I hope that I don't offend with this. I have been stalking your cast for quite some time.
I think my issues about your Aragorn can simply be summed up that he's too much of a King. To elaborate, Aragorn is many things. He was Elven-raised, a Ranger, a soldier, a General, and then much later, a King. Even as the King after his coronation, he's still very much all of those things, and I think you focus too much on his Kingly self and neglect all of the rest. It's a little problematic, because he's a King last, and even his coronation, he's still all of those myriad things.
To illustrate: in his first post, he posts about his weapons being missing. The thing is that a King would demand, but a Ranger and a soldier - especially one who lived his entire life under Sauron's Shadow - wouldn't make it public that he is currently without weapons and thus vulnerable to attack. Even though he's a King who is in a period of peace, being dropped into a strange place should already have all of his instincts shouting 'danger' at him. For example, in his first scene, Aragorn is cloaked and hooded in the corner, watching the hobbits - that's what a Ranger does all the time. He scouts out information and makes sure that he knows the situation before he goes out there. Aragorn is constantly the person in the know, and he has basically visited the whole of Middle Earth. For him to suddenly be dropped into a place that he knows nothing about will make him extremely wary, and his position as a King now would make him even more so, because his high profile makes him even more of a target than usual.
He's incredibly paranoid about showing who he really is - he gives Frodo a hard scolding because Frodo revealed, accidentally, that he holds the Ring and calls the Ringwraiths down upon himself. By announcing that he's without weapons and in a completely strange land to people whom he doesn't know the intentions of is doing exactly the same thing.
With his second post, Aragorn as the King would offer to help and take up leadership, but he doesn't do any of it by offering to. People give these positions to him because they see him as worthy of it. It's what I've seen constantly with your Aragorn: you play him as a leader and he acts like a leader, but Aragorn in the city doesn't have the kind of reputation that allows him to be that leader. It needs to be built up slowly throughout time, and I think Aragorn would understand that, because he spent three movies proving his worth to be King until even he can't deny it anymore. Tolkien's world is a very talky world, but it's not a world in which things are achieved through talking - it's through deeds, and Aragorn is one of the clearest examples of it. It's not his speeches that win him Gondor, but his actions. The hands of the King, the first charge towards the Black Gates, the army of Oathbreakers behind his back.
That said, 'You have my word' means nothing when he has no reputation. Even the hobbits didn't trust him from the beginning - they did because they had no choice. What more people from a strange city?
I'm not saying that he should do more. It's just that right now he might be King in his own world, but in Abax he doesn't have the same authority that you're assuming he has, and Aragorn should know that. The city is somewhere completely new and he has to build himself from ground up all over again, from getting to know the city itself (which is another small nitpick: he asked Christine where the hospital is (http://abaxcity.dreamwidth.org/354041.html?thread=34951929#cmt34951929), but as a Ranger Aragorn should have found out for himself) to getting to know its people and proving himself to them before he could be any sort of leader. Aragorn is humble as Tolkien can get - "My friends, you bow to no one." - and with that humility, I don't think he would assume leadership in a place that he's certainly uncertain about.
To fix this, I think a canon review would really help you to get a better understanding of who Aragorn is beside being a King. He's a Ranger, a healer, a soldier. A King is the last thing he is, because it's the last stage of his character development. He spent sixty-seven years avoiding that fate too much to easily slip into a role in a new place, especially since that he's Elessar Telcontar - Strider in Elvish, deliberately referencing his Ranger past. He will never stop being a Ranger.
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I think my issues about your Aragorn can simply be summed up that he's too much of a King. To elaborate, Aragorn is many things. He was Elven-raised, a Ranger, a soldier, a General, and then much later, a King. Even as the King after his coronation, he's still very much all of those things, and I think you focus too much on his Kingly self and neglect all of the rest. It's a little problematic, because he's a King last, and even his coronation, he's still all of those myriad things.
To illustrate: in his first post, he posts about his weapons being missing. The thing is that a King would demand, but a Ranger and a soldier - especially one who lived his entire life under Sauron's Shadow - wouldn't make it public that he is currently without weapons and thus vulnerable to attack. Even though he's a King who is in a period of peace, being dropped into a strange place should already have all of his instincts shouting 'danger' at him. For example, in his first scene, Aragorn is cloaked and hooded in the corner, watching the hobbits - that's what a Ranger does all the time. He scouts out information and makes sure that he knows the situation before he goes out there. Aragorn is constantly the person in the know, and he has basically visited the whole of Middle Earth. For him to suddenly be dropped into a place that he knows nothing about will make him extremely wary, and his position as a King now would make him even more so, because his high profile makes him even more of a target than usual.
He's incredibly paranoid about showing who he really is - he gives Frodo a hard scolding because Frodo revealed, accidentally, that he holds the Ring and calls the Ringwraiths down upon himself. By announcing that he's without weapons and in a completely strange land to people whom he doesn't know the intentions of is doing exactly the same thing.
With his second post, Aragorn as the King would offer to help and take up leadership, but he doesn't do any of it by offering to. People give these positions to him because they see him as worthy of it. It's what I've seen constantly with your Aragorn: you play him as a leader and he acts like a leader, but Aragorn in the city doesn't have the kind of reputation that allows him to be that leader. It needs to be built up slowly throughout time, and I think Aragorn would understand that, because he spent three movies proving his worth to be King until even he can't deny it anymore. Tolkien's world is a very talky world, but it's not a world in which things are achieved through talking - it's through deeds, and Aragorn is one of the clearest examples of it. It's not his speeches that win him Gondor, but his actions. The hands of the King, the first charge towards the Black Gates, the army of Oathbreakers behind his back.
That said, 'You have my word' means nothing when he has no reputation. Even the hobbits didn't trust him from the beginning - they did because they had no choice. What more people from a strange city?
I'm not saying that he should do more. It's just that right now he might be King in his own world, but in Abax he doesn't have the same authority that you're assuming he has, and Aragorn should know that. The city is somewhere completely new and he has to build himself from ground up all over again, from getting to know the city itself (which is another small nitpick: he asked Christine where the hospital is (http://abaxcity.dreamwidth.org/354041.html?thread=34951929#cmt34951929), but as a Ranger Aragorn should have found out for himself) to getting to know its people and proving himself to them before he could be any sort of leader. Aragorn is humble as Tolkien can get - "My friends, you bow to no one." - and with that humility, I don't think he would assume leadership in a place that he's certainly uncertain about.
To fix this, I think a canon review would really help you to get a better understanding of who Aragorn is beside being a King. He's a Ranger, a healer, a soldier. A King is the last thing he is, because it's the last stage of his character development. He spent sixty-seven years avoiding that fate too much to easily slip into a role in a new place, especially since that he's Elessar Telcontar - Strider in Elvish, deliberately referencing his Ranger past. He will never stop being a Ranger.