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Detective Satou, can we like also make some encouragement for people to like report troubles?

Even if like they may feel it's no big deal and like not worth a report, sometimes like big things are the result of lots of little things going like ignored after all.

Ah, Ms Chrysalis!

Yes, I think something like that would be helpful... Unfortunately, we don't have the authority to use any office or city resources for incentives. Beyond hoping people will report on their own...

I've been meaning to check with you. Did you see the anonymous posting calling the validity of the Guardians and Deputies into question?

Uhm, lack of incentives does like make it seem a bit less encouraging. But like we could still at least give verbal encouragement for now? I mean, I'm like not sure yet how the general mentality here works but I was thinking that maybe like people don't report stuff because it's like dealt with in another way or like they don't see it as important.

Also people like can't really know how much work there is and like they may think that there wouldn't like be time to deal with "minor stuff"?

And yes, I saw it, unless there have like been others. You mean the one that like said that they were like "subsidized bruisers paid to enforce their view of morality"?

Mm...Everglade has had some pretty abrupt policy changes in the past. Looking back on the records, it's easy to see why citizens might not report crimes. They may not know which laws are still in place after all of these Guardianship changes.

Perhaps I'll ask Hikaru-san to write up a list of existing laws and we can publicize it? That may help.

And yes, that one. I'm worried about that in Everglade. This city doesn't have a good history when it comes to law enforcement's relationship with its citizens...

Yes, I like noticed that when looking at past records. An updated list of like the existing and active laws would definitively be like helpful I think.

[She hums a little.]

I see why it would like worry you, it probably like doesn't help that lately the bounties that have been raised regarding this place have been like comparatively worse than in other areas. [She is a bit worried about the last one, too, which is why she's taking at least one of those women personally.] Are you like worried that they may like try to start organizing riots or attacks on the department? Or like start vigilante groups?

Let's see if we can help Hikaru-san make that list quickly, then. I don't want any confusion if someone commits a crime either.

Our out of control bounties really make us look bad. I know it's because our citizens are 'different,' but still... I worry about people taking these bounties and getting hurt, too. [But that's for another time!]

Yes, something like that. When people become angry and passionate, they can't be reasoned with. If we allow that 'anonymous' person to stir anyone into that state, we're not going to be able to resolve the issue peacefully. It'll be exactly what they want.

I'm like more worried about people taking the bounties and like not bringing the hunted back alive. It is why I've like taken a couple of them myself, it is a good thing we're like not forbidden from it.

[Sure, she will bring that last woman a but mauled, with a twisted wrist, a black eye and some sratches, and some can question if it was needed. But she will bring her alive and not as damaged as she could have been.]

The problem is that like we can't really do anything at the moment besides our jobs, can we? I've the feeling that the anon isn't just like an unhappy citizen and if they are related to that other anonymous message that there was, which as of now I've like no reason to think otherwise, they may be the type that is like accustomed to manipulate anything to like suit their needs.

Even like your message, they could easily just like use it to say that we're so incompetent that like we need the citizens to tell us like what are our flaws. Or like bring to question what our definition of like "keep safe" exactly is.

Agreed. It's a bounty call, not a hit list.

Even then... I think it's important that we figure out who is unhappy and keep an eye on them. If nothing else, maybe to learn from them.

[Have a teasing smile.]

"Keep an eye on them", so like if someone isn't happy they will like be put under watch or like jailing for having an opinion?

[A chuckle.]

See? Even like trying to be careful may like backfire with those people. Though like if you're worried we could like try to find who it is more directly, tcha?

Actually, that’s exactly what I mean. I want to get to them first, and listen, and be someone they trust before that person can wiggle in. I’m not worried about him twisting words: He’s gonna do that anyway.

I think he might bother me again. If I’m open like this, maybe there will be another chance to talk to him. He slipped up last time.

