[Hans drops down by her out of who-knows-where, like a tree or an awning or something??? He does this entrance a lot but at least it doesn’t come with crumbs today.
Instead he’s got the day’s paper held in his mouth because he needs his other limbs, natch. It drops into his hands as he speaks.]
[There’s a mischievous edge to his grin because he’s probably aiming to startle or sneak up on people a little at least most of the time, and he really doesn’t make much noise.]
That don’t say nothin’, and there’s nothin’ I can see that woulda led to this outcome except meowbe the kid with the knife a couple times.
But then, ya said this woulda been expected just fine.
[Turns a half-circle around her like a museum exhibit and then hops up onto the nearest perch, which is probably a statue or a fence. Fence-sitting catte.
His inquiries aren't particularly pressing; he seems a lot more like he's just doing this to pass the time. Still...]
Hrmeow, if they're makin' us do cleanup, it's goin' to be a whole thing again.
I presume nothing. It's just not surprising that things got this bad, is all.
They said they're leaving the investigation to us, didn't they... [she looks a little annoyed.] And we have a decent amount of information to start with.
Nyahaha, how pessimeowstic do ya have to be? I woulda been on your side if we weren't all fed an' clothed an' had more cash than anybody'd know what to do with, but I guess there's forces out there that don't care about that stuff.
[He really doesn't sound like he's all that surprised either, but the affectation is there, as is the... (probably) sincere dedication to capitalism(???).]
... Meow, I guess we've got some things to go off of, but I wonder what's goin' to happen if we finish up this investigation.
If we're supposed to be "heroes," then I suppose people expect us to deal out some "justice." Not that I really care about that... not unless the culprit turns out to be a real piece of work, anyway.
I would like to get to the bottom of what happened, though.
Can't say I'm all that interested in bein' a judge, either, ya know? The hero part's already enough extra work for a guy like me.
[At least he's self-aware or... something...?? Headscritch.]
All that info we've got on the raccoon says he's a meowster o' just about anything, but wouldn't it be an irony if all he did was get on the wrong side of them bird-toys enough?
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
[Trees are a pretty good bet for finding Hans -- he tends to range far and wide, even on a night like this, and just now he's flopped somewhere in the branches by the University library. There's no reading going on, but he is poking lazily at something small and glowing that is probably smartphone-shaped.
The easiest way to spot him is the tail and the ends of his cape trailing down, flapping slightly in the breeze.
Until he speaks up, that is, Cheshire grin half-open in the dark.]
Mya-meow. Everybody's out for late-night strolls today.
[It's not unusual to find Hans outside, but what's more unusual is to find him in-between -- stops, that is, perched in some bizarre configuration on a series of seats on a S.U.P.E.R. car. He doesn't really have a sense of subway etiquette, so instead he is doing what a cat or cat-adjacent creature does best: expanding liquidly to fill all available space.
At least there don't seem to be a ton of people in this car.
He also looks more relaxed than he did popping out of the actual motor vehicle earlier, but maybe he's just gotten used to all the noise and swaying and clacking by now.
Also, he has a good selection of trading cards fanned out on the seat in front of him, flipping through them with some curiosity.]
rita takes a seat on the opposite side of the aisle, and as usual, pulls out a book to read. but she glances over to see what he's doing before getting too into her reading.]
Somethin’ like that. Doesn’t seem to be anything else to do with ‘em unless I really start wrackin’ my brains.
[The lackadaisical way he says that betrays the fact that he is not going to do anything of the sort. Instead, he seems to have started building a card castle (very badly, why would you do that on a subway).
In a moment, with a distinctly amused sideways glance at Rita.]
No? Seems to me like something that'd be up yer alley.
[He just keeps watching her rifle around her pockets, grin in place and absently stacking the card castle that keeps falling over five seconds later because it doesn't have enough cards and definitely has no stability to speak of.]
Nyahihi, but ya write yer name on all o' yer things, hmm?
[He's not even trying to hide the fact that he's delighted by her confusion and fumbling -- instead he gathers up the completely un-castlelike card castle and spreads the cards, showing her only what the characters are and what's not on the back. Of course, at least two of those should look familiar to her.
Hans' eyes are half-moons as he watches her mischievously over them.]
But like ya said, it ain't a huge deal just collectin' these. So what's it really matter?
Nyahahahaha! Ya didn't notice, huh? Been hangin' on to these since I got outta the car back there.
[So like, most of the day?? He finds the whole thing hilarious considering she went so far as to graffiti these, the absent-minded intellectual trope is real.
Also he's just going to nab the other card that is hers, the Albedo one. Not playing keep-away yet, but there's some of that energy.]
