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Vote for a Viking
I'm not sure how to go about this, but here goes nothing. My name is Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, and I'm running for the open Council seat.
Things I've done that are remotely relevant to this Council thing:
• I grew up being trained to take over as chief of my tribe by my father the current chief. This includes but is not limited to: learning how to fairly mediate disputes, learning how to run moots (that is meetings where the whole village has their say in public affairs), and learning how to trade and barter with other tribes. My village, by the way, is only a bit larger than the size of this crew.
• I engineered a lasting peace between two warring species.
• I helped both learn to cohabit on the same colony in a mutually beneficial arrangement
• I regularly mediated disputes between both species (not the easiest when one of them can't talk)
The long and short of it is I brokered a lasting peace after several hundred years of fighting and found myself pretty much thrust into a position of maintaining it and balancing the needs of two peoples. At age fifteen.
I'm not the most experienced, no, and I readily admit that. I'm young, just about sixteen, and while that's pretty much adulthood where I'm from (we usually only make it to sixty or seventy), I know that's not the same as having years of experience. I know where my flaws lie as a ruler.
But I don't think the Council should look at themselves as the rulers of others. They're supposed to be your voice, the people that balance all your needs for the well-being of the group. They're supposed to support the will of the majority without ignoring the quieter voices of the minority.
I've got a knack for that, and I want to do more to help us be prepared for the war, and it seems to me that even though the Council is trying their best, there's a lot of distrust over their motives, not a lot of transparency as decisions are happening, and not enough communication between the crew and them, or when there is, that communication isn't framed well, and is more often them dictating why they've decided to do things than anything else.
I feel like that's the wrong way to go about this. Back home, my dad took the will of the people into account when making all his decisions, and knew when to open up talk about changing rules and when not to. Sometimes his decisions were unpopular ones, but for the most part, they were ones that had sense behind them and he took time as he made them to make sure people could see it. On my own part, I've had to help mediate and arbitrate compromises between two very different groups.
I want to do my part to change how communication between the Council and crew works, and despite my shortcomings, my lack of experience ruling a nation or what have you, that's something I'm sure I can do. Because I've done it.
Rather than go on about my strengths or my stances on things, I'm going to prove it right now:
Ask me things. Ask me anything. Ask me my stances on things, how I'd make decisions, why I'd make certain decisions, what things I'd take into consideration, what I'd change and what I'd keep the same. Tell me what you want to see. Tell me things you think need changing, tell me why you think they do.
You deserve more back and forth instead of dictating. You deserve to feel like you have more of a voice in the way our village is run--and it is a village. The other Council members are doing their best, but I think I could help them do things even better. So ask away. Or tell me what you want or need to see happen.
Things I've done that are remotely relevant to this Council thing:
• I grew up being trained to take over as chief of my tribe by my father the current chief. This includes but is not limited to: learning how to fairly mediate disputes, learning how to run moots (that is meetings where the whole village has their say in public affairs), and learning how to trade and barter with other tribes. My village, by the way, is only a bit larger than the size of this crew.
• I engineered a lasting peace between two warring species.
• I helped both learn to cohabit on the same colony in a mutually beneficial arrangement
• I regularly mediated disputes between both species (not the easiest when one of them can't talk)
The long and short of it is I brokered a lasting peace after several hundred years of fighting and found myself pretty much thrust into a position of maintaining it and balancing the needs of two peoples. At age fifteen.
I'm not the most experienced, no, and I readily admit that. I'm young, just about sixteen, and while that's pretty much adulthood where I'm from (we usually only make it to sixty or seventy), I know that's not the same as having years of experience. I know where my flaws lie as a ruler.
But I don't think the Council should look at themselves as the rulers of others. They're supposed to be your voice, the people that balance all your needs for the well-being of the group. They're supposed to support the will of the majority without ignoring the quieter voices of the minority.
I've got a knack for that, and I want to do more to help us be prepared for the war, and it seems to me that even though the Council is trying their best, there's a lot of distrust over their motives, not a lot of transparency as decisions are happening, and not enough communication between the crew and them, or when there is, that communication isn't framed well, and is more often them dictating why they've decided to do things than anything else.
I feel like that's the wrong way to go about this. Back home, my dad took the will of the people into account when making all his decisions, and knew when to open up talk about changing rules and when not to. Sometimes his decisions were unpopular ones, but for the most part, they were ones that had sense behind them and he took time as he made them to make sure people could see it. On my own part, I've had to help mediate and arbitrate compromises between two very different groups.
I want to do my part to change how communication between the Council and crew works, and despite my shortcomings, my lack of experience ruling a nation or what have you, that's something I'm sure I can do. Because I've done it.
Rather than go on about my strengths or my stances on things, I'm going to prove it right now:
Ask me things. Ask me anything. Ask me my stances on things, how I'd make decisions, why I'd make certain decisions, what things I'd take into consideration, what I'd change and what I'd keep the same. Tell me what you want to see. Tell me things you think need changing, tell me why you think they do.
You deserve more back and forth instead of dictating. You deserve to feel like you have more of a voice in the way our village is run--and it is a village. The other Council members are doing their best, but I think I could help them do things even better. So ask away. Or tell me what you want or need to see happen.