宗方京助 // Kyousuke Munakata (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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starhuevalley2018-06-24 02:40 pm
deathisanopendoor) wrote in starhuevalley2018-06-24 02:40 pm
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[Wherever you may be—at home on your farm, out and about in town, exploring the wildlife, or perhaps even wandering through the more dangerous areas—someone has come to approach you, seemingly patrolling the area with a confident stride.]
Excuse me. I wanted to inform you that I have assumed the position of Sheriff. My name is Munakata, first name Kyousuke, and I can be contacted under that name at any time if you have issues that require police intervention. If you are capable of taking care of yourself I encourage you to apply for a position under me. We could use greater numbers to enforce order.
[Kyousuke himself is white-haired and imposing, with large snowy owl wings on his back and feathers covering the area where his right eye should be, like so. He is visibly carrying a sword, with another one tucked hidden in his coat in a compact state. He doesn't give off the impression that he's going to be a very easygoing Sheriff... but at least if you're in danger, that might be reassuring?]
Do you have any further questions or suggestions?
Excuse me. I wanted to inform you that I have assumed the position of Sheriff. My name is Munakata, first name Kyousuke, and I can be contacted under that name at any time if you have issues that require police intervention. If you are capable of taking care of yourself I encourage you to apply for a position under me. We could use greater numbers to enforce order.
[Kyousuke himself is white-haired and imposing, with large snowy owl wings on his back and feathers covering the area where his right eye should be, like so. He is visibly carrying a sword, with another one tucked hidden in his coat in a compact state. He doesn't give off the impression that he's going to be a very easygoing Sheriff... but at least if you're in danger, that might be reassuring?]
Do you have any further questions or suggestions?
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The local government's, and my own. I don't anticipate that the two will deviate much, but I won't pretend to you that I will ignore injustice in the moment, if it happens to not be covered by the law of the land.
[Sometimes Kyousuke has a habit of being overly honest, when he could just keep his mouth shut about hypothetical situations that will probably never happen. But no, he prioritizes full disclosure over putting people at ease, for better or worse.]
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That might be more reassuring if I hadn't seen terrible mistakes made in the name of carrying out justice more times than I would like.
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...I have made such mistakes.
I am not in the habit of reassuring people. My talent is not reassurance, but results. That said...
[There is another long pause. How does he even address this with a stranger? Saying she has nothing to worry about is dishonest when he himself is worrying about it. A dramatic pledge to take his own life rather than repeat such a mistake would be the wrong choice and he unfortunately knows it. If he really does care about this, it can't just be dismissed, or waved away with the idea that he "won't do it again" when he isn't actually making a clear and specific change to his leadership style.
He eventually starts focusing his eye on her, less caught up in his own world, and looking her over closely, evaluating.]
What mistakes have you seen, more specifically?
sorry for the wait!
...Not to sound overdramatic, but "what haven't I seen" is perhaps the question with a shorter answer, at this point. But, for examples... on the smaller scale, an elderly woman bullied by a member of the police because she might know the location of a monster that had been sighted nearby.
On the larger...
[ mulling it over for a moment. how to even summarize that tangled mess... ]
I've seen someone beheaded for voicing concern over what was otherwise a consensus decision for how to handle a potential threat to our community, to prevent them from changing our minds or sabotaging our choice. ...They turned out to be right, too— not that it matters.
i forgot to edit the subject line but i'm also late so
I see. And in these situations, did you intervene, or is your position on these matters different in retrospect? What would you suggest as the best alternative courses of action for the police and for the community, considering their priorities at the time?
[ He sounds almost like he's putting her through a job interview—which he is, in a sense. It's not like there's a single right answer, but this is a demonstration of how much she's engaged with solutions for these problems. If she's never thought about things from that perspective before... Well, he'd still be interested in comparing outlooks with her, but just knowing what one shouldn't do isn't as helpful as having an insightful perspective on what one should do. The latter is what he'd find worth paying a consultation fee for. ]
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he has no idea how big of a landmine he just stepped on— she has to bite down hard on the inside of her cheek to trap the laugh that wants to claw its way out of her throat. yes, she'd intervened for her grandmother.
there hasn't been a moment since where she hasn't wished she hadn't. ]
... I intervened in both cases, though I wouldn't say I was successful either time. I was too late to do much for the latter aside from a brief attempt to repay in kind before I attended to the victim. ...No real alternate action could have been taken, given that it was the sudden act of a lone extremist; the only possible address was restitution rather than prevention.
[ her tone had already been deliberately detached— but here she pauses and takes a breath before switching to the kind of too-steady control that all but screams how very much it wouldn't be without significant effort going into it. ]
As for the first... it's enough to say that intervening made the situation far worse than it would have been otherwise. I... could have wished that they would have approached my grandmother in good faith and then listened to her, but... from what I remember of the incident their actions after that weren't incorrect.
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He doesn't know what to do with this realization. For now, he decides to at least set aside the job interview routine and have the discussion normally. (Does he even know how to have a normal conversation?!)]
...I see.
—You attended to the victim of a beheading?
[Stupid, he tells himself; he's experienced the impermanence of death in a few different ways now, so it's not implausible that something could be done more immediately. But it seems like the easiest question for him to go to next if he's trying to be tactful. He finds it curious that she seems more upset by the incident that she said was lesser of an abuse, and that she doesn't even seem to disagree with the officers' goals and most of their actions... but he stops himself from asking about that. And he stops himself from lecturing about the preemptive steps to be taken to suppress lone extremists, especially because he himself was unsuccessful with that one. So, here's what he's asking instead, even though it's conspicuously divergent from his initial subject of interest.]