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anonconda ([personal profile] anonconda) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2024-10-16 06:54 am

random access memories



the random scenario meme



comment with your character.
respond to others
lbr — no one uses rng. just go wild, and maybe kinda sorta pick from the scenarios below?
post picture prompts OR write starters OR whatever!
have a grand ol' time

TYPES OF SCENES
① Action → Gun fights, bar brawls, fights to the death are all possible scenarios.
② Angst → Characters suffer emotionally or physically from relationships breaking up, death, injury, etc. Hurt and comfort themes are included.
③ Crack → Genderswaps, super powers, sudden compulsions are all possible outcomes.
④ Fluff → Something that is devoid of angst. It's light-hearted and might have the overtone of romance.
⑤ Gen → General fun, things that didn't fit in the other categories.
⑥ Sex → First times, kinks, even dubcon are all possible themes of sex related scenarios.
⑦ Your choice → Think of your own scenario, choose one of the above or make a combo even!
ACTION.
① Zombies → It's the zombie apocalypse, lock and load!
② Bar brawl → You had one too many drinks, said something wrong, and now you're being asked to take it outside.
③ Chase → You're caught in a high speed chase.
④ Gun fight → You're caught in a big shoot-out.
⑤ Fight with a friend → You're fighting with a friend, all out.
⑥ Interrogation → You're being interrogated for some offense you've done.
⑦ Aliens → Aliens are attacking and you're not going to take your probe laying down!
⑧ Final battle → This is it. The battle that will end all the fighting for you. Will you win? Will you get that peace you want?
⑨ Training → You're not actually fighting, just training for the inevitable.
⑩ No hope → You know this fight has no hope. It's not going to end well for anyone involved, but you can't turn away.
⑪ Sneaking in → You're stealing a diamond or sneaking in to kick some bad guy butt, but whatever it is, you have to practice stealth.
⑫ Blue wire → You're faced with a bomb that needs to be disarmed.
⑬ Fight for honour → You've been disgraced or someone you care about has, so it's time to fight for honour.
⑭ Showdown → Time for a cowboy-style showdown. Whoever draws the fastest wins.
⑮ War → You're caught in the middle of a war here. Remember to keep your chin up and keeping fighting.
⑯ Apocalypse → The apocalypse finally happened and now you're left to scavenge and fight for whatever is left.
⑰ Sabotage → It's time to sabotage someone's plan! How is entirely up to you. Do you set up a bomb in their toilet? Do you double cross them at the last minute?
⑱ Big damn hero → You know you have to handle this one alone, so that means disarming or knocking unconscious the person who wants to join you.
⑲ Fight club → You know the rules... you're in an underground fighting ring and you're fighting with all you've got.
⑳ Threaten → You've just been sent here to rough them up a little, threaten them into behaving.
ANGST.
① Injury / illness → Your character has become injured or ill! To what extent is the mun's choice.
② Last moments → You character has been gravely injured and this is their last chance to say their last words.
③ Depression → Your character is depressed, what actions they take is up to the mun.
④ Betrayed → You character has been betrayed by the other. How do they react?
⑤ Tortured → Your character is being tortured and needs rescuing or at least a sympathetic ear to help him through it.
⑥ Jealousy → Your character is feeling jealous and must deal with it, how will they do it?
⑦ Breakup! → This relationship has gone as far as it can, it's time to breakup.
⑧ Broken → For whatever reason, the character is broken, mentally or or physically.
⑨ Fight → You can't even be in the same room as your friend or lover without arguing anymore.
⑩ Lost → You lost the biggest fight of your life and now all you can do is try to pick up the pieces.
⑪ Worst nightmare → Whatever you fear the most is now real or maybe you're just trapped in a dream together, but whatever it is, it feels too real.
⑫ Addicted → You're addicted to something, alcohol, drugs, sex, whatever. It's destroying your life and you can't do anything to stop it.
⑬ Hurt you → You're being forced to hurt someone you love either by betraying them or even being forced to shout things you don't mean. It's for their own good in the end though.
⑭ Separation → You were forced to leave this person for their own safety and while you've been miserable without them, you really didn't mean to run into them again... maybe it was by accident or you were watching them from afar this whole time.
⑮ Becoming a monster → You are slowly changing, becoming a monster: vampire, zombie, demon, something you can't recover from and no-one can help you.
