[ well, everything about that was terrible, and datz is uncharacteristically subdued as he mills around justice circle — a name which seems like a really sick joke now — after they've been released from the trial.
he gives sigrun a nod when he sees her; he'd appreciated her anger after the verdict was posted because damn did he feel it too. ]
Who the h*ll decided that?
[ ...really not a great time for this censorship effect. ]
Whoever decided this is getting their neck wringed!
[Datz is uncharacteristically subdued, Sigrun is uncharacteristically fuming. It's not often she gets so frustrated, but when she does she really says things she doesn't mean.
.......
Okay, no, she'd get her hands on whoever signed this order, but to drag them all the way to the jail so they set Mika free]
Sure, I did what I could. Like I told my red chief-- [Crimson Phoenix] --when the trial started: whoever did all this wasn't getting away with it.
[Well, it depends on if Chiemi really killed Norma, because if she didn't then someone did get away with this, but there's a high probability that's what happened]
[She has called him 'gloomy kid' 'pale kid', and the such to his face. Nico doesn't approve, nor approves the myriad other epithets she keeps coming up with to refer to others]
He planned that all along, didn't he? No way he broke all that in the shop by accident or by coincidence. He wanted all along to get Nico to carry the blame.
[Or at least nothing about Chiemi's death seems to hint the glass stuff breaking had something to do with the murder itself. True, Chiemi died only after it was all broken, but it's not like she was even injured by that.
At best, maybe it was to shut the lights off, who knows]
Well, I sure as hell thought so. I went over to the jail to try to get some details outta him a little after the trial ended, though, and he said it wasn't — that it was just the result of him tryin' to hit Emi with his reverb thing while she was floatin' up there in smoke form.
[ which, like, does seem plausible, but also argalia's a lying piece of crap, so who knows. ]
But even if that's true, he definitely took advantage of the connection as soon as he saw it.
You tell me. I'm kinda shaken up by having come under fire there for a while. Pretty sure some still will think I did that to someone.
[It's a wake-up call of some sort, truthfully. Sigrun isn't sure of what, but...it feels like realizing something she hadn't before. If only she could figure out what it is]
Way to set that fire in the first place! See, everything was just fine.
[Well, not that Sigrun would have really scolded Datz because it's funny the guy set fire to the entire furniture store by accident, but in her eyes it's even better because this ended up in Sigrun somehow looking amazing and gaining positive reputation]
Dunno what came over me, it's like all worked out amazing!
That's kinda the general plan that's been goin' around, I think — try to get the public's favor so that they won't wanna see anything bad happen to ya. If you're considered valuable entertainment as a hero, maybe they won't wanna see you get written out of the show as a villain, y'know?
Good to have joined into the plan even though I had no idea about it. [Other than the general context of the hero contest, which is related but not exactly this] So, what's your idea to make yourself look like the most amazing hero ever to this city?
Can't blame ya for that, that kind of thing's always rough. I still feel bad about lettin' that spotlight land on Adlet for a while last week.
[ and now he feels guilty about adlet for a whole new reason!! man ]
...And yeah, when they never find out who really did it... lots of room for suspicions to take hold and grow. I know how that is.
[ ... ]
I know you can take care of yourself, but. Probably best to be extra careful for a while, y'know? And try to really let people see that you're honest and all that.
It's not like I can do more than what I have already done.
[She has no idea what she's supposed to do to make herself seems honest. Her behavior has been nothing but transparent -- and although she's really good at lying, it has never been for her own advantage, it has always been for someone else's or her crew's sake. Sigrun Eide is as straightforward as she can be.
So she's at a loss of what she even is supposed to do]
But if anything happens I'm not gonna go overboard. Don't worry, no one's getting hurt if they get so suspicious they try to do anything.
[.......]
...I do worry about it, though. Green girl from my team-- [Jolyne] --came to me to ask to my face if I had done it. [And as she sees it, if one of her cherished crewmates doubted enough to need to ask, who knows what those who aren't as close-knit to Sigrun will think. True, Jolyne said she hadn't voted for Sigrun...but still...]
Oof. Can't say I didn't consider it for a minute, between the bow and those clothes... but that's also why I didn't wanna rule out someone smaller wearin' clothes that were a little too big for them. There's a bunch of us up there at the tall end of the spectrum, so it'd be easy for someone a little shorter to get attention off themselves by makin' everyone focus on all of us.
