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Añil becomes a crew member:

-Immediately Sotheby's new friend

-Also immediately Pavia's new friend(?) for some reason.

-Hides with Druvis when needing quiet.

-He starts painting a mural in the briefcase of everyone there and Vertin loves it. Eventually everyone contributes to the mural.

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ok but can we talk for a second about druvis and vertin and their relationship. i think it is SO interesting how she is the person to take charge of what's happening in the foundation and i've heard some people say it comes kind of out of nowhere but i do NOT agree. druvis is in my opinion The Most Helpful Character during the entire chicago arc. not the most emotionally impactful or even the most directly connected but the most *helpful*. she gives vertin the invitation for the walden, a silent approval of whatever she's here to do, functionally giving her her blessing. she helps keep schneider alive and helps vertin find her albeit largely indirectly. she has clearly approved of what she's known of the timekeeper's plan from the second she met her, and her approval grows when vertin does several things that make her view her even more favorably. everything vertin says when she's talking to the manus while druvis is present is earning her more approval from druvis, because druvis LIKES her, and honestly probably sees something in her that she's still not ready to address in herself.

and THEN the whole thing in chapter 4 happens. and this is where druvis kicks that vision of what vertin could be into play. druvis sees her as a *leader*, more than arcana or forget me not and more than constantine. i find it hard to believe she ever really LIKED working with manus vindictae - i think for a while it might've been mutually beneficial, and as we see at the end of ch2 there's some evidence that forget me not has kind of been poking at the trauma she has over what happened to her family and estate, trying to push her buttons to motivate her to do what he says. i don't think she ever really liked him, and she probably barely knew arcana, but if her response to what happens between her and vertin is any indication, druvis doesn't like her either. and she sure as hell doesn't like constantine even before their face to face meeting - she's trying to massively restrict the freedom of not just druvis but everyone traveling with vertin, and druvis does not like the idea of being forced into a certain course of action and can't stand being pushed to do things a certain way (a major point of trauma from her!). the face to face meeting only exacerbates this, and this is where - with dr z's help - she formulates a plan to force the issue of the foundation giving them what they want. what vertin wants.

and the reason she is following vertin is, again, because she sees her as a leader. vertin's job description doesn't really have anything to do with leadership, it's all record keeping. but we know from canon that she's recruited *63* arcanists to the foundation personally, apparently a very high number, and we see in chapter 3 that she is great at mobilizing and motivating people to do what she thinks needs to be done. however, i wouldn't call her manipulative or bossy - she's clearly depicted as being willing to let anybody drop out of what she's orchestrating at any time (see: matilda not wanting to be a part of the breakaway plan), and she encourages people to speak their minds about her plans and solicits their input and opinions.

all of this culminates in the breakaway, though. and i think that causes vertin to lose some of her personal view of herself as a leader, as someone inspiring. she takes her timekeeper duties very seriously, even if she's not exactly recording *major historical events* (see: stories from random people she meets, the photo wall). but that job has removed her from a position of much leadership - the first person it seems like she's had much power over in a while is sonetto when she's appointed as her assistant, and that's not really *power*. so when the chicago thing rolls around, vertin is still very much in a position of not viewing herself as a leader or as someone who is capable of taking care of other people.

druvis doesn't care. she sees it. she makes a very clear mental note of it. and everything she does from that point onward is testing vertin's decision making, studying her thought process, and observing how she functions under duress. and when she's satisfied with that? she sits right next to vertin at the dinner, cementing herself as an ally to the same representative degree as *sonetto*, who has known her her whole life and is deeply loyal. but sonetto is loyal to the foundation still, and druvis is Not. so when druvis makes the decision to go with vertin, she does so while internally establishing that she will not be working for the foundation, she will be working for *her leader*.

because whether vertin realizes it or not she has a magnetic effect on people. she draws allies and agreement wherever she goes, because she is trustworthy, capable, and *kind*, and she cares about her allies as much as or more than she cares about the specifics of her ideas and goals. and druvis is maybe the first person to notice that in a while.

except constantine! and that's why she opposes her. constantine knows vertin is drawing support, and she tries to keep that support away from her so she can't... well, we don't know yet. but it's pretty clear that the foundation is also not a clear record "good guy" in the story, and there's more to their mission than is explicitly stated. constantine actively demoralizes druvis, referring to her by her last name and treating her like she's already her lesser, her *employee*, and then goes so far as to tell dr z that she doesn't like being called that. it's all a power play. that's all constantine ever does. but druvis is the first person since vertin to actively stand up to her (alongside dr z but in a very different way). and she's doing it *because of vertin*.

this is two revolutions in four years for the foundation. and both of them, directly or indirectly, have been led by vertin. just because she doesn't see it happen doesn't mean she isn't doing just what she did before - trying to put power in the hands of the people instead of some overarching ruling body. first it was the kids in chapter 3, and now it's the arcanists she's recruited since becoming the timekeeper. she's making big waves, and it's starting to look like those waves are a shifting tide.

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