tuesday de: shonda rimes show

[inlovewithwords]

What scandals has your character been involved in and what's been their role? Alternately, what scandals should have happened involving your character and somehow just never do, and why?

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[has_it]

"Oh, darling, all of them. How do you think they became scandals in the first place? Someone had to find out."

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond: Naw.

Lois: Well, none yet. There will be many. Usually she's exposing them.

Evelyn: ahahahaha she is going to be involved in so many once she gets caught up in things. Sometimes she'll be arbitrating, sometimes she'll be taking part, it's all complicated.

R2: Pretty much anything his humans are involved in, he's somewhat involved in. There's also kind of that time he gets captured by Separatists and it comes out that Anakin hasn't been wiping his data and a) this has totally helped R2 grow as a person but also b) IS A MASSIVE SECURITY RISK. R2 gets out of it without a wipe, having proved his usefulness. He's never wiped again and knows all the things.

Anakin: . . . Can we please just boggle at the collective obliviousness of the Star Wars universe that no one picked up on Anakin and Padme.

Tavi: Sooo there were some rumblings, shortly before Tavi became First Lord, about his relationship with Kitai--that they'd just been sleeping together for years and years. Whoops. He tried to make it up to her and they mostly handled it and her subsequent pregnancy prior to their marriage with "Yeah, we're a couple and having a baby. So? What's your point? Baby's the firstborn with all the rights thereof, what's your point? And would your point really care to argue with our points, which come a the ends of magically enhanced swords on fire?"

Okay they didn't say the last bit but it was implied more than once. Okay actually Kitai probably does fight a few people to make a point about her skills, but Tavi doesn't actually challenge people. He's First Lord, he can't do that. Except that time when I think Tavi did quietly ask some asshole politician if what he meant was [something which amounted to an effective challenge of Tavi], with Tavi deliberately phrasing it that way so that it wasn't him making the challenge, just "sorry did you just in effect challenge me to single combat 'cause if you did, you can be taken up on that." Considering that the sane response to a challenge would be to have Max or Araris fight in his place, and no one wants to fight them, and the insane response is to take it up himself... yeah at some point people stopped being jerks about it.

I'm sure there will be political scandals in the future around corrupt officials--who Tavi disapproves of and will Deal With--or zomg how UNCONVENTIONAL IN THEIR BEHAVIOR--which he and Kitai basically laugh at. Other things, but I am busy and don't want to think about it now.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

I mean, I guess in addition to the scandal of Overwatch continuing to operate clandestinely after being banned from superheroing, people would probably be shocked and appalled that they dug up a wartime Bastion unit for that. The E54s were all supposed to be scrapped years ago and Bastion would likely be seen as a ticking time bomb and a symbol of Overwatch abandoning their scruples.

This is hypothetical, but may happen eventually in canon. It hasn't been that long since Overwatch started operating again; a lot of the story updates in the last year or so have been flashbacks.

[death_gone_mad]

Ha, Amascut is another that can claim, "All of them," but its not totally true. She is involved in a lot in her corner of the world and some bits beyond though, especially after disfiguring the goddess of social pleasantries and creating her world's own monstrous versions of Dame Rumor.

I would say that the whole working with the Mafia but secretly working against them was a sort of scandalous thing that Fairy Fixit did, or her involvement with militant antitheists, but then I remembered fairies don't spend time moralizing and then being scandalized when something immoral happens.

[i_am_your_host]

Back in his earlier days and during his time at the Kit Kat Klub, Emcee had inadvertently broken up several marriages and relationships, and was also the clandestine lover of more than a few high-profile individuals. He's also been paid by people of a certain political party to have sex. He's not proud of that, but that was a very low period in his life.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka: The Jedi do not deal in scandals....okay, by the end of Clone Wars she does get framed in a scandal/treasonous attack on the temple, but I don't think that's exactly what you're after. I'd imagine in Separatist space, there's reports of Lux Bontari's scandalous affair with a jedi, and maybe those has crept into the Republic's tabloids? Aside from that, I can't think of anything.

Sam Wilson: The US being what it is, I can't imagine there aren't conspiracy theories about how Sam corrupted Steve and that's why Cap fought against Tony in Civil War. Before then, I'd imagine there's some stories of Sam and Steve romance, which Sam would be okay with except he knows Steve has his guy already.

[cottoncandypink]

The whole affair with his boss’ wife was a particular low point for Wilford.

Though now he makes a living either blowing scandals out of proportion, or inventing them for ratings.

[quick_clean_pure]

He's the drug dealer for the most famous woman in the world (Amber Sweet, the GeneCo CEO's daughter) and it is a pretty open secret that they're also fucking. So, that's been a biggie.