I see, I suppose that it's like a good idea. But like it's not going to be easy, I mean, they may like try to do the same with you, tcha? Try to like convince you that they trust you and like get information from you or simply have a way to like somehow control your location and then like use that for their own sake.

Are you like prepared for that?

... Yeah.

[A bit too much, actually. There is a bounty on her head back home, and Satou is all too used to people playing friend just so they can kill her. Doesn’t help that those who don’t want to kill her usually want to use her.]

I do have a small advantage... I can read people’s emotions. Literally. It’s the source of my magic. I think it would be better to take a risk and wager helping, then to give no one any chance.

Just be sure to not like get yourself too deep anywhere without backup.

[If Satou thinks she's prepared for it and can do it, Chrysalis has no reason to doubt her.]

By the way, I know that like our focus must be Everglade, but do you like have any intentions of spreading the awareness to the other PDs? Even if like Everglade may supposedly pose the biggest hot point for any revolt or mass distrust to like start and spread... The type of people that we like have here also makes it actually not an easy task.

So it's also possible that out anon friend will like target other areas first.

[And she doesn't know how the cops of the other areas work or even if all the other areas have a department so it's possible that they will ignore the threat until it explodes.]

I’m a Deputy in Attleton, which curiously, doesn’t have a PD. It’s just the Guardians and Deputies. I believe Genessia City does have a PD. Nova City, to my knowledge, is guarded by AI officers. Fayren also has no PD, but I believe the Fairy Tail guild run by Guardian Mavis fills a similar function, even if it’s not called that.

As a Deputy, I do have contacts in with the Genessia Deputies. I’m not as close with Fayren or Nova...Considering the situation at hand, I do feel that we should be more unified. Even if we don’t share policies, we can share respect.

Then it's a good idea to use those contacts and try to like bring that unity. All the anon may need is like just one of the cities to fall for chaos to ensue like everywhere.

[A pause as she hums.]

We should definitively like try to figure out who the anon was, if only to like know if Nova City may like be the most vulnerable. I mean, if it's guarded by AI officers that means that like they could be hacked and like have their programming altered. If the anon wants to like raise distrust towards the Guardians and law enforcement, making the AI officers like turn on the population would be a huge help.

I think we have established that the person is from Mr Bakugou and Mr Aizawa’s world’s. He used some terms in my last conversation with him that establish he knows of Bakugou from that world. If that’s the case, he has something called a “quirk,” which is a single power unique to him.

Unfortunately, the anonymous feature makes it difficult to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they’re actually the same person.

As for Nova... We should certainly bring that up. I think the Guardian of Nova City has some businesses where we may be able to contact him easily. I’m not sure about the Deputies, though. I agree that a meeting would be a fantastic start. Even if not for the anon case, then just in general.

I haven't yet talked with those people, I assume one of them was the hero the anon tried to blame for the incident on Genessia?

Aren't there like any hackers that could like get through the feature? At least to like point if the messages come from like the same device. It would still not like really prove who they are, because like someone else could have used the device but it would be something.

[She hums.]

I may be able to like get a meeting with a Nova City deputy, actually. A friend knows him and offered me help to set a meeting while I was like trying to decide where to go to work. I could check with her to see if that's still possible if you want.

A general meeting of the guardians and deputies may like be better but I don't like think it's a bad idea to at least start with individual meetings. They are like easier to keep under closed lids and like appearing to not be united may actually help to lure him more easily?

Yes. In their world, being a “hero” is a profession. It sounds like it’s similar to being a comic book super hero. Bakugou already has a bad temper and bad reputation, so he’s a very easy target

I’m not sure about tracking the anon, but Nova probably has the best chance of knowing how to do that. If you could reach out in that direction, I’d appreciate it... And that could help. Would that look bad to the general public, though..?

I'll like get in contact with my friend and check if it's possible then.

