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[likedillinger]

♬ Freaks - The Hawk in Paris

WHO || Dean Winchester, Rose, Damon, Archer, Helen, Wynn
WHAT || Doppelhunt 2014
WHERE || On the trail of Kyplena
WHEN || June 9th, onwards  [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

The first twenty-four hours of searching yielded no results, in the hunt for Elena and the escaped doppelganger Kyp.  Most consider it not worth keeping up the search when both of them are capable of vanishing into literally any crowd, but Wynn isn't so quick to give up.  To that end, he's hired monster hunter Dean Winchester to work with a special team in trying to track them down.  A few other Knights familiar with Elena are invited along to the mini briefing, where Wynn and Dean already wait.

Comments

[littledhampir]

[Yep that succeeds in slowing Rose's ass down cause she sure was just getting up. (What is patience?!) Her knee goes back to bouncing and she turns her attention to the front of the room, showing how seriously she takes this when she doesn't take the opportunity to make a crack about a Lumberjacks convention.]

[mydesigns]

[awww wynn-sempai so kind. ｡◕‿◕｡ will stands in front of them and starts to lecture like he's talking to a class basically. (he would have to make eye contact with anyone ever to be aware that damon was rolling his eyes. good thing he … doesn't.)]

This is a bit unusual for me in that [it's not a serial killer] we're tracking someone who was already imprisoned. Kyp didn't care about the things he'd done, nor what could happen to him because of it. He didn't even think of them as crimes, really — just doing what was in his nature as a doppelganger. He has the behaviors of a textbook narcissist, but … slanted. Off. Inhuman. Understandably. I think being locked up was getting to him, just as it might anyone, but he wasn't making any attempts to escape.

Now, this is a person without any connections, except for Elena. He borrows the affections that belong to other people, then moves on as it suits him. Elena's family was here, and she obviously can't come back. I still think it stands to reason that he may try to contact his previous employers if resources that he can't get via simple identity theft become an issue.

[littledhampir]

[Rose looks a little surprised by what Will is saying, surprised and then maybe just quietly pleased (Look she's not used to getting stuff right okay ;; ) before speaking up.]

Do you think there's a chance he'll move on from Elena too? [A beat.] Or hurt her if she doesn't behave the way he wants her to?

[mydesigns]

[a bit grimly, because he knows this first part probably isn't what rose is going to want to hear] I think him moving on is … incredibly unlikely. Doppelgangers are rare. He probably viewed finding someone so much like himself akin to winning the lottery. And I don't know if he would physically hurt her. Guys like him, as I've come to understand him, tend to be more mental or emotional abusers. He would probably just manipulate her into complying with him.

[littledhampir]

[Rose manages to keep perfectly still at Will's response, offering only a nod in reply as she keeps her thoughts and feelings on his answer locked behind a steely mask. (Will Save Nat 20)] Got it.

[unforgivably]

[ Damon wavers only slightly (Will Save 13), reacting to 'emotional abusers.' It's possible he could've been categorized into that at one time. Emotional. Physical. But, this is Elena, and this is a new start. Nobody knows him here. ] So, you're saying he's a textbook narcissist with a fixation on Elena because he sees her as a kindred spirit. [ When she's just a changeling. ] Do any research on changelings there, professor?

[mydesigns]

[will notices damon's reaction (spot 33), but doesn't do anything besides make a mental note of it.] I'm saying he's similar to a textbook narcissist. I saw mentions of changelings when I was looking into doppelgangers, but I wouldn't consider myself well-versed. [knowledge: arcane lore 11]

[unforgivably]

[ he connects what will's telling him to what he remembers from his own research (wis 13) ] I researched doppelgangers, too, can I address the class? Play TA? [ not that he's going to wait to get an answer ] Because, doppelgangers seek out connection. They want to belong. He's found whatever he thinks is one in Elena because he doesn't know she's a changeling. [ that's what it sounds like, anyway. ] Kyp's a bad guy, I'm not disputing that. But, I also read that doppelgangers fall more neutral. It's the "racial norm." [ another second as he addresses the group ] Did you ever find out why he impersonated [ wisdom 13, give him a second ] Spike and Myri?

[mydesigns]

[ youths. he pinches the bridge of his nose] How do you know she's a changeling? I wasn't debating whether Kyp's behavior was right or wrong or what direction his moral compass points. [and then he'll just ... answer damon's question. he probably knows from his hella high gather info roll when he was profiling kyp???? if i have to make another, it's 15.] He was infiltrating the Knights, with the added bonus of ample opportunities to be close to Elena. [which he certainly took but even will graham has more tact than that. IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.]

[likedillinger]

Maybe he's looking for a mate. [ yeah, dean has none of that tact. ]

Changelings are still genetically similar to doppelgangers, since they're the children of one. Like he said, they're rare, and he might consider it the closest he's gonna find to a pureblood.

Every species tries to propagate.

[littledhampir]

It fits. [Will Save 20 total to not suffer Rose rage and instead stare very pointedly at the table.

Lifting her gaze to Will.] Do you think he has it in him? To kill?

[mydesigns]

It does. [he nods at dean's explanation. and then, to rose:] I think anyone has it in them to kill if the circumstances present themselves.

[littledhampir]

Yeah but... for sport. For gain. For something other than life or death or is he too much of a coward to do the dirty work himself?

[mydesigns]

I think he would rather play mind games than resort to murder right off the bat. For better or for worse. But if you provoked him enough, in the right way — through Elena — I wouldn't be surprised if he lashed out with violence.

[likedillinger]

I've tangled with these things before. Some of these sons of bitches don't think twice about offing people, since all we are is disposable and inferior to 'em.

[unforgivably]

Would that include Elena?

[daredtobelieve]

We're better off assuming that he would kill her, given the opportunity. Assuming anything less could risk her life even further.

[likedillinger]

By people, I mean anyone he doesn't see as one of his kind.

[mydesigns]

[he looks back and forth between everyone talking like idek why i'm still here.... where is jack crawford to yell at ppl to shut up for him tbh.] She's not going to be much use as a doppelganger incubator to him if he kills her. [/keepin it real.]

[daredtobelieve]

I think that's quite enough of that.

[littledhampir]

[Rose shifts uncomfortably in her seat but manages little more than a dark look and clenching of fists.]

Are we done? [Tone indicating that she is at least.]

[mydesigns]

If there are no more questions. [no fucks were given this day.]

[unforgivably]

I think it's safe to say you've been dismissed, Prof. [ because with a will save of 25, he hasn't thrown something, sped up to will and assaulted him. shut him up like someone should. ]

[wynn]

Thank you, Sir Graham. That will be all.

[mydesigns]

[he nods at wynn. peace out bizznatches it's been real.]