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[psychofailed]

WHO: Kogami and Duncan
WHERE: Maurtia Falls
WHEN: forward dated to the 15th-ish
WHAT: Duncan gets harrassed by one of the Falls' respectable citizens. Shoes get put on the other foot.
WARNINGS: Very mild violence at worst, probably language.


[Kogami's been in this city about four days since his release from the hospital, and so far he is Very Unimpressed. The infrastructure of this place is a goddamn disaster; apparently not only is mental health care not required by the government here, even where it exists it's a service to pay for. It shows, honestly; he doesn't even need this new hue-sensing power to be able to tell that the people in this city are on-edge. Back in Japan, crimes were never so bold and out in the open. They existed on the fringes, away from much of the public gaze--something for the MWPSB to deal with and promptly sweep under the rug.

The whole place is like a powder keg asking to be lit, and Kogami's not a fan of waiting for that particular shoe match to drop. Even as he walks free out in these streets, he finds himself missing the familiarity of the institutions he knows. There's no scanners, no drones, nothing. Oddly, the freedom is boring; at the MWPSB there was always something for him to do, even during downtime, and when there wasn't, there was Sasayama's case to occupy himself with.

So even though he's been told to take it easy with his injuries, he finds himself walking around town, anyway. He might help someone find their lost cat or he'll test out that other power of his to track down the owner of a dropped wallet, just to give himself something to figure out, even if it's nothing like actual detective work. When he sees someone being harrassed by some thug, probably yet another mugger, he heads in that direction, mostly because he's going to punch them in the face but also because it's something more worth his time than lost cats and wallets.

...Only to recognize this particular mugger as one of the ones he got into a fight with the other day.]

You again, huh? And without your cronies, this time, even.

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[psychofailed]

[He barely even knows what the Civil War is tbh. It's a good thing he reads so much because come on, that shit was over 300 years ago on the other side of the planet, ok!!!

He shakes his head at Duncan's observation.]

Japanese, actually.

[inchesofevil]

[look it is a VERY IMPORTANT CULTURAL MEMORY if you are from the south ok!!]

Ah. [he does not know nearly enough Japanese history to come up with anything remotely comparable to explain what yankee means.] Don't worry about it, then.

[how close is that police station because hello settling awkward silence]

[psychofailed]

[He might look it up later, if he remembers.

And there's definitely silence, because Kogami isn't exactly the most talkative person in the world, but it's not awkward on his part, at least. He doesn't even look annoyed at not understanding the reference.

But walking in silence also gives him a chance to observe Duncan's very crimson hue, and while he has been taking them with a grain of salt, he's admittedly curious about this guy.]

So, are you new here too, or been here awhile?

[inchesofevil]

[Duncan tries not to have awkward silences. he's not very self-conscious about his own awkwardness or socially anxious, so he's one of those rare breeds who can let a silence settle and be comfortable assuming that things will be said when someone feels like saying them.

he is starting to re-evaluate his choice to accompany Kogami all the way to the police station by the time that silence gets broken, though.]

Huh?

Oh, uh. A few months. Nnnovember I think? Honestly my sense of time is still a little weird, it was September 2050 and then I blinked and it was November 2015. Still kind of getting used to that.

[psychofailed]

[He's a perfectly respectable latent criminal detective, ok.]

You too, huh? It was 2112 for me.