she spreads her wings and takes to the skies.

[yatagarasu]

Open Post: The Kay Faraday Edition
This is my permanent Kay Faraday open post. Spam me with prompts, picture prompts, AUs, and the like. Indicate canon point or universe when necessary. Please note that I don't do slash, smut, anything sexual or anything overly and excessively violent.
Canon	Future AU
Choose a canon point, any canon point! Even from AAI2, why not.	7-8 years later, AJ/DD era. Prosecutor who studied under Miles Edgeworth. Still hyper and makes thief jokes. Still the Yatagarasu.
Somarium	Mask or Menace
Lived with Edgeworth and Stitch. Recruited Ema, Trucy and Maya into the Yatagarasu. 19 years old. Had college plans.	Can command and talk to crows, replicate voices and sounds perfectly, and use Charter Magic. Juror for Teen Court.

Badger get!

code by cawaii

Comments

[truthsnomiracle]

Concerning food, I presume methods of fermenting meat are more common and diverse than they are above water since fire, while available, is less trivial to employ. (I wonder if any common undersea household items can be abused for criminal purposes that I wouldn't anticipate given my human memories...)

[yatagarasu]

Unless you can afford to stash your food above ground in a place like my hideout. [She gestures upward.] But...why are we talking about this?

[truthsnomiracle]

There are all manner of ordinary things I don't yet understand about our kind, to the point that it can prove difficult to stay entirely on topics that are best explored within the, er, time limit.

[Edgeworth pauses to look aside awkwardly.]

To say nothing of the fact that the, um, change is so thorough that it can be difficult to keep in mind that said time limit exists.

[yatagarasu]

I dunno, can't you continue asking about this even when you're back to being human?

[Kay looks at the video running on her phone.]

[truthsnomiracle]

This in particular, yes. As I was trying to imply, it would be best to shift to topics best explored as I am. However, the only questions immediately coming to mind are those related to the energy straining inside me and the song incessantly nagging in my head.

[yatagarasu]

You better decide whether or not to ask them, 'cause time is ticking! Anyway, it's not like I'll keep answering your questions when you're back to being human.

[truthsnomiracle]

The most obvious question is from whence this song came. Not only have I never heard it before, but I'm hardly a composer in my own right. It... this is absurd, but... it feels as though it almost has a mind of its own, and is trying to... convince me of things.

[yatagarasu]

I told you, it's your emotions. Because you feel so strongly about something, it becomes a song inside you.

You just have to remember that it's not the only song you can sing, and you don't always have to sing it out.

[truthsnomiracle]

Is it normal for that song to be only loosely related to those passions? To believe strongly in a just and orderly world whose laws and workings are founded on the truth is one thing; to believe myself to be some sort of nobility with the right and responsibility to rule is quite another.

[yatagarasu]

That's because you haven't had any experience keeping your emotions related to the song in check. Plus, maybe you feel really, really strongly about it.

[truthsnomiracle]

OBJECTION!

[Thanks to the enhanced beauty of his voice and the potency of the emotion behind that shout, one could almost swear Edgeworth sang "objection" instead of shouting it as he points straight at Kay.]

To begin with, I've put a great deal of effort into learning emotional control in a general sense! After all, sentiment can easily get in the way of logic if one isn't careful. Indeed, if I lacked such skill I would have started singing again by now! Second, while I've long felt comfortable wielding authority, I've never lusted for more of it than I possess! Furthermore, the compulsion to use my song to rule others doesn't come paired with any compulsion to apply any specific values in doing so, when potentially applicable values are what I remember having felt strongly about and no drive to conquer others existed within me!

In addition, your own earlier testimony suggests that a change of species from human to merman should not have twisted my existing emotions into such an impulse to rule others! Specifically, you've stated that the various clans of merpeople have attitudes about humans which range from disdainful to neutral to friendly. If an impulse to rule others through song were normal among passionate merpeople, then why would those clans that think less of humans not simply enslave coastal populations?! After all, they would lack the respect for humans necessary to see any need to control such an impulse! For that matter, despite your later claims that it's normal for simple spikes in emotion to drive one to sing and that undersea society trains its youth to control such impulses, your own initial advice that I try singing simply because I felt like it suggests that at the absolute least, the degree to which my song gripped me took you by surprise!

[yatagarasu]

...

