capeandcowl | xiv

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gilbert nightray | n/a

xiv | voice

This is probably a strange question, ah... is anyone familiar with the procedure for guardianship? If anyone does, I would appreciate a moment of your time. Thank you.

[ He clears his throat, trying to hide the slight embarrassment in his voice. ]

[ PRIVATE to CHRISTINE STANFORD, DARIA MORGENDORFFER, JULIAN KELLER, KURT WAGNER, NATASHA ROMANOV, NELSON GARDNER, PETER PARKER, YAKO KATSURAGI, ZATANNA ZATARA ]

A — [ Gil cuts himself off there, struggling to find the correct word for this. Friend? Acquaintance? Ally? Work partner? ]

Someone from my world has shown up recently. She's still getting a lay of the City and this era, but she's requested to meet some of you in person. We'll be holding a dinner Sunday evening at six o'clock at the house.

If you need the address I'll provide it. [ A beat. ] And let me know if you won't be able to attend.

( ooc: due to the limit on filters, even if your character is friends with gil and wasn't mentioned above you can still comment and he'll likely invite them. he's just shy with some folk!! also, sharon/

auntyquated will be replying in here as well. )

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I would be better equipped personally to inform you of the measures necessary for emancipation, but that's something of the opposite, isn't it? I had a friend who was once legally placed under the guardianship of another, however.

Emancipation? Doesn't that have to do with liberating oneself...?

[ That is so random, he thinks. ]

Ah, I think I've gotten it by now, but thank you.

Well, human laws have a ridiculous habit of not taking a person seriously while they're under a certain age. From what I understood of the concept when I was undergoing the process, emancipation would generally be severing the legal authority of an adult guardian, but it must be performed when those guardians were never present to begin with as well if an untended minor wishes to conduct their own affairs.

It's just a ridiculous hurdle your society's put on the young, as far as I was able to tell, yet no less necessary to do anyway.

[ you're welcome for the irrelevant information and opinion, gil. ]

I'm sure Matthew would have known quite a bit about it, but he's gone now, I hear. Though it doesn't seem you needed it either way.

[ Actually, this is useful information. Perhaps Sharon could file for that eventually. They're just trying to keep anyone off their back as a preemptive measure. ]

So you're from a world where what constitutes an adult is different than here. [ A nod, even if she can't see it. ] It's different where we're from, but I suppose I can understand why they have some of these laws here.

[ But then he pauses, since she clearly indicated she's not human. ]

"Human"?

Yeah, human. As opposed to what I am, being from an "alien" world in an "alien" universe. It would be funny how often the two are taken to be mutually exclusive, except it isn't.

[ but she isn't here to rant about the connotations of the word "alien". ] It isn't so much that what constituted [ because the past tense is important ] an adult is different so much as that it was entirely irrelevant to one's affairs on the planet's surface, given that the age of majority wasn't celebrated by becoming a legally viable individual so much as it involved being banished to join the imperial fleet off-planet.

What sort of differences have you encountered?

[ There's about half a minute of radio silence because what did she just say? ]

Imperial... fleet?

[ Off-planet? ]

Ah... at fifteen she would be considered old enough to be introduced to high society as an adult.

[ And form political connections, etc. It's all actually long and complicated and PH's world build is kind of terrible sometimes. ]

Sounds nice.

[ she has literally no idea, just your average self-sufficient sixteen year old wishing adults pitied and pandered a little less often. ] And how far off would that be?

About a year or so.

Mm. It can be a rough age to be on your own. [ she was a little younger than that herself when she had to start being responsible for everyone else. ] My advice, don't let her think she has to be, no matter the expectations she emerges from. You seem to care enough about her, you need to make sure she knows that, and don't let it be communicated only through words.

I won't.

[ He doesn't feel Sharon is the type to feel overwhelmed by loneliness. She gave up a lot to be Eques' contractor and has had to keep from high society's eye often at social events.

Or maybe...

He's never had to sit and think about how she feels at all. ]

But the Lady Sharon Rainsworth is also a strong young woman.

[ She's stronger than most would expect, that's for sure. ]

I'll keep it in mind if the occasion should arise where I'll need to.

[ she wonders if that's the same sort of thing people say about her. she's strong, she can obviously make it own her own. kanaya certainly puts enough effort into giving the impression, but she's never really believed it. somehow the idea that a complete stranger may potentially have the same problem doesn't sit right with her. ]

Don't take it for granted. Don't let yourself think less of her capabilities, either, but know that if she trusts you enough to allow the question of guardianship be fielded, you may be more important to her than you realize. Especially here, in a strange world that doesn't seem to fit the expectations of the one you left behind.

[ He's starting to feel scrutinized somehow. ]

I already said I won't do such a thing. She's a much stronger and capable person than I...

[ she has that effect on people. probably because she scrutinizes way more often than she ought to, especially when she's hella projecting. ]

That may be in normal circumstances, but you'll be the veteran now. There are things you've come to now here that she won't yet be privy to, and your help can make that transition much easier.

I know.

[ He exhales, quiet and soft. ]

I won't let her go through this alone.

[ There are a number of people he feels indebted to for helping him return to Oz's side and protecting him, Sharon being one of those important people. He might be a good for nothing, but he'll try his damn hardest for anyone in his world who shows up.

Who isn't an enemy, of course. ]

Good, then it sounds like you'll have your new position well in hand. And, if you're lucky, she'll do the same for you.

That's generally how we best survive here.

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Right.

[ He knows Kanaya is right, it's merely a little daunting that someone who sounds a bit younger than him is lecturing him on all this. Then again, he probably needed it. ]

Thank you, Miss...?

[ if she's honest with herself, which she isn't often, she lives for that sort of reaction and the validation it carries. ]

Maryam, but Kanaya is probably better. It's should only fair to wish you luck from here, shouldn't it, Mister...?

Just Gilbert is fine. There's no need for titles.

Very well, Gilbert. I suppose neither of us are much for titles, then, despite finding ourselves in situations that could make them appropriate.

Are you sure? I have noticed many of the young women of this world don't enjoy being called "Miss", but it does seem so impolite and awfully casual.

Well, for one thing, I think "Ms." might apply better from a technical perspective of the etiquette, given what you would now know from our discussion. [ it's more adult that way, which is all that really matters to her. ]

But more than that, I'm afraid it may be overly formal in a context that isn't.

Is it different where you are from? [ He knows very little about trolls and he has yet to find out Kanaya is one. ] "Ms." would... Ms. Natasha seems to prefer that form of address.

Different in which way? The general differences are numerous enough that it's difficult to really compare some things, honorifics included.

It's completely different, then, I see.

[ Curiosity, though... ]

Have you found it easy to adapt...?

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