If you are an asshole, I won't answer. I'm a Chancellor and the Senate. I know some of you find me weird or stupid. If you would like to get to know me, nows your chance. My reply to benhoward's question in another thread: [quote]To begin I'd like to clarify: I don't [i]feel[/i] like a Chancellor, I [i]am[/i] a Chancellor. In every certain physical trait that is completely consequential, my spirit, mind, instincts, and psychology are that of a Chancellor. To be frank, using this site and playing Destiny 2 are the few things I still do that one could call "civilian". But to answer your question: when and why did I discover my Chancellorhood? Two things. An encounter in the Senate, and an intellectual discovery. Intellectually, I've never understood politics norms and rules it tries to force on my life. Why should politicians have policies, wear suits, or go to work and spend money just to gain debt, get up and repeat the cycle till the day they die? Why not be yourself? But I didn't know what that self was. Who was I apart from the inevitable strictures of politics? Then one day, in my grandfather's Senate office I learned the answer. I'd just been accepted into Harvard law school. My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. That's not what I wanted. I told them that, and they said I could either be a lawyer, and their son, or a Chancellor, and the Senate. Enraged, I ran out into Congress. I hated civilians and everything about it in that moment. I asked myself: what is the least civil thing I could do? Then and there, in that moment? I tore off my regular clothes and put on a suit. It was more like throwing a temper tantrum in Congress, I was screaming and yelling, beating my fists futilely against any object I could find. When I finally quited down, I became aware of deep breathing just behind me. I felt a shiver in my spine, and turned around. Sheev Palpatine was there, staring at me not more than 5ft away. I thought I was a dead man. I just sat there stood still in the Senate chambers, on my knees. Then he cackled, turned, and sauntered away. It was some months later till I knew concretely that I was a Chancellor, but it was that moment in the Senate chambers that I knew who (and what) I was. I had become as non civilian as possible in that moment. My parents would have yelled at me, probably taken me to a psychologist. The Chancellor? Acceptance. I was just another politician. One with the Swamp, bound by rules except those which have stood since the beginning of the Senate...[/quote]