Apology Tour 2012: Audio

[lesliemonster]

[ooc: post is backdated to three days after the Boardwalk Empire-esque flood.]

[Leslie Knope has spent the past three days in a self inflicted cocoon of SHAME. But even though she is now a law-breaking, Jesse-beating-up, moonshine-hustling criminal, and officially one of the worst people on the barge, she still has a job to do, darn it.

She has already apologized to Jesse, but that is not enough. Not nearly.

So she sits up, brushes herself off, and starts to speak:]

I would like to personally apologize to anyone that I may have offended, insulted, shamed, threatened, assaulted, murdered, waterboarded, knuckle punched, chainsawed, belittled, and/or put in a compromising position over the course of the last few days.

[Private to Toshiko]

I am sorry that I took your beautiful, intelligent brain and used it for evil.

[Private to Lua]

I am sorry that I took it upon myself to be your gang's token insane member.

[Private to Omar]

I am sorry that I put myself in the position where I was robbed by you. How are you?

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[breakingmyheart]

[She's quiet for a moment, groping around for an answer that isn't 'I'd punch him if I didn't think he'd rip me in half'.]

We've...reached an impasse. He's like a lot of Inmates in that he thinks graduating will need him to abandon his personal ideals. I'm human, so he won't listen to a word I say, so I can't convince him otherwise. All I can do now is sit on my hands and wait for him to realise that he's wrong.

[A little frustration bleeds into her voice at the end there, but not nearly as much as what she's actually feeling.]

[lesliemonster]

If his personal ideas are killing all humans then, yeah. That's going to need a revisit.

[Leslie could guess the depth of the frustration -- it's something she feels with Omar, a section of the time.]

That's a method I've been applying. It sucks. [She smiles, and takes a sip.] What about Charles Xavier?

[breakingmyheart]

[His personal ideal isn't a world devoid of humans. At least, she doesn't think it is. What she supposes he wants is a world without fear of reprisals against who and what he is, and any genocidal tendencies are just a rather aggressive means of accomplishing that. But that's brass tacks and overly personal to boot.

At the mention of Xavier she frowns and takes a gulp of her beer. There's a lot she'd like to say about him, but Leslie does seem to have 'semi-benign meddler' written all over her and she doesn't want to give too much away.]

We don't talk. I made a pretty bad first impression. Though I don't mind saying he's probably the only thing stopping Erik going completely off the rails.