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iwillwalk500miles · 4 years

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chapter 3 of “i’d probably still adore you with your hands around my neck”

“Honor is strange in Atlas, it used to be something held highly—honesty and bluntness. That all changed the second my father rose to power.” Weiss explained.

Well, perhaps that was an exaggeration; it wasn’t the exact second that Jacques was positioned as the head of the SDC that things changed. Things destabilized over time, but it was still true. He was a ruthless man, her father, he always had been. Silly things like social expectation and tradition wouldn’t stop him from bettering himself and his standing, from expanding his wealth. Willow Schnee had unknowingly invited a snake into the precious gardens of Atlas, and that snake did what snakes did best.

Choked the life out of things.

He poisoned Atlesian politics, they’d been bad before, but now they were so much worse. In the days of her grandfather everyone was honest and blunt with each other, and it only took one man to change some of that—revealing a great deal of problems in the system, proving there were no repercussions for people who had no honor.

Everyone had honor, after all, why would they even think to prepare for the lack of it?

Or;

In the before, the Schnee siblings are reunited.

In the after, Weiss resolves herself to introducing Ruby to the most powerful woman in Atlas.

read on ao3

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