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Entry tags:
- jonathan crane | scarecrow,
- † ana ramir | taranto,
- † annie leonhart | n/a,
- † april ludgate | janet snakehole,
- † ash crimson | n/a,
- † barnaby brooks jr. | n/a,
- † barry allen | the flash,
- † chrollo lucilfer | n/a,
- † clark kent | superman,
- † dorian gray | n/a,
- † frederick chilton | chief of staff!!,
- † gabriel gray | sylar,
- † grey | n/a,
- † hank pym | giant-man,
- † hank schrader | n/a,
- † irene adler | n/a,
- † john watson | n/a,
- † kaidan alenko | sentinel,
- † kanaya maryam-lalonde | psychopomp,
- † karen starr | power girl,
- † ken kaneki | one eyed king,
- † kitty jones | n/a,
- † mary watson | chímaira,
- † matt murdock | daredevil,
- † mike parker | n/a,
- † miles edgeworth | n/a,
- † nysrog | n/a,
- † peter quill | star-lord,
- † sabriel | abhorsen,
- † sasha blouse | n/a,
- † sherlock holmes | n/a,
- † will graham | wolf trap,
- † winry rockbell | n/a
004 | stale donuts | video
[The video flips onto Will, situated at an older, well-worn desk in front of a window that seems to have come standard with the building itself. Right outside the window, right behind Will, is one of those ads featuring Chrollo. It all looks very cramped, though Will has managed to take the time to actually shave and get a haircut and put in the basic effort to look socially presentable. He's even wearing a plain white shirt and dark blue tie, nothing plaid in sight. Like it's normal! Tiny space, business dress, a totally shirtless dude in a cologne ad if he looks over his shoulder, everything is fine.]
Good afternoon, imPorts. Two things. [Will's eyes occasionally lift from the camera, as though there's someone giving him cues.] My name is Will Graham, and I've just taken on the position of working as a liaison between the police and our imPort population. Ideally, there would be a clearer line of communication between the two. If anything happens and you're uncomfortable going to the police yourself, for any reason, that's what I'm here for. [Eyes flick up. Well.] And to encourage you to go to the police when the need for it arises—they can't help if we keep them in the dark and doing everything on our own without giving them any notice serves to only add onto later headaches.
[So basically don't be Miles Edgeworth with the whole Yuri Petrov is Lunatic thing. Be him in the way that he was right, don't be him going to the Network for vigilante justice without doing anything else first. Okay? Okay. Good. Not that Will's incapable of just telling them about by looking at his own communicator, but he's not sure that's the best thing to share. Not immediately. The eyes shifting stops as Will takes a breath. Too much talking, goodness.]
For the second, since she was always quite good at stirring the pot, I'd like to add that Freddie Lounds, the journalist behind Tattlecrime: Heropa, seems to have been Ported out as of the end of February. [Casually leaving out what happened to her before that, delivery matter-of-fact, void of any and all emotion towards her.] I assume the site will be left as is, but there won't be any further updates. ["Updates" being a loose word for it; the way he emphasizes it is the first slip in the neutral mask, Will sounding irritated above all else. Got a bad taste in his mouth about it all.] If you have any questions, let me know.
[No "thank you for listening," no "goodbye," Will leaves it at that, flicks the camera off. That's all, folks.]
Good afternoon, imPorts. Two things. [Will's eyes occasionally lift from the camera, as though there's someone giving him cues.] My name is Will Graham, and I've just taken on the position of working as a liaison between the police and our imPort population. Ideally, there would be a clearer line of communication between the two. If anything happens and you're uncomfortable going to the police yourself, for any reason, that's what I'm here for. [Eyes flick up. Well.] And to encourage you to go to the police when the need for it arises—they can't help if we keep them in the dark and doing everything on our own without giving them any notice serves to only add onto later headaches.
[So basically don't be Miles Edgeworth with the whole Yuri Petrov is Lunatic thing. Be him in the way that he was right, don't be him going to the Network for vigilante justice without doing anything else first. Okay? Okay. Good. Not that Will's incapable of just telling them about by looking at his own communicator, but he's not sure that's the best thing to share. Not immediately. The eyes shifting stops as Will takes a breath. Too much talking, goodness.]
