I'm starting to see that, but it doesn't change that next night is a make or break for me.
Um, I'm good at catching killers, because I can think like them? I can see what they see, think what they think . . . Not sure why. It's imagination to me, empathy to others.
You probably can tell better than most. Killers are, hm, solitary, so they're happy when they sense someone occupying the same space as them. I've had a few incidents like that . . .
She, ah, she was killed. Not as a person but as a chess piece. Something to hurt me and tell me I'd done wrong.
[taking in a wavering breath, actually choked up]
Her name was Abigail. She's, mm, the first of the three children my profile mentions? Two of them are dead, so it's subtle. Painful but subtle, so that was nice.
[sighs] If I were to mirror my situation with yours and Akira's, I'd be Akira, you know? But, ah, you remind me of her. A lot. I haven't been so clean in helping you.
Was that all you'd wanted to confess? It doesn't bother me if you're "imaginative" or manipulative. I don't even care if it's true, what Tomoe says about you. You're the first adult who's ever given two shits about me.
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-20 11:11 pm (UTC)[said lightly, like it's funny?? it is funny]
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:14 pm (UTC)But I don't mind listening, if you have something to say. You've certainly listened to more than enough of my problems.
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:16 pm (UTC)Um, I'm good at catching killers, because I can think like them? I can see what they see, think what they think . . . Not sure why. It's imagination to me, empathy to others.
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:18 pm (UTC)I already knew that. You certainly pegged me quickly enough.
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-20 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-20 11:27 pm (UTC). . . There was one once, though. A girl— Woman who was smart and close to me. She didn't fit profiles, my profiles, but I was also willingly blind.
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Date: 2018-01-20 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-20 11:34 pm (UTC)[taking in a wavering breath, actually choked up]
Her name was Abigail. She's, mm, the first of the three children my profile mentions? Two of them are dead, so it's subtle. Painful but subtle, so that was nice.
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Date: 2018-01-21 12:15 am (UTC)[Akechi pauses. He knows the scripted, polite response to show sympathy. But he wants to actually show sympathy.]
...People are the fucking worst.
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Date: 2018-01-21 12:18 am (UTC)Psychopaths are the worst.
[sighs] If I were to mirror my situation with yours and Akira's, I'd be Akira, you know? But, ah, you remind me of her. A lot. I haven't been so clean in helping you.
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Date: 2018-01-21 12:24 am (UTC)[h-haha yup]
You've helped me a great deal, you know. In all brutal honesty, I think I'd be dead by now if not for you. But... what do you mean by that?
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Date: 2018-01-21 12:28 am (UTC)And you're not a psychopath, Akechi.
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Date: 2018-01-21 12:39 am (UTC)[hesitating, because he wants to know but is a little wary of asking]
...What am I?
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Date: 2018-01-21 03:33 am (UTC)You? Ah, you show some sociopathic tendencies, but I would say PTSD and depression show most strongly.
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Date: 2018-01-21 05:17 am (UTC)Thanks, I think...
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Date: 2018-01-21 05:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-21 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-21 07:00 am (UTC)And I'm sorry for that. That you didn't have someone, and that it was me.
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Date: 2018-01-21 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-01-21 08:00 pm (UTC)