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[aww, sebastian.]
I won't let anyone demand you don't speak, so long as you continue to explain your reasoning and allow argument about it.
I won't let anyone demand you don't speak, so long as you continue to explain your reasoning and allow argument about it.
[ i have a whole collage of screenshots like this it's tragic ]
Thanks. I'll...
[ he pauses and frowns, because really, the biggest problem is their limited time, and he can't change that. ]
I can't do anything to speed up investigations here like back home, but... I guess maybe if I start questioning little things sooner...
[ the irony being that edgeworth and everyone kept getting on his case for being too quick to point fingers based on minimal evidence before (which he was, admittedly, never right about), and he'd been trying to work on not doing that so much... this whole thing really makes his head spin. ]
I don't want to keep running out of time like that.
Thanks. I'll...
[ he pauses and frowns, because really, the biggest problem is their limited time, and he can't change that. ]
I can't do anything to speed up investigations here like back home, but... I guess maybe if I start questioning little things sooner...
[ the irony being that edgeworth and everyone kept getting on his case for being too quick to point fingers based on minimal evidence before (which he was, admittedly, never right about), and he'd been trying to work on not doing that so much... this whole thing really makes his head spin. ]
I don't want to keep running out of time like that.
[she nods, listening.]
Your accusation of Claude was tinged with emotion, because you wanted to trust in Kazunari. That is a lapse in judgment, albeit an understandable one. Pointing out that he excluded himself from the list of suspects was not a lapse, however.
People here will hide things where they think it suits them. Perhaps not even because he was involved, but because he did not want to be accused. It is correct to point those discrepancies out, even if you don't yet know why they exist.
Your accusation of Claude was tinged with emotion, because you wanted to trust in Kazunari. That is a lapse in judgment, albeit an understandable one. Pointing out that he excluded himself from the list of suspects was not a lapse, however.
People here will hide things where they think it suits them. Perhaps not even because he was involved, but because he did not want to be accused. It is correct to point those discrepancies out, even if you don't yet know why they exist.
[ nods... ]
That was something that happened in the first trial last time. This guy was managing some checks for footprints and handwriting and stuff... and he didn't ever turn in his own handwriting sample or include himself in the comparisons. A-and even after we realized that, nobody else was really pressing him that hard about it, or they let him off the hook because some other piece of evidence didn't match even though he was still being all squirrely and weird.
And we were running out of time then too, so I went after him, and— he cut my face and it was a whole thing, but we got it right at the very last minute that time! So. I think I felt like maybe this would be like that. ...I hoped it would.
That was something that happened in the first trial last time. This guy was managing some checks for footprints and handwriting and stuff... and he didn't ever turn in his own handwriting sample or include himself in the comparisons. A-and even after we realized that, nobody else was really pressing him that hard about it, or they let him off the hook because some other piece of evidence didn't match even though he was still being all squirrely and weird.
And we were running out of time then too, so I went after him, and— he cut my face and it was a whole thing, but we got it right at the very last minute that time! So. I think I felt like maybe this would be like that. ...I hoped it would.
[oh. she nods.]
And it would have been dreadful, if Kazunari was telling the truth and there was no one to defend him.
And it would have been dreadful, if Kazunari was telling the truth and there was no one to defend him.
...Yeah.
[ though he still feels weird framing it that way, like he's a defense attorney. he always kind of thought most of them were sleazy people representing guilty criminals for money and trying to get in the way of justice.
he guesses appreciates them more now. ]
It would... probably feel really bad to go out knowing no one believed you.
[ though he still feels weird framing it that way, like he's a defense attorney. he always kind of thought most of them were sleazy people representing guilty criminals for money and trying to get in the way of justice.
he guesses appreciates them more now. ]
It would... probably feel really bad to go out knowing no one believed you.
I think so, too.
[she doesn't even know what a defense attorney is, but she sighs.]
On the station, our first trial, we got it very wrong. We blamed Mollymauk's friend from home, and we were all so sure, but she hadn't done it. She died anyway.
It's hard to forget how that felt.
[she doesn't even know what a defense attorney is, but she sighs.]
On the station, our first trial, we got it very wrong. We blamed Mollymauk's friend from home, and we were all so sure, but she hadn't done it. She died anyway.
It's hard to forget how that felt.
I often do think about it. It was an important moment for me. I didn't think I cared what happened at trial, so long as I was not endangered. But I didn't like seeing Mollymauk and Beauregard suffering for something they hadn't done.
[let's say we're at the library on the station. why, there's one in the hotel now. but that's where we are. harrow is just sitting in the library on her own, feet on the cushion of the chair she's in.]
[ tbf the hotel one had a murder in it. idk if this one did too but if it did at least it's had more time to air out.
anyway sebastian's probably just wandering checking the new (to him) places out, and he gives a little wave when he sees harrow there. ]
Hey. This was the place you were in before too, right?
anyway sebastian's probably just wandering checking the new (to him) places out, and he gives a little wave when he sees harrow there. ]
Hey. This was the place you were in before too, right?
[I can't emphasize enough how little proximity to corpses and murder would phase her. she looks up.]
...Yes. I spent a lot of time in here. [...she knows Sebastian has a complicated relationship with him, but.] This floor was Edgeworth's. We would often meet in here after trials and discuss matters.
...Yes. I spent a lot of time in here. [...she knows Sebastian has a complicated relationship with him, but.] This floor was Edgeworth's. We would often meet in here after trials and discuss matters.
Yes. A small one. It was...well behaved, compared to the ones that run wild over there.
[she looks a little sad, and absently sort of rests a hand on his arm before pulling it away abruptly.]
Yes. He was someone I felt I could always talk to. He wouldn't sugarcoat things or talk down to me, he would insist I worked harder.
Yes. He was someone I felt I could always talk to. He wouldn't sugarcoat things or talk down to me, he would insist I worked harder.
[ blinks, looks at his arm and then at her like ??? he didn't mind though... aside from the edgeworth context making it weird... ]
Uh... yeah, I... guess he does kind of do that.
[ when she puts it that way, it sounds kind of like the advice he gets from her and some of the others here. ]
...B-but he was always being rude about the way he said it to me, and doing it in front of other people and embarrassing me!
Uh... yeah, I... guess he does kind of do that.
[ when she puts it that way, it sounds kind of like the advice he gets from her and some of the others here. ]
...B-but he was always being rude about the way he said it to me, and doing it in front of other people and embarrassing me!
Ah.
[she looks at the table, frowning.]
I can see that it would be difficult if you didn't want his advice.
[she looks at the table, frowning.]
I can see that it would be difficult if you didn't want his advice.
It was helpful. I would get angry and frustrated when we failed, and would think the whole exercise was pointless, and he would push me to continue to think it through.
[she'll automatically start to reach for his hand again and then pull back.]
I appreciate that sort of clarity but I recognize that he can be harsh.
I appreciate that sort of clarity but I recognize that he can be harsh.
[ no... what if he reaches back halfway, is he going to get the handholding version of the charlie brown football ]
Um... You're... you're good at that kind of thing too. You know? I thought you were going to be super scary, but you listen to me, and... you kind of help me see stuff more clearly too. I know I'm... not good at that sometimes, on my own.
Um... You're... you're good at that kind of thing too. You know? I thought you were going to be super scary, but you listen to me, and... you kind of help me see stuff more clearly too. I know I'm... not good at that sometimes, on my own.
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