I've got a list of names | Glowfic Constellation

Afen is disappointed in the universe. He bounds back and forth across his room explaining why to his wife, his infant granddaughter, the end table, and a reporter flabbergasted by her good luck and cringing silently against the wall in the hopes he won't remember she's there.

"There is no reason to suppose that a species evolving independently of Amentans, with their own evolutionary history and living mammalian species likely related to theirs, would end up looking like us. None. Every explanation every scientist has ventured to the press has been unimaginative and unconvincing retroactive refitting of bad models to baffling data. Aliens shouldn't look like us but with different hair colors. Aliens that are not made out of carbon at all would be unsurprising; aliens with only as much physiological dissimilarity as exists between us and animal species on our planet would be mildly surprising; aliens with opposable thumbs would be truly remarkable. This is not remarkable and biologically enlightening; this is just inconsistent with everything we understand about the universe. It doesn't teach us new things about evolution; it should make us rethink evolution. - don't quote that part, they'll take it out of context."

Reporter nods rapidly.

"All of that said, I've picked up three of the languages and I'm working on building a good machine translator, it's a challenge with as little as they've produced in the way of electronic records. I'm absolutely going there to meet them as soon as the politicians figure out what to do with themselves."

"Do you have any predictions about that?"

"About politics? Why would I have predictions about politics? They deliberately obscure relevant information, for one thing, and for another it's deathly boring."

"- I mean, sir, surely you hear from your son about -"

"I have seven children and some of them are very dense indeed but not quite dense enough to try to interest me in politics."

"I was referring to -"

"I know who you were referring to. If you want a statement from Aitim go bother Aitim."

"Thank you for your time."

"I did not alter my activities in response to your presence and therefore you can't yet be said to have wasted any of my time though you should go before you do."

...out skitters the reporter.

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...step one, kill the successor, step two, torture this guy until he agrees to leave them alone, step three ignore Muggles as is right and proper?

The successor is on Planet Alien and they have unclear stowaway safeties.

Well, fuck.

Someone proposes they try torturing current guy until he agrees to leave them alone and, if instead he seems to decide to retire, erasing his memory- "we're not worse off than before -"

Someone else figures that they can just stick to people without colorful hair for the time being, it's not that much hassle, is it.

Someone else observes that if they just go out in teams of two or more there's no way the Muggles would be able to arrest them, so that'd be safe enough.

There is a growing faction in favor of just ignoring the Muggles as is right and proper.

Well there's ignoring the Muggles, and then there's letting them lock up citizens whose hobbies include not ignoring Muggles.

Oh, yeah, no one is in favor of that.

So they can't just ignore them.

...it is impossible that there is no angle on influencing a Muggle which doesn't involve dealing with his successor.

There really should be but if the Chinese had one they would not be bothering everyone else about it.

Torture-and-then-mindwipe-if-it-didn't-work guy is trying to win adherents.

too-early-and-too-late

Maybe wizards who want to go after colorful-haired people and object to taking backup can just enchant their robes into emergency Portkeys or something, and maybe wizards who don't know how to do that should just take backup or pick easier targets.

The Statute could then be completely fucked by one person who was bad at risk assessment.

Does the guy have a wife or heir or anything.

too-early-and-too-late

He does not have a wife. He has some acknowledged bastards, the oldest of whom is five.

That probably won't do it.

too-early-and-too-late

Yeah, no way.

Maybe someone else's diplomats will have better luck.

Nations confer about whether they want to have a try.

...someone volunteers that recording devices break if you Apparate, so probably if you grabbed him and hopped around a couple times to make sure they were dead, you could have as many goes as you needed at bringing him around.

Oh, that could be handy. The Chinese don't care to retry though.

There is a while of muttering while people hope someone else will agree to do it.

too-early-and-too-late

Timothy tries not to look anxious.

The 'hope someone takes their cue on the Imperius' plan looks pretty good?

The guy who wants to torture Aitim looks mildly disappointed.

Lots of people are really upset to be in this situation and trying to figure out who is to blame.

"We'll talk to him," says the delegation from Imerina.

Aitim Neli

"What charming people," he says when Timothy shows up that evening.

too-early-and-too-late

"Uh huh. Do you want me to impersonate you."

Aitim Neli

" - yes, if we can pull it off and if your family would not turn mine into hedgehogs in anger if you die."

too-early-and-too-late