With them trying to stir distrust and paint the law enforcement as like glorified bullies, any big meeting would more easily be like pointed out as a "look, they are going to decide together how to bully us". It could like also be difficult due tensions between areas, like they could try to like stir things towards the idea that like the Everglade people are trying to turn other areas into feeding areas as well.

Of course, doing "secret" meetings could also like rise distrust but only if they are like known. I think that like the best way to go would be to like do an initial approach individually and like then, when we're like at least on the same book, do a big meeting to like see that we're on the same page. But as of now we can't like know how the other areas look at the anon's actions or even if they like know of them.

[A pause and a sigh.]

That said... I also like really think that we shouldn't like worry too much on the public opinion. I mean, it is pretty much like a natural instinct to be wary of things when you like don't have full control of them. So I think that even without the anon stirring things, there will always be like public wariness and distrust. They are like always going to see something as a bad idea even if it's not.

It is important that a balance exists, but like we can't let public opinion to weigth on whether to meet or not and how to do it. And unless we can like, track which device was used to send the anon texts and like block certain communications from them, doing some stuff in the shadows is like our only way to hope to get ahead of them. Otherwise they would be like informed of it all as part of the general public. Another option would be to like lock stuff from him if we know who they are, but like both of those ideas assume that he doesn't like already have an accomplice.

Don't do that. You're not on the tourism board, and there's already industries milking the reputation for all it's worth.

Don't open up the department to every ninny with a harebrained complaint who just wants to waste time and money. You'll regret it, and make the rest of us hate it too.

I understand where you're coming from, but in light of the recent attempt to call law enforcement into question, I'd like to identify the people who are unhappy. They are the ones that person is going to try to mobilize.

I've done this before, and found it very helpful to hear who felt we didn't care about their safety.

There are always going to be complaints like that, it just means you're doing something at all. The trick is learning to ignore the illegitimate complaints and focus only on what's actually important.

Uh-huh.

Given that most of the five cities operate on mercenary bounty hunters, I think just proving we're not interested in selling people for profit is a bigger step in the right direction.

I'm not going to take every complaint right to Hikaru-san. I'm looking to hear if the relations between our human and non-human population are improving. The past Guardianships have been rocky here and have left the citizens feeling betrayed by the leadership. We need to be sure people trust us not to feed them or starve them according to a signal moral compass.

I've been wondering lately how Everglade should treat bounty hunting. I don't like the idea of someone causes a lot of property damage or harm, and then us having to explain why an amateur got that job. How do bounties work in your world?

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Then just ask that. [Arches an eyebrow.] It shouldn't be within the police's power to feed or starve people in the first place.

A bit more recklessly than here, though it varies country to country. Mine is a bit... [Rubs his eyebrows and an eye with one hand and an annoyed growl.] more extreme than the rest of the world. America was founded on the idea of taming the wild west, cowboys, and vigilantes, and even my home city's police force is only marginally better. But bounty hunters aren't in it for any sense of order and justice, just money and fame. Some cops are like that too, where I'm from, my ex-wife's lover for one. But usually if they want to go into Hollywood, they'll just do it directly, unless they're really weak or stupid.

Usually bounties aren't because cops can't handle it, but to try to flip criminals against their friends. Gangsters, political opponents, mafia, that kind of thing.

I'm talking about the hunting policy. It is a little bit more within our power here.

Hmm, is that so? I worry about them here. Everyone in Everglade has a different skillset. It's very easy for someone to get out of control, or get into situations they can't control. Given how powerful our citizens are, we do need to take care that they aren't solving problems for themselves.

All gangs will do that anyway, it's in their very nature.

I think to solve that you need to first identify why we have bounties here. So far it seems less to help the law enforcement and more like it was a substitution for it. Furthermore, are they just being used to go after targets of a certain caliber to keep officers safe, or is it being done to try to give the less lawfully inclined better outlets.

