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]

[Edgeworth watches Kay's expression for any moment of realization concerning what he thinks should be obvious. Once satisfied, however, he only takes a sip of tea before saying:]

But in the meantime, we have more immediate business to attend to, do we not?

[yatagarasu]

[It's at that moment that realization dawns upon her, however.]

Oh, wait, were you talking about how to get here?

[truthsnomiracle]

I was prepared to deal with that myself, save the last leg of the journey. Now that I know where it is, most of that inconvenience is dealt with.

[yatagarasu]

["Most". Kay catches that hint.]

"Most". I can help you deal with the rest... [The best way of saying, "I can help you get over your fear?"]

[truthsnomiracle]

Er...

[Edgeworth goes silent and looks away from Kay. Even if she inexplicably doesn't think less of him for it, he's still not comfortable with the idea of openly dwelling on one of his weaknesses alongside someone else. It's unavoidably true that his life situation has changed such that this needs addressing as much as his related problem with elevators, but...

The prosecutor looks back to Kay.]

While I concede that it's become necessary to squash that weakness, I believe I'm perfectly capable of addressing that myself. I see no reason to involve you.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay drains the last of the juice from her cup and stretches her legs out on the blanket.]

It's more than necessary! That's why I'm volunteering to help. Don't you think a mermaid assistant's perfect for that job?

[truthsnomiracle]

You've yet to establish why I would need assistance for this task to begin with.

[Hard to cross his arms when he's holding a cup of tea, but the sentiment is definitely there.]

[yatagarasu]

You don't understand, I'm thinking long-term here! Sometimes you won't be able to call me, or beep me, or reach me, and then you'd find yourself in a pickle!

...A really deep and wet pickle!

[truthsnomiracle]

(What precisely does she imagine that I intend to do — tie myself to the bottom of the ocean?)

I have no intention of actually endangering myself in the process, Kay. That would defeat the purpose of convincing myself that my sense of its danger is exaggerated in the first place.

[Edgeworth takes a long sip of his iced tea.]

[yatagarasu]

I know, but we gotta prepare for the worst, don't we? [She pours herself more juice.] You can't always depend on me to hand you a shiny artifact! [Kay, you were the one who offered to hand him shiny artifacts.]

[truthsnomiracle]

And just what sort of worst case scenario are you imagining? (Aside from those that would be merely embarrassing for others to see.)

[yatagarasu]

Do I really have to elaborate?

[She stares into her cup.]

Worst case scenario - I'm not around, and neither are my trinkets!

[truthsnomiracle]

Why are you simply reiterating why I need to overcome this as though this constituted a reason why I oughtn't make the attempt to do so alone?!

[yatagarasu]

[Kay stares at him...then suddenly:]

All right then, I won't loan you the ring on the way back! [She says this almost eagerly.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[It's a good thing that cup of iced tea is almost empty, or else Edgeworth's sudden jerk back in shock would have sent drops flying.]

Gmnugh?!

[yatagarasu]

Don't worry, I'll accompany you along the way. [Kay waves a hand dismissively.]

You did say you wanted to face it, that's a start. Unless you want to start with something smaller?

[truthsnomiracle]

Of course I know that!

[It just blindsided him for her to suddenly propose that, that's all.]

Admittedly, I had smaller steps in mind first, though, yes. Furthermore, I still fail to see see why you believe I must specifically put my weaknesses on further display for you!

[yatagarasu]

Because you gotta have someone who'll support you all the way and encourage you to push your limits! [It's a full-blown pep talk, with fist pumping.]

What kind of assistant would I be if I didn't assist you?

...Plus, since I already know, there's really no point in not "putting your weaknesses on further display".

[truthsnomiracle]

And why, precisely, do I need that?

[...Actually a serious question.]

[yatagarasu]

[She takes a deep breath, and lets out a weary sigh as if she has been explaining this to him over and over.]

Because, Mr. Edgeworth, you're gonna be tempted to slack off or cut corners or procrastinate, and you need someone to help you out when the going gets tough...and even show you how it's done!

[Kay punctuates that with a sip of her juice.]

[truthsnomiracle]

[Edgeworth's face incrementally takes on more of a scowl with each different type of not doing the necessary work properly Kay lists.]

First of all, what sort of man do you take me for?!

[...One who's honestly afraid, Edgeworth.]

Second, can you really "show me how it's done" when you have no reason to fear such a thing yourself?

[yatagarasu]

[Kay backs off a bit, scooting away from him while still on the blanket - that is not a pretty scowl.

She holds up a finger with her free hand.]

Number one, when people are afraid, they're more likely to put off actually facing their fears. [What branch of psychology did you learn that from, Kay?? In any case, she holds up a second finger.] Number two, I can change into a complete, 100% human. I've gone to and from my hideout a few times without cheating. [And by "cheating" she means, "turning into a mermaid halfway through".]

[truthsnomiracle]

And yet you do so in the full knowledge that should the need arise, you can change. Why would you have any reason to fear the worst?

[...As for her first point, he frankly can't effectively argue against it. He's struggled just to force himself to make one-floor trips in elevators, after all.]

[yatagarasu]

Mr. Edgeworth, you're forgetting that if we can invent things that can make a human's breath last for an hour underwater, we could make other things like that.

...Like anklets that can sort of "lock" your form so you can't change at all even if you wanted to. [Suddenly she's very serious at that last bit.]

[truthsnomiracle]

(She seems unusually serious even for the circumstances. Does she have a history with that particular sort of item?)

Do you mean to say that you ran your tests under such restrictions?