In the beginning - Part 4
The Press Secretary
‘It’s a PR nightmare! The Citizen Law Enforcement Act is back in the spotlight with this little incident at Bayside City. Everybody is now an expert and sprouting their opinions on any channel that will ask them a question. It’s a mad rush for maximum viewership. People are calling law enforcement ineffective all because of one hostage situation that made national headlines. And the voices for change keep getting louder. As if the people can be trusted to know what they want. It’s our job to figure out what’s good for them.’
‘This ‘Evolved’ situation has been a nightmare since it started about three years ago, where random people suddenly developed these… ‘superpowers’. And every week, like clockwork, the opinions shift! One week, people are against these ‘Evolved’ using their ‘powers’ in public; the next week, they are clamouring for allowing them to operate because of a stray incident.
‘And now, that… woman… who started all this mess is in a 'special meeting' with the President and the ‘Inner Circle’, while we’re all stuck outside here waiting on whatever they are discussing in there. All the while, every reporter I know is bugging me for the scoop. I wonder how much of this ‘attention’ she’s getting is because she’s tall and blonde. And just what does she want that she has to come barging in here like this? No ‘Evolved’ has dared pull off a stunt like this before, walking right up to the front lawns of the White House. This has to be part of a larger agenda. The timing is too convenient…’
Just then the doors open and we’re called into the Briefing Room. Everyone present there looks exhausted, like they’ve been the longest, most intense and most important discussion of their lives. That woman sits silently watching us all as we enter. There’s a pall of silence after everyone has settled down.
No one dares look at their watches when suddenly the President speaks, “Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Victory Girl. Yes, she has adopted the name the people have given her. Also, beginning tomorrow, we begin the process of initiating a new program for all Evolved who would like to do their part as citizens of this country - to use their gifts for the betterment of society. We will pass this by Executive Order if required, but this will come to fruition. The specifics of how it will roll out, the personnel involved, and what it will entail will be deliberated and developed over the coming week. Victory Girl will be on board as a special consultant to my team here. She will also be the chief representative of the Evolveds and the Acting Director of the proposed Division for Evolved activities, or as we intend to call it, the ‘E-Division’.”
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And that concludes this chapter. I've winged it a lot in terms of how policies are named and implemented but dammit Jim, I'm a writer, not a politician.
I wanted to create a world which has some form of a legalised superhuman taskforce that deals with superhuman crime, etc. I had initially intended it to be a matter of fact which wouldn't need explanation, but then decided to tie it into Victory Girl's origin. I figured this was the easiest way to do it.
***Edit***
We skip ahead to one year after the events of this story, but that's not a Victory Girl story (but it takes place in the VictoryVerse). You can follow it here: https://thefixersden.blogspot.com/p/02-partners.html
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This post originally appeared here: https://www.deviantart.com/nyctophobia11/art/Victory-Girl-In-the-beginning-Part-4-836465094
‘It’s a PR nightmare! The Citizen Law Enforcement Act is back in the spotlight with this little incident at Bayside City. Everybody is now an expert and sprouting their opinions on any channel that will ask them a question. It’s a mad rush for maximum viewership. People are calling law enforcement ineffective all because of one hostage situation that made national headlines. And the voices for change keep getting louder. As if the people can be trusted to know what they want. It’s our job to figure out what’s good for them.’
‘This ‘Evolved’ situation has been a nightmare since it started about three years ago, where random people suddenly developed these… ‘superpowers’. And every week, like clockwork, the opinions shift! One week, people are against these ‘Evolved’ using their ‘powers’ in public; the next week, they are clamouring for allowing them to operate because of a stray incident.
‘And now, that… woman… who started all this mess is in a 'special meeting' with the President and the ‘Inner Circle’, while we’re all stuck outside here waiting on whatever they are discussing in there. All the while, every reporter I know is bugging me for the scoop. I wonder how much of this ‘attention’ she’s getting is because she’s tall and blonde. And just what does she want that she has to come barging in here like this? No ‘Evolved’ has dared pull off a stunt like this before, walking right up to the front lawns of the White House. This has to be part of a larger agenda. The timing is too convenient…’
Just then the doors open and we’re called into the Briefing Room. Everyone present there looks exhausted, like they’ve been the longest, most intense and most important discussion of their lives. That woman sits silently watching us all as we enter. There’s a pall of silence after everyone has settled down.
No one dares look at their watches when suddenly the President speaks, “Ladies and Gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Victory Girl. Yes, she has adopted the name the people have given her. Also, beginning tomorrow, we begin the process of initiating a new program for all Evolved who would like to do their part as citizens of this country - to use their gifts for the betterment of society. We will pass this by Executive Order if required, but this will come to fruition. The specifics of how it will roll out, the personnel involved, and what it will entail will be deliberated and developed over the coming week. Victory Girl will be on board as a special consultant to my team here. She will also be the chief representative of the Evolveds and the Acting Director of the proposed Division for Evolved activities, or as we intend to call it, the ‘E-Division’.”
***
And that concludes this chapter. I've winged it a lot in terms of how policies are named and implemented but dammit Jim, I'm a writer, not a politician.
I wanted to create a world which has some form of a legalised superhuman taskforce that deals with superhuman crime, etc. I had initially intended it to be a matter of fact which wouldn't need explanation, but then decided to tie it into Victory Girl's origin. I figured this was the easiest way to do it.
***Edit***
We skip ahead to one year after the events of this story, but that's not a Victory Girl story (but it takes place in the VictoryVerse). You can follow it here: https://thefixersden.blogspot.com/p/02-partners.html
***
This post originally appeared here: https://www.deviantart.com/nyctophobia11/art/Victory-Girl-In-the-beginning-Part-4-836465094
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