Mazhigigika Miludin do Din Nolurun Dou [Magilou] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spinatalltale) wrote2017-08-11 07:54 pm
spinatalltale) wrote2017-08-11 07:54 pm
[WEEK 1, FRIDAY POST-INVESTIGATION: Akira]
[it isn't until sometime late evening that Magilou finally seeks him out, having wanted to give him a little space to. . . uh. have his feelings. she's no good with those, and she knows it. and even if she was a dramatic shitposter until the end of time, she wasn't in the business of rubbing salt on wounds or breaking people's hearts]
[. . . much, anyway]
[she finds him on the jungle paths, a hop to her step as she approaches, expression as lazy and languid as ever. she has her journal tucked under one arm, the quill poking out from the yellowed pages]
Baaaaby Trickster. ☆
I need a favor from you.
[OKAY MAGILOU. . .]
[. . . much, anyway]
[she finds him on the jungle paths, a hop to her step as she approaches, expression as lazy and languid as ever. she has her journal tucked under one arm, the quill poking out from the yellowed pages]
Baaaaby Trickster. ☆
I need a favor from you.
[OKAY MAGILOU. . .]
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. . . in my experience, people tend to react one of three ways after an incident like this one. The first option is to break and shatter completely, and become nothing more than a former shell of a person.
[props a hand on her hip, head canted slightly]
The second is to avoid breaking by shutting down and sealing away one's heart. And the third. . .
[totally slips his glasses on top of her head like OKAY MAGILOU THOSE AREN'T EVEN YOURS]
Is to get angry. And one step better than that is to weaponize that anger. I wanted to see which option you were leaning towards.
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some of it has to give in order to be vigilant in finding haru's killer, but there's still so much more he needs to keep to himself.]
...And what am I leaning towards?
[it's.
probably pretty obvious, but he's trying to see how much of a read she's actually getting from his expression right now.]
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Hard to say. I did mention that you were one tough cookie to read, didn't I?
[but. . .]
But I suppose if I were a betting woman-- which I am, incidentally-- I'd place my wager on your breaking. 100 gald that you either die here or let the gravity of the situation extinguish your spark.
[well]
[ain't that rude]
[but it also isn't at all where she'd place her bets if she actually wanted to win. not that he needs to know that-- Velvet didn't, after all. but in Magilou's experience? spite is a powerful motivator]
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he doesn't know how much a hundred gald is worth. 100 yen? 100 dollars?
what the fuck is a gald, magilou, it sounds fake.]
Don't make bets you know can't win. [there's definitely a muted glower to it, though. really? somehow, he doubts that she really looked at him and saw anything but his anger—
but it still kind of pisses him off a little more to see her bet against him so easily.]
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I don't.
[Magilou you lying liar who lies]
But hey! If you disagree, then I suppose you'll just have to prove me wrong.
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[casual agreement. sure? sure.
he's holding his hand out, though. glasses, please.]
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[she plucks the glasses from her head and places them back in his palm]
I'd still like to know more about her.
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[maybe he really is just a bit doubtful anyone wants to hear him actually talk about her.]
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Why are you so reticent, anyway?
[don't be dubious Akira!!]
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I'm not used to it. [talking. talking about himself, or his life, or his friends.]
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[weirdly enough]
[that honest response doesn't elicit any weird dramatics or teasing from her, just a slow, understanding nod]
It never really gets easy.
[but she perks up again pretty quickly]
But I assure you, it's for a good cause!
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[just the tiniest bit of insight on the kind of life he leads, maybe?]
Haru, though. [he sobers up a little—it seems like he really will talk about her.]
She was the only daughter of a powerful businessman. It made her life hard and sheltered, but... she did her best. She was warm and kind, and very gentle. She didn't like the idea of people deciding her path in life for her.
It made her rebellious, but never to hurt people. Even after her father was killed, she wanted to bring justice without stooping to that level. Even when she hated someone, she could sympathize with their struggles.
[wow, magilou. you're getting words out of him.] She kept a rooftop garden at our school with vegetables. She loved trying new blends of coffee. She...
[...hold on, he needs a second. this hits a little too close to home.] She wanted to open a cafe, serving food with the things she grew and her own blends of coffee, too.
[it's almost like a cafe matters? hm.]
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[when he pauses, she glances up from her journal, just to make sure that he's done]
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[he adds just a few words.]
Milady. Astarte. Psy. Fleur de Mar. Miliana.
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. . . code language. . .?
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[and one more.]
Noir. A Phantom.
[that's it.]
They're all. Connected to something close to her.
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[she scrawls all those words and phrases down in her book, just as requested]
How curious.
[there's a secret here, something to be pried into and torn open and exposed for what it is. but she doesn't for the life of her know what it might be, so she doesn't ask]
[not yet]
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which akira doesn't seem to be making a secret here. there's a tie to the look he often has in his eyes and these words, but he knows she'll never figure it out, either.]
It's part of talking about her. They're too entwined, and those parts need to be remembered too—even if nobody else can understand them.
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. . . as you say.
Some secrets simply aren't meant to be shared.
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There's one more thing.
[but maybe it's a little less about haru specifically and more about... the circumstances.]
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[she's engrossed in her book, putting the finishing touches on whatever it is she's writing, but nevertheless she's all ears]
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[yeah. he. saw that.
he had to see two okumuras die.]
They tried to frame... someone for that. Someone who definitely wasn't responsible.
[jazzhands. remember this, magilou, it's important.]
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Was it you?
[like]
[okay]
[at least she isn't subtle about it]
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[akira, what.]
They did arrest me on that charge.[...] They didn't care whether or not I really did it, though.
[obviously, he did not actually do it.]
It happened on TV. Live. For the whole country to see. That was how we saw it too. [like he mentioned before, tv's kind of a big deal. but that just gives more context to the fact that even though they saw him die, he didn't actually kill someone?]
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[how is his answer "sort of" when he was arrested on that charge??? smh Akira]
[at any rate, she believes him when he says he didn't do it. not because she doesn't think he's capable of killing (jury is still out on that one) but because she doubts he'd murder the father of someone so precious to him]
It sounds like your true killer was trying to make an example of him.
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