⑯ Frozen → You are entirely helpless, frozen, to stop some kind of disaster.
⑰ Prison → You were very bad and now it's time to pay the price by turning yourself in or maybe the law just finally caught up to you.
⑱ Fear → You're not sure why, but you are suddenly terrified and you can't deal with it. You need help.
⑲ Hated → You are now hated by the person you loved the most.
⑳ Down and out → You're living on the streets, you've hit rock bottom, and you don't know what to do.
CRACK.
① Sexswap → Uh-oh, you're suddenly the opposite sex!
② Forced confessions → No matter what it is and no matter how hard you resist, you're going to be compelled to spill some deep dark secret!
③ Mind-reading → You've suddenly got the ability to read minds!
④ Animal → You're suddenly part animal or transformed into an animal!
⑤ Awkward pick-up lines → You're compelled to use bad pickup lines on whoever is closest!
⑥ Back in School / Graduated → You're suddenly back in school! Or if you were already in it, you've aged and long since graduated!
⑦ Vampires, werewolves, and zombies, oh my! → You're suddenly a vampire, werewolf, or zombie! Maybe even a demon or a devil, whatever creepy crawly you can think of. What do you do now?
⑧ Ghost → You're suddenly a ghost or at least invisible. What are you going to do with this new ability?
⑨ Awkward conversations → So did you just fart or what? Any conversation goes, as long as it's embarrassing and awkward.
⑩ Crossdressing → For whatever reason, you're suddenly dressed in clothes of the opposite sex.
⑪ Suddenly naked → Oops! Your clothes are suddenly gone.
⑫ Suddenly a kid → You're a kid again! Have fun with that second childhood.
⑬ Fortune cookie → You've suddenly received a note with something that will happen in the future, either precise or vague.
⑭ Super power → And suddenly you're like Superman! Any power goes.
⑮ Bodyswap → Somehow you've changed bodies with the other person.
⑯ Back in time → Somehow, you wound up in the past again. Do you try to correct something or just sit and wait for time to jump? Maybe it jumps to various points in your life or maybe you actually think you're back in the day. Have fun, run wild with the idea!
⑰ To the future → Is it everything you've dreamed? Is it horrible? Whatever happens, you're here to witness what happens to you in the future. Either you take the place of your future self or you're just there to watch. Might cause some confusion if people start seeing double though...
⑱ Angels, mermaids, and fairies! → You're not necessary something dark or evil. You're just something different. How do you deal?
⑲ Locked in a closet → For some reason, you're locked up in a closet with someone else. Do you make nice and try to figure your way out or what?
⑳ Finger trap → You're caught in a Chinese finger trap... with somebody else! You can't figure out how to get loose either... have fun with that.
FLUFF.
① Cuddling → For whatever reason, characters feel like being close and cuddling.
② Pillow talk → After the main event, characters are up for some pillow talk.
③ Celebration → Anniversary or some other big event is taking place and characters want to celebrate!
④ Love confession → Someone has finally decided to confess their love and today is the day!
⑤ Appreciation → You feel the need to show appreciation for that person closest to you, even if it's just a pat on the back.
⑥ Apologies → You made a mistake and now it's time to make it up in some way you know the other can't refuse!
⑦ Get back together → Why did you break up again exactly? Whatever the reason, it was a huge mistake and you both know you can work through it.
⑧ Date night → You've planned for a wonderful night together and you can't wait to get it started.
⑨ Family → You've either found out you're pregnant or you've already got that addition to your family.
⑩ Marriage → You're just about to get hitched or maybe you're enjoying your honeymoon. Maybe you've been together for years now! Whatever the case, it's time for that next big step.
⑪ Meeting again → It's time for that happy reunion finally!
⑫ Love at first sight → For whatever reason, you are now insanely in love with the first person you set eyes on.
⑬ Flirtation → You can't resist to do a little bit of harmless flirtation all of a sudden.
⑭ In the snow → Look outside! It's a winter wonderland, so why not go out and play in it?
⑮ Engagement → You've planned it all out and now it's time to finally pop the question.
⑯ Friendly games → You've set up the game station or board games for a friendly competition!
⑰ Gift → Time to give that special someone a gift just because.
⑱ Recovery → You're taking care of someone who's just recovered from some illness or injury.
⑲ Healing → Time to help mend that someone who's been through hell and back.
