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

[65]

[wtf r u doing on his balcony. that is all finnick can think as he stares at him before replying] I don't smoke.

[lawofsurvival]

This might be a good time to start.

[65]

What does that even mean? [he is too drunk for this shit tbh.]

[lawofsurvival]

It soothes the nerves. [ he offers one out of the pack ]

[65]

[ukw, whatever. he'll try it. it's not like lung cancer could make his life any worse /melodrama. he takes a cigarette.] I thought you needed a light, though.

[lawofsurvival]

[ he snaps his fingers and the end of the cigarette leaps with a small flame. ] Well, I wasn't going to use magic if there was one around.

[65]

Oh. Well. Thanks. [this is so weird. he would probably feel more stranger danger vibes from jaka if he had any fucks left to give right now, but so far his fucks field is still barren. idk i decided to roll wis to see if he'd end up choking to death on his cigarette like sandy from grease or not and he got a nat 20, so i guess he's just that good.]

[lawofsurvival]

[ jaka lights his own as well, taking a long drag, and exhaling over the balcony edge ] The trial should be over soon. What will you and your merry band do then?

[65]

[in a voice that sounds utterly exhausted] Go back to England, I guess? I don't know.

[lawofsurvival]

[ he looks casually across the cityscape, a view that's burned into finnick's brain by now ] Back to your Knighthood?

[65]

[he tilts his head to look up at jaka so sloooowly] You know about that?

[FOR THE FIRST TIME HE CONSIDERS HOW MUCH HE'S BEEN DRINKING RECENTLY.]

[lawofsurvival]

[ jaka shrugs ] Your compatriots have seen fit to inform me of everything that might be of use to me on this case. [ a sinister smile ] It would have been terrible for these things to emerge on their own, after all, as a surprise to me.

[65]

Of course. [he shrugs, the initial surprise wearing off in 5 seconds flat.] Have to be ready for anything. No surprises. [he takes another drag from his cigarette.] Unless they're ones you engineer.

[it's not bitchy or judgmental comment, ftr, just an observation.]

[lawofsurvival]

A wise philosophy, indeed. I'm surprised your... employer couldn't do more to secure Giovanni's release, if it were so important to your cause.

[65]

He's not one of us. We only look out for our own. [or at least, that's how finnick came to understand it...]

[lawofsurvival]

[ he chuckles ] How delightfully ruthless.

[65]

Is it? [he shrugs, apparently not bothered by jaka's observation. or ... his glee.]

[lawofsurvival]

Most of your kind aren't so honest about what's merely the natural order of things.

[65]

I have a lot of experience in the "natural order of things." [allegiances are how the hunger games are played — if you're smart. it's just another instance of his old life bleeding into the new one.] And we're still here for him, even if we aren't providing the legal assistance.

[lawofsurvival]

I wonder why that is, exactly.

[65]

Why what?

[lawofsurvival]

Why you would bother, when he isn't one of your own.

[65]

[he takes another drag from his cigarette.] I think there's a degree of emotional loyalty involved.

[lawofsurvival]

You think? [ a drag ] You don't sound particularly convinced.

[65]

They aren't my emotions.