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]

[Kay blinks. She saw Edgeworth's lips move and she's certain he's telling her off with that kind of face, but the headphones are blocking everything out. And we mean EVERYTHING. Her brow furrows in puzzlement, and her mouth opens to speak up before she decides to just take the headphones off.

As she reaches up to do so, her fingers find the antennae, and she blinks in surprise as she seeks better purchase on the headband, and finally takes the entire thing off.]

Boy, you couldn't hear a thing with those babies on!

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth turns to face Kay entirely at that comment.]

Nothing at all, huh... In that case, I'll repeat myself — playing with things that may turn out to be evidence is ill-advised. We do know that Mr. Erickson was working on some sort of electronic hardware, and for all we know those headphones could be it.

[yatagarasu]

I wasn't playing, I was...um, trying to lighten things up!

[After a brief petulant pout, she looks over the headphones curiously.]

That's weird. Headphones usually don't have antennae...unless they're part of a costume. [She blinks.] Maybe this is a different type!

[truthsnomiracle]

If it were merely the long pair on the ear coverings, I would think they were merely intended to pick up radio or other signals. It is the multiple short antennae sticking out sideways from the headband portion which seem particularly strange.

[yatagarasu]

Oh, right. Maybe these short ones are made to pick up something else?

[truthsnomiracle]

If so, then perhaps we'll find out somewhere within the papers strewn about. (Though I can't imagine what they could have been intended to receive...)

[That having been said, Edgeworth turns back around, towards the desk with the computer monitor and speakers.]

[yatagarasu]

...Like alien messages from out there?

[Kay puts down the headphones and reaches for the odd walkie-talkie next, placing it close to her ear like a phone.]

Mr. Erickson, do you copy? Over. Kssst. [A pause as she picks up one of the sheets of paper from the third desk and reads through it. Dissatisfied, she lets it fall back onto the table.]

[truthsnomiracle]

OBJECTION! Even if one were to assume that such messages existed to be received in the first place, antennae meant for such purposes are generally pointed toward the sky and considerably larger!

[The papers on the third desk by and large appear to be schematics and technical papers. The latter are especially dense, but the former are mostly pictures punctuated by small textual notes.

As for the walkie-talkie, if it or its schematics are examined closely, it should grow clear that it doesn't actually have a speaker, only a microphone.]

Kay, we have an investigation to conduct! What did I just say about not playing with potential evidence?

[yatagarasu]

Hey, you never know what form alien communication is gonna take! [She puts down the walkie-talkie when Edgeworth tells her off, though.

Kay tries to look over the rest of the documents, then begins attempting to line them up on the desk to see if they form a puzzle or if they would make more sense juxtaposed that way. She scratches her head.]

Hmm...

[truthsnomiracle]

[The technical papers on the desk don't seem to form any special pattern, but laying out the schematics makes it easier to piece together the big picture, at least in a metaphorical sense. There are some repeated numbers between pictures of the walkie-talkie-like device and the headphones — specifically between the antenna of the former and the larger, longer antennae on the sides of the latter. There's also some vague discussion of adjustment of sound frequencies in the earphones' output in reaction to input received from the small antennae, of the walkie-talkie performing analysis and processing of sound input prior to broadcast, and of automatic sound mixing occurring in the headphones immediately prior to output.

Meanwhile, Edgeworth uses the respite in Kay's goofing around to finally look through the papers on the first desk in some detail.]

(Curious... there's a great deal of information here about neurology, advanced sound mixing, and, of all things, hypnosis.)

[yatagarasu]

[Kay tries to start from one end of the line, and as she goes, she begins to notice the pattern. It has a lot of big words, but if she can condense the info into more understandable chunks...

The headphones and the walkie-talkie are connected somehow. The walkie-talkie probably controlled what the person will hear on the headphones, but at the same time, something would happen in the headphones before the person could hear whatever came from the walkie-talkie.

Wait.

Kay grabs the walkie-talkie and realizes that it only has a speaker, but nowhere to place one's ear on. She turns it over in her hands and lifts it to her mouth as if about to speak into it, but thankfully she remains quiet.

That is, until - ]

Eureka!

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth is startled by Kay's outburst, but turns to face her at a normal speed and crosses his arms.]

