#Director rvb

[counselor-of-project-freelancer]

The Director’s got a lot of things to get off his chest

[joltning]

y’all ever think about the alpha’s happiness being like the same color as Carolina

[riflemansfrequency]

Do you ever think about like what goes on in the AI classroom off screen. Do you think the Director has pulled any of those like teacher speeches like “Agent York, Agent North and Agent Washington. Are we going to have a problem or will I have to move you three to separate ends of the classroom I am growing tired of your bafoonery. You’re disruptan the lesson and unless you’d like to come up here and teach the class yourself, I would suggest you’d be quiet. I trusted you all with the libertay of picking your own seats, and you delibratahly choose to make me regret it”Or what

[high-voltage-rat]

Actually I'm still thinking about it. Another interesting way in which RvB is anti-war is the way that the Director fills the role of a villain and antagonist (especially in the Recollections trilogy, where he's a faceless villain we never see but is responsible for everything that happens).

In his memos to the Chairman, the Director emphasizes his sense of duty and obligation to the military- he becomes irate for the first time when he feels that it's being implied that he was derelict in his duty... or that the work he did out of that duty is being criticized for being against the military's interests. He also talks about Allison's death in a way I find... interesting.

"You see; I never had the chance to serve in battle. Nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? [...] But, given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself... Had I only the chance."

The idea of sacrifice is central to the way he talks about his wife's loss, to the way he talks about the war in general. He talks of sacrifice with a sense of veneration- that it's something he aspires to do, that he longs for. There's a few ways we can interpret "I would have made those sacrifices myself"...

-That in Allison's place, he thinks he would have laid down his life too.

-That if given the chance, he would have given his life to save hers.

But most interestingly...

-That he would have sacrificed Allison's life for the continued survival of humanity, if that was what duty called for.

...And personally, I think all 3 are true.

In most war media, the Director's perspective on sacrifice is very common. Sacrifice is glorious and heroic- to die in battle is an honour- and it's the only way to ensure the group you serve survives. This is a tool of propaganda- nobody wants to go to war just for the sake of it, you have to give them a reason that the risk of dying or being permanently disabled isn't just acceptable, but desirable. Beyond that, most people don't want to do things they think are immoral- you have to convince them it's important, a necessary lesser evil. You teach them to sacrifice their morals, too.

The way they train soldiers to follow orders and to kill, is to convince them that they, and the people around them, and the people they care about, will all die if they don't. It's drilled into your head from day one. It's the way they ensure their commanding officers won't shy away from sending their men off to die. The message is constant- sacrifice is your duty, and duty ensures your people's survival.

In the Director's eyes, the damage Project Freelancer caused was his sacrifice. He never got the opportunity to sacrifice himself during the war- so he sacrificed others, as military brass do. The Freelancers- including his daughter. The countless sim troopers. Any people he considered "collateral damage" on missions. And when the opportunity to do so presented itself, he sacrificed a copy of himself- Alpha- and he sacrificed a copy of Allison- Tex.

The very thing that derailed his life- the loss of his wife- he made it happen again. He put her copy in dangerous situations, let her exist in the position of constant repeated failure, created the circumstances that would eventually lead to her death. He put their daughter in deadly situations that nearly killed her repeatedly, provided her with impossible expectations leading to self-destructive behaviours in the name of duty, implanted her with two AI knowing they could cause her permanent harm. He was confident he "would have made those sacrifices himself" because he did.

The Director is the embodiment of the military war machine. As an antagonist, he is a warning against buying into the glorification of sacrifice. He's a condemnation of the idea that one should be willing to do anything to win a war- that duty to the military is the thing that ensures survival... All the messages that are pushed to ensure recruitment and obedience of soldiers.

He's a reminder that swallowing the propaganda leads to you doing terrible things... and in the end, you're a broken man left mourning the losses that you suffered even as you repeated them, convinced that it was all necessary.

