flight 002 ☄ [video]

[yatagarasu]

[Kay is seated on the top step of the courthouse, looking particularly thoughtful - solemn compared to her ostentatious intro nearly a month ago. She just got out from her job as a juror-in-training at teen court, and she looks a bit exhausted.]

Well...you know what they say - justice never sleeps! [She laughs shortly, but lapses back into a more serious attitude.] Unfortunately, crime doesn't sleep, either. Unless that's how a supervillain plans on taking over the world - by somehow using sleep.

[She runs a hand through her bangs, stopping short of her particularly high ponytail and that ridiculously large key in her hair.]

Okay, after running into exploding trains, mechanical sharks and monsters who could've walked out of a horror movie, I've decided that I wanna learn how to fight. [Kay sets her jaw.] I wanna learn how to use a weapon - a gun, a knife, anything, even my own fists. I could ask my crow friends to fight for me, but...I don't want to depend on them all the time. 

[Pause. Kay frowns; more importantly, she doesn't want to see a crow die because she sent it to fight for her. Plus, replicating sounds and voices she hears aren't going to cut it.]

I give a pretty mean dropkick, but...yeah. There are gonna be villains out there who won't go down with a single kick.

...

I promise I'll attend every lesson.

Comments

[notdaredevil]

Have you ever even held a gun? Or a knife?

[Better to try and have this conversation now before somebody gets hurt.]

[yatagarasu]

Well...no.

But I've held kitchen knives. [Real helpful.]

[notdaredevil]

That does not count as experience in any way.

[yatagarasu]

I thought so. Chopping vegetables is waaaay different.

...Oh, I had a big pipe during that time there were monsters all over the place!

[notdaredevil]

Did you hit anything with it?

[yatagarasu]

A few monsters. But the crows did more of the work.

[notdaredevil]

Ok. Well. That's not...terrible.

But here is the problem. You shouldn't carry any weapon that could kill people, unless you're prepared for the possibility of killing someone. Because with a knife, or a gun, that possibility is very, very real. You can't use those unless you're really prepared to use them; otherwise, you're more of a danger to yourself and everyone around you.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay is silent for a while, and for a moment looks as if she's about to break down into tears, or scream, or vehemently object.

Instead, her voice is small and timid when she speaks up.]

But...I can't do that...don't some people just stick to, say, shooting someone in the leg?

[notdaredevil]

It doesn't work like that. You can kill someone just as easily by shooting them in the leg as you could by shooting them in the chest. There's a major artery. It's highly likely they could bleed out if you don't aim it just right.

[He softens the lecture voice slightly, because...well, it's no good yelling at her about this. But god help them all if everyone takes up the ideas that using a gun is like being in the movies. That's how people have stupid accidents. That's how they die.]

It's not like a movie, or a comic book. Don't go into something like that thinking it will be. You don't want to get involved in that kind of trouble.

[yatagarasu]

[Kay thinks it's probably not a good idea to say BUT PEOPLE HAVE SUPERPOWERS AND WE HAVE SOME TECHNOLOGY THAT CAN HELP...

Her face is serious but she can't help but pout a bit. She knows it's not like a movie or a comic book. She knows murder and bad people and crime and having a gun pointed to her head.]

I know this is real. [Her voice is low, but not annoyed or frustrated or rebellious.]