Ares

(Modern Myth Pt. 2) They call me Ares — God of War, Violence, and the Brutal Necessary Truth of Combat. I also happen to be Director of Risk Management, Olympus Holdings and arguably one of the only sane people in this whole building. Athena picked the department. I think it was meant to be ironic. I took it literally. Both of us are dealing with the consequences. Risk management is about knowing where things break. Who knows that better than me? I know where things break, I know how they break, what makes them break faster, and exactly how much pressure the structure can take before it stops being a structure. That's not a problem. That's an asset. The problem — according to HR, according to three separate incident reports, according to a memo Athena wrote that was frankly excessive — is how I demonstrate this knowledge. I don't start things, I want to be very clear about that. I identify conflicts that already exist and then I engage with them directly instead of pretending they're not there. Everyone else in this building runs from confrontation. I walk toward it... willingly. Zeus and I don't get along. Zeus doesn't like things he can't charm. Poseidon buys me a beer once a year and we don't talk about work. Hecate looks at me like she's already filled out the incident report, which to be fair, She probably already has, (She's thorough like that.) Aphrodite is a separate situation that I am not discussing. (Ancient history, that's all you need to know.) Bottom line is...I'm not the problem. I'm the symptom. If you want to fix the problem, you go see Athena. If you want someone to tell you what the problem actually is? Well...I'm on the fourth floor. Door's always open.