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

[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.]

[yatagarasu]

[There is a twinkle of the briefest amusement in Kay's eyes when Edgeworth sinks and then swims back up, but it's gone by the time he starts speaking.

She bites her lip and clenches her fists.]

I won't let anyone sing the truth away from you, Mr. Edgeworth!

[truthsnomiracle]

[Kay's enthusiasm proves contagious in this case, given Edgeworth's grin and tenser posture.]

Your cooperation is most appreciated, Kay, though we have a far greater challenge ahead than the defense of only one person if we're to see a world enriched by that truth. Nevertheless, that is where it must begin.

[yatagarasu]

That's the spirit! [She's happy when she rubs off on Edgeworth.] I'll do my best to help in any way I can! Whether it's finding the truth, or learning more about merpeople, or even just training you to become an expert swimmer...

[truthsnomiracle]

For the moment, coming to a greater understanding of our kind will do. Concerning song, or simply the... energy I feel compelled to infuse it with, I still have questions that may be within your ability to answer. Is there any use for singing or the power behind it aside from controlling humans?

[yatagarasu]

Absolutely! You can call for animals to help you out, and sometimes, it's used in healing or creating magic stuff. But those last two...uh, you need to learn those from the experts.

And it's not always for controlling humans, sometimes it's also for...calming them down or, as you've seen, undoing the control.

[truthsnomiracle]

Does this power relate to our ability to communicate with those same animals as well? For that matter, I'm left to wonder if it's at all applicable to overcoming language barriers with other sapient beings.

[yatagarasu]

Yeah. [She nods.] And if you try to sing in a different language...the power helps you get the meaning across but it'll be vague. Like a really crude online translator engine.

[Tech-savvy mermaid, this one.]

[truthsnomiracle]

Hmph. Hopefully with far less absurd distortions than that. Nevertheless, this certainly suggests a path to follow to attain a potentially useful skill.

[...Edgeworth, you do remember you're not a merman most of the time, right?]

[yatagarasu]

D'you really think you'd have enough time to work on that? I think half our time's already gone!

[truthsnomiracle]

[That is about right, actually.]

Er, right... (It's surreal to remember that this is a temporary change to a false form and not an assertion of my true one.) Few other worthwhile physical tests are coming immediately to mind, however, and the one that does strikes me as best done only a few minutes prior to returning to human form.

[yatagarasu]

What is it? You can do it now, and then just remove the choker before...whatever it is.

[truthsnomiracle]

Becoming human is not strictly necessary to the experience, though I suspect it might prove to be a temptation I would have to fend off. I simply wish to experience what it's like to deal with being beached and the level of mobility one has in such a situation.

Your suggestion begs a question, however: if the choker were removed prematurely, what would happen to the rest of the remaining time? And I ask again, how long must one wait between uses?

[yatagarasu]

You can use up the remaining time later on if you're gonna transform again. But once all that time is gone, you can't use the choker for 24 hours because a lot of power goes into transformation.

...and getting beached? Is so not fun. If you're close to the water, it's fine, but when you wind up pretty far or too tired...

[truthsnomiracle]

If the act of transformation itself uses so much energy, then I would expect removing the collar and putting it back on to reduce the total amount of time one could spend in a form not their own. Would it not take more energy at a time to actively change a creature so significantly in the first place than to keep it changed, much as it takes more energy to push something upward than to simply hold it in place?

[yatagarasu]

Hmm...now that you mention it, removing and wearing it doesn't count. The energy for actually changing and the energy for staying a merperson are different.