⑳ Better than ever → You've finally got everything you've ever wanted here. What is your ideal life and who does it include?
GEN.
① Nice meeting you → It's your first time meeting this person! You bumped into each other on the street, in a bar, at work... whatever!
② Drinks → You're out for drinks! Or just chilling at home with some beers. Wherever!
③ Lost → You're lost and you kind of need help finding your way to where you're going. A little help with directions?
④ Costume party → You're at a costume party, both of you are wearing masks. Do you keep the anonymity or take it off and see whose company you've been enjoying?
⑤ Wrong number → Oops, actually you didn't mean to call that person...
⑥ Drunk → You're already drunk! Drunk dialing, stumbling into someone, showing up unexpected... what type of drunk are you anyway? Aggressive, loving, happy? How does the other react?
⑦ Old friends → you haven't seen this person in a long time!
⑧ Rivals → you're suddenly rivals! Or maybe you have been all along...
⑨ Problems → you've got a problem with each other, just got in a huge fight, whatever. Try to work it out!
⑩ What are your intentions... → This person? They're dating a close friend, family member, etc. You need to find out if they're going to hurt them! Or you need to discuss your friend/family's dating choice.
⑪ I saw you → you saw the other person doing something bad and you need to confront them about it.
⑫ Sorry but no → the other person has feelings that you just don't share. They don't necessarily have to be romantic... maybe you just don't agree with their sudden desire to quit their job and start a business making tiny, fuzzy teddy bears.
⑬ My hero → you need to tell this person how much they mean to you. They've been your best friend or your role model your whole life and they need to know.
⑭ Enabler → you're enabling the other (or each other) to do something bad, really bad. Addiction, stealing, killing, or just any other self-destructive behavior.
⑮ Cooking → Time for an impromptu cooking lesson!
⑯ Oh, sure, I remember you... → It's that awkward moment when someone comes up and seems to know you, but you have no idea who they even are!
⑰ Rescue! → One of you was in trouble, but you came to the rescue!
⑱ Boss → One of you works under the other. Is your relationship good? Are you scheming things? Or do you hate each other?
⑲ Perfect crime → You and the other person have just pulled off the perfect crime... or you're planning to! What are you doing? The heist of the century, an assassination?
⑳ Movies → movie night! Maybe it's a sleepover. Whichever the case, it's time to eat a lot and have fun.
SEX.
① First time → it's your first time together or your first time ever! Enjoy the awkward times!
② Bondage → You and your partner decide to experiment a little with ropes or handcuffs or whatever you'd like to tie your partner up with.
③ Rough / Aggressive → Your characters want it rough.
④ Romantic → Slow and gentle, meaningful, that's how characters want it.
⑤ Dubcon → Character A wants Character B and it doesn't really matter if Character B wants it as bad or not.
⑥ In public → Characters feel like taking a risk and doing it in a public place.
⑦ Roleplay → Naughty nurse fetish? Pirate kink? You and your partner decide to try it out now!
⑧ Healing → You've both fought hard or gone through a rough time and it's time to get some R&R in.
⑨ Last time → This is the last time you're going to this because you're breaking up or maybe your lover is running off to sacrifice their lives in some heroic way. The possibilities are endless, but you better make this one count.
⑩ No strings attached → You're just friends with benefits. Nothing wrong with that, right?
⑪ Anonymous → You met in a restroom or bar, any location of your choosing, but you don't even know each other's names.
⑫ Toys → You're eager to try something new, so why not toys?
⑬ Aphrodisiacs → You've been slipped a strong aphrodisiac somehow and now you absolutely cannot control yourself.
⑭ Show → You're putting on a show by either doing it right in the club or filming it for a bunch of people.
⑮ Ménage à trois → It's time for that threesome you've always dreamed of.
⑯ Non-penetrative → Frottage, handjobs, whatever you want to try out.
⑰ Controlled → You are under mind control and must do whatever your lover asks of you.
⑱ Hatesex → It's not just rough or aggressive, you absolutely cannot stand each other.
⑲ Extreme → Fisting, knifeplay, whatever you can think of so long as it tests the boundaries.
⑳ Fantasy → This is just a fantasy, a dream, and you know it, but what is your ideal fantasy and how willing is your partner?
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wildcards it. immediately post-dead apple. lmk if this works!

