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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[ wow he feels like he's being set up............. ]

Well-- I can't say I'd be 100% comfortable with it. However, given the nature of this school... I guess it would depend on how murderous they are. Maybe.

Five peoPLE. Four while poSSESSED, and one done while completely luCID.

( ...for good reason, but some people don't think there is a good reason to kill anyone. )

[ A pause. One while lucid... ]

Not comfortable at all, honestly.

[ Well, RIP that plan. There really isn't a good reason. ]

...You're all the SAME.

( but alright, he's turning away. at least there are people here who haven't killed anyone yet this year. actually, they outnumber murderers really...

oh. )

You should think about how you got those tallies someTIME, Shirogane-kun. Not every one of them is victimHOOD.

--Seriously, what the hell do you want from me? I'm branded a murderer for opening a door, but if I'm not okay with that, that's an issue?

[ His frustration's bubbling over, wanting to have this done and over with and at the same time, feeling ridiculed over not believing in murder?

He can't back down here. He has to try harder. ]

I don't understand why I have these tallies, maybe they're from memories that I don't have. But don't act like I'm a bad person for being cautious about who I let my guard down around.

You have those either because you died or because you killed someONE. Whether you remember either of those things doesn't matter—they still hapPENED.

( Terrible, itchy marks. Natsume's hand drifts to his left wrist idly, rubbing the skin through his jacket. )

...I'm not saying you're a murderER. In this life, anyWAY. But even a rabbit will bite when cornered—even the kindest person will cross a line if their life or someone else's they care for is at STAKE. ( He pauses, peering over at Miyuki with a sharp gaze. ) I'm the one I'm asking you aBOUT. The lucid murder was of a young woman who would have most certainly killed me had she known one of my victims during my possession was the love of her life—this isn't a seCRET.

( Well, not to anyone who was around in June. That number of people is a lot lower now, he knows, and only a few people know about it otherwise... )

...But if it makes you uncomfortable to stay with someone who didn't want to die and took matters into his own hands to prevent THAT, even in a way that goes against the standard moral CODE, then that's your right to HAVE.

( And Natsume has a right to his own feelings too, or something like that. )

[ Which is the issue, naturally. If memories can be so easily replaced or out of sync with what reality is... then he can't be sure he didn't do something in his sleep. For all of his talk of trust earlier in the day--

Then, Natsume reveals what had happened. Of course, it was a secret to Miyuki, he had no idea anything like that took place. It doesn't however, take that long for him to relapse back to his previous thoughts as this all started. What if it had been someone he cared deeply for? The name came to mind instantly, and all he'd be able to do is plot revenge-- which would go unfulfilled, considering what her family would do would be much, much worse.

Still. The story made sense. Possession, leading into striking first. He hates the idea of getting his hands dirty like that, but. ]

I won't judge you for that. If it was to protect yourself.

[ No insinuation, although he's still bugged by how this is all transpiring, and the fact that something underlying in this school's bringing all of this out. ]

I don't have the right to proclaim what's right or wrong here, and I can't speak to whether or not the woman wouldn't have understood. The only people I'm worried about are those that would see me as easy pickings. Those who want me dead because I wanted to help the students at this school.

( "Then you shouldn't be on the student counCIL"—

...is what he wants to say, and it's in his gaze as he lets it linger on Miyuki, but eventually he turns away again. )

There aren't that many students LEFT, and unarguably those like us—who aren't fully assimilated into this school—are the most dangerous of THEM. Be a good boy who doesn't rock too many BOATS, and you'll probably live to see next YEAR.

[ Natsume's right. He shouldn't be-- but, he was ignorant enough of what was happening in the school to join. He has to see this through. ]

...Whether I like it or not, it's too late for that. If someone can be this deliberate in infiltrating the student council room and causing this much of a scene, I can't afford to keep quiet.

[ Adapt or perish. Work hard, don't be pathetic. Stop being worthless. ]

I'll learn.

( ... )

Best of LUCK, Shirogane-kun. She wouldn't have let you on the council if she didn't think you couldn't handle it anyWAY.

( and that's— yeah, that's all. )

[...]

Sorry~, guess you wouldn't be very comfortable rooming with us after all, then.

[miyuki can find a different room, he guesses... subaru's rubbing at his wrist idly too.]

♪ my class trial, our class trial ♫

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