[ sighs ]
Good that she came and talked to ya instead of just letting it fester. Wouldn't expect less from her, though. Not sure I can say the same for everyone.
Think that's what happened? Because I can't lie, if anyone from that suspect list had been... [If any of them had been the culprit there's a significantly nonzero chance Sigrun would have taken advantage of the suspicion on her to draw the votes.
.......]
As captain, my role and duty is to aid in the survival of my crewmates. I'm in no hurry to die and I don't want that at all, but the more happens the more I wonder if at some point I'll have to take the leap and do something so someone else lives.
[Whether it's for someone else in Crimson Phoenix, or for a friend]
I dunno. Everything's still just theories, and pretty vague ones at that.
[ and he's in no hurry to point fingers based on flimsy evidence when they're already sending one innocent person to their death. ]
...Yeah, I feel that. I'm no captain, but I've got a responsibility to my team and my other comrades here. I've got every intention of gettin' myself home in one piece, but I have that same goal for all of them too.
Axel told me there's this guy in white that's probably the one causing it all. As soon as the chance appears I'm gonna go straight to him and face him.
[Probably not by herself, but yeah, point is, Sigrun is already itching to confront that potential mastermind and get this all to have a positive ending, if she has a say in it]
Yeah... showed up around the time the moon supposedly fell, from what I hear.
[ "supposedly" because the moon is still?? up there???? ]
Goldie said the guy showed up out of nowhere, killed those four other heroes when they went after him, then disappeared again... though that news clipping one of the groups came back with the other day kinda makes it sound a little different.
None of 'em have any idea who or where he is, in any case, so finding that chance is probably gonna be a challenge... not that most of us would back down from one.
[She raises her hands, positioning them in front of her like she intends to grab something and push it away from her with all her strength, she indicating he should place his hands there and brace himself, be as immovable as he can]
It's either this or punching, and I don't want to punch you.
[And there's more than enough location destruction going on tonight for her to add more to the pile, hah]
[She totally didn't do anything like drinking a remedy, hah. The arm is bandaged, and it's sore because wow finding a body and investigating involves a lot of arm moving, but she sure is trying her best to hide that under her coat. If anything, she stashed the remedy in case it was needed by someone in the Thursday adventure return (and then I goofed and missed the bunch that was hella hurt so she didn't use it when it counted haha)
Still, Datz bringing it up makes her ask:]
How is Ryuki? He didn't seem like he was doing all that well on Wednesday. No person in their right mind would have done this, something was up.
[Even though she says that she doesn't sound all that upset about Ryuki's actions ending up in an injury for her. If anything, she's a tad concerned for Ryuki, even though at the time she sure was pretty angry and yelling at him to get his ass moving instead of standing there.
Her guess is that something happened with Ryuki and his clone or something, and that made him so upset with the mad scientist he decided a little shooting was fine payback]
[By the time Datz arrives Sigrun has just finished cleaning her dagger, like it never happened. She actually seems pretty distracted, until she says:]
I had never stabbed a person.
[That. Looks like by the time Datz arrives, Sigrun is mulling everything that happened. Really dawning on her that she stabbed someone she truly considered a friend.
She still kind of wants to do that again. Adlet deserves that. It's not in Sigrun's blood to be vengeful, but she really trusted him and the betrayal hurt]
...you know, that kid worries me. I know he's not harmless and some would even say he's dangerous but it's hard not to see him as endearing as long as he's not trying to stab you.
Between him and disco man, you really have your hands full with your team, don't you?
[Datz is the only well-balanced person in the Gold Mouse team now, in Sigrun's eyes. How does he manage to keep things together well enough without it all falling apart, good grief]
[ when the most chaotic character in an AA game is somehow the most stable person on your team ]
Yeah, you can say that again. Gotten more grey hairs in the weeks I've been here than I ever got before.
[ ... ]
Koko's... he feels really strongly about things, even when it looks like he's not taking 'em seriously. Sometimes those feelings are positive and sometimes they're negative... sometimes maybe both at the same time, but.
When he feels like he has a reason to care about someone, he cares a lot. More than he gives himself credit for.