[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-20 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's late. Far past any reasonable hour for anyone to be awake, honestly, especially after the, ah, excitement of the previous night. The air is still and quiet, charged with the lingering energy of a storm that has only just broken. Metaphorically and literally both, as it happens, since there's a light drizzle, pitter-pattering against the ground and the window-panes. Gentle, monotonous, hypnotic enough to fall asleep to, if not for that infernal racket, what is that--

...ah. It's the sound of said window being jimmied open. And a singsongy voice emerges along with a certain familiar bandaged arm, and then another.]


Chuuuuuyaaaa~kuuuun~~

[He's carrying a basket. It's traditional to bring fruit to someone recovering, right? And if that fruit just so happens to be apples, well. Dazai thinks it's funny, anyway.]

Aren't you going to invite me in? Know that if you kick me, it's so slippery I'll fall and smash my brains out on the pavement!
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this is perfect!

[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[ The sight of those bandaged arms is enough to make him wish he were blind, and the voice is so shrill and grating that he thinks he'll go deaf.

Chuuya has more than had his fill of his former partner for one day, and of course that ill-mannered walking sack of bandages would choose such an unorthodox method of entering - one that sacrifices his windows, his drapes, his carpeting, his furniture, as rain pours through all of them. ]


Is that supposed to stop me!?

[ If anything, that makes him want to do it more. Chuuya doesn't though. He glares instead, his shoulders hunching, grinding his teeth. He does not, in fact, think any part of this is funny. ]

Dazai, you bastard... [ He growls, then his pitch rises, and points to the back of the room, ] At least use the front door!
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
I know how much you'd hate to do something that would make me happy, is all!

[He chirps, pulling himself in without further invitation after all, shaking himself and his wet hair off like a dog, to add further insult upon the injury to the carpet. It's going to be soggy for days.]

I could have, but what fun would that have been? Besides, the door could've been trapped, and I've never been a fan of pain.

[There's also the fact that someone like him can't exactly been seen just be waltzing in the front door to a building where a prominent Port Mafia executive lives. If Mori has the building watched, as he's certain he does, there's no way his presence wouldn't be flagged. Doing it this way is more likely to fly under the radar, and if it annoys Chuuya, that's just an added bonus. A little treat, if you will.]

You've recovered most of your energy, I see. I suppose you won't need these after all.

[He's not taking them back, though. Eat them or throw them out, he doesn't care.]
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ And now Chuuya is wet.

If looks could kill, then Dazai would be dead ten times over. They can't though, and so Chuuya can only huff as he paces over to pull the window closed. He then walks away without comment, disappearing and then reappearing seconds later so that he can fling a towel at Dazai, and then a second one for good measure.

Stop dripping on his carpet. ]


Like I'd take anything from you.

[ He's sure that Dazai did something strange to him. What that something is, Chuuya has no idea, but he's not about to find out. Besides, he just dislikes the idea of it.

He dabs himself off before moving onto wiping down a side table, not taking his eyes off of the other. ]


What do you want?
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
How wasteful of you, Chuuya-kun! You need to eat right to get taller, you know. Eight servings of fruits and vegetables a day.

[Is Chuuya still sensitive about his height .... no time like the present to find out.

He does take the towels, though, drying off his own wet hair with one and laying his damp coat on the other -- perhaps if only because pneumonia does not sound like a cheerful or clean way to die at all, no thank you.

Chuuya moves to a side table, and Dazai perches on top of the nearby couch like a particularly odd bird, because god forbid he act like a normal person for five minutes and sit down properly.]


Can't a man just check in on his former partner without wanting something? We did go through a particularly harrowing experience just the other night.

[Of course that's nonsense, this is Dazai, after all. But there's a clue in there, even so, buried in what he says -- paired with a challenging glint in his eyes to figure it out himself, akin to that one he'd held when they'd made those bets, seven years ago. The longer it takes to figure it out, the longer he'll be here, after all. He's not in a hurry.]
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
You...

