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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[truthsnomiracle]

[Not that he used a lot of big or obscure words here, mind you.]

Unfounded levels of fear only serve to get in my way.

[yatagarasu]

[Okay, well, she doesn't have the same way with words as he does, but anyway.

Kay glances skyward briefly and looks at him.]

You sell yourself way too short, Mr. Edgeworth! That's not what I expected to hear from someone who jumped off a ship to capture a mer-thief!

[truthsnomiracle]

I did what had to be done in that moment, nothing more. If I hadn't intervened, the losses would have been staggering!

[yatagarasu]

But you did it, and that's what matters! And that's proof that you're not weak!

[She pinches the top of the bridge of her nose, a little frustrated with how he really is selling himself short. Kay has a feeling those "losses" include her.]

If anything really got in your way that night, you would have stayed high and dry!

[truthsnomiracle]

I am familiar with swimming, Kay. The thought of suffocation didn't even cross my mind until the midst of that miscommunication about the ring.

[Yes, he said "suffocation", not "drowning".]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay feels a pang of guilt when the miscommunication is mentioned. She half-hides her face in her knees, now that she is aware of one of Edgeworth's fears.

But she lifts her head again to look at him.]

Don't you mean dr - oh. [She gets it. He doesn't like not being able to breathe in general. Kay didn't expect his visit to turn out like this.] Ohhh. But it still doesn't mean you're weak!

[truthsnomiracle]

[The fact that his mentioning that mistake seemed to hurt Kay doesn't escape Edgeworth. And he would very much like to move the subject away from his own frailties, even if Kay insists this is somehow not one.]

Hmph. Either way, we came here to discuss things I ought to know going forward, not errors born of secrecy in the past, did we not?

Sorry, paid died

[yatagarasu]

[As much as Kay would like to help Edgeworth with his little problem, they did have important business. That's why they were here. Maybe if they had time afterward…

In any case, Kay nods slowly. She brings her knees away from her chest and lets her legs dangle into the water. Her legs become a blue tail again.]

Right. The stuff is in the cave on the shore, [She points to the sand.] but I have a few things under the lagoon.

/ma "Raise II" Yatagarasu

[truthsnomiracle]

[They may just. Edgeworth did schedule an entire day for this, after all. The question is how comfortable he would be with the idea of accepting someone else's help with this problem. He is suddenly clearly a lot more comfortable now that the subject is on laying the groundwork for the future pursuit of truth, after all.]

Very well. Present and explain things in whatever order makes logical sense to you.

Ahhh thank youuu

[yatagarasu]

[Kay extends a hand for her phone after a quick salute.]

Okay! Ready for one more swim to the shore? [She asks only because he might need a short break after swimming to her hideout.]

No problem!

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth hands the phone back to Kay with one hand while tapping his temple with the opposite hand's finger and grinning smugly.]

Hmph. A short swim on the surface is a trivial matter. Do lead the way, young lady.

[yatagarasu]

[She stashes the phone back into the bag on her belt.]

Well, if you say so! Try to keep up!

[Kay dives off the rock and into the water before leaping up and twisting in midair on her way to the sandy shore - what a show off. She leaps out again, in time with a dolphin, before slowing down and glancing over her shoulder.]

Isn't the water pretty? It's nice, clear, and untouched by human hands!

[truthsnomiracle]

Until today.

[That having been said, the prosecutor dives in and swims at a pace only marginally above his usual one, clearly not even dignifying the request to try to keep up with an acknowledgement.]

[yatagarasu]

[She flips over onto her back, watching him get closer. Kay was about to say that if Edgeworth wanted a day off, he could stop by, but then she realizes that it would entail talking about having to go through the underwater tunnel again...and he was probably not in the mood to talk about that right now.]

It's for a good cause. If we've got time left, you could swim around for a bit. [And Kay could be his life coach, yes.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth takes the time to swim a bit closer, then stops to tread water in order to reply.]

I have dedicated my entire day to this. However, I did so with the expectation that you have a great deal to explain that humanity has never even imagined. Please don't rush the matter simply to ensure that we have leisure time; after all, the truth is a far more crucial matter.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay gives him her usual mock pout.]

Oooh, foiled again... [She faces forward again, swimming along with a couple of dolphins.]

[truthsnomiracle]

Better for recreation be foiled by my hand than for us to be foiled at the hands of a criminal.

[That smugly satisfied dictum having been delivered, Edgeworth continues swimming towards the beach Kay pointed out.]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay stops (and lets the dolphins move on) just so she can perform another leap for the sole purpose of splashing Edgeworth in the face.]

You just watch! I'll make sure no criminals foil us and you don't foil my fun!

[truthsnomiracle]

Gkk — [Edgeworth's stroke is disrupted by a futile attempt on his part to shield his face from the splash. He comes to a stop as he coughs and sputters.]

Was that necessary?!

[Before Kay can answer, however, the prosecutor continues to swim.]

[yatagarasu]

Maybe! [Kay winks before swimming onward. As she approaches shallower water, her tail transforms into a pair of legs, disrupting her movements, but she carries on until she halts in waist-deep water, standing and waiting for Edgeworth.

He's going to find more dolphins joining him for a while before turning back to the deeper end.]

See? The dolphins like you!

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth slows briefly to look around at the dolphins, frowning slightly in puzzlement.]

Hm, so it would seem... They seemed all too eager to crowd around the boat when I arrived as well.

[yatagarasu]

[They're clicking at him and nudging him and they seem happy...]

Maybe they can tell you need a little more fun in your life.

[truthsnomiracle]

Yet apparently, they can't tell that the truth is the greater need within me. (Indeed, I must wonder whether they're sapient enough to have a concept of truth.)

[To his credit, though, Edgeworth doesn't seem to actually be fighting off or avoiding the dolphins, just trying to roll with things as he continues towards Kay.]

[yatagarasu]

For them, fun is probably more important.

[Good, because Edgeworth will find himself with a dolphin entourage until the water is about chest-deep.

Kay walks toward the shore until she's completely out of the water, hands in wet pockets. Then she heads for the side of the mouth of the cave and bends down to open a...water cooler?]

[truthsnomiracle]

I have little doubt of that, given the far simpler lives they must lead.

[Kay taking things out of a water cooler doesn't strike Edgeworth as strange. She needs to store things in something, after all, and plastic is less vulnerable to the elements than cardboard, wood, or even most commonly-available metals. Not to mention, even if it's actually being used to hold provisions, they will be there long enough to need to eat.

Despite how much Edgeworth is having to stop to continue his half of the conversation and how much the dolphins' play is slowing him down, however, the prosecutor is soon not all that far from the shallows.]