Video: Backdated to last day of Fiddlesticks

[runs_on_batteries]

[Tony's image appears, but he looks more tired than usual. He has a small stack of coffee mugs he hadn't yet returned to the kitchen in the background, along with a whole mess of tubes and beakers of liquid. Clearly, he's been busy working on something obsessively again.]

After much deliberation and weighing our options we have available to us on this train, the council has reached a decision regarding A-Qing's murder at the hand of Yang Xue. In addition to the punishment already rendered, Yang Xue will be sequestered in a quiet room with a guard on duty for five days. Though each night, he will return to his room, he will be ushered back into custody every morning. This will start when Yang Xue is lucid.

That being said, the passenger known as 'Wester', also known as Anzu Mazaki, is also being charged for vigilante justice and terrorizing the train. They will also be in solitary confinement for five days.

We're asking both to issue a formal apology as well.

[ooc: If other council members would like to threadjack, you're welcome to it.]

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Re: it's ok take your time. seriously. <3

[bloomingdespite]

[Wester looks down, refusing to meet him in the eye, but the tension in their shoulders show that he's on the mark.]

....if you know all this, why do you still want to be my friend?

I took them both away. I'm- I'm some kind of monster!

[blue_ice]

You didn't choose this. As someone who willingly became a real monster, I have to dispute that. Yugi would never abandon you, and as his boyfriend, I'm obligated to at least try to tolerate the people he loves. Even Jonouchi, should he show up here.

But you're interesting to me even without taking Yugi's feelings into consideration...a powerful duelist and strong teacher, a force to be reckoned with.

[bloomingdespite]

[Wester nods along with Kaiba's words, slumping in their chair and looking on the verge of tears. Maybe, just maybe, they could-

-then a word slips out of Kaiba's mouth, and all of that burgeoning hope flies out the window, replaced by blind panic and rage.

"What an interesting specimen-"

"How interesting. Perhaps you would make a better-suited cocoon for the gods..."

"You're an interesting science experiment. Nothing more."

They snap upright, glaring at Kaiba with all the force of Atem at his most righteously furious.]

"Interesting?" Is that all I am to you? Some- some science fair project for you to dissect on the table so you can see how I work?!

[blue_ice]

What---no! What kind of sick freak do you take me for?

[ And he makes a frustrated noise, his own resignation slipping into place. There's no pleading his case now. He rises to go. ]

But I'll always be the same heartless bastard, huh.

[bloomingdespite]

Just-

Get out of my room, Kaiba.

[Wester looks away, arms crossed and sullen.]

[blue_ice]

Later.

[ He looks back, bites his lip...and sulks off. ]