GOT ME FEELING SO COOL ☆ o, battle plans

RHINESTONESTAR ❝ RHINE ❞ LEADER
"TALKING" || "TELEPATHY"

Rhine knew well of Vaas's old connections to The Typhoon. In fact, those connections had served them well several times in the past, making it so that the group could continue to thrive even before the tiger had stepped up as their medic. That was part of the reason why Rhinestone was so hesitant about this whole plan. He didn't want to betray the trust of a group that had helped them before, not to mention the group that young Lovekit had belonged to. However, he also found it difficult to rationalize betraying the Coalition. After all, the other group was large and growing larger by the day, and Stryker had kept up his part of the deal. Despite this, the serval found that every word in the Coalition's favor died on his tongue, unable to spring forth. Deep down inside, the leader knew that he didn't want to help Stryker. Didn't trust the lion, and didn't care for his way of going about things, not at all.

After a moment of thoughtful hesitation, Rhine before nodding in the direction of both Number Nine and Vaas. He muttered, tone lowering – his eyes would have surely darkened, if they had the ability to grow any more black, "I don't like this either, Vaas. Truthfully, I don't want to attack The Typhoon. They've done nothing to earn our ire, beyond being on Stryker's bad side. I don't trust Stryker, either. I know that the moment he thinks that he's in control, he'll turn on us next. But... he still has numbers. If we turn on him now, he could crush us, even with our own large memberbase. At least if we work alongside him temporarily, we can make it look like he's made an ally of us..." He shifted a little, paws sliding together as he once again tried to think of what their next move would be. Shaking his head from side to side, he eventually spoke, "I do believe that contacting Alithís is a good idea, but I also have something else to say. What if we just... don't fight? We go out onto the battlefield, make a show of things, but don't actually try to hurt any Typhooners. That way, we don't end up hurting a group that doesn't deserve it, and we get Stryker to think we're on his side. That way, once he's on top of the world, we'll be close enough to plunge the blade into his back. Without their leader, I get the feeling that the Coalition will scatter." They didn't exactly seem like much of a courageous group. They mostly seemed to consist of cowards, all following the leader that was seemingly the strongest in the Beyond.

tags + roleplayed by stilly + the palm glades