For the second, since she was always quite good at stirring the pot, I'd like to add that Freddie Lounds, the journalist behind Tattlecrime: Heropa, seems to have been Ported out as of the end of February. [Casually leaving out what happened to her before that, delivery matter-of-fact, void of any and all emotion towards her.] I assume the site will be left as is, but there won't be any further updates. ["Updates" being a loose word for it; the way he emphasizes it is the first slip in the neutral mask, Will sounding irritated above all else. Got a bad taste in his mouth about it all.] If you have any questions, let me know.
[No "thank you for listening," no "goodbye," Will leaves it at that, flicks the camera off. That's all, folks.]
slaps you with catfish
Dr. Chilton has given me a name I'm planning on checking up on. Kaidan Alenko?
2 hot (hot damn)
...did he say why?
[The incredulity is hard to miss. It's literally on his face, in his voice, his body language. Will had never put Kaidan on the possibility list. He was one of the first to be completely thrown off it, even.]
kinkshames your catfish kink
Chilton says there was miscommunication between Lounds and Alenko. He took their fling as something more than that.
I'm not exactly sold myself, but better to rule him out sooner than later. Saul Goodman isn't around for questioning, unfortunately.
angrily blogs on tumblr about such an injustice
Their fling? [Things Will didn't much care to consider: Freddie Lounds' sex life. Things Will had to consider now that she was super murdered: Freddie Lounds' sex life.] When did they—how would he know? She never, I...didn't hear anything about this.
[Saul Goodman is not very good when he's not around, Will already had fun with that dead end.]
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[ There's some skepticism that leaks into her tone, but a potential lead a is a potential lead. ]
Alenko is a patient of Chilton's. Not one he sees often.
[ Which is partly why she's not sold. ]
I know Lounds was concerned about Abel Gideon. Chilton said you were conducting your own investigation. Have you been able to determine anything yet?
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Freddie and I had our ups and downs, but I'd consider us close. Recently, we'd gotten closer. [But not in the fling context, Lord no.] I've only been able to work with what I've got, publicly, so far. People who reacted to her more harshly than others, the article she put on Tattlecrime about nearly being thrown to her death. That's been the start.
[Article. Article, he says. Yeah, he knows what sort of stuff Freddie wrote, but even with her gone, even with this private, Will is still so far up the ass of Team Freddie that he's talking about her profession like she'd want to hear it be talked about. Friendship.]
1/2
Again, I'm sorry to hear. She knew how to get under my skin, but I heard what she had done for Dr. ―
2/2
[ She claps a hand against her face, gritting her teeth. ]
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...oh my god what?
[God isn't here, Hannibal's been gone for a while. That's rude.]
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[ Considering she had made very similar but empty threats, she realizes she's likely on a suspect list. Damn it, Freddie Lounds. No one is going to know her threats were all bark and no bite. ]
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[There's some jostling as Will tries to do two technological things at once like a truly inept nearly forty-year-old. The feed almost cuts off before she'll find herself sent a link...straight to Tattlecrime: Heropa. He knows, though, he knows, so he adds:]
The one titled ImPort Attacks Innocent Journalist!
[How he says that with a straight face and absolutely no mockery, one might imagine a miracle happened.]
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Spider-Man attacked her? I don't know the guy well, but nothing about him seems... inclined to do something like that.
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Anyway, there goes Will's hand over his face, because it all goes back to that file leak, the ones with some...wrong information. The most joyous sharing that ever happened on the Network!]
Kaine Parker. She said he was Spider-Man in her file leak, and he...immediately asked where she was so he could rip her head off.
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Possible anger issues. Great.
Have you spoken with the guy yet?
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[Announcing Freddie being gone in conjunction with this was supposed to serve multiple purposes, just like his file leak of her had been. The public, the ones who had no idea, could take relief or whatever else in the idea that she was missing, and Will wouldn't have to see people dancing on her grave. But, and more importantly, whoever did kill her might look at someone announcing his new role with law enforcement and draw the message behind it: I'm going to find you. Me. Assuming the bullseye for everyone involved without telling the whole world, that is his design.]
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[ She's not adverse to a tête-à-tête with someone who makes violent and gruesome threats publicly. She's fairly assured in herself to be able to handle someone like that, too. ]
I still need to look into the coroner's report. The one problem I'm certain I will have is they might not allow non-Registered imPorts to check it.
