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!

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[truthsnomiracle]

Ah, I see. In that case, I see no reason to delay.

[With that, Edgeworth breaks into a swim towards the shallows, apparently undeterred by Kay's warnings of how unpleasant being beached can be.]

[yatagarasu]

H-Hey, wait up!

[Kay calls out to him and quickly follows him.]

Don't say I didn't warn you!

[truthsnomiracle]

I had no expectations of it being a pleasant experience to begin with, Kay. After all, simply being atop the rock as I am caused me to irrationally consider entering the water to be a solution to unrelated problems, and marine mammals' lives are endangered by being beached for more than a few minutes to a few hours despite the fact that they breathe air.

[By the time he finishes saying all this, he's reached the shallows and has to be careful just how he swims. He pauses to exhale, then stick his head above water and continue forward relying on air for his oxygen instead.]

[yatagarasu]

I know what you're thinking. This could come in handy when you're figuring out whether someone could have been able to commit a crime or not, right?

[On the other hand, Kay has the advantage of becoming human again when they reach the shallows. She then continues to swim using the backstroke.]

[truthsnomiracle]

Precisely. The opportunity to learn that sort of thing firsthand is why I chose to don the choker to begin with, after all.

[As the water grows too shallow to swim in at all, Edgeworth begins using his arms to pull himself onto the beach, pushing aside the nagging instinct not to do this.]

Nngh. (My tail is an obstacle like this... someone with poor upper body strength would have a hard time deliberately beaching themselves.)

[yatagarasu]

[And Kay just seats herself, stretching out her legs in the water and kicking them gently while watching Edgeworth with mild concern.]

But the question is, how would you prove that in court?

[truthsnomiracle]

Heh. Don't underestimate the value of such experiences — I've learned one thing already.

[Edgeworth pauses to catch his breath, then drags himself further onto the beach, trying his best to flop his tail such that the amount of friction it creates is minimized.]

(Though I cannot say it's a simple matter to continue to value the truth over my place in the water...)

[yatagarasu]

[Kay turns and shifts her sitting position so she can watch him without leaving the water.]

Pretty sure the court isn't gonna accept you transforming into a merman as evidence...

[truthsnomiracle]

Certainly not, but it would be entirely possible to make the point that dragging oneself in this way with insufficient upper body strength would be impossible. [Edgeworth pauses to catch his breath again.] As for how this method would be established in the first place, certainly I expect the trail I've left in the sand thus far to be quite distinctive. While the surf could wash such a trail away, a photograph taken at the proper time could capture it before then, could it not?

(Speaking for long when breathing takes this much effort is itself exhausting... I feel almost as though I were on some alien planet with higher gravity.)

[yatagarasu]

[She looks at the trail he left in the sand before focusing on Edgeworth again. Hopefully he's still okay...but then again, he could always remove the choker when the discomfort became unbearable.]

Yeah, that's right! Plus, whales and dolphins wouldn't drag themselves like this all over the sand...unless they weren't in their right minds!

[truthsnomiracle]

Nor do they have the proper limbs to even try in the first place. [Another pause to catch his breath, then:] At the very least, I can't imagine a dolphin being able to drag itself along the ground effectively with its fins alone.

[Edgeworth next struggles to take a deep breath, then presses his left arm against his side before pushing off the ground with his right to heave himself into a roll. Given his tapered shape, the roll is curved, but the possibility of someone doing that is proven — and the accompanying trail made.]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay stands up from the water and approaches him in case he needed some form of help.]

...Are you okay?

[truthsnomiracle]

(I hate to admit this, but under the circumstances...)

Nngh... gkk... a-admittedly... I won't be... for much longer. But you do have a record... of the trail I just left... do you not?

(I have to return to the water... no, wait. That isn't actually natural for me, despite how it feels right now. I could simply remove the choker...)

[Kay has a bit of time to act as Edgeworth deliberates.]

[yatagarasu]

You should probably remove the choker now...

[But Kay holds up her phone and pans it over Edgeworth, then follows the trail he left in the sand back to the sea, making sure she gets the markings clearly on video.]

[truthsnomiracle]

R-right...

[Though his arms feel like they're enclosed in weighted sleeves right now, Edgeworth lifts them to undo the clasp. He cries out as the change, far more painful, less natural, and slower for him than for Kay, overtakes him. The choker falls off his neck as he writhes in pain for those brief, personally-magnified seconds. In the end he's curled up on his side on the beach in human form, gasping for breaths that now come far more easily.]

[yatagarasu]

[Once she has the evidence on video, Kay looks up at the sound of Edgeworth crying out. After quickly stopping the video, she sprints back to him easily over the sand, and upon reaching him, she drops to her knees in front of him, sweeping up the choker and raising her free hand over him, as if not sure whether to pat him on the shoulder.

Congratulations, you have successfully made one (1) mermaid worry about you.]

Mr. Edgeworth! Are you all right? [She grips the necklace tightly.] I'm sorry...

[truthsnomiracle]

[The prosecutor takes a moment more to regather himself and return to normal breathing.]

I'm... not sure...

[He brings himself up to an awkward sitting position.]

It all seemed so vivid...

[yatagarasu]

[She lets her hand drop to her side when he sits up. Her voice is quiet.]

But you know it was all real, right? You should rest...

[truthsnomiracle]

(That's right; I remember that waking dream ending in an effort to create trails on the beach...)

[Edgeworth looks back to where he remembers himself moving along the beach, and his eyes widen. He may have intellectually known it was all real, but it's taking looking the evidence straight in the face for him to at all feel it. Even now, it feels like corroboration of something thought to be a hallucination.]

I, er, suppose now would be an appropriate time for us to sit and eat, though I should rinse this sand off first.

[The prosecutor stands.]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay watches him stand, and she does the same. Her expression changes, now that she knows that Edgeworth is still in his right mind and doing just fine.

Her eyes light up with thrill, and she grabs his wrist, pulling him back toward the sea.]

The sooner you do that, the sooner we can eat!

[truthsnomiracle]

[And Edgeworth reflexively backpedals.]

Gnnk! Kay, it's entirely unnecessary to drag me!

[yatagarasu]

[Kay lets go of him and stops, staring at him.]

But don't you want to run dramatically and excitedly into the water?

[truthsnomiracle]

No.

[And he'll just continue walking into the water, thank you very much.]

1/2

[yatagarasu]

[She sighs.]

Mr. Edgeworth...

[yatagarasu]

[But after sparing that time to mourn Edgeworth's serious need for fun and excitement, she'll run eagerly into the shallows past him.]