well. date is coping with depression by draping himself over a chair with a book over his face and pretending the world around him doesn't exist. how's lbx doing? ]
[ lu bixing is... well, he's reading. he's working. these are the things that he does to cope. it could be worse, maybe? probably?
he's also in the library, cooped up somewhere in a corner, but when he sees date like this, he leaves for a bit... and when he comes back, he sets down a to go cup of coffee and nudges it across the table. ]
Not really sure what there is to talk about, honestly. Other than going over everything we missed, obsessively, like I'm some kind of hamster on a wheel.
The two are pretty entangled, honestly. When I think about the facts, I get mad at obvious shit I missed, and then I get mad I can't look into it further because nine hours, and then I get mad about Tuuri.
[ he makes a little twiling motion with his finger. ]
To be fair to you - or, at least, it's what I've been telling myself, anyway - Every other time we've had a case where someone's memory of the night was hazy, even if they didn't want to do it, and it was an accident, it had been a guilty case. I stopped looking, too.
[ they all did. and that adds to that awful little feedback loop. bixing sounds tired, too, unhappy. ] Ultimately, she was just as much of a victim in this as Kon was; the entire thing was a nightmare.
[ not the complacency bit, but the other part. he pinches the bridge of his nose. ]
Our only other suspect would have been whoever was in that photo, on the other side of the glass - and Kon took that picture from the ground, where it was already wobbly and blurry, indicating he was probably already injured. Unless that person came inside, shoved Tuuri off, stabbed him, and then let her continue to stab him afterwards - handed her the knife after he'd done it, I think she did place the killing blow.
Then why did it come up as "not guilty" for her, then? If she placed the killing blow, that would be enough to prove her guilty.
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You don't have to be in the room with someone to kill them.
The deception in all this came from making Tuuri really believe she did this. Neither us, nor her, know what happened between her lashing out at Kon in the ice cream parlour, and her over his body in the biome. That's a massive window of opportunity for the culprit to do literally anything.
That would be enough according to precedent. And like you just said - we got complacent in thinking that would be enough.
[ the rules here seem a little bit wiggly, to be honest. typical hell. ]
The way she described it made it sound like she wasn't in control of her actions at all, so. Maybe someone was puppeting her, though I cannot begin to imagine how.
We don't really know if that's how it was for everyone though -- Lavi, and Uriel... neither of them would've killed the person they did without something influencing them. But we don't know everything about how it works.
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The only things I can think of are either the culprit rigged something else up to kill Kon, but make Tuuri think she did it-- there's the white powder, which we still don't know much about. Or, if you're right about her landing the killing blow, the culprit might've thought that'd be enough to cover all of their tracks. Even down to who was found guilty.
[ ... they have all been pretty overconfident this week. in everything. ]
Like one of those debates, y'know? Someone sets up a death trap, but someone else presses the button to trigger it. Who counts as the killer?
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well. date is coping with depression by draping himself over a chair with a book over his face and pretending the world around him doesn't exist. how's lbx doing? ]
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he's also in the library, cooped up somewhere in a corner, but when he sees date like this, he leaves for a bit... and when he comes back, he sets down a to go cup of coffee and nudges it across the table. ]
Here.
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mrrrrrrrrrgh. ]
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[ eventually, the book moves up and date stares at the coffee for a moment. ]
Ah. Thanks.
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[ a little half smile. ] You look liked you needed it.
[ ... ] Do you want to talk about it?
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[ what an image he is painting with his words. ]
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[ he laughs a little, tired. ]
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[ he makes a little twiling motion with his finger. ]
World's shittiest feedback loop.
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[ yeah. shit is bad. ]
To be fair to you - or, at least, it's what I've been telling myself, anyway - Every other time we've had a case where someone's memory of the night was hazy, even if they didn't want to do it, and it was an accident, it had been a guilty case. I stopped looking, too.
[ they all did. and that adds to that awful little feedback loop. bixing sounds tired, too, unhappy. ] Ultimately, she was just as much of a victim in this as Kon was; the entire thing was a nightmare.
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[ it's not accusatory just... factual. they were used to someone having a hazy memory and being guilty, not... a hazy memory and being innocent. ]
Kon was probably dead by the time Tuuri "became aware of herself". If she struck a killing blow, she'd have been classed as guilty.
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[ not the complacency bit, but the other part. he pinches the bridge of his nose. ]
Our only other suspect would have been whoever was in that photo, on the other side of the glass - and Kon took that picture from the ground, where it was already wobbly and blurry, indicating he was probably already injured. Unless that person came inside, shoved Tuuri off, stabbed him, and then let her continue to stab him afterwards - handed her the knife after he'd done it, I think she did place the killing blow.
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[ ... ]
You don't have to be in the room with someone to kill them.
The deception in all this came from making Tuuri really believe she did this. Neither us, nor her, know what happened between her lashing out at Kon in the ice cream parlour, and her over his body in the biome. That's a massive window of opportunity for the culprit to do literally anything.
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[ the rules here seem a little bit wiggly, to be honest. typical hell. ]
The way she described it made it sound like she wasn't in control of her actions at all, so. Maybe someone was puppeting her, though I cannot begin to imagine how.
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[ ... ]
The only things I can think of are either the culprit rigged something else up to kill Kon, but make Tuuri think she did it-- there's the white powder, which we still don't know much about. Or, if you're right about her landing the killing blow, the culprit might've thought that'd be enough to cover all of their tracks. Even down to who was found guilty.
[ ... they have all been pretty overconfident this week. in everything. ]
Like one of those debates, y'know? Someone sets up a death trap, but someone else presses the button to trigger it. Who counts as the killer?
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[ he sighs, dropping his hands away from his face and folding them on the desk. ]
That's a good analogy, I think. I don't know. It swept the rug from under me, to say the least.
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Ow.
[ a bit too hard. ]
... I think I have a headache.
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he pats him on the book head. ]
Me too. Do you want some aspirin?
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Oh shit, do you have some?