chicago ♔ it’s a tragedy to be left only with memories

[savemyself]

WHO || Failboat and friends [Closed]
WHAT || As the trial drags on, the Knights spend their last few months in Chicago and tensions mount
WHERE || Various locations, Chicago
WHEN || November 21st - The end of the trial?? [Back AND Forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam, don't sweat tag order


Everybody loves a media circus and the trial of Rafael Giovanni is no exception. If he was famous before, in the days following the shooting, now he's all people are talking about, and all the tabloids want to focus on. The complications presented at some of the early hearings by Jaka, regarding the identity of the Black Scourge and Rafael's alleged reaction have only made the story more appealing to the millions watching.

They've also caused the trial to drag out for months as facts are checked, evidence is poured over, and the jury becomes only more split on the issue. In the meantime, the holidays fly by, and one of the most terrible winters in years blankets Chicago in blizzards.

This log covers any work and non-work related shenanigans the Knights have while staying in Chicago, immediately following the last log and continuing for the next couple months. This will be the Knight's last time in Chicago before the trial: after which they plan to return to the castle to fully Knight Violet and Elena and decide where to head next.

Make your own threads, don't fuss about tag order, feel free to threadjack multiple people into one thread for hang-outs, ask me if you want a certain scene with an NPC, etc. forever whatever.

Comments

[accusatory]

Of the life she could have had. [ she stares at him with evident concern that he doesn't just assume that she's what she means. WHAT ELSE WOULD SHE MEAN. ] A life that was thrown away on a gamble that they were never going to win.

[nothingsodivine]

[HE HAS A VALID REASON FOR BEING CONCERNED.]

You don't have to tell me that twice. [He just... assumes she means the Knights.] All the more reason to cut ties before someone else gets hurt.

[Some bystander. Some civilian. Or Nadia. The Knights know what they're doing. Their pain is background static to watching someone who didn't want or understand what she was being yanked into jerked around by all this.]

[accusatory]

Oh Des. There's still so much you don't understand. [ her voice is laden with sympathy as she steps forward and brushes at his cheek with the back of her hand ] I don't mean the Knights. I mean the people who decided Eterna had to die - to help you become the man they want you to be.

[nothingsodivine]

[MOTHERFUCK-

Des jerks away from her touch.]

What the Jiminy Christmas are you talkin' about?

[accusatory]

[ the inhuman light behind her eyes seems to smolder strangely as she stares at him, fully more than the human-looking creature before him now ]

I warned you that there are some things that once seen can never be unseen. That applies to more than just the Hidden World that's been forced on you now.

Your life has been woven into the most powerful lie of all time. Are you prepared to live with the boiling anger that awareness brings?

Do you really wish to know? Or will it only make the weight of each year passing more impossible to bear?

[nothingsodivine]

[ it's a good question, but one he doesn't deliberate on, because ultimately he can't help but stick his face in what he doesn't need to know. He hates the idea that anything is controlling him.]

When you say it like that, how can I say no?

[accusatory]

There's always a choice to be made, Des.

[ but he's clearly made his ] Come with me. [ before he can protest or agree or move, her hand wraps around his arm, and there's a sudden bright light, and what he would swear to god was the sudden sound and texture of wings beating, although all he sees is a strange iridescent darkness against the light for a moment.

and then they're no longer in the bathroom. WHERE COULD THEY BEEEEEEEEEE ]