Ya seem way more into this card game'n I am, ya know!
[You know how cats are really annoying when they don't want to be touched or picked up and contort themselves into all sorts of pretzel shapes because they don't have bones. He does all of this and then shimmies all the way up into the rack in the ceiling of the subway that holds all the hand-holds.
Only then does he allow her card to flutter back down. He just wanted to see her make faces.]
But I didn't want cards with names all over 'em anyway. Yer really plannin' on keeping 'em all, huh?
Now yer just trustin' in the profiles too much if ya think assassination's my only skill.
'Sides, I'm thinking everybody's gotten a li'l bit too comfortable thinkin' their chosen villain's goin' to lay down no meowtter what. Either I'm doing the executin' tomorrow or somemeowdy else is coming with me.
What, fightin' for yer life is villain behavior nowadays?
[Continues to sound like this is all a fun joke to him. He really is good at the villain routine, perhaps.]
'Sides, guilty or not guilty don't meowtter here, does it? I've killed plenty before I got here an' got called a hero for it, 'cause that's the way the world goes. Ain't that different from how it goes here.
You have to? How do you "get stuck with" a job like that? Frankly, you seem like the kind of guy who'd find a way to weasel out of it if you really wanted to.
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Week 0, Friday
Date: 2023-09-23 02:45 am (UTC)Should've known something like this would happen sooner or later.
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Date: 2023-09-23 02:47 am (UTC)Instead he’s got the day’s paper held in his mouth because he needs his other limbs, natch. It drops into his hands as he speaks.]
Meow? Why would ya know that?
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Date: 2023-09-23 03:03 am (UTC)It is my business to know what other people do not know.
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Date: 2023-09-23 03:10 am (UTC)That don’t say nothin’, and there’s nothin’ I can see that woulda led to this outcome except meowbe the kid with the knife a couple times.
You sayin’ it’s him?
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Date: 2023-09-23 03:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-23 03:43 am (UTC)[Turns a half-circle around her like a museum exhibit and then hops up onto the nearest perch, which is probably a statue or a fence. Fence-sitting catte.
His inquiries aren't particularly pressing; he seems a lot more like he's just doing this to pass the time. Still...]
Hrmeow, if they're makin' us do cleanup, it's goin' to be a whole thing again.
[Looks at the mayoral ball. Looks away.]
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Date: 2023-09-23 04:13 am (UTC)They said they're leaving the investigation to us, didn't they... [she looks a little annoyed.] And we have a decent amount of information to start with.
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Date: 2023-09-23 04:32 am (UTC)[He really doesn't sound like he's all that surprised either, but the affectation is there, as is the... (probably) sincere dedication to capitalism(???).]
... Meow, I guess we've got some things to go off of, but I wonder what's goin' to happen if we finish up this investigation.
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Date: 2023-09-23 04:39 am (UTC)I would like to get to the bottom of what happened, though.
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Date: 2023-09-23 04:53 am (UTC)[At least he's self-aware or... something...?? Headscritch.]
All that info we've got on the raccoon says he's a meowster o' just about anything, but wouldn't it be an irony if all he did was get on the wrong side of them bird-toys enough?
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Date: 2023-09-23 02:41 pm (UTC)[she thinks about it, if a bit incredulously.]
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.
W0: Saturday (Post-Trial)
Date: 2023-09-24 03:14 am (UTC)The easiest way to spot him is the tail and the ends of his cape trailing down, flapping slightly in the breeze.
Until he speaks up, that is, Cheshire grin half-open in the dark.]
Mya-meow. Everybody's out for late-night strolls today.
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Date: 2023-09-24 04:30 am (UTC)Yeah, well, I don't feel like sleeping tonight.
[she's still pissed about the trial result.]
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Date: 2023-09-24 04:42 am (UTC)What, are ya thinking of ways to change the result we all got?
Seems to me like the orders got ahead of us on this one.
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Date: 2023-09-24 04:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-09-24 04:57 am (UTC)Just wonderin’ how much they’ve planned for a bunch o’ spittin’ mad people with superpowers to go off.
[That certainly was a big part of the end of trial — not the going off part, not overall, but the mad part? Hoo boy.
The commentary itself sounds a bit more like an observer, all things considered.]
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Date: 2023-09-24 06:03 am (UTC)W1 Thursday post-CYOA
Date: 2023-09-29 04:30 am (UTC)At least there don't seem to be a ton of people in this car.
He also looks more relaxed than he did popping out of the actual motor vehicle earlier, but maybe he's just gotten used to all the noise and swaying and clacking by now.
