video/action; happy birthday detective

[jurisdick]

ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ

[ and due to a horrible streak of bad luck, while akechi is sitting (extremely cramped) in the catbus on the way to the actual lodge, his fidgeting fingers along the device happen to click it on at the most inconvenient time. perhaps it's the world playing a cruel trick on him. who knows. either way, the feed shows the brunette hunched up in the back of the bus with a few others, face contorted in discomfort. under his breath he's saying something that sounds genuine and a lot like ]

...I don't even like my birthday but this is an absurd way to spend it.

ᴄᴀᴛʙᴜs - ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ

[ if you're in the catbus, feel free to harass him during the ride, or you know, hear him say it's his birthday. or scroll through the feed and hear it on there and then angrily turn around when you realize he hasn't told anyone before this.

it's really cramped in here. ]

ᴄᴀᴛᴄʜ-ᴀʟʟ - ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ

[ akechi will be rooming with stefan, so feel free to barge into his room at any point. other than that, feel free to bother him (he'll likely be reading by the fire with hot chocolate), or standing around the entrance of the lodge "admiring" the snow. he isn't planning on going out into it except for the snowball fight, so he won't be lost at all in the storm. ]

Comments

[jivitadana]

Your friends on the bus.

[Because they were his friends, right? None of this "what are friends" thing, Akechi.]

[jurisdick]

[ WHAT FRIENDS. ]

Ah... well, I'm a year older than them, so they really haven't given much thought about next steps.

[ it's a great excuse for actually answering the question! ]

[jivitadana]

[What do you want to call them? Confidants? Social Links? :D He sees you side stepping, Akechi! But okay, he can deal with that. Asking something that he thought of.]

I heard you were trying to get them on TV. Is that true?

[jurisdick]

[ very perceptive, arisato!!! he almost says it but instead laughs very faintly. ]

At the time, of course. I was dedicated to cracking the case of the Phantom Thieves. I wanted to figure out who they were.

[jivitadana]

But you're one of them now? By choice?

[Since he was hanging out with them and they (maybe?) considered him a friend. Sort of.]

[jurisdick]

Convenience, actually. We're working together temporarily. They're disbanding after our arrangement.

[jivitadana]

How much farther ahead are you?

[Disbanding? That made it seem like they were done. Also sort of. He thought that they hadn't finished whatever it was they had to do.]

[jurisdick]

A few months, at most.

[ he shakes his head, still speaking calmly. ]

But they've known about my distaste for their... sense of justice for quite awhile.

[jivitadana]

[A few months was still an advantage. To know the future while others were still trying to play catch-up? That had to be nice.]

Stealing hearts? Not your thing then?

[jurisdick]

I simply don't agree with it. I believe that criminals should be processed through the system that is in place and justice shall be served through that avenue.

[jivitadana]

Why are they considered "criminals"?