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w0, post-trial
he gives sigrun a nod when he sees her; he'd appreciated her anger after the verdict was posted because damn did he feel it too. ]
Who the h*ll decided that?
[ ...really not a great time for this censorship effect. ]
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[Datz is uncharacteristically subdued, Sigrun is uncharacteristically fuming. It's not often she gets so frustrated, but when she does she really says things she doesn't mean.
.......
Okay, no, she'd get her hands on whoever signed this order, but to drag them all the way to the jail so they set Mika free]
w1, post-trial
anyway, he'll wave and give her a really exhausted smile. ]
Hey. Thanks for your help today.
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[Well, it depends on if Chiemi really killed Norma, because if she didn't then someone did get away with this, but there's a high probability that's what happened]
Congrats on avenging your teammate.
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Dunno how much of a congrats that really deserves, but.
[ shakes his head. ]
Gotta say I'm not sad that we're gettin' rid of that guy.
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[Definitely was a framing attempt, she's sure]
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Yeah, he was way too eager to remind everyone how Nico turned those lights out during the power check before.
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He planned that all along, didn't he? No way he broke all that in the shop by accident or by coincidence. He wanted all along to get Nico to carry the blame.
[Or at least nothing about Chiemi's death seems to hint the glass stuff breaking had something to do with the murder itself. True, Chiemi died only after it was all broken, but it's not like she was even injured by that.
At best, maybe it was to shut the lights off, who knows]
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[ which, like, does seem plausible, but also argalia's a lying piece of crap, so who knows. ]
But even if that's true, he definitely took advantage of the connection as soon as he saw it.
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[Argalia could tell them all the way to save all worlds instead of dooming the losing teams' homes and Sigrun would doubt it]
w2, post-trial
Hey.
[ waves... ]
...That wasn't great.
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[It's a wake-up call of some sort, truthfully. Sigrun isn't sure of what, but...it feels like realizing something she hadn't before. If only she could figure out what it is]
w3, monday
Yo, way to kick that fire's butt!
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[Well, not that Sigrun would have really scolded Datz because it's funny the guy set fire to the entire furniture store by accident, but in her eyes it's even better because this ended up in Sigrun somehow looking amazing and gaining positive reputation]
Dunno what came over me, it's like all worked out amazing!
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[ fuck 'em ]
Bet you're gonna be big in the paper next week.
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[The market gets flooded with like four kinds of Sigrun Eide cards]
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That's kinda the general plan that's been goin' around, I think — try to get the public's favor so that they won't wanna see anything bad happen to ya. If you're considered valuable entertainment as a hero, maybe they won't wanna see you get written out of the show as a villain, y'know?
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[Hopefully involving less accidental arson]
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[ and now he feels guilty about adlet for a whole new reason!! man ]
...And yeah, when they never find out who really did it... lots of room for suspicions to take hold and grow. I know how that is.
[ ... ]
I know you can take care of yourself, but. Probably best to be extra careful for a while, y'know? And try to really let people see that you're honest and all that.
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[She has no idea what she's supposed to do to make herself seems honest. Her behavior has been nothing but transparent -- and although she's really good at lying, it has never been for her own advantage, it has always been for someone else's or her crew's sake. Sigrun Eide is as straightforward as she can be.
So she's at a loss of what she even is supposed to do]
But if anything happens I'm not gonna go overboard. Don't worry, no one's getting hurt if they get so suspicious they try to do anything.
[.......]
...I do worry about it, though. Green girl from my team-- [Jolyne] --came to me to ask to my face if I had done it. [And as she sees it, if one of her cherished crewmates doubted enough to need to ask, who knows what those who aren't as close-knit to Sigrun will think. True, Jolyne said she hadn't voted for Sigrun...but still...]
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[ sighs ]
Good that she came and talked to ya instead of just letting it fester. Wouldn't expect less from her, though. Not sure I can say the same for everyone.
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.......]
As captain, my role and duty is to aid in the survival of my crewmates. I'm in no hurry to die and I don't want that at all, but the more happens the more I wonder if at some point I'll have to take the leap and do something so someone else lives.