You also have to take in consideration its popularity. Skimming back through the history, Ted banned necromancy for what he considered perfectly reasonable moral reasons, and yet it led to such a backlash it had a completely opposite effect. If you ban bounty hunting, are you just begging to create black market of hit lists instead? That's also what happens with gangs in my world, and especially my country or region.

I’m not talking about gangs... [She sighs. Maybe this guy should be meeting the population.]

I never said anything about cancelling the bounty policy. I’m wondering about how to make it safer... The fact we don’t know what the criteria is just proves my point... just forget it for a second. That’s not what we’re talking about.

We’re talking about this person. So question: What do you know about tracking anonymous people?

[FACE PALMS.] That's why you're doing this? To try to lay a trap for the complainer? Let him go until he does something more illegal than kvetching.

And Nova's the one with the cyber crimes department. Don't look at me, I barely figured out my smartphone after a year.

Will you listen to people? This entire conversation has been you having a conversation with your assumptions. Use your ears.

Continuing: I ask because he has done something more illegal. He’s likely to contact me. If you’re not going to be any help on that front either, then fine. I already told you why I was doing this. [Despite being quite irritated, Satou maintains a surprising calm.]

Okay, we are done here. I’ll let you know if there’s anything else.

What did he do?

Destroyed a building in Genessia City, endangering civilians. It was lucky that there was a quick response, or that building would have fallen on people and killed them.

The arcade?

What makes you think it was him?

[Holds a hand up.] I'm not calling you an idiot. You need to think from the other perspective if you want to catch him. So follow along, all right?

[He had to remind himself she hasn't been through the academy and college on forensics.]

[And ticks off fingers.] If you try to collect evidence as if you're protecting him, it'll get easier. First, where was he? Where was everyone else? How broad a range of suspects does that give you? Secondly, [Shakes head.] Don't lose sight of the rest of the criminals in all five cities just because of one hothead. If you're worried about him riling them up, then you're playing into his "Sir Handsalot." Three, look at it like a comic book villain. Don't play his games. It's what he wants. This? Baiting him? Even if it works the way you want, is still his game. You have to start making your own.

Don't let him set the rules and terms of engagement. Foil him by being above that.

[Gets up out of his desk and office.] How close are you to Bakugo?

[If he was flippant before, he's anything but now. Given the last few cases he had that got thrown out, covered up, and outright bungled because of his sergeants emotional attachments and being married to, having affairs, and mothers of suspects? YEAH.]

[He's deadly serious now. He thought he learned his lesson in Rosemont, but he REALLY learned it in Gracepoint.]

[Once again: Having to maintain some false calm, as this guy once again has a conversation with his assumptions. It’s disrespectful as hell, but she doesn’t have time to put this man in his place.]

Close enough to have him arrested for his participation. I’m not protecting him. I’ve disciplined him more than any of you. And as his friend, I’m not afraid to throw him in jail again if he needs that. Read the police reports sometime.

We have forensic evidence that it was not Bakugou’s flames that brought down the building. It was more consistent with what we know about this person from his world. Secondly, I was able to highlight and track the emotional residue of their battle: You can also find that in the police report, so ask the Genessia system if you want to read it.

Thirdly, this is my game. He’s cocky. He likes talking. Last time we spoke, he slipped up because of his ego and gave me information I needed. I know what I’m doing. This isn’t my first time tracking and capturing someone. I appreciate your concern.

Good. [She's assuming herself! He just said the way to get clues was to work on the opposite! Think like a defense attourney and work from there.]

What do you know about the other's power?

[And snorts.]

[She's SO MUCH Like Ellie. Emotional, defensive, protective like a mother bear, she can say she'd throw Bakugou in jail, and oh rest assured, he's grabbing the case files right now, but he can't help thinking just like Ellie she can't tell when she's in over her head either and too close to see what's right next to her.]

[Which was him too, so he only learned it from experience, and that's his problem. That kind of thing doesn't come until too late.]

[So emotional.]

[Which apparently is her magic. Awesome.]