And for what reason did you choose to steal that particular line, Kay?

[yatagarasu]

[Kay grins triumphantly and makes a sweeping gesture toward the papers on the third desk.]

I think I figured something out! The headphones and the walkie-talkie are connected! I mean...they do something together!

[truthsnomiracle]

Ah, do they? Excellent work, Kay. Given that the headphones don't appear to have a microphone attached, I presume this involves a one-way broadcast from the walkie-talkie to the headphones?

[yatagarasu]

Ding ding, we have a winner!

[She grabs some of the sheets of paper and shows them to Edgeworth, pointing to the numbers between the diagrams of the walkie-talkie and headphones.]

Whatever goes through the walkie-talkie will be heard by whoever's wearing the headphones, but...somehow, it changes. The sound frequencies change.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth takes a look at the papers himself, but a lot of this is Greek to him. The broadcasting and receiving of a particular frequency that Kay points out he can make some sense of with her direction, however.]

Huh. Do you have any idea how it changes or why?

[yatagarasu]

[She shakes her head, no longer as proud as she was before because her discovery just raised more questions.]

I dunno. Maybe it's a long-distance thing? But then you wouldn't need to mess up the frequencies...

[truthsnomiracle]

Meanwhile, a preliminary look at the materials on the desk with the computer suggests one possibility concerning what the more unusual antennae on the headphones might be for. Given that much of what's there concerns neurology, it's possible that they're meant to pick up on the wearer's brainwaves. After all, the way they're positioned, they'd be close to the wearer's head.

[And the notes on the schematics do suggest that input from the small antennae is used in the headphones' sound alteration algorithms...]

[yatagarasu]

The wearer's brainwaves? Why would they need that? [Kay leafs through the rest of the papers related to the walkie-talkie and the headphones.]

Does Mr. Erickson...want to read minds??

[truthsnomiracle]

[Aside from what Kay has already noticed, other details about the headphones crop up upon closer examination of the headphones. There's a small amount of RAM and a small solid-state drive like the innards of a USB thumb drive, but no actual mechanisms for writing to the latter, just reading from it. Furthermore, there look to be tiny microphones hidden within within the speakers of the headphones, but they only operate for three seconds when the headphones are first activated and the data used by the headphones in some way. Finally, it looks as though the headphones do transmit a very small amount of information back to the walkie-talkie, which uses that information to operate an LED that can be red, yellow, green, or off at any given time.]

Given that there is also literature pertaining to hypnosis here, I rather imagine that his dream is to control them. How far he might have come in achieving that dream, however, I cannot say.

[yatagarasu]

Hypnosis?

[Kay repeats the word incredulously.]

Whoa, that's so cool! I mean...if it's not used to commit a crime or anything. [She looks at the papers again.] I could think of a lot of people who'd want this kind of technology!

[truthsnomiracle]

And I can think of no end of the ways in which such technology could be abused. I've even seen laws against the use of hypnosis in court proceedings, as well as laws stating that exposure of its use against a witness being grounds for denying their credibility, due to the supposed ease by which a hypnotist can deliberately or even inadvertently confuse a person's memories or even conjure false ones.

As for the question of whether this technology was in fact used to commit the crime we're investigating, I find that hard to believe... and yet, we have a suspect who claims to have thoughtlessly used a poison they were neither aware of the nature of nor that they possessed. Out of context, it seems too absurd even for a lie, and yet he clearly has neither a direct nor an indirect motive, as well as no access to the poison.

[yatagarasu]

No access? Is it a top-secret poison? Or something you can only get from a secret lab?

[truthsnomiracle]

(Once again, Kay proves to be rather obsessed with secrets. I suppose I can't blame her for her ignorance given her absence when I confirmed this point with forensics, however.)

It does generally come from laboratories, though it is the specific formula rather than the laboratories which are secret. According to forensics, even most of its components are not generally available to the public, even if the procedure were well-known.

[yatagarasu]

Ohhh...that is fishy.

By the way, I found tiny microphones hidden in the headphones, if we're to believe the diagrams. [Kay waves the plans about.] And for some reason, even the headphones themselves transmit data back to the walkie-talkie. It's a bit complicated, but I think I figured that much out.