Timing of "Kindred Spirits" under "The Rising"

Brum wrote:

It is another example of rulings that say "VtES doesn't have a stack, but it has a stack for some things".

1. Make it all work at the same time.
2. When some things happen simultaneously, the player with the impulse chooses order of effects he controls.

As with any big ruling in VtES this might open another can of worms...

You misunderstanding the definition of the stack, and mixing it with a simple chain of things happening one after the other.

In a stack, you pile up things, then unpile them in reverse order. In games such as Magic, you can even start piling again other things after some of them have been unpiled.

In a chain of events, A -> B -> C, A happens, then B, then C.

With regards to the OP, the chain of event is for Kindred Spirit: A -> B
A: resolve the action (Rising prevents you from gaining a pool if you don't have the Edge)
B: Gain the Edge if the bleed was successful.

If the unnamed bleeds, the chain is the same: A -> B
A: resolve the action.
B: Two events trigger at the same: gain the Edge, and gaining 2 pool from the unnamed special text.

The pool gain of the unnamed is not part of the action resolution (because his cardtext doesn't say that it's part of an action).

Since two events happen at the same time, the acting player choose how to order them.

There's no stack involved there.