#Flow Detection

[vanecoded]

If you want to be a dog, you must learn to believe that you are not in fact a dog at all.

Sources: petshopbutch | More and More, Margaret Atwood | Roadkill, Searows | Little Beast, Richard Siken | How to Be a Dog, Andrew Kane | Let Dead Dogs Lie, silas denver melvin | For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick

Inspired by [X].

[idliketobeatree]

to Charles, an Edwin Payne poem.

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Ok, I think I have a pretty good idea of why a lot of Akechi's dialogue is... like that.

So, even before his confidant truly started, I noticed that he has a real knack for directing the flow of a conversation. This is very fitting for someone who is both a detective and skilled at interviews - when there is a topic and a goal, Akechi is in his element.

All this to say, he's actually kind of controlling when it comes to conversational flow. He probes for information, or turns the conversation around to a particular topic, usually the Phantom Thieves. He manages to take a few of Joker's dialogue options and spin them so they sound mildly incriminating in the context he's placed them in - the only way to truly get around this is to pick answers that feign indifference, and even then, that's more than a bit telling. He's clearly very good at this kind of thing.

But then, we get conversations where either Joker does something he didn't expect, or else he doesn't have a particular goal in mind - and the conversation stutters. In the first instance, Joker does something (a particularly egregious example is putting his glasses on him and fluffing his hair in rank 3) which both leaves him wrong-footed and no longer in perfect control of the situation. He just kind of... freezes, for awhile. It's hilarious. He has no idea how to respond.

He picks up control again in the phone call afterwards, having chosen to play into it, turning this "fooling the crowds" into a kind of game or secret between them. Nice save.

But in instances where there isn't an obvious topic and the goal is somewhat nebulous, for instance, that one Leblanc scene, it becomes pretty apparent that Akechi doesn't have the right "script" to go off of. Again, it's particularly notable in that scene, because I'm fairly sure he didn't have any specific reason to be at Leblanc, other than him looking for a quiet spot now that public opinion has turned on him. And because there isn't anything specific he's digging for, he kind of just ends up throwing things at the wall to see what will stick. Probing for any kind of recognizable reaction that he can jump on and work with, and that just doesn't really happen in this scene.

He references Sae, a woman in a respectable position, to Sojiro, but instead of that netting a welcome, it earns his ire, given Sae's recent actions against him. He then tries to greet Joker, his... rival? friend? enemy? person who at least seems to somewhat enjoy spending time with him? But Joker's responses are somewhat short, and Akechi practically wilts. He tries to commiserate by oversharing. He tries to involve Futaba and reaches out for the only topic of interest he can think of around "young people". He compliments the coffee. He compliments Joker. He tries to invoke that connection between them. None of it is really sticking, nor does it serve as a jumping off point for him to steer the conversation, or even really start one.

So, he basically just ends up having a one-sided chat with himself and then leaves. Hilarious. Also a little sad, if I'm being honest. It's really giving "guy with no friends who only knows how to speak to adults" energy. If there's no specific purpose to the exchange, or he is not in control of its direction, he seems to be kind of out of his depth. He succeeds only in being a little awkward and confusing, more than anything.

[scuddmudmuffin]

ummm au where mark hoffman isn't an apprentice but he is obsessed with the jigsaw case and and and umm he really really thinks lawrence is guilty but he can't prove it because he's just a guy and does minimal work as jigsaw and and and lawrence is really smug about it and yeah i tjink that would be cool ok bye love you

[mutalieju]

[sorrinslays]

What I am about to propose is very self indulged and a dynamic just for me, but

I really want to see a quest where it's just Black Swan, Gallagher, Mr. Reca and Sampo.

[l-llavellans]

OC Vibe Game: Sydney Greene

@tevivinter read my mind and knew i had too many of these made and needed to share them (thank you again for the tag friend 🫶) and i couldn’t decide between another wayhaven one and a dragon age one so i did both 🤭 this one is for my wayhaven detective sydney greene !

i posted my dragon age one here :)

i know a lot of you have done this multiple times and i don’t want to keep you in an endless loop of tags but if you’re reading this id love to see more of your ocs !! asap!!!! 🫵

[ibuprofentablets]

There were many things Charles missed from being alive. He missed his mums homemade food, her steamy pilau with red hot spices. He missed running out of breath, the thrilling sting in his lungs after hitting a six. He missed smells, the tell-tale nicotine poison that permeated the streets. He missed hugs, real hugs. He missed the piercing cold London winter that rendered his fingers and toes numb. He missed standing in the rain, feeling the heavy droplets poke holes into his skin. It was funny. The things that he missed about life the most was what killed him.

