IC Speed Dating Meme

[fairbrook]

IC Speed Dating Meme

Rules:
1. Post with your character by creating a "card" with your name, sex, and preferences.
2. Tag to others.
3. You supposedly only have seven minutes, but that's up to the muns how many comments. [To hell with that, let's not put a limit on how many comments]
4. Have fun.

Comments

[waterbearer]

If you were a member of it, you would know. It is simply known as 'The Team'. [ Super speshul club invites only. ]

And that is more a precaution to avoid command structure pressure, than anything else.

[bythewaves]

Something from your home, then? [ A shrug ] I suppose it might make it difficult in one sense, if relations were to develop within a small group - but might it not also strengthen ties?

[waterbearer]

[ sort of something from home that has migrated here and managed to adopt people along the way. ]

Relationships within or outside of the team are not discouraged. [ On the contrary, everyone but him totally has a date ] Rather, as leader, my entering into a relationship with any subordinate would be unwise.

[bythewaves]

Ah I see - yes, that might well be difficult, to balance the responsibilities of a leader with those of a lover. But that would be true even if you took a partner outside of your command structure no?

[waterbearer]

[ Kaldur is honestly surprised, he didn't expect to have to spell this part out. Was this S.O.P. for most military forces? ]

The conflict comes in that I am their direct superior. Any relationship with a subordinate would have to deal with that existing command structure. It is entirely too possible that pressuring to stay in the relationship might occur—whether intended or not, the stress that the disparity of being in an equal relationship has on the authority and the ability to command in a structure that does not reflect that level of equality, as well as the general complications that can result from being within a relationship being created or exacerbated by the existing command structure.

All of these exist outside of my or my teammate's ability to balance responsibilities.

[bythewaves]

[ Eh, you work around it. Brother, son, lover, best friend, cousin... you work around it ]

I can see how it would be difficult, although I would argue that it could be done, provided one remembered where the lines between duty and relationship lie. [ Says he who left his beloved brother to die for the sake of the rest of their people ] But I suppose it might be easier to simply not form those relationships, although one does not always have a choice.