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[stubboarn]

Who ⬤ dimitri + u
What ⬤ APRIL CATCH-ALL / Night Parade / assassination / etc.
When ⬤ all month
Where ⬤ [ hand gestures ]
Content Warnings ⬤ none right now, i'll update as they come up.



ooc. prompts are going to be in the comments, just hit me up where you feel like it. if you want something else, feel free to pm me and we can hash it out. here is my plotting toplevel!

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[stubboarn]

Natural, perhaps, but a little inconvenient to those of us who needs to get things done.

[ he should tell felix, he'll feel vindicated.

dimitri frowns and listens intently at his words. after a while, he says, ]

The Leicester Alliance from home had a similar problem - with the failing health of Count Riegan, the possibility of power shifting in the Alliance was the talk of the round table until Claude was declared heir.

I see parallels in our situation here. [ dimitri sighs. ] I will do what I can. In return - please see what you can find about your incoming leader.

I have my own theories. None of them are worth mentioning right now, but for this one thing -

[ he pauses, trying to recall his memory and to word this properly for him. ] - if you recall during the parade, a lot of the depictions of local myths had humans as the enemy.

Out of all our faction leaders, the Daitengu is the only one masked. But the others are visibly not human.

... I think that kind of sentiment is at play here. [ dimitri sighs. ] Of course, there is nothing to confirm such a theory, but it's been lingering in my mind for a while.

[playfoul]

The youkai are a different breed from you nobles. I'm not holding my breath for a peaceful resolution.

[ Duke Riegan's succession had been civil. This is like the Leicester Alliance if the Leicester Alliance and its neighboring countries were run by crooks. Even if Sutoku had a perfect heir tucked away somewhere, Yuri expects the situation to get uglier before it gets better.

He contemplates Dimitri's next words. The poor, subjugated humans depicted on the floats hadn't escaped his notice. If Dimitri's theory were true, it would shake the youkai deeply. ]

Are you saying it was a human behind the mask? If our assassins didn't like that, it's odd they'd pass up the perfect chance to expose them, don't you think? The Daitengu could have been hiding their identity for other reasons.

[ To protect the people close to them, or not letting their enemies use their past against them. All reasons Yuri's taken on fake identities before. ]

[stubboarn]

It could be. It's just a theory of mine - why else would they not allow us to go near the body? I'm sure each leader has their own myth to contend with regarding their strengths. That the Daitengu went down quite easily is strange to me ...

It fits their alliance rather nicely, don't you think? Different clans working together, human and ... otherwise [ 'monster' doesn't seem polite, and dimitri is out of his element here as a fussy noble ], and not like the way the other factions are arranged.

But like I said, it's merely a theory. I haven't got anything to prove it with other than a passing judgment of the situation.

[ and it's true, the daitengu could be hiding their identity for other reasons. but this is the one he's been pondering lately. ]

[playfoul]

It's an interesting thought. Not one that I like, if only because it doesn't bode well for the Alliance. A human could never have survived the attack.

[ A youkai could have pulled one over the assassins if they possessed some otherworldly ability, but a human not so much. Yuri would rather not think the Alliance leader so vulnerable. Though as things stand, it's not looking so great either way.

He holds out his notes to Dimitri. It's a summary of what he's told him, which isn't everything he knows, but everything he thinks will help make a case for the Kappa. ]

In any case, take this for your investigation. I suspect you'll have a busy month ahead. Watch your pretty head out there. It could get ugly.