[Kay is speechless after that major outburst. Not to mention that his objection sounded like he sang it. But that's the least of her worries because at least it didn't carry any compelling power behind it.

She blinks, leaning away from him a bit, then letting out a slow breath.]

Actually...that was just a theory. I'm just as clueless as you are.

[Kay shrugs.]

Like I said, I don't know everything about merpeople. You'll have to add that to your list of things to ask merpeople when you visit the sea again.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth sighs in frustration, rubbing his forehead. His maintenance of his position stops being the result of a steady wave of his tail and starts coming from periodic harsh flicks of it, causing him to bob in place slightly.]

Were this a courtroom, I would insist that you refrain from speculation in your testimony. Since it is not, however, I only ask that you make clear what is and is not a wild guess.

[yatagarasu]

Sorry, sorry...

[Kay holds up her hands.]

You might want to remember everything you said for when we talk to real song experts.

[truthsnomiracle]

What aspects of song do they study aside from pathology?

[...Yes, Edgeworth's conclusion here is that there's something wrong with him and his song.]

[yatagarasu]

The effects of emotions and other things on songs...how best to teach us how to control our songs at an early age...

I-I don't think it's a sickness...it could just be in the choker.

[truthsnomiracle]

OBJECTION!

[Just as oddly resonant as before, though still apparently not carrying any of Edgeworth's temporary power.]

I find it hard to believe that anything like the choker would be deliberately designed with a flaw that's dangerous to those around the user. Furthermore, were this a common side-effect of such a choker's influence, would that not be a known factor with requisite warnings being at least rumored and ideally mandated by law? Instead, you've clearly never seen nor heard of such an effect before. Sickness or not, it strikes me as far more probable to be abnormal than not — and almost certainly so if any other human you've known has used it before without any such result.

Concerning that possibility, you've specifically referred to Detective Badd as someone who knows of merpeople, and I find it hard to believe that he would simply ignore the sorts of opportunities this would provide, even in the face of potentially dangerous side-effects. [Apparently, Edgeworth isn't even giving Kay a chance to deny others' use of transformation chokers before he establishes its likelihood.] Given the mechanics of reproduction and the limitations of the choker, it seems highly likely that your father used one of these at some point as well. Would neither of these people have warned you of any dangers associated with such an object?

[yatagarasu]

[Kay blinks, and takes a moment to digest all of that...and glance at the still-running video on her phone.

Then she nods.]

...Yes, they would. Boy, you're on a roll with these objections lately...

[truthsnomiracle]

[It's been just over twelve minutes by now.]

Heh. Just because I know little of undersea life and am struggling with an unfamiliar impulse doesn't mean that my intellect is any less sharp.

[yatagarasu]

Think of it this way - this means we could go on field trips so you can find out more!

[Potentially...dangerous field trips, maybe, but still.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[That... seems to hit Edgeworth from left field, but it only takes a second for him to banish the confusion from his eyes, cross his arms, and look more like he's expecting an explanation from a recalcitrant witness.]

How does this abnormal urge on my part have any positive bearing on our ability to go on "field trips"?

[yatagarasu]

Well, we're not going to find out much more about it while we're sitting here. You do realize where the "song experts" live, right?

[About several feet...below.]

[truthsnomiracle]

Now that you mention it, I don't believe you've mentioned how long the choker's power lasts if one does not sing, how long one can go between uses, or what dangers might apply to a transition from one, er, enchanted method of undersea survival to another given what you've already said concerning the difficulty of using multiple artifacts at once. Half an hour seems insufficient for a round trip to an undersea city, let alone any business there.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay rests her chin on her hand.]

No...it's probably about forty or fifty minutes. Not sure if you could reach an hour.

I'll ask my relatives if they have anything that'll allow you to stay underwater for much longer than an hour. Either that...or you'll have to learn scuba diving.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth sighs again, this time more out of resignation. His paddling to stay in place eases somewhat in the process, causing him to sink several inches before he swims back up to where he was prior to sighing.]

It does seem as though at this rate, such a skill would be necessary. However, given that our existence has remained secret for so long, I'm left to wonder how often human divers are... sung to.

[It has hardly slipped Edgeworth's mind that the only reason discovery of the jewel thief had even posed a problem in the first place was the amnesia clause of the song she used, after all... and it still disturbs him that merpeople can simply destroy knowledge like that.]