[Whether it's for someone else in Crimson Phoenix, or for a friend]
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[ and he's in no hurry to point fingers based on flimsy evidence when they're already sending one innocent person to their death. ]
...Yeah, I feel that. I'm no captain, but I've got a responsibility to my team and my other comrades here. I've got every intention of gettin' myself home in one piece, but I have that same goal for all of them too.
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[Because you can be sure Sigrun has made the exact same promise to everyone in Crimson Phoenix, including to Crimson Phoenix themselves]
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Yeah, I don't buy for a second that this whole game really works the way they say it does. Whatever that way is, I'm not gonna give up on findin' it.
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Axel told me there's this guy in white that's probably the one causing it all. As soon as the chance appears I'm gonna go straight to him and face him.
[Probably not by herself, but yeah, point is, Sigrun is already itching to confront that potential mastermind and get this all to have a positive ending, if she has a say in it]
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[ "supposedly" because the moon is still?? up there???? ]
Goldie said the guy showed up out of nowhere, killed those four other heroes when they went after him, then disappeared again... though that news clipping one of the groups came back with the other day kinda makes it sound a little different.
None of 'em have any idea who or where he is, in any case, so finding that chance is probably gonna be a challenge... not that most of us would back down from one.
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[Looks like just talking of him is getting Sigrun fired up. Maybe because it's a distraction. She just shouts that, and sighs.
.....
You know what, touch week. Sigrun puts her hands up]
Apples, grab my hands and brace yourself. I need an outlet for the frustration!
[And just a very brief bout of physical activity combined with the need for touch maybe will get that done]
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Huh?
[ GRAB THEM HOW, WHAT ARE WE DOING ]
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It's either this or punching, and I don't want to punch you.
[And there's more than enough location destruction going on tonight for her to add more to the pile, hah]
w3, friday
Hey. Got yourself all healed up and everything, huh?
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[She totally didn't do anything like drinking a remedy, hah. The arm is bandaged, and it's sore because wow finding a body and investigating involves a lot of arm moving, but she sure is trying her best to hide that under her coat. If anything, she stashed the remedy in case it was needed by someone in the Thursday adventure return (and then I goofed and missed the bunch that was hella hurt so she didn't use it when it counted haha)
Still, Datz bringing it up makes her ask:]
How is Ryuki? He didn't seem like he was doing all that well on Wednesday. No person in their right mind would have done this, something was up.
[Even though she says that she doesn't sound all that upset about Ryuki's actions ending up in an injury for her. If anything, she's a tad concerned for Ryuki, even though at the time she sure was pretty angry and yelling at him to get his ass moving instead of standing there.
Her guess is that something happened with Ryuki and his clone or something, and that made him so upset with the mad scientist he decided a little shooting was fine payback]
Week 3 -- After trial
I had never stabbed a person.
[That. Looks like by the time Datz arrives, Sigrun is mulling everything that happened. Really dawning on her that she stabbed someone she truly considered a friend.
She still kind of wants to do that again. Adlet deserves that. It's not in Sigrun's blood to be vengeful, but she really trusted him and the betrayal hurt]
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Well. He didn't give ya that much of a choice. [ ... ] Glad you made it through this one, too.
Been a hell of a week, huh?
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[Sigrun sighs]
Guess in the end I was all angry he did all that. To Hanako and Whisper.
[And about the betrayal, of course, but also it hurts to think of those two]
Sure wasn't a good one, again. How's the kid doing? Did he wake up yet?
[Hanako, of course]
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[ a little bit of a smile. ]
Yeah, he's awake and he's gonna be OK. Just... really hate that he had his trust betrayed like that.
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[Even during the trial Sigrun was pushing that Hanako shouldn't be tested like this, but it happened and in a worse way than just mere testing. Welp!]
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Between him and disco man, you really have your hands full with your team, don't you?
[Datz is the only well-balanced person in the Gold Mouse team now, in Sigrun's eyes. How does he manage to keep things together well enough without it all falling apart, good grief]
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Yeah, you can say that again. Gotten more grey hairs in the weeks I've been here than I ever got before.
[ ... ]
Koko's... he feels really strongly about things, even when it looks like he's not taking 'em seriously. Sometimes those feelings are positive and sometimes they're negative... sometimes maybe both at the same time, but.
When he feels like he has a reason to care about someone, he cares a lot. More than he gives himself credit for.
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[Not very great he formed such a friendship with Adlet, then]