[ Oh it sure does, and it takes every last bit of willpower not to throw that table right at him. Chuuya is actually a civilized human being though; despite how noisy he is, he has no desire to destroy his own home, so the extent of it is slamming his fist down on the table. The vase on it clatters as it moves a couple inches, but it only takes a few seconds for it to right itself. ]

Take your shoes off! You're tracking mud all over, you clown - stay off of my couch!

[ He'd yell at him to get out, but there's no point in that. He is storming over now to try and shoo him off the same way one does a bird, if shooing that bird away involved trying to swipe at them with every last bit of force that they can muster. ]

I regret punching you. To think that I saved you... I would be breaking out the finest wine right now if I hadn't!

[ Which does not answer the question of why Dazai is here. He does lower his voice, pausing his complaints just long enough to add: ]

It's over. There's nothing for us to talk about.
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah, too bad. It would have been funny if the vase had shattered on the floor from that slight outburst.

Chuuya trying to shoo him off the couch is still plenty amusing, though; Dazai dodges the swipes at him, and in a true show of malicious compliance, kicks off his shoes ... aiming directly for said mafioso. Even if Chuuya manages to dodge them, that mud is definitely getting on his clothes. This fucker.

He does eventually slide bonelessly off the couch, though flopping on the floor instead as he hums, thoughtfully.]


I'm not sure your own blood counts as a fine vintage, actually.

[Rubbing Chuuya's nose in the fact that if he'd truly died, there would've been no saving his own life? Maybe a little, but it's not actually the point. It's not lost on him that the other man had activated that power with no safety net and no backup plan. He's not like Dazai, after all; he doesn't want to die. He's earnest and straightforward with his goals and his feelings, almost too easy to rile. And Dazai had planned for it, had arranged things with that expectation in mind, relying on that anger to enact his countermeasures -- yet even so, it's not lost on him that Chuuya made that gamble. It's a tether that lingers between them, despite their checkered history. Something that survived the bridges Dazai burned that day he left the Port Mafia, even if it's a frayed, twisted thing now, stained with betrayal and resentment and loss.

As long as Dazai is the only person in the world that can stop Corruption, that tether can't be truly broken, for better and for worse. But even acknowledging all that, it's not exactly sentimentality that's brought him to seek out his former partner tonight. He clicks his tongue.]


Nothing, hmm? How reassuring, to think everything can be settled so simply. I must have interrupted a truly sound sleep, then.

[Yokohama has nearly burned twice. A foreign organization was willing to pay seven billion yen for Atsushi. The one behind unleashing that singularity escaped, in all that chaos. Things are far from over, to his perspective. He would not be at all surprised if they got significantly worse before finding a new status quo to settle into, and they need to be prepared. He hasn't been subtly leading Atsushi and Akutagawa's paths to collide for nothing, after all.]
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing.

[ He confirms. It's firm in a way that doesn't match his prior outburst; not the cursing at shoes thrown at him, which did indeed splatter mud onto his clothes and the upholstery, or the way that the towel he holds was stretched out and twisted as he ground his teeth in frustration.

No, this is something more final, a door being slammed in Dazai's face. However driven by emotion as he might be, Chuuya is sharp and effective. He's more than earned his role as an executive over the last six years. It was a gamble, but it wasn't, because he could trust in his own instincts even more than he can his own calculus. He can trust in himself and, as much as it vexes him, he can trust Dazai to always have some scheme or another. That's one of those few things that has remained unchanged with the passing of years.

Chuuya's expression sours and his frown deepens, as though the suggestion that there would be more to this conversation is the only slight that he's been given on this night. ]


The Boss is the only one I'm talking to about what's been happening. You wanna talk business, you get his approval. Otherwise, the Port Mafia has no business with the Armed Detective Agency.

[ Not that he's disallowed from speaking with a member of the Armed Detective Agency. As an executive he has a fair bit of freedom, but it's too shady to have a guy sneaking through his window for a midnight rendezvous like some teenage boy going to see his girlfriend.