[artsyaprilmr]

We are gonna get married on this roof, Morgan, with the amount of emotionally vulnerable moments we've had here

[hellsite-detective]

hi detective, can you find the color theory red hospital post? thank youuu

trackin' this one proved to be a bit harder than i initially anticipated. see, i knew the exact post i was lookin' for. with it bein' a famous post, i knew exactly where to look too. so i took a stroll downtown to Madame Curator's shinin' exhibition hall of cursed artifacts. however, pokin' around in there, i couldn't find what i wanted. odd, considerin' i knew she had posted this one. must be the shifting labyrinthine design of the museum playin' tricks on me. but i decided to move on anyway.

headin' down to the Search Bar, i approached Google to ask for a bit of help with this one. however, they could smell the void on me. and they were none too pleased...

"What's this? You thought you could just come crawlin' back here with your tail between your legs after takin' your business to that big shot in that ivory museum?"

"can it, Don."

i told them i could take my business to that hot-headed upstart, Firefox. or that old money kingpin, Internet Explorer. they immediately perked up.

"Hey, hey! Now, you know I was kiddin', right? We're all pals here, c'mon!"

i scoffed and asked them for what i came here for, that bein' "tumblr color theory hospital." they handed me a screenshot with no questions asked, and i started searchin' addresses. they were all turnin' up blank so i went back to Google and asked they what they was playin' at. they were scared at this point, i had them right where i wanted them. they then handed over a link to the post i wanted. a bit of reverse engineerin' of the reblogs got me what i wanted. save for one final reblog in the chain. i reiterated my request, askin' specifically for that final post to be included. finally, they handed over what i wanted. i grabbed it and filed it away.

here's your post! a bit of a long storied journey today, but that's what happens in this city sometimes. have a great day!

Post Case: Closed

[raifuujin]

Anyone else feel like Kaito is almost becoming a secondary character in his own manga due to the heists slowly becoming DC clones of figuring out the tricks going on instead of just letting the heist happen and staying within Kaito's perspective.

[pixelatedraindrops]

RainCode Possible Planned SickFic MasterList:

It is unknown when I will start writing these nor if I will write them all, but I will try to get some of them done at some point this year! The order also doesn’t matter. This is just a planned list! Nothing here is final aside of the last fic on the list!

(SOME DO CONTAIN HEAVY SPOILERS SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK ⛔️ !)

Shattered Resolve (A Home Is Where The Heart Is Alternate Ending)-

What if Yuma got worse instead of better? And it shakes Yakou’s resolve to go through with the sacrifice/murder plan that he had in mind?

type: oneshot

Kanai Ward’s Not So Comforting Food-

Yuma gets food poisoning after eating a meat bun. Though his mind forgot, his body KNOWS something is VERY wrong with the food.

type: oneshot

A Sick Day for the NDA-

Sequel fic to Under the Weather; where everyone else in the agency catches Yuma’s cold. And a now healthier Yuma has to care for them all by himself.

type: unknown

I Can Always Rely On You (KokoWendy)-

During an investigation between the Detective and Informant, Yuma gets sick and Kurumi returns him to safety to care for him. But after Yuma gets better, Kurumi catches what Yuma had, and it’s worse. Yuma repays the favor by caring for her. And he finds out he cares a lot more for her than he thought.

type: two-parter/chapter

The Chilled Trainee-

Yuma gets put into an icy fridge for a while by peacekeepers until the NDA comes to his rescue. But by the time they return to base, he starts to suffer from hypothermia. The agency does what they can to keep him warm.

type: unknown

Truth Behind the Mask Under an Unfortunate Circumstance-

AU where Yuma finds out the truth to Makoto’s identity (and everything about Kanai Ward) sooner due to the masked individual collapsing on him from exhaustion, and his mask comes off.

type: oneshot

A Heartwarming Reunion (MakoYuma)- DONE

Postgame Fic where Makoto becomes almost dangerously ill due to overworking with no rest while already being sick. And a more serious Ex.Number One Yuma struggles to try and take care of him. He uses his memories of when the NDA cared for him before to help guide him. Finale Fic to the Sickfics of the Heart Saga.

type: multi-chapter

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Note: For the fics I have that include ship names, it will be very platonic/tame as I’m not really into romance as a genre. But it will likely still be sweet enough for shippers to enjoy c:

But yeah this is a list for me to possibly attempt whenever!

Figured I’d at least have these written down.

Lmk which ones interest you or have your attention if you want to c:

(and who knows I may get even more ideas later in the year… xD)

[babesies]

life update: have gotten really into knitting or playing sudoku while listening to this 1920s detective series

[mothiidae]

ever since coming up with the raincode roleswap, this convo has been in my head! i think its funny :)

[archersgoon]

theres this bit in main series where abian's like celie's being reckless bc she's worried as fuck about froi & obviously you can make the argument that this is yet another misunderstanding of celie but i think the implication in main series and ferragost is that abian has the highest immunity to that problem so you'd think she'd be at least partially correct. but then you read ferragost. and celie does not give a fuckkkkk about that boy. like he's mia in charyn & she's like oh haha yeah my brothers back home (including him). which makes sense in the context of dialogue but it's the same internally

[almostheav4n]

thinking about Joel Miller set in a southern gothic background