"You have one of those, but it's a different one I was thinking about." It was odd how both were possible. Then again, it was surprising how no one thought they didn't mesh as if they expected the public persona he presented to be just how the great war hero should act.
"One of the things you learned during the war in Ishaval was how little our government cared about its people. Not the civilians and certainly not the military. We were all just tools to be used until discarded." She frowns at the memory. It had been a hard lesson, but it gave way to so much more.
"You made plans to change the way things were run; however, to do that, we had to make sure no one suspected anything. Part of that included a public image that paints you mostly as a lazy, womanizing, idiot." There's a slight wince when she tells him that. It's a needed but extremely annoying front to have to deal with. "All of the women were in on it as well. They worked for your foster mother, so you weren't actually leaving a trail of broken hearts around the country no matter what the local gossips and newspapers thought."
no subject
"One of the things you learned during the war in Ishaval was how little our government cared about its people. Not the civilians and certainly not the military. We were all just tools to be used until discarded." She frowns at the memory. It had been a hard lesson, but it gave way to so much more.
"You made plans to change the way things were run; however, to do that, we had to make sure no one suspected anything. Part of that included a public image that paints you mostly as a lazy, womanizing, idiot." There's a slight wince when she tells him that. It's a needed but extremely annoying front to have to deal with. "All of the women were in on it as well. They worked for your foster mother, so you weren't actually leaving a trail of broken hearts around the country no matter what the local gossips and newspapers thought."