Besides, he just finds talking to him to be unpleasant He finds the sight of him unpleasant, actually. He's strongly regretting what was an inadvertent invitation for him to stay. ]


The only reason I was working with you at all is 'cause the Boss ordered me to. You should be grateful to him.

[ There's venom dripping off of those final few words, because he knows damn well that he isn't and won't be. ]
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll send Mori-san the next basket.

[Venom is matched for venom, a bitter, acrid bite to each word disguised with the appearance of honey. Nothing is given away by his body language, his expression -- even his tone barely changes. But there's a sharpness to it, the steelflash of an assassin's knife in the phrasing; violence dressed in the clothes of a tease. There's no true threat to them, Dazai's not a fool, but a shift in mood to match Chuuya's.

Lazily, he pulls himself up to rest his elbows against his knees, looking over at the other man with an expression too bored to be contempt yet too disdainful to be pity. For a man so thoroughly wounded by betrayal and disloyalty, there's irony in speaking of gratitude toward a man who wouldn't hesitate for an instant to sacrifice him if it would benefit the Port Mafia.]


But if my memory isn't going, I seem to recall him being the one to reject our Agency's offer of an alliance? Not that I didn't agree, of course, but I never said I was here on official business, either.

[Mori, of all people, knows a thing or two about that. Wasn't it so convenient, after all, for his former partner to have been so nearby that warehouse, that day, when Dazai was ambushed en route to retrieving Q? Just as it had been so convenient four years ago -- a wink, a nudge, a quietly placed whisper here and there, and all of a sudden the Port Mafia was in position to 'generously' offer its assistance in dealing with Mimic, in exchange for just one little black envelope.]
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Then we're in agreement. There's nothing for us to talk about.

[ There it is now, the door being slammed in his face.

If Dazai is about computations and careful analysis, then Chuuya is just the opposite. He follows his heart and his instinct, and his heart belongs with the Port Mafia; though he wants to live, he would die for organization as readily as he would live for the sake of seeing it flourish. And as long as his heart still beats, it will beat in tandem with it. It's a fundamental difference between them, one that's underscored now.

He of all people should know what a non-starter that is. His eyes trail up toward the direction of the door in a clear signal, though Chuuya doesn't say anything more just yet.

But he is taking his phone out of his pocket now, swiping up and punching in a few numbers to unlock it. ]


If the Boss has no business with you, then I don't either, official or not.
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, I guess not. That's too bad.

[Here's the thing about closed doors, though: they're never too difficult to wedge open again -- or failing that, to bust down entirely. Dazai watches Chuuya take out his phone with detached unconcern, yawning as he pillows his arms behind his head and lays back down, sprawling out like a lazy cat.]

If you're about to report me, though, you might want to think about how it'll look to the other executives for a traitor to have broken in so easily.

[An intentional beat, and he lets the grin spread to something almost predatory]

Or, perhaps more importantly, what will happen to the Port Mafia should someone come to take my head.

[Loyalty is a double-edged sword, in the end. If Chuuya would let the organization use him freely, even willing to come to harm for its sake, then threatening the organization is the logical next step. It's a card he can only play so many times, of course, but the advantage he has here is that he knows where too many of the bodies are buried. Is Chuuya so willing to welcome that mutually assured destruction solely out of pride? Dazai is prepared to find out.]

It'd be especially interesting for it to come out what we were paired together for, that first time, don't you think?

[Mori had said back then that fully a third of his men would turn against him if the truth were to come out. He's entrenched well enough now that perhaps that number would be lower -- but could the organization truly afford a weakening of any kind in a critical time like this?]
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Unfortunately for Dazai, he held a single-use card. ]

No one's going to kill you, dumbass, except for me if you keep talking.

[ His fingers twitch, shoulders briefly shaking, and he grips the device harder as each and every additional word spoken scrapes against his skull. Dazai, who for four years served as the Boss' right hand man, would know better than anyone how all of this is playing out. The Boss didn't just forgive Dazai's abandoning the Port Mafia, he's gone so far as to offer him an invitation back, and most notably, they've assisted the Agency already; all of those things require a certain level of politics and posturing in order to maintain their image.

