![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lantairvleaMorgan gave me a prompt about what frustrates various characters the most about the bureaucratic side of the Brotherhood of the Meim.
Danrick Mishor doesn't like having to go through the regional representative. I'm pretty sure said representative is rather put out about Mishor's habit of going around him.
Zekkarran Illendis and his relationship to Brotherhood of the Meim bureaucracy. Illendis is very good at what he does. His ability to assess aptitude, help people develop their own skills, and produce the constructs themselves is second to none at Engama and probably in the very top percentage of the Brotherhood as a whole. He could probably do awful things to people if he so chose at a distance. That said, it isn't in his nature to be combative. I don't think he is very ambitious so far as status and power goes for the sake of being praised by others. I think he is a pretty self-motivated guy who is also very curiosity-driven. I can very much see him being in an experimental mindset and if he was going to get into trouble with something it might be that. I don't know if he ever pushed against some of the taboo things the Brotherhood has very strict statutes against the use of constructs because most of it centers around the use of them within bodies and, again, he's not combative and doesn't want to do damage to anybody so I doubt he butted up against that.
I believe his wife lives with one of their children in Golan. There may be some obnoxious things he has to deal with crossing borders multiple times a year, but I don't think that really has to deal with the Brotherhood.
Despite what he tells his students, he may not entirely agree with the compulsory secrecy. At least the extreme level the Brotherhood insists on (not even family or spouse), but that's not necessarily bureaucratic nonesense either.
Basically I'm having a hard time figuring out his reaction to the bureaucracy because he doesn't really run up into it with his station. There may have been things when he started at Engama. I don't think he was there to begin with when the prior Hafitch was there, I think he was a Mishor appointment because Danrick Mishor keeps his ears open and tries to know about everyone. I don’t know how obnoxious bhis transfer process was, if his prior Hafitch protested at all.
Silfiya is frustrated by the burden of proof required to take action against superiors. Moving from Kamenlohn to Ela'yas was more about a fresh start. Dayfid Hillenbohn was a bit obnoxious, but he didn't take any action directly against her, just annoyed her about where Kayrin went. She also had an engagement that soured after the negotiations finished and between the two she wanted to remove herself. She wasn’t going to go to Geteilpohth, she didn't have the incentive Kayrin did to just shed all human connections and she wasn't as trusted as Kayrin was either.
Domman to Engama was very much about getting out from under Alekandler Triden because she didn't have enough proof for all the things he did to successfully appeal to the regional representative to take action against Triden. She did seriously consider shedding her connections with the Brotherhood entirely. I need to go back and look, but I think her daughter was in her second year by then, which complicated things. I don't know if she reached out to Mishor or if he did, but Engama was a welcome solution. Had she been successful in getting justice, book two would have been a very different story.
Alekandler Triden thought the bureaucracy worked just fine until Danrick Mishor became a Hafitch. Even then, it wasn't too awful, he just thought there was a bit of nepotism involved in someone that young (34) being appointed. Yes, Lodawnrick Mishor was on the Gordie'en Council and probably helped steer Danrick towards promotional banishment rather than whatever else the Council may have done. Triden became Hafitch himself three years later and used the position to his full advantage. Things took a downward turn in his mind when Sray was allowed to join. When he was detained and shipped off to the Council Seat two years later to face the consequences of his actions (particularly concerning Kallon) I'm sure he found the bureaucracy most frustrating at that point. I'm pretty sure he worked really hard to make things go his way, but the deck was stacked pretty high against him.
Danrick Mishor doesn't like having to go through the regional representative. I'm pretty sure said representative is rather put out about Mishor's habit of going around him.
Zekkarran Illendis and his relationship to Brotherhood of the Meim bureaucracy. Illendis is very good at what he does. His ability to assess aptitude, help people develop their own skills, and produce the constructs themselves is second to none at Engama and probably in the very top percentage of the Brotherhood as a whole. He could probably do awful things to people if he so chose at a distance. That said, it isn't in his nature to be combative. I don't think he is very ambitious so far as status and power goes for the sake of being praised by others. I think he is a pretty self-motivated guy who is also very curiosity-driven. I can very much see him being in an experimental mindset and if he was going to get into trouble with something it might be that. I don't know if he ever pushed against some of the taboo things the Brotherhood has very strict statutes against the use of constructs because most of it centers around the use of them within bodies and, again, he's not combative and doesn't want to do damage to anybody so I doubt he butted up against that.
I believe his wife lives with one of their children in Golan. There may be some obnoxious things he has to deal with crossing borders multiple times a year, but I don't think that really has to deal with the Brotherhood.
Despite what he tells his students, he may not entirely agree with the compulsory secrecy. At least the extreme level the Brotherhood insists on (not even family or spouse), but that's not necessarily bureaucratic nonesense either.
Basically I'm having a hard time figuring out his reaction to the bureaucracy because he doesn't really run up into it with his station. There may have been things when he started at Engama. I don't think he was there to begin with when the prior Hafitch was there, I think he was a Mishor appointment because Danrick Mishor keeps his ears open and tries to know about everyone. I don’t know how obnoxious bhis transfer process was, if his prior Hafitch protested at all.
Silfiya is frustrated by the burden of proof required to take action against superiors. Moving from Kamenlohn to Ela'yas was more about a fresh start. Dayfid Hillenbohn was a bit obnoxious, but he didn't take any action directly against her, just annoyed her about where Kayrin went. She also had an engagement that soured after the negotiations finished and between the two she wanted to remove herself. She wasn’t going to go to Geteilpohth, she didn't have the incentive Kayrin did to just shed all human connections and she wasn't as trusted as Kayrin was either.
Domman to Engama was very much about getting out from under Alekandler Triden because she didn't have enough proof for all the things he did to successfully appeal to the regional representative to take action against Triden. She did seriously consider shedding her connections with the Brotherhood entirely. I need to go back and look, but I think her daughter was in her second year by then, which complicated things. I don't know if she reached out to Mishor or if he did, but Engama was a welcome solution. Had she been successful in getting justice, book two would have been a very different story.
Alekandler Triden thought the bureaucracy worked just fine until Danrick Mishor became a Hafitch. Even then, it wasn't too awful, he just thought there was a bit of nepotism involved in someone that young (34) being appointed. Yes, Lodawnrick Mishor was on the Gordie'en Council and probably helped steer Danrick towards promotional banishment rather than whatever else the Council may have done. Triden became Hafitch himself three years later and used the position to his full advantage. Things took a downward turn in his mind when Sray was allowed to join. When he was detained and shipped off to the Council Seat two years later to face the consequences of his actions (particularly concerning Kallon) I'm sure he found the bureaucracy most frustrating at that point. I'm pretty sure he worked really hard to make things go his way, but the deck was stacked pretty high against him.
no subject
Date: 2024-11-22 05:48 am (UTC)If it helps, there are often a few common paths that take place when bureaucracy is suffocating, either people become outlaws, or seek the help/protection of outlaws, think Robin Hood and Zorro (sometimes to the point of creating a second whole "illegal system", like the mafia, pirates and smugglers, or an underground group the operates illegally within the existing government like the Underground Railroad of slaves to the free North), or you end up with and outright public revolt (French Revolution), or a less open "resistance" group that tries to work around and undermine the bureaucracy (like the black market operators during WWII who actually benefit from the war). Some groups WANT to overthrow it, others do not because their system of work-arounds is more effective if the current crooked officials and sympathizers remain in position.
Some interesting ideas for intrigue here.