[churchstopsurgeryscars]

"Clan vs Clan" - A Warrior Cats RvB AU Allegiances

RoseClan Leader: Redstar (Sarge) - Dark red lynx point with amber eyes Deputy: Cinnamoneye (Simmons) - Red-brown tom with gold tabby splotches, one orange eye and one green eye Medic: Oakroot (Lopez) - Brown tom with yellow eyes Warriors: Morningsleep (Grif) - Orange classic tabby with white paws and tail tip Pansymask (Donut) - Pink-ish brown ticked tabby with orange eyes Mudriver (Lorenzo) - Dark brown tom with a white patch on his chest Brackenfire (Gene) - Reddish brown and white tabby with yellow eyes Rainbowheart (Cronut) - Brown ticked tabby with amber eyes Elders: Bloodpath (Surge) - Flame point with blue eyes and a white tail tip VioletClan Leader: Deputy: Thunderwind (Church) - A silver lynx point with bright green eyes Medic: Barkmoss (Loco) - White tom with dark tabby patches Warriors: Duskheart (Tucker) - Grey tom with white paws and chest Softblast (Caboose) - Brown and white tabby with dark blue eyes Tranquilsky (Temple) - Grey and white point with blue eyes Bouldersong (Bucky) - Light grey tabby with white paws and muzzle ThornClan Leader: Stormstar (Director) - Black color point with blue-green eyes Deputy: Spidersilk (Counselor) - Black and white tom with yellow eyes Medic: Lavenderpetal (Doc) - Dark brown and white tabby with blue eyes Warriors: Mountainstep (Maine) - Thick furred white tom with a pale ginger tail and ears Gingernose (Wyoming) - White tom with a light brown tail and a distinct patch on his muzzle Dawnflower (North) - Pale ginger and white tom with green eyes Duskflare (South) - Pale ginger and white molly with green eyes Briarwish (Connie) - Dusty brown tabby with a white muzzle and yellow eyes Weaselstep (Vic) - Pale brown and white tabby with orange eyes Sparkfrost (York) - Brown tabby with a white back and tail Snowclaw (Carolina) - Grey color point with striking green eyes Apprentices: Shellpaw (Wash) - Dark grey tortoiseshell tom with yellow eyes Nightpaw (Texas) - Black spotted tabby with a white chest and muzzle

[starlightreign]

I found this old drawing of the director. Do with this what you will.

[rvb-relationship-royale]

RVB Romantic Relationship Royale- Round 1, Part 3, Poll 11

[starlightreign]

Director Leonard Church moment

they are Cancelling me for dealing with my grief as best i can . also for the vicious war Crimes

[counselor-of-project-freelancer]

now why would he say that………….

[joltning]

day 3 of @chex-appreciation-week: (broken) family

[riflemansfrequency]

I KNOW technically epsilons not the one that’s meant to be the director it just fitted better

[sabotourist]

@banamine-bananime did the voice theyre the funny one here

sleeping good as fuck tonight knowing an omnipotent god AI is going to torture a simulation of me for all eternity. that bitch aint me!!!

[garlic-sauc3]

[janknabobfdi]

[inmemoriame]

sigh

[p0ltus]

It's insane to me how people will still blame South for "overreacting" or "letting jealousy ruin her relationship with her brother" when Connie literally tells the audience The Director is intentionally pitting people against each other to stir the pot. Did you just not pay attention?

South wasn't "jealous" she was being intentionally and strategically punished while North was being favored and praised because THE DIRECTOR. IS. A. BAD. PERSON.

He is experimenting with these people. People like Wash and North don't understand that because they're the ones getting favored. Wash tells Connie she's "overreacting" and that "The Director is helping us!" because that's genuinely what he believes at that point in time. There's also a later clip of North talking to York where they DO start to question what's going on only AFTER evidence of internal corruption is thrown right in their face instead of being told to them second hand.

(I cant add more videos so ill transcribe my clips from here on out)

York: When the cops and the military started shooting at us, yeah, I find I just keep coming back to the same question in my head. Over and over again.

York: We're the good guys, right?

North: Of course we are!

York: You don't sound so sure of yourself.

North: No... No, I suppose I don't...