[Sadly, the more she's fire, the more he goes ice.]

And you're sure that doesn't go both ways?

[She sighs and nods.]

Yes, I do.

He can deconstruct things. Seems to be along the lines of decomposition, which is what the marks indicate. The emotional residue creates a path of action. Since we know Bakugou’s colour in the photos, we can track where he was. Fortunately, his emotional state makes my tracking very effective and clear. As for the eye witnesses, we immediately took their statements after the incident. Deputy Orihime did an excellent job with documenting the scene.

Deconstruct, not evaporate, right?

[Nods.] You did well, Detective. [Gives her a thumbs up. Bet you weren't expecting that.]

What you said before about the Bounty hunting system, and the way it works in my world, usually to flip criminals--

So far it seems like he just has a grudge against those from his world. You have to find out what he really wants beyond just chaos or power. Likewise, what he can even offer to anyone else. Then you can use it against him.

You do realize the hypocrisy of your statements, do you not?

Edited 2018-08-28 02:39 (UTC)

Please elaborate anyway, so we're on the same page!

[There's an elongated sigh.]

You cannot make all of the residents of the city feel safe. It is fundamentally impossible simply because of the nature of the inhabitants.

If all humans in the city feel safe at night, then the inhuman inhabitants go hungry for the night. Not all of the inhabitants have the luxury of keeping humans as cattle in a dungeon.

Hmmm! I do see your point. But that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try. It’s not my place to decide who gets to feel safe and who doesn’t, so I’d rather do my best for as many people as possible...

And of course, I mean our non human inhabitants too. I’d like them to tell us if the bodyguard services here make them feel uncomfortable, or if they’re struggling to find food. The night policy is a part of our law, so Everglade PD does uphold it. I do want people to feel safe following that law, and not worry that we’ll forget its legal.

[Even if she wants to protect people at night, Satou knows she can’t. It would be a political nightmare and really unfair to the night residents.]

That said... I can’t literally do anything but my best. Thanks for speaking up, though! I’m sorry if it seemed like I’d forgotten part of the population.

Pick a side, and stay on it.

[From the tone, it's not a threat as much as simple matter of fact.]

By attempting to serve both sides in this shadow war, you undermine both.

Then I just I will undermine both, huh? I’ll pick my own side.

[She nods calmly to herself, since this isn’t her first time thinking about it.]

Sorry, maybe that was blunt... As long as I represent the law here, that’s what I’ll do my best to represent.

[Vlad rubs his temple. You're giving him a headache Satou...]

You represent an aberration to the natural state of this place. Everglade's natural state is one of chaos. The bloody barrier runs on fear. By attempting undermine the prevailing chaos and fear, you put all five cities in danger.

[You're giving her a headache too. The stocks for aspirin are gonna skyrocket.]

I don't think that's how fear works. Everglade is already losing it's fear factor by filling up with residents who are suited to live here. People I've spoken to are more curious than scared. [Also, she's flattered he thinks she could change people's fears! How kind. Take the compliments no one means to give you.]

Besides. Aren't things scarier when you're trying to resist them, but can't?

A human piercing the veil they were never meant to see beyond and realizing the true depth of their meaningless and insignificant nature of their existence itself is the truest form of terror.

I welcome their curiosity.

[Wow, that’s grim. Satou isn’t quite surprised. After a moment, her expression saddens. It must be really miserable to think that way.]

I do too. Because I think anyone curious enough will keep pushing, and come to see how amazing they can be. It’s kind of scary, huh? Being able to keep living when the world seems to hopeless is really impressive.

I live precisely because the world is hopeless. I am the despair that reminds humanity of its place as mere insects.

[Sabo only listens to the feed since he's living and working in Everglade. Otherwise, he probably would have still listened, but not to the same level of interest.]

If authority is done well, it doesn't bother me. You certainly seem enthusiastic about making Everglade a nicer place!

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