It's like having their goodwill spit on, then kicked and berated with insults as he watches someone who hasn't been a part of their world for years try to make a power play. In the end, the top Brass is mostly the same, so it hardly even matters - they all know him.

There's a few swipes, some tapping, and after several seconds, and his thumb hovers over the button that will call up someone or another.

That won't lead to anything more than Dazai's ass being thrown out in terms of harm to his person, but what it will do is enshrine that a member of the Armed Detective Agency has gone out of their way to provoke and threaten the Port Mafia. That would be inexcusable and permanently crush any hope of further cooperation. ]


You have five seconds. [ His voice is low, trembling. It's taking an effort to maitnain even this much patience, but he does so. A beat. ] Four.

[ Think of something better, Dazai, and fast, because Chuuya's decided he's just fine with that outcome. If it does wind up with him being punished, then well - it'd still be better than listening to the shit this guy's spewing. ]
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
You sure know how to sweet-talk a man, Chuuya-kun.

[A miscalculation, then. It is bound to happen once in a while; call him off his game from the pleasant near-death experience, the other night.

Dazai gets to his feet, picking up his damp jacket, and walks over to the window, wasting a good two of those seconds letting the rain in again. An alliance is off the table, and if he can't strong-arm Chuuya into cooperating, then there's just the one tactic left.]


The man who created the singularity is called Fyodor Dostoevsky. He's incredibly dangerous, and a threat to far more than Yokohama alone. The Agency and the Port Mafia have both established themselves as his enemies, in this incident. It can only benefit both to keep the lines of information open.

[One second to go. He's already starting to lower himself out the window.]

Ask Mori-san's permission, if you must. I'll be waiting for your answer.
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-21 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ His eyes widen subtly at the name. Chuuya is familiar with him. That one took out several of their men, including one of the executives, though Chuuya isn't willing to immediately disclose that fact. Still, it's at the forefront of his mind. The Guild was bad enough; the House of Rats is another.

But he's tired, moody, and his living room is a mess thanks to a certain someone, so he keeps that to himself for now. The phone is clicked off and slipped back into his pocket.

It seems like in the end, Dazai always manages to one-up him. Frustrating as that is, he can only take in a deep breath, cursing his own misfortune in having to continue to deal with Dazai. He knew that Chuuya would be the most amenable to this too.

Ugh. ]


... Dostoevsky was already on our hit list.

[ He'll offer that much, though it leaves a sour taste in his mouth, as something of a show of good will. Depending on how things go, it's clear that he has more. ]

I'll let you know what he decides on, but sharing intel isn't off the table.
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[personal profile] unaliveyourself 2024-10-21 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Dazai can tell from the expression on Chuuya's face alone that he's gotten his attention by dropping that name, and the further reveal that the man was already a target of the Port Mafia is an especially interesting bonus. "I'll let you know" isn't quite a deal, but it might as well be one. Mori understands the value of information better than anyone, after all. In many ways, an agreement under the table to keep each other informed is even better than a formal alliance. All of the benefit with none of the obligation, and only minimal, nearly negligible risk of treachery.

With that, the seriousness slides off of Dazai's expression almost like a shed skin, and he chirps cheerfully on his way out:]


In that case, I'll be on my way. You know where to find me. Sweet dreaaaams, Chuuya-kun, and remember what they say about an apple a daaaay~~!
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[personal profile] materialized 2024-10-22 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ This is the last thing that Chuuya wants to be doing. In fact, his life was considerably better before he had the misfortune of Dazai reentering it. But as always, his personal feelings come second to what needs to be done. He understands how serious the situation is, and he knows all of those things that make him the correct choice for this. There's a reason that the Boss has sent him out time and time again.

It can be better to meet in the rain than indoors, and it can be better to meet outdoors, but they need to rotate their methods. Offical or not, the government doesn't need to know what business the Port Mafia and Agency have.Thus, he had chosen a quaint little restaurant - the type that's open at late hours and attracts overnight workers, and one that's under the Port Mafia's control; easy enough to clear out without it seeming unusual, and easy enough to ensure the security of.

He's made his own coffee, preparing a pot and resting it on the as she slides back in with a cup.

The timing should be about perfect. Chuuya suspects the person he planned on meeting with will arrive within a few minutes or so. ]