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Miles Edgeworth ([personal profile] jurisimpudent) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2013-06-17 12:26 pm
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I hear the train a-comin / It's rollin round the bend [ooopen]

CHARACTERS: Edgeworth and the Murderettes
LOCATION: The brig, yar har
WARNINGS: Edgeworth is an emo asshole
SUMMARY: So Edgeworth is in the brig on his own insistence for a murder he didn't commit. Come make fun of him! Throw things! Pay $2 for a bag of peanuts to feed him!
NOTES: Can happen between the 17th and the 20th. If you can't get him to talk, present: badge.


[Edgeworth doesn't look up when people come to see him. He just keeps looking at his hands, quiet and still; he says little. Still, he hasn't put in a request for no visitors, and he won't; it's less from a desire for company than from a desire for people to be able to see he's getting no special treatment. In the brig, like any other criminal, no matter that he was until recently the one guarding it.

He's in his suit still. He looks exhausted.]
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[personal profile] jurisimpudent 2013-06-28 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[By the time Josias has finished writing, Edgeworth is calming if not yet calm; he's lowered his hand from his face, and his panic has been downgraded to a low-level unhappiness. But that's a question that he feels in the pit of his stomach; his knowledge of the true answer to that leaves him sorrowful.

It's the true answer he gives.]

No.

[A shaky breath.]

But I did not commit this crime.
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[personal profile] stimulations 2013-06-30 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Josias has to fight the urge to roll his eyes, because yes, of course right now was the perfect time to start arguing the basic state of innocence on any man. Josias had yet to meet a true saint in his life, and he had the feeling he would find them incredibly boring if he ever did. But that isn't the point right now, and it isn't a comment he can waste the time making. Truthfully he might abstain from it even if he could speak - riling Edgeworth up into a more normal argument might give him a steadier footing, but that wasn't a course of action that felt quite right.]

Then you know you shouldn't be here.
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[personal profile] jurisimpudent 2013-06-30 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Shouldn't he? Even if Edgeworth wasn't able to fire a gun in hatred, he was wrong enough to have raised one. Even if he didn't take his revenge, it wasn't for a lack of intent. He simply froze before he could do it. He...

He is not, truly, an innocent man. He is not a good man. He's a hypocrite. He's someone who preaches decency and kindness and then throws that all away when it suits him. It's absurd, that all these people come to him and tell him he doesn't belong in here; there's no better place for someone like him.

But he didn't kill von Karma.]

I...I'm very sorry that your voice has not yet returned.

[He stares at the ground, swallows hard.]

Is progress being made?
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[personal profile] stimulations 2013-07-09 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[It's an evasive move, something that Josias doesn't like much at the best of times, and it's a topic change that he doesn't much appreciate. But it's expected. The matter of his voice can hardly be entirely ignored, especially after such an absence, and most of the time avoidance of the subject was tinted with some kind of pity, which was even worse.

He doesn't have much of an answer to give, and it's not something he wants to spend time typing about anyway. He gives a shrug, a tip of his head, a small smile as he holds his comms up and taps it to indicate this is progress. Then he types,]

Come and see me when you're released.

[When, not if.]
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[personal profile] jurisimpudent 2013-07-11 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[And Edgeworth wants to correct that word. There's a murderer out there, someone malicious and clever. Edgeworth doesn't know the extent of the evidence against him, but given the timing of this murder, he has little doubt that the killer will have taken advantage of the confrontation to arrange things to incriminate him. Not a when, but an if indeed, because...

Because that's just the way it always seems to work for him. He'll never say those words aloud - especially not to Josias - but just...Things go badly.

But he's not going to argue when Josias can't argue back. And he's not going to hold him here, in this miserable place, bright and glaring and grim, this site of execution. Instead, he just lowers his head.]

I...hope things are resolved swiftly. [With his voice; he indicates this with a faint gesture.] Forgive me for not inquiring after the matter sooner.
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[personal profile] stimulations 2013-07-13 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Josias can almost see it. Edgeworth's need to contest his words, carefully held back and let go of with the drop of his chin - though not the belief that they were wrong, just the expression of argument. Josias can't waste more words persuading him otherwise. Knowing Edgeworth, it was only physical proof that would have him accepting it, and nothing was going to do that except time.

He also can't explain that if Edgeworth had inquired after his condition earlier, he would have been met with silence. Avoidance. Josias could smile and tip his head in gentle dismissal now, but the past few months have not been easy for him, even if in retrospect his reaction and self-imposed seclusion was possibly a little overdramatic. He taps out another message.]

I'll see you soon. Chin up, Miles.

[He'd say good luck, except he doesn't believe Edgeworth will need it. Really, what he'd like to do is beckon the man closer to the bars so he could give him some physical expression of support, but he doubts the guards will appreciate that. Instead all he can give is another smile and a small wave before he quietly turns to leave.]
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