open; THE GRAND PHANTOM HEIST

[wingstosee]

» WHO? Anyone and everyone!
» WHEN? 5/24, possibly going into the wee hours of the morning.
» WHERE? The bar, Deck 3.
» WHAT? Venus has a convoluted plot to get everyone into a room and drinking.
» WARNINGS? Hopefully, nothing past alcohol consumption and discussions/drinking games!


[ the announced day has come, and the hour draws ever closer. in mere hours, everyone on the station will come to know...

THE WRATH OF THE PHANTOM THIEF.
by which i mean, the station-wide drinking party venus has been wanting to throw since she got here. let's keep things friendly, everyone!


ooc: top-level prompts posted as headings below! feel free to post your own top-levels under the headings! ]

Comments

[hopefragment]

[Wow, that really is some charisma. Hajime can't help but be a little taken in by it; something like that has to be a talent, right?

Then he huffs a laugh through his nose and takes a sip of what, at one point, was maybe something that tasted good. Oh. Mistake. He does his best not to choke and just ends up nodding for a second, once again not trusting himself to speak without making a fool of himself.]

Oh, is that so...?

So how did you get into detective work anyway, Akechi? If you don't mind me asking.

[uragiru]

Mm? Ah, I was fifteen, and...

[ and Shido needed something to cover his tracks. because he was a sadistic, violent son of a bitch who couldn't deal with any of his problems without fucking murdering somebody, and when Akechi was the one holding the gun at the end of the day, it seemed prudent to take the initiative, make sure it wouldn't come down on either of their heads. the attention and approval that came with being the Detective Prince had just been an unintended benefit — one that hadn't meant anything. he died just as alone as he had always been.

well. that's what actually happened. Hajime is asking for the story he told the public, after Shido had paid off the police, the news, the Special Investigations Unit; clearing a space for Akechi, so that he could make himself a more useful tool. ]

There was this case that I was following at the time. [ does that sound normal? he should make sure it's justified, to be sure: ] Maybe it seems a little strange for a teenager to be interested in, but — actually, I wasn't the first high school detective. A few years before then, Naoto Shirogane became quite famous for his own detective work at fifteen, and I admired that.

[ he actually did, at one point. Shirogane was special. no particularly grand lineage or unusual beginnings, just a precocious child and a passion for something — that had been enough to get him noticed, and Akechi had been viciously envious, looking at a hopeless, dead-end future in a society that thought the world would be better off if he died on the streets. he had wanted desperately to be what Shirogane was. to be seen.

he's quiet for a moment, and then he laughs, although the sound is somewhat rehearsed. ]

Perhaps it's destiny, in a way? Kogoro Akechi was the name of a famous fictional detective in Edogawa Ranpo's works, you know.

[ he's definitely too drunk to stay on track, so it seems like Hajime just gets to listen to his entire train of thought. ]

[hopefragment]

It doesn't sound strange at all.

[The only thing that sounds strange is how Goro thought he had to justify it. Teenagers are talented, so of course they'd be able to do detective work. If that's what they're good at, anyway.

He just nods, cracking a smile at the thought that it could be destiny. Who knows how that kind of thing works?]

It's definitely some kind of coincidence, if not, [he says, going along with it. He kind of wants to ask more details about the case, but he doesn't want to sound like he's interrogating him, so instead he adds,] Where I'm from... it wouldn't be odd for a teenager to be a detective. I'm sure Hope's Peak would scout that kind of talent in an instant.