Week 3, Saturday, post-trial: Belph.

[thesettingsun]

[So basically everything about that trial was terrible, which is why when Dazai does manage to track down Belph, he doesn't bring up any of it. Not the number of innocents who could be dying, not the killers who weren't found. Nothing.

Instead, the first words out of his mouth are:]

What's your favorite color?

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[axilium]

[... honestly, the whole joke wedding thing is super awkward after natsuo kind of lost it, but he'll entertain it, nevertheless.]

Brown.

[thesettingsun]

[it's fine it's totally fine]

Light or dark? Neither of you are in a white dress so I don't have to worry too much about contrast.

[axilium]

Doesn't really matter.

[thesettingsun]

...Not feeling it right now? I can ask you about this later.

[Everyone's kind of in a Mood.]

[axilium]

[he shrugs.]

Nah, I just don't really have a preference between light or dark.

[thesettingsun]

Alright, then I'll pick something that will work with Natsuo's preferences.

I'll need your measurements before I start work, but - no rush unless you're having a shotgun wedding.

[...maybe that joke is in bad taste.]

[axilium]

... I'd really rather not have to have you feel me up, thanks.

[thesettingsun]

One hundred percent professional. No groping involved. Measuring tape isn't exactly hot.

[axilium]

... Why is this even part of your skillset? Weren't you, like, an author or something?

[thesettingsun]

It's my gift.

[Just casually going to admit that now.]

The fashion sense is all me, but the tailoring is new.

[axilium]

... Uh?

[thesettingsun]

You know, the gifts like 'can breathe underwater', 'can open locked doors', that? I can make clothes.

[axilium]

Yeah, I got that, but, uh... are you serious? Or are you pulling my leg right now?

[thesettingsun]

Why wouldn't I be serious? It would be much more impressive to say it's a skill I learned myself instead of had magically handed to me.

[axilium]

It's... a very bizarre skill to have in murder castle, though I guess hypothetically it'd be useful for repairing damaged clothes or whatever.

[thesettingsun]

It doesn't lend itself well to murder, does it? Not that I mind.

[axilium]

Really?

[DAZAI SEEMED PRETTY MURDER-HAPPY... NO OFFENCE...]

tw: suicide mention

[thesettingsun]

...Fitzgerald was the only person I really hated here, and I wouldn't have killed him in a situation where my partner could suffer for it. I've never killed a human being. Unless double suicide counts.

[That whole 'maybe don't casually bring up suicide' thing is a work in progress.]

If I'm called on as a Blotter then I don't have a choice about it, but I'm not going out of my way to find excuses to murder.

[axilium]

You know, I actually would not have guessed that.

[thesettingsun]

What about me seems like I've murdered people before? I wasn't even qualified for the army draft.

[axilium]

You've got kind of a shady aura... but the more you talk, the more of a loser you sound like.

[thesettingsun]

I'm not a loser! I'm a well-respected novelist, excuse me if those skills don't translate well to murder!

[oh there's the shouting he was holding in all trial]

[axilium]

How did you get disqualified from the army draft?

[thesettingsun]

Chronic illness. Sorry if you were hoping for an interesting explanation.

[axilium]

Darn. That is a boring answer.

[thesettingsun]

I might embellish, but I try not to lie. The deceiver always suffers ten times more than the victim, you know.

[axilium]

Nope, never heard of that.

[thesettingsun]

You ought to read more.

[Read Dazai's stuff more, specifically.]

[axilium]

What does that have to do with anything?

[thesettingsun]

If you were well-read you'd have heard the saying!

[If you read Dazai's stuff that means you're well-read!]

[axilium]

Sorry for being an uneducated bum.

[thesettingsun]

I'll forgive you, but only because the library has such poor selection that you can't fix that.