Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: After the ceremony

Posted by Commander Dira Myqian (Executive Officer) in Side sim: After the ceremony

Posted by Captain Willow Taylor (Commanding Officer) in Side sim: After the ceremony

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Willow listened and considered. Her personnel fears seemed to center around her brother and the ex con they had in sickbay. On her ruined relationship and wether it was worth it…her professional ones....

“We seem to have had a bit of bad luck truth be told. I think as you say that my biggest fear is that we haven’t fully managed to come together as a crew before there’s been changes and things. But what you should know about me is that I am fiercely proud of my crew Commander.”

Willow Taylor
CO

“Good. You should be,” she said sincerely. “And I could tell that at the ceremony too.”

“I might only know the surface details, but I do know you have additional stresses. More, personal ones. But I’m not your therapist. I’ll happy talk through it with you at any point, but I want to try to be careful not to confuse my roles here. I’ll admit that that is going to be my challenge going forward. I can’t stop thinking like a psychiatrist and seeing the clues people leave in abundance, but I know I have to see beyond that.” She smirked a little. “I’m a bit nervous about that, actually.” Willow seemed a reasonably open person, at least on the surface, but even Dira knew that the more open book CO needed to maintain some sense of mystique when it comes to their authority. Otherwise, it’s impossible to be the leader a crew needs. And this crew, especially, needed it’s leaders now more than ever.

Commander Myqian, XO

Willow held her glass up. “Well, here’s to a working relationship where we build on each other’s strengths and cover each other’s weaknesses.” She said and drank from her glass.

Willow Taylor
CO

“Cheers to that!” Dira said with a grin. She lifted her glass and took a large sip, savouring the bright herbal taste of the gin.

She leaned back in her seat and considered Willow for a few moments. “So what is it that you need of me, of a good first officer?”

Commander Myqian, XO