Also, he has a good selection of trading cards fanned out on the seat in front of him, flipping through them with some curiosity.]
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Date: 2023-09-29 05:39 am (UTC)rita takes a seat on the opposite side of the aisle, and as usual, pulls out a book to read. but she glances over to see what he's doing before getting too into her reading.]
What, are you collecting those?
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Date: 2023-09-30 03:02 am (UTC)[The lackadaisical way he says that betrays the fact that he is not going to do anything of the sort. Instead, he seems to have started building a card castle (very badly, why would you do that on a subway).
In a moment, with a distinctly amused sideways glance at Rita.]
Yer into this collecting thing too?
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Date: 2023-09-30 04:50 am (UTC)[she feels around in her pocket. then another pocket. then another.]
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Date: 2023-10-01 05:16 am (UTC)[He just keeps watching her rifle around her pockets, grin in place and absently stacking the card castle that keeps falling over five seconds later because it doesn't have enough cards and definitely has no stability to speak of.]
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Date: 2023-10-01 10:08 pm (UTC)[She pulls out her one trading card from where there ought to be three, furrows her brow at it for a moment, then puts it back in her pocket.
... Then she looks over to his card castle.]
Hey, let me see those.
[She's coming over to take a closer look.]
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Date: 2023-10-02 06:59 am (UTC)[He's not even trying to hide the fact that he's delighted by her confusion and fumbling -- instead he gathers up the completely un-castlelike card castle and spreads the cards, showing her only what the characters are and what's not on the back. Of course, at least two of those should look familiar to her.
Hans' eyes are half-moons as he watches her mischievously over them.]
But like ya said, it ain't a huge deal just collectin' these. So what's it really matter?
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Date: 2023-10-03 09:52 pm (UTC)You...!
When the hell did you...!?
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Date: 2023-10-03 11:34 pm (UTC)[So like, most of the day?? He finds the whole thing hilarious considering she went so far as to graffiti these, the absent-minded intellectual trope is real.
Also he's just going to nab the other card that is hers, the Albedo one. Not playing keep-away yet, but there's some of that energy.]
If ya don't need 'em, I'll take 'em...
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Date: 2023-10-04 04:53 am (UTC)[She'll swipe her hand out and try to grab it from him.]
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Date: 2023-10-04 05:09 am (UTC)[You know how cats are really annoying when they don't want to be touched or picked up and contort themselves into all sorts of pretzel shapes because they don't have bones. He does all of this and then shimmies all the way up into the rack in the ceiling of the subway that holds all the hand-holds.
Only then does he allow her card to flutter back down. He just wanted to see her make faces.]
But I didn't want cards with names all over 'em anyway. Yer really plannin' on keeping 'em all, huh?
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Date: 2023-10-04 01:37 pm (UTC)[she grabs it and stuffs all the cards into her pocket.]
Week 2, Saturday
Date: 2023-10-08 03:05 am (UTC)... Wow, you really managed to get on everybody's bad side, huh.
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Date: 2023-10-08 04:17 am (UTC)I'm an assassin, ya know, not a diplomat.
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Date: 2023-10-08 04:31 am (UTC)[granted it was like five minutes before voting closed but. lol.]
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Date: 2023-10-08 04:36 am (UTC)[He doesn't actually seem particularly down about it.
In fact, he does an exaggerated little nod that would have been a bow if he'd been upright, tail flipping and all.]
But this really ain't my specialty -- I'm a cat, after all.
[What kind of logic--]
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Date: 2023-10-08 04:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 05:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 05:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 05:19 am (UTC)'Sides, I'm thinking everybody's gotten a li'l bit too comfortable thinkin' their chosen villain's goin' to lay down no meowtter what. Either I'm doing the executin' tomorrow or somemeowdy else is coming with me.
Can't say I didn't warn all of ya.
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Date: 2023-10-08 05:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 05:40 am (UTC)[Continues to sound like this is all a fun joke to him. He really is good at the villain routine, perhaps.]
'Sides, guilty or not guilty don't meowtter here, does it? I've killed plenty before I got here an' got called a hero for it, 'cause that's the way the world goes. Ain't that different from how it goes here.
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Date: 2023-10-08 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 06:39 am (UTC)[He says this like it's some side joke, but it really is possibly just a joke overall. Why does he keep ending up in this role--]
Meow, Adlet? We gotta work together back home, even if it's a real pain dealin' with him some days, nyahihi.
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Date: 2023-10-08 06:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-08 07:04 am (UTC)But, unlucky fer me, I like killin' fiends and they made it sound more interestin' than any other job.
[He cackles a little about it.]
An' I guess the world woulda ended if I ignored it.