for this bonus round, the theme is competition! pretty open-ended, prompts that are about some sort of competition! this round will end on july 31st!
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FILL: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY
Date: 2024-07-23 02:00 pm (UTC)"Mm. Sorry, babe," and Sara Berry pulls away from her boyfriend, hair somehow still perfectly intact: "I'm not really feeling it today."
"Aww," says the boyfriend, leaning back and running his hand through his hair. It has not survived as well as Sara's. "Are you okay, darling? You've been…"
"I'm fine," Sara snaps. The spike in audio makes Julie's headphones buzz with static for a second; instead of pulling them off she leans forward, trying to analyze Sara's expression on the live surveillance camera footage. There was a flash of anger there, Julie's certain, but it's gone as fast as it came. "I mean… I've just been stressed lately, Adam. Sorry. You know how being student representative is."
"If you say so," the boyfriend says reluctantly.
Julie smiles to herself. She knows how being student representative is. She's the only person who tied with Sara on the entrance exam.
"And I definitely have homework to do still," Sara says, biting her lip. "Sorry. I wish I could spend more time with you…"
"It's fine," says the boyfriend. "I get it. Just… let's hang out sometime, yeah? Properly?"
"Of course," Sara says, batting her eyes at him.
Julie leans back while they say their goodbyes and considers the girl on her screen. Sara Berry. Eighteen-year-old girl genius, popular, attractive, loving boyfriend, plus a rich family — well, rich father, anyway. Absolutely and utterly perfect.
Julie has her serial killer. She's sure of it.
The door closes with a click behind Sara; Julie's fingers dance over the keyboard, switching main perspective to cameras #56 and #58, and —
Sara is staring directly at her.
If she were anyone else, Julie would have startled. But she is J, greatest detective in the world, so she leans closer.
Sara's eyes are glacier blue and flinty with rage. She swipes a hand through her waves of blonde hair, fixing some infinitesimal flaw that Julie hadn't even noticed, then clenches her fist.
"What's wrong, Sara?" Julie says. Can't resist, really, even though Sara can't hear.
"I know you're watching," Sara hisses. "Who the hell are you?"
I'll be the one to bring them your head on a platter, Julie thinks but does not say. She is meant to be objective about this. Not that she's been all that good at objectivity recently.
Sara keeps staring for a moment, then turns away with a huff. There's an apple near her feet; she kicks it, apparently at random, into the only blind corner Julie's cameras have, less than ten square centimeters large. Interesting.
"Whatever," Sara mutters. "I have homework to do."
Julie chews on her thumb. Sara, ever-perfect, stays true to her word: she pulls out her math notebook from her backpack and starts scribbling.
A minute ticks by. Then two. The silence is practically deafening. Sara resolutely does not look in Julie's direction again.
Julie leans back and stares at the ceiling.
Q: Why did Sara Berry tell J that she knew about the cameras in her room?
A: There is no way for J (me) to utilize her knowledge of the cameras as proof that she is Kira. She could claim that she found out from her father, despite the recent strains in their relationship that they are both attempting to conceal; Richard Berry does not practice particularly safe cybersecurity protocol. I will have to bring up the matter at work (though I am, of course, always at work). She could also have noticed on her own, given her tendency towards paranoia — she could have killed the other candidates for student representative through heart attack, but instead she meticulously researched several obscure methods of suicide to make it look as though they had been attacked by another, thus successfully hiding the fact that Kira killed them from afar. No one knows that Kira was behind the Wittermore High murders. No one except me.
Of course, this is all assuming that Sara is Kira. There is every possibility that she is an ordinary young woman — charismatic, conventionally attractive, and brilliant beyond belief, but still ordinary — reacting to hidden surveillance cameras in an ordinary-young-woman sort of way.
The probability that Sara Berry is Kira is 5%.
The probability that Sara Berry is Kira is 100%.
Julie opens her eyes again and watches Sara stretch and eat a potato chip. (The no-fat kind. Why would she do that to herself?)
"Kira."
Sara doesn't look at her. Of course not; the audio is one-way. She can't hear Julie at all.
"What's your move?" Julie murmurs.
She watches Sara bite her lip. Watches her eyebrows furrow as she scribbles another equation, no doubt in perfect cursive.
Oh well. Julie stretches herself, pops a sugar cube into her mouth.
Tomorrow is her first day of university. She can't wait to see what Sara's face looks like when she finds out there was another student representative after all.
this is sort of a weird homage to the fact that i first heard the ballad of sara berry through this death note animatic which remains the single best death note animatic i've ever watched
Re: FILL: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY
Date: 2024-07-26 11:16 am (UTC)Re: FILL: TEAM ACE ATTORNEY
Date: 2024-07-27 03:27 am (UTC)AHHH THANK YOU!!!! and oh my god that's insane i've literally watched that hurricane animatic… people will see Absolutely Perfect Teenagers Who Also Do Murder Sometimes Maybe A Lot and go is anyone going to animate that and not wait for an answer
(also a little bit of shameless self-promo but i did write more sara/julie for bonus round 1…)