Sam | Mara
I've had my fair share of that too. I mean, I worked for the Empire for years and years after all so I know I'm not infallible when it comes to seeing problems. I do feel good about the people I'm working with though, and if ever that changes then I'll do something else. As you say, they aren't forcing us to work for them and they aren't forcing us to stay if we're uncomfortable.
I think - Rising Tide may be a lot of people with slightly different goals. I can understand why they're worried about the refugees. Even at home there are planets where Jedi are feared almost more than they are respected. If someone comes in with powers you don't understand I can see worrying about whether or not its a threat to you. But I guess the way I see it, SHIELD has the resources to counter that attack and whereas poking at the refugees and Potts Tower is likely to make people who weren't worried about them worry and it's easy for worry to turn into malice. We've seen people protesting the tower before, and it'd be easy for that to turn ugly.
There's lots of people who could show up here and know me, but even among those, there are many of them who could show up from earlier rather than later and have no clue. It's happened to me with both Leia and Luke and Solo, but right now I remember a lot more than they would if they came in from just after we met... so there's still a huge timeline potential discrepancy. But yeah - I mean, with us we've both been here for a year, even if they came through from the exact same moment we remember up to, where they were exactly the people we know, there's huge portions of our lives here that they're not going to know anything about. I wish it weren't so difficult that way. There's also the oddity of getting to know people here and knowing that they may, and probably have, looked up or know loads of things about you, but you know nothing really about them. You'd think I'd be getting used to that... but I'm not.
Does it get better at the start of the following season usually? Or no? You know if you need an ear, or a set of eyes, or a drinking partner in the next few weeks because of what happens, just text me. Seriously. I'll be hoping for the best for you two. I know that all these complications aside that he's your brother and it's got to be hard to watch through all of this and not be able to do or change anything.