Do you know if they found any DNA, though? If Lounds fought back? Where she was found, etc.?
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What? [Concerned, confused, slightly horrified.] This isn't because I can't—it's because she can't! This leaks to someone who'd threatened her publicly, they leak it to other people. That goes against the entire point of keeping it contained so it can be investigated! So we can find who did it.
[Which is, in Will's mind, the whole point. Finding who did it, getting to the truth of the matter. He's not taking this opportunity to go knocking down doors and being as reckless as Freddie Lounds herself. He's trying, more than ever, to be smart about this because that's what it takes to bring the killers down. Not a gun. Not violence. Not boisterous threats of unpleasant action.
He's working to find and trap. Not to hurt throughout the process and to the inevitable end of it, if there is one.]
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She's been dead nearly a month, hasn't she? The trail's getting colder day by day.
[ So maybe busting down doors isn't the wisest course of action, but she can't sit back and wait to do things by the book. If it was another imPort who killed her, time isn't necessarily on their side if the killer hasn't also been ported out. ]
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[Oh, well, look at that. It's almost like Will has Issues with losing people thanks to the way he's treated the investigation in the past. It's almost like Will has Issues with losing Freddie, too. In fact, it's almost like he was trying to keep this whole thing under wraps because he's had experiences with what happens when too many people know just enough to act on without knowing the full story.
He's not seeking full control because he's possessive, power-hungry.
He's seeking some control in it all because he knows what happens when nothing is coordinated properly, and the idea of losing whoever did this to Freddie because someone fucked it up along the way (which would still be his fault; Freddie is Baltimore, and it's his duty to her as much as it's duty to himself to make sure this goes right) is absolutely unacceptable.]
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However, she doesn't take well to being yelled at. Rather than shrinking back, she leans in and starts pointing a gloved finger at his face. Screen-face. ]
Volume control.
She's been dead for weeks and I have zero idea what anyone who's been looking into has been up to, if they've even found anything! If you want to do this by the book, damn it, at least give me something else to work with! I've been doing this for years. I know how to.
[ Assisting the police or not, which would be helpful information if she wasn't getting heated herself. ]
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I don't know you! [Oh, oh no, are those alarm bells ringing any clearer now, Power Girl?] I know that you threatened her, and did it publicly—why are you so interested in this? [This is not the same as an outright accusation, this is simply Will's attempt to make it very well known that there are reasons at play, that's he's not just being difficult. How badly would it look if he just tossed up details to anyone, especially when they had butted in to tell her to back off as Power Girl had?] Frederick might know you and hand out details because of that, but I don't. I don't want this to never be solved, I owe her more than that!
[Are those bells being smacked right to her superears now?]
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Because it's my job!
[ And because there's a truck load of guilt that weighs her shoulders down. ]
You aren't the only one who owes people the justice and closure they deserve, so don't even act like it!
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I'm not acting. [Perhaps an odd statement, but perhaps telling more than anything else. He's not acting, this is him being him, there are no pretenses, nothing shown is bullshit or posturing. She needs to know that, for some reason—Will's spent enough time back in Baltimore living with one face to the world and another to Hannibal Lecter, let him make it clear that she's speaking to him being him and nothing or no one else.] And you say it's your job, but...it's not officially, is it?
[That he calms down when he asks it isn't acting, either. He can settle. He can chill out. And she's using very specific wording that he doesn't think is accurate. Is she getting paid for this? Is it really her job? Or is it some duty, self-assigned or otherwise? There is a difference, which one is he speaking to?
Freddie Lounds had been Will's job and duty back home, he wasn't shocked she'd put him back in his old line of work. Just not pleased how it had happened.]
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She sees where this is going and her expression hardens fast, unimpressed. ]
It is my job. I won't stop doing what I've done for years because I'm currently stuck in a world where people assume if you aren't pro-Registration you're anti-establishment or a dangerous vigilante.
[ This isn't an interview and while it sure as hell feels like her experience and duty is being called into question, she's run out of patience completely with Will. ]
You don't want outside help, fine.
You should think twice about your position if you're going to start taking up issues with those of us who choose to wear capes and such.
[ Disconnects. ]