tribridfreakshow | meadowlark ; ic inbox

Ah, too bad that I'm not a protagonist of a manga. I would offer you an outlet for that.

I believe this is where video games are meant to adequately fill that void. I'm not very good at them myself, but that is where virtual reality allows for venting of frustrations. Being a virtual version of reality, and all.

i wouldn't want to hit you anyway.

does it really help if it's not actually real?

A particularly frustrating video game can prove to be quite the distraction.

just don't be surprised if i suck and wind up punching the machine in the end and it works better.

[Well, that's assuming he'd be able to observe.

... Is that what she's assuming?]

I wasn't inviting myself along.

[And therein lies the fact that Akechi is bad at social interaction. He has nothing to gain from this, as far as he can see.]

and i'm not actually going to try and play any videogames so you're off the hook.

[Don't worry, Akechi. She's got you. She doesn't want to see anyone anyway.]

but i appreciate the suggestion.

My other suggestion is to take a bike ride. That is how I tend to handle frustrations. That and coffee, but I believe we're all too poor to indulge in such things.

maybe i'll go for a run.

my uncle is trying to get me a job i guess. maybe i'll treat you to coffee if i find one.

[Little does she know what Caroline is going to get her involved in. At least it's more profitable?]

Coffee is quite expensive, but we can do a sandwich instead.

Though Ren may be able to make coffee for both of us for free. He's looking into being a barista.

that would be nice of him. is that something he's done before?

When he moved to Shibuya, he lived in the attic above a coffee shop called Leblanc. While the atmosphere was truly something you couldn't look away from, the man behind the counter made the best cup of coffee in the entire city.

Ren was his ... apprentice of sorts.

is that how you two first met each other? coffee?

No. I went to that coffee shop on a coworker's recommendation.

He and I met before that at a news station. I was the scheduled guest that day.

sounds a little like a case of it's a small world then.

to be interviewed? sounds like you're a celebrity.

I am.

There aren't many eighteen year old detectives in the world. As it turns out, I was only the second. Unfortunately, being the second meant I inherited the title ...

Though I suppose it was fitting just the same.

trust me, being the only one of something isn't all it's cracked up to be.

[That's a sentiment he knows all too well. Two years alone with his powers, forced to figure them out on his own. At the time, Akechi felt invincible, like very little could stop him. He finally felt like he had some control in his world.

If Joker is right, even that control was an illusion. It never started and stopped with his father, just as he fooled himself into believing.]

Sounds like you mean something a lot heavier than a celebrity moniker. Care to expand on that?

[It takes her a while to finally answer, but eventually she does.]

i'm the only one of my kind. my grandma was a witch and practically invented dark magic. my mom was a werewolf alpha. my dad was one of the original vampires and a werewolf hybrid. i'm all three combined into one really weird package.

basically the world's biggest cosmic mistake.

And stripped of all of that here.

How does that feel?

[A beat. And then he follows it up:]

I just sounded like a therapist, didn't I? I'm failing to understand where the "mistake" part comes in, but I wanted your take.

most of it. yeah.

i miss my magic. i miss being able to transform and just run. but my head is a little quieter at least.

[It's strange, to both miss and hate pieces of yourself.

As far as the therapy questions, she doesn't mind, honestly. No one ever really asks her how she feels about anything.]

my mom and my dad had a one night stand, and he wasn't supposed to be able to have kids. since, you know, vampire. technically dead. not to mention i've had people trying to kill me since before i was even born because of a prophecy. i'm not sure it wouldn't have been better if they'd succeeded.

i didn't exactly make things better by surviving.

Did the prophecy come into fruition or are you still waiting?

if i've learned anything about prophecies it's that they don't usually go the way anyone thinks they will.

but no, i'm not still waiting, and everyone who's still alive has moved on.

[~~Except for her, maybe.~~]

Was it linked to your father's decision to leave you?

first i was supposed to bring an end to the witches of new orleans. eventually they just decided that meant i was going to bring about the destruction of the city altogether.

then there was a different prophecy that wasn't about me at all, but about the destruction of my family.

then there was the mess with The Hollow, the thing that possessed me when i was a kid. that's what ended up in my dad before he died.

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