putting together puzzle pieces [late week 3]

[finalizes]

[Laughs speaks up on the network very abruptly and sharply.]

What does everyone here know about Yakumo's overlay Edward?

[After moment, he adds: I have nothing definite yet, but as I said earlier, Phillip saw someone who looked like me try to post a batch of letters that looked like the letters of complaint sent to newspapers from various different people.

Edward's merlin sometimes looks like a nightjar, and humans have no sense of scent to speak of.

A guy [and he's lifestreaming the scent that will be recognizable as that of Utsusemimaru to anyone who can scent people as he says that] told me that Edward can imitate other people's writing.

So. What do we know about him?

[He might be overly suspicious because Edward now didn't just insult his poor toad baby, his pet tried to eat Saffron. But that's besides the point clearly.]

Comments

[whydoyoushine]

If you enhance the big portrait of the Queen with glitter, he gets really upset, it's great.

Seriously, he's all weird with that thing. Anyone think he's got a weird crush?

[highsteaks]

Isn't the Queen way too old for him?

[whydoyoushine]

That's what makes it weird!

[highsteaks]

Do you think he actually loves her or just wants to be King?

[whydoyoushine]

I think there's real, genuine affection there. My infiltration thinks he's a, and I quote, "colossal dork."

[finalizes]

What does he do in retaliation when he gets upset?

[whydoyoushine]

Mostly just starts wailing for a janitor and clutching his proverbial pearls.

[finalizes]

He doesn't do anything?

[whydoyoushine]

Eh, nothing really impressive. It's not like I'm worried about the threat of fisticuffs.

Really, I'm surprised he hasn't challenged me to some kind of gentlemen's duel. Pistols at ten paces, stuff like that.

[highsteaks]

... if you don't think human people can smell things, then why did you give us that guy's smell to identify him?

[Seriously, it doesn't make sense]

[finalizes]

[In the most this should be obvious but apparently not tone:]

Not everyone on the network is human.

[highsteaks]

Yeah, but some of us are. If you want us to be able to identify people too, you'll have to give us stuff that isn't just how they smell!

[finalizes]

[But that is the most important way of identifying someone!!!!!

.............he livestream's a brief visual memory of Utsusemimaru, too.]

[highsteaks]

Thank you.

private, protection 1

[fruitknife]

Least somebody asked.

[A random smell might help Koromaru, but it's not like Koromaru has any access to it right now.]

Re: private, protection 1

[highsteaks]

... yeah. I mean, not everyone here is human but a lot of us are.

private, protection 1

[fruitknife]

And just 'cause people could be not human don't mean they want to right now, or that they'd smell anything different.

private no protection on her end

[highsteaks]

Not being human doesn't mean they have a super dog sniffer or whatever it's called.

[razorblade_empress]

Well, so far I've heard a bunch about the Wonders of Britain and its immigration policy, plus a few digressions about its climate history. Guy loooooves this country and everything about it and hopes for a future where anyone who chooses to do so can live here. Won't answer anything about his own past, though.

He also hates Phillip and company about as much as he loves Britain - they're one of the only three subjects I've really seen him get mad about. The other two would be the sabotage - he's got a written list of ideas about finding the saboteur, some of them more do-able than others - and seeing people break rules.

[Especially you, Laughs.]

[highsteaks]

Maybe he's an immigrant? I mean, he sort of looks like he could be Japanese, doesn't he?

[razorblade_empress]

That's what I've been thinking, yeah. And I'm not sure he can let himself see any downsides to the place, either. Hell, to hear him talk, this country doesn't have any downsides.

[highsteaks]

... ooookay.

[And then Chie has a terrible idea.]

Does he seem, um, interested in you? Or just someone to listen to him? ... has he tried to get you to come to his room or anything?

[finalizes]

Why does he hate them?

[razorblade_empress]

To hear him tell it, it's because they get into trouble constantly, aren't particularly apologetic about it, and get away with everything.

[finalizes]

It's not because of something they did to him?

[Because that's probably why Edward doesn't like him. Could that guy really be petty enough to hate someone so much without having been personally affected?]