I will have you know I don't take kindly to threats. That said, I agree that a lighter response will be merited, now that I know your intentions are at least something in the general direction of good. As you've mentioned, your organization and our faction have not been on good terms in the past. Literally nothing you could have done in that first release could have encouraged a truly positive response, short of "we're moving operations to an artificial island five hundred miles off the coast".
Besides, the Numbered remain a point of debate around the world, no matter our response to things. I still have tapes of various Fox News stories about myself I review when I want a laugh. [Someone on Thunder Corp's team probably remembers the gem about being "harbingers of the lesbian apocalypse".] Even if I'd stayed silent, we would have stirred up a firestorm with that silence. There's no good option.
So it is my sincerest hope that we CAN do good, both to raise the world's opinion of the Numbered, and to show the remainder of the Numbered that - rightfully, as you've said - view Thunder Corp. as a threat that things are changing for the better. I just want to make sure you can hold up your end of the bargain. Pledging to make a change doesn't mean anything if the change never happens. And while I want to believe it will come, please understand my position, and the realities of what I am.
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Besides, the Numbered remain a point of debate around the world, no matter our response to things. I still have tapes of various Fox News stories about myself I review when I want a laugh. [Someone on Thunder Corp's team probably remembers the gem about being "harbingers of the lesbian apocalypse".] Even if I'd stayed silent, we would have stirred up a firestorm with that silence. There's no good option.
So it is my sincerest hope that we CAN do good, both to raise the world's opinion of the Numbered, and to show the remainder of the Numbered that - rightfully, as you've said - view Thunder Corp. as a threat that things are changing for the better. I just want to make sure you can hold up your end of the bargain. Pledging to make a change doesn't mean anything if the change never happens. And while I want to believe it will come, please understand my position, and the realities of what I am.