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

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[yatagarasu]

[She could almost see it in her mind's eye - shelves upon shelves of her memories, of everything about her life. There is a book that Edgeworth has requested, and he will have it.

Kay recites the title of that book mechanically, in a voice devoid of emotion. It's almost as if she really was just reading the title of a book out loud in class.]

Kay Faraday.

[There is no hesitation. No other comment. Her face changes little.]

[truthsnomiracle]

And you've forgotten what you just said... have you not?

(It's surreal to think that this could be the case.)

[yatagarasu]

[A flicker of confusion briefly crosses her expression. Her answer remains as automatic as always, however.]

Yes. I don't remember.

[truthsnomiracle]

(And now to finish this. Supposedly, there's no guarantee whether or not a subject will remember having been hypnotized, but suggestions to remember or forget can significantly alter the odds. It seems as though in this case, it might almost be a guarantee...)

And that is all that will escape your memory... about your experience... since donning the headphones. ...Everything else that has happened... will be crisp and clear... and you'll find it easy... to describe and discuss it... with whomever you choose... once you've emerged from this state. ...Every thought, feeling, perception, belief, and impulse... that you've had since the headphones were placed on you... until the time you return to normal alertness... will easily be remembered... except the one piece you forgot... and when the related fact is returned to you... you will also remember that part... just as clearly.

[Edgeworth allows a moment to let that sink in, then continues.]

In a moment... I intend to turn off the headphones. ...When I do so... you will begin to awaken... as though from a long, refreshing nap. ...After that... I shall remove the headphones... and you will begin to grow aware of your surroundings. ...Finally, I will snap my fingers... and you'll immediately become alert... with clear memories of most of this experience... except the one detail you forgot... and you'll remember what doubt and objectivity and questions are... and how to use them.

(Quite frankly, given her behavior during this session, those last details seem rather necessary to spell out.)

[Those final instructions having been given, Edgeworth turns the walkie-talkie off, waits a few seconds, then turns the headphones off. After waiting several seconds more, the prosecutor carefully removes the inactive headphones from Kay's ears. He then carefully sets both objects back in their respective chargers, where they originally found them. Once he's satisfied, he returns to where he was standing before and snaps his fingers.]

ugh phone tagging

[yatagarasu]

[Kay is completely silent, taking in every word from Edgeworth without an objection. She watches with a glazed stare as he switches the headphones off.

She blinks, the blank look in her eyes replaced by a groggy one. Her voice is no longer flat, but sleepy.]

Huh… [Kay rubs her eyes. When Edgeworth removes the headphones from her ears, she glances this way and that as if realizing that it wasn't just Edgeworth in the room, but a lot of other things. It was all familiar, somehow.

And when he snaps his fingers, Kay shakes her head to clear it, and everything but her name comes rushing back into her head like a breaking wave.]

Whoa…!

/patpat

[truthsnomiracle]

[And Edgeworth sighs in relief, glad to see Kay appearing to be able to make sense of things again. There isn't quite enough evidence to decisively conclude that she's fully herself again, but this is at least a promising start.]

Are you all right?

[yatagarasu]

[She nods.]

Yeah. [Kay stretches her arms, more notably the one that had been holding the imaginary balloon.] So that's what those things do...

[truthsnomiracle]

[The "yeah" prompts the ghost of a near-smile to flicker across Edgeworth's features, but if one were to blink, he'd already be all business.]

Indeed, I was hoping you'd describe the experience.

[And of course, the prosecutor takes his organizer back out.]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay closes her eyes briefly, recalling the events.]

I heard a weird noise, like static, in the headphones. Then it became lower...and somehow, the regular static and the lower static combined and when I heard it, I couldn't resist listening to it.

...I heard your voice, and something about it...I had to obey everything you said. I felt like that was what was important to me.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth writes all of this down, taking marginally longer than usual since he's recording her exact words rather than shortening anything.]

(So my impression was correct — it does involve a complex interplay of factors. I should press her for more details about those factors.)

Concerning the combined static you mentioned, you appeared blank a short time after I turned on the headphones, before I even had the chance to speak. I presume that was when you were drawn in by that combination. Can you describe the combination, its irresistibility, or anything else you began to experience at that moment?

(Hopefully thinking too much about it won't send her back into a trance. I do recall having noticed references to focusing on prior hypnotic experiences as a means of becoming hypnotized again in the notes...)

[yatagarasu]

[Kay waits patiently for him to finish writing, watching the movement of his pen.]

That's right. Umm...it's like it was filling my ears. It was all I could hear... [Her voice trails off and she stares into space for a moment.]

So I listened to it. Maybe...if I heard anything else outside of it, I might've been distracted.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth's first instinct is to say, "Kay, wake up!", but he holds that back so as not to say her name too soon. Instead, he reaches out and shakes Kay by the shoulder.]

Stay alert! I need an objective report!

[yatagarasu]

[She blinks, and straightens up.]

I am awake! And you got what I said, right?

[truthsnomiracle]

One moment. (Perhaps I was a little too concerned.)

[Edgeworth pauses to write down all that Kay said, then moves on in his questioning.]

As for your next point... you say that you might have been distracted if you'd heard something other than the combined static, but then you heard my voice. Did that constitute a distraction?

[yatagarasu]

[A shake of the head.]

No. I was talking about...other sounds that I wouldn't normally hear through the headphones. Sounds from my surroundings. Your voice sounded like it belonged with the static. Like...it was right to listen to it too.

[truthsnomiracle]

Huh... [Edgeworth writes all this down too.] Was that the only thing different about my voice?

[yatagarasu]

It sounds...more soothing and more commanding. [Kay runs a hand through her bangs.] You sounded like you were sure that you were correct, and it was important that I listen to you.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth blinks at the mention of his voice sounding "soothing", but writes everything down faithfully nonetheless.]

Projecting confidence and authority is a key aspect of my work as a prosecutor, and that was part of what I was doing when I spoke into the system. You've heard me speaking in such a way before in court, have you not?

[...Not quite how she heard it, Edgeworth.]

[yatagarasu]

Yeah, but this is different. It's you talking in court magnified fifty times!

1/2

[truthsnomiracle]

F-fifty...?!

[Edgeworth was half expecting to hear her describe the difference in terms of a factor of magnification, but... not nearly that big of one.]

(That alone would be enough to make a puppet of anyone! Even a judge and the defense...)

2/2

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth shudders, then returns his attention to writing down Kay's words. It's a struggle, however, as he fights off images of innocent people being sent to their deaths at his mistaken command.]

(I sincerely hope that this research is never applied to any sort of broadcast.)

Um... so, when I spoke of the balloon... how did you experience that? Several possibilities crossed my mind, but only your testimony can clarify the matter.

[yatagarasu]

Well...obviously everything you said was correct, that's what I thought. Everything you said made sense. I never thought, "Hey, there aren't any balloons or ribbons in this room!"

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth looks oddly grim as he writes Kay's latest words down.]

So you didn't experience it as mere immersion in a known fantasy?

(It sounds as though belief is what I had power over through my amplified words.)

[yatagarasu]

I never thought of it as a fantasy. [Kay shrugs.]

It was the truth.

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth looks deeply disturbed as he records this. He's speechless for a moment, then finally observes:]

...Apparently, so much so that even looking where the balloon ought to be did nothing to dissuade that belief.

(This should be banned, perhaps even destroyed, if it holds the power to make one disregard legitimate evidence or the lack thereof!)