Zoe has been a stalwart of the collective for years. She has rescued it from extinction by being more prepared to work on it than anyone else. She knows all the ins and outs of how the system works - hell, she wrote most of the FAQs. Unfortunately, her closeness to the functioning of the collective means she's far too emotionally invested in it and gets progressively more irritable in person, especially when she perceives others as not pulling their weight or following procedure. The other anarchists in the collective resent Zoe taking on what they see as a boss role, and goodwill goes down, so people get flakier. Zoe picks up the slack, and gets grumpier and more tightly involved as a result. Everyone is irritated by her; nobody feels able to tell her to let go even though her mental health is clearly deteriorating, because the collective would totter without her.
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Date: 2012-08-12 10:00 pm (UTC)