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.]

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[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?]

[razorblade_empress]

Apparently not, or at least not that he'll admit.

[finalizes]

[Well, that's inconvenient.]

[razorblade_empress]

[It certainly is.]

Of course, he also doesn't talk about himself at all in general. He's good at talking a lot and not saying very much in all those words.

[finalizes]

Do you think he lies outright, or does he just omit the truth?

[razorblade_empress]

He probably does at least a bit of both, but with all the deflection he does I'd guess he favors omitting the truth.

[finalizes]

So it's not even like we can take at face value what little information he supplies.

[razorblade_empress]

Probably not. I mean, he's probably not lying about most of the trivia he spouts, but that's part of his camouflage - drown 'em in endless useless facts and maybe they won't notice he's hiding things.

[Which isn't to say that even some of those "facts" can't be complete bullshit, but still.]

[finalizes]

Is there anything that we know about him with certainty?

[razorblade_empress]

Besides the morning queen worship? A lot of superficialities. He has mentioned "late nights" here and there, but gave the usual deflections when asked.

[Yukino wonders if checking out the Queen's portrait might not be a thing they should do.]

He also seems to know this school like the back of his hand - I've never seen him get lost once.

[finalizes]

...Has he officially been here for long enough to justify that?

[razorblade_empress]

I think this is his second year? But good behavior makes up for a lot, in teachers' minds - depending on how well he gets along with them, they might give him more leeway than normal.

That or they don't know and he's taking precautions.

[finalizes]

With how much he's hiding, probably at least in part the latter.

[razorblade_empress]

Probably.