They only become aware of the problem when the problem is right in their face because The Director is manipulating all of them. Hes putting blinders on them. That's how situations like this work. Those who live comfortably won't understand the mistreatment of those below them because they're in a higher position. In this case, The Director has created an artificial hierarchy which separates and isolates the people he really wants to pick apart and fuck with.

The Director is intentionally doing this as CT says. He wants to drive a wedge between the "good" Freelancers and the "bad" Freelancers and part of that is making sure his top dogs don't see how their colleagues are being blatantly mistreated. If they knew, his little fucked up psychological experiment would backfire.

All of The Freelancers were victims in some way. Trying to say "South was just jealous!" or trying to imply North, York, or Wash had some kind of superiority complex proves you didn't pay attention. The Director was the puppet master. He played with The Freelancers like toys.

North and York don't start to question who's really in the right until proof of The Director's corruption is right in front of them. The cops and the military shooting at them is NOT GOOD. If they were really doing good, that wouldn't happen. They hadn't questioned it before this because as CT says in the previous clip, The Director is intentionally using and manipulating The Freelancers and cherrypicking what they get to know.

He's pitting people against each other. That's why the leader board exists. It's a way to make people hate each other. To create artificial hierarchy within his agents so they start to blame each other. Its to create a sense of competition and shame among these people depending on what number they’re at. Its a manipulation tactic. This includes doing things like treating the higher ranked agents better than those below. The Director treats people like CT and South like shit intentionally. Yes he paints it as a punishment for things like South being reckless at the beginning of season 9 but it's deeper than that. He demotes her on the leaderboard and berrates her in front of her colleagues to embarrass her. He is praying on her inferiority complex to see how she’ll react. Its all part of the experiment.

Wash, North, and Yorks obliviousness doesn't come from "having a superiority complex" it comes from the fact they're only seeing what The Director wants them to see. From the surface level treating these "worse" Freelancers more harsh seems normal, it's standard military procedure. But The Director isn't just criticizing them for not being "the best". Hes intentionally punishing them and embarrassing them in front of their peers so they start to hate the others. He is creating artificial rivalries. Only the people being affected by it notice which is why South and CT are so "mean." THEY’RE IN A LOSING GAME. THEY KNOW THEY WERE FUCKED FROM THE START. THERES NOTHING THEY CAN DO.

The Director treats the higher ranked Freelancers like he treats Alpha. He intentionally keeps them in the dark from what's really going on. Alpha only knows what The Director wants him to know. That's the same with his highest performing agents. When Alpha splits, his fragments are blatantly mistreated but he doesn't know that because The Director won't let him know that. The lower level Freelancers are also blatantly mistreated but the top rankers don't know that because The Director won't let them know that.

When the Freelancers are going to retrieve Connie's armor Connie literally tells Carolina "The Director is playing you, don't you see?" She tells Carolina to her face The Director is manipulating the agents and Carolina still can’t see that for herself because she is still under The Director’s thumb.

In ANOTHER clip where Tex watches the video CT left her along with the files, CT says:

CT: “I never could shake the feeling that something was wrong with the program. The secrets, the lies, the manipulation. Smoke. All of it obscuring a big damn fire.”

Here is when CT finally uses the word manipulation itself to describe what The Director is doing to them. Her metaphor about smoke is her way of explaining how The Director would keep them all in the dark in order to keep them obedient, but also to get them to distrust each other. Part of the goal of Project Freelancer is psychological experimentation. The Director is using these people like lab rats not just for his AI obsession, but also to study how these soldiers will cope/react when he tries to turn them against each other.

They are ALL victims. Its not “South is a bitch wah wah” or “North thinks hes better than his sister” or “CT only left because she knew she wasn’t good enough to be a freelancer”. They were being abused. ALL of them. The Director is an evil, sociopathic man who only cares about his own self gain and research. He just wants Allison back. He sees no value in the lives of his agents. It’d be nice if more people would realize that instead of doing the exact same thing The Director did and trying to paint one freelancer as worse or better than the other.

TLDR: Fuck that sad poo lookin cocksucker.