yogen | ♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

Who: Everyone + Hiro if ori wants
When: January 12th, then anytime past January 15th
Where: Common Room
What: please let's wake steph and also maybe prove miyuki innocent if he really is
Warnings: tbd

[there is no gentle way to do this on the pda.

but you know what that is perfectly fine they were doing CSI rp earlier what's one more--]

All hands, round up.

Think we've got as much as we can right now, so let's settle in and work it out -- together. Come to the usual meet-up spot as soon as you can, and we're not leaving until the perp's worked out. Bring your own joe and a wit sharp as can be, because we are in for the long haul.

Detective Akamatsu, signing out.

[...

a-anyway.

meng yao's done his best to preserve one (1) stephanie meanswell and she's currently laying on the couch in a state some may find familiar and others not at all, but she's very much alive -- if barely. have your shock and surprise, this is going to be once all evidence is collected icly. also after noah and kaede make a grave for miss vp god rest her soul.

...

hiro is allowed to be here, if he wants, if only because part of this is his sister's death and one of y'all had BETTER take care of him.

there are no snacks, no drinks unless you byoj (bring your own joe), and kaede will wait until... all or presumably all are filed in before she speaks.]

I hate to say this, but you all are easily more experienced with this than I am... Still, there's no reason to wait on this when one of our classmates has turned up dead, and another [she is assuming stephanie is theirs] is in the state that she is. I don't want to think one of us had anything to do with it, but turning away from the truth only invites more pain--

So let's lay out what we know and try not to go at each others' throats about it.

[please. even the most unbelievable, impossible happenings have roots to them, and she wants it solved -- not just for hiro's sake, who's pain is something she can barely imagine, but for stephanie and the vice principal, too.]

[links:

○ investigative miroboard
○ round up one
○ round up two

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We can discuss our animal preferences later, guys. Let's focus on the task at hand right now.

[though dogs are cute.]

It's relevant to the discusSION. She can't claim wolves are beasts and in the same breath say dogs are wonderful little creatures when they're the same THING.

Sakasaki-kun, you don't really think that going back and forth about the evolutionary line of canines is gonna help us save Stephanie-san or figure out what happened to Arisu-san, do you?

( ...no, so he sinks further next to hiro and doesn't look at kaede, hands clenching and unclenching in his lap instead. )

[...

she's not sure how close they were, but evidently enough. her tone softens, a little apologetic.]

We'll figure it out. What happened, who did it, how we can save at least one of our classmates... Nothing's impossible as long as we put our heads together. Don't feel like you can't speak up if you have something in mind, okay?

Is it in fashion to give some sort of protagonistic little pep-talk at meetings nowaDAYS? First Add-kun, and now YOU, Akamatsu-san.

( I'm............. SORRY. )

( staring......................................... )

So you've got nothing, huh?

( since he's "speaking up" with something like this, and maybe it comes out a liiiiittle bit sharper than it needs to, but... he softens a moment later, apologetic. )

She's just trying to help, Sakasaki-kun. We all are.

No, he's right. I do have a pretty bad track record with stuff like this, Amami-kun.

[and if it isn't appreciated, she at least knows how to step off now. learned it the hard way.]

I'm sorry if I spoke out of turn, Sakasaki-kun. But I really do want to work this out. I didn't know Arisu-san for long, but I admired the way she played piano -- you can tell a lot about a person from the songs they choose, and how they choose to play them. I would've loved to play four-hands with her.

( ... )

She was delightful to play WITH. ( a little stiff, but it's true, she was. he still remembers the way she... ) You're forgiVEN, Akamatsu-san. I'll assist where I can, TOO.

( the look amami gives her says that he thinks natsume's the one who needed to step off, grieving or not, but he'll let her apologize if that's what she wants to do. this is why she's better at people than him. )

[look. she'll give him a gold star for the effort earlier. but natsume just lost someone who seemed very important to him, and she'll let him have his space on that--

he was a sweet person to her before this, after all. that's the natsume sakasaki she knows.]

( for some reason, amami of all people getting softer pisses him off. )

Right, because we're oh-so-good at solving mysteries without the outside help of the victim themselves and a COIN, or bumbling around for two weeks until we somehow stumble upon the soluTION, or having to be led to it like horses to water and still not drink until we absolutely have TO. Your friend you've been so intent on hyping up since she woke up isn't going to change THAT, no matter how much pressure you put on her by lauding her social SKILLS.

( —ghhh, he runs his hand through his hair once to soothe himself, then a second time to mess with it a little roughly. it isn't like he's wrong, but it isn't like he's right to say it especially like that. he knows that. he knows.

...he does know, but it's just hard to care about it. )

If we don't figure any of this out before the end of the WEEK, I'll take care of it mySELF.

( if the culprit is one of them, there's only one place they can stay. on campus.

and if he has to blow up the school to catch a criminal, then fine. )

...

( yeah, he knows that maya must have been important to natsume — he knows that he can't actually know how natsume's feeling right now, and he knows that he didn't have to come out so sharp, but natsume... he's out of line too. attacking kaede like that when she hasn't done anything wrong — at least she's doing something to try and figure things out, rather than going for the throats of anyone who happens to be standing too close.

amami grits his teeth, but he knows to pick his battles. fighting with natsume would make him no better at dragging this whole thing off topic, so there's a long pause. a deep breath out as he exhales. his words come out dry and short. )

Right. Good luck with that then.

[ --Right. He's had enough of this. ]

I don't want anyone to leave this room until we've figured this out. We don't need until the end of the week.

[ It's desperation on his part, sure. But he's tired of being kicked around because of all of this. ]

When you lay out all of the facts, the truth will show itself. I don't know Akamatsu or Amami well enough, but they're trying. I'm placing my faith in them.

[ He purses his lips together. ]

There is more than enough time for all of us to figure it out. I believe it would be best served on focusing on what we have, for example, then directing conversation in this manner.

[...

subaru'll scoot closer to natsume and lean against him. even if everyone else wants to harp on natsume, he won't -- he'll be his back-to-back partner, like always, and press his lips tight.]

If you guys have enough time and energy to pick at a guy who just lost a close friend, you've got enough time and energy to work it out. 'Kay~?

[don't humor natsume, don't talk to him. that's all.]

( subaru, on the other hand, gets a look like "maybe your back-to-back partner shouldn't go biting people who are just trying to help for no reason. it's like the sims. if subaru looks back, he'll see the little -- over amami's head. )

[the look back is "you're the same way over boss so don't start" i'm sorry he loves you amami he'll take the -- hit but natsume is his first and foremost]

( natsume hears all of you but the reply goes to subaru for flow's sake, he's turning his attention away with a huff but nothing else to argue with... and to stephanie instead since she's awake and he can be sore about her not responding to him except for making a face when he called her by his usual nickname. extremely bad day for natsume today. )

[ She's late to this and has nothing really to say anyway, but how dare he try to make her think that dogs are the same as wolves. How horrible!

But, whatever. Miss Akamatsu is trying to pull this together, so she'll just keep watching patiently. ]

♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

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