nero. I can so see Jessie and Giaus swapping stories about all the difficulties they've had trying to get Cid to work on the engineering projects he's supposed to be working on. And all the ways they managed to get him to do what they wanted.