Miulei
Witch/Sorcerer
To be trapped in your own personal Hell...
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Post by Miulei on Feb 27, 2017 14:25:46 GMT
Fushimi didn't want to be here. He really didn't want to be here. But after being tasked to uncover more facts about the incident on Ayashima, he had little choice. The author known as Tobirano Tengoku was the only lead there was at this point. He'd written multiple accounts of how events at Ayashima had unfolded, though whether any of them were the truth - and if so, which one - was unknown. What was known was that there was a certain consistency in the characterization of those that died on Ayashima throughout all of them. The kind of consistency that could only be written by someone who had known the people.
Finding the forgery writer hadn't been easy though. Very few people knew his identity, and fewer still were willing to share that information. It had taken a lot of digging. If this ended up not yielding results, Fushimi was going to be very upset, more upset than his current state. Taking in a deep breath and then letting it all out in a sign of resignation and knocking hard on the door three times, waiting for the man called Rohan Kishibe to answer.
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Post by LadyEvatrice on Feb 27, 2017 18:11:31 GMT
The one thing Rohan wanted to do was not answer the door, since he assumed it was his editor coming to get the preview for his new Golden Witch series, since he already met with his editor for Pink Dark Boy for the week. He was planning to have a day to himself and maybe even get some more research material for the next Golden Witch novel by properly leaving the house. After the third loud knock, though, the manga artist threw open the door with a exasperated "I'm almost done with the script--oh crap, you're not my editor."
He tried to decompose himself and with a bitter laugh, stepped aside to let this stranger in his house. "My apologies. I thought you were my editor. But you don't look like a Dark Pink Boy fan... so you must be one of the people who deduced that I, Kishibe Rohan, am Tobirano Tengoku, I assume? I usually schedule appointments for that, but if you want answers about Ayashima, I'm happy to discuss my works."
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Miulei
Witch/Sorcerer
To be trapped in your own personal Hell...
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Post by Miulei on Feb 28, 2017 1:02:40 GMT
Fushimi looked the other man up and down for a brief moment before replying. "Saruhiko Fushimi. I'm with Scepter 4, assigned to the investigation of the Ayashima incident. Thanks for meeting with me." Not that he had given Rohan much of a choice. He'd figured by simply showing up rather than trying to make an appointment, he could just get it done with rather than have to get approved for an appointment at all first. If Rohan hadn't answered the door, he'd been prepared to pester him until he did.
He stepped inside when Rohan moved aside to allow him and sighed, looking around the interior of the house to avoid having to make eye contact. "You weren't easy to find, Tobirano Tengoku. But hopefully our talk will make the effort at least a little worth my while."
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Post by LadyEvatrice on Feb 28, 2017 5:14:13 GMT
"I'm not be surprised that the government is investigating Ayashima, but rather, I'm more amused that they finally came around to interrogating me about it. And you can just call me Rohan, since you know who I really am... Fushimi-san." Rohan led the other man to his drawing room, choosing to sit on his desk. "I'm generally a busy man, but you happened to catch me at a good time, excusing my outburst directed at my Golden Witch editor." That series of his was, however personal, not his main one, and if people had to wait a whole year for a new Golden Witch series because he was busy gathering information for it, well, that sounded like a personal issue. Dark Pink Boy took priority over it.
The point of the matter was, this other man had deciphered his identity as Tobirano Tengoku (he really did like that Bob Dylan song), and he was looking for answers. "As most people investigating Ayashima want to know... 'How do you have such life-like details, as if you were there, Rohan-sensei?' My answer is, simply, that like any good artist and writer, I do my research. I talk with survivors of the disaster, I get records of what the deceased were like before the tragedy... it's what elevates a story with two-dimensional people with demons and the like to a life-like portrayal." He rested his head in his hand. "The level of research I put into my tales... is what elevates my stories above the other forgeries out there, that element of truth."
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Miulei
Witch/Sorcerer
To be trapped in your own personal Hell...
Posts: 30
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Post by Miulei on Feb 28, 2017 15:29:40 GMT
"Kishibe-san, then." Fushimi had only ever called two people by their first names, and that wasn't likely to change anytime soon. "Mostly, the supernatural elements have people brushing off your... as you call them 'forgeries'. But there aren't a lot of leads, as I'm sure you know." The tragedy had left few alive and their testimonies were fractured at best. He got what he could from them, but he wasn't sure how much of it would be helpful.
Following the author into his drawing room, Fushimi chose to stand by the door, arms folded. "I had figured you were in touch with survivors and their families. That much is obvious. That isn't what I came to ask you." Rohan certainly seemed confident in his work. Considering the amount of work he must have put into it, Fushimi could understand why, but considering this was a man who was writing and publishing false accounts of a real tragedy that left so many dead... something just didn't sit right.
"I actually came to ask you about Eli Ayase, the Golden Witch." He finally made and held eye contact with the other man. Fushimi disliked looking at people if he didn't have to, but he was in Rohan's house and figured he should follow at least the basic rules of social interaction. "A person that shouldn't exist on Ayashima, but she plays an important role in all of your stories. There's a lot of speculation about who she is or what she represents, but no one knows for sure. No one except you, Kishibe-san."
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Post by LadyEvatrice on Mar 4, 2017 2:19:34 GMT
To him, it sounded like a personal problem if nobody took the time to search through the nuances of his work and discover the truth. So what if it was pretentious as hell to flaunt the fact he knew the truth and tell it in a convoluted tale? He still knew the truth and everybody wanted to know it. "Of course there aren't any leads to go on that most haven't already exhausted, save my tales. They all contain at least one grain of truth, whether people like it or not." And, to be fair, he had a bit of a leg up on the truth over others, since he had an ancestor connected to Ayashima and there was the whole knowing Otonashi-san before she became a missing person.
Rohan's other hand brushed up against a notebook-one of the few things he was able to recover after the incident related to his lost friend, and as promised, she had detailed notes. Primarily, though, a lot of his ability to portray the people as they were came from his witch ability to converse with the pieces, but magic clearly wasn't going to be an explanation that would fly with Fushimi-san. Sure, the magic veneer he put in his tales was over the top, but he was a shonen artist, after all. Better to be extra than too subtle, he always thought.
He could tell that the other man was probably not pleased with him, and mentally added "Get in line," but just proceeded to grin like a child who knew he had done wrong. "Finding the witch, or rather, the person behind the witch... that's what you wish to expose, I presume? Exposing the secret that Eli Ayase-san wants hidden?" Rohan asked. The phrasing he chose briefly reminded him of Otonashi, and he shook that thought off. "Well, I will put to rest any sort of idea that I am Eli Ayase-san, if such rumors exist. I'm not even a bit Russian. Nor have I ever physically met with the person behind Eli Ayase-san before, during, or after the tragedy, so I am no accomplice to her ritualistic killing. I can guarantee that at the very least. My great grandfather, though... rumor has it that long ago, as a mere painter on the island of Ayashima... he was acquainted with the girl behind the witch... to the point that his work was the portrait in the main mansion."
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Miulei
Witch/Sorcerer
To be trapped in your own personal Hell...
Posts: 30
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Post by Miulei on Mar 10, 2017 4:53:19 GMT
This guy was more obnoxious than Fushimi had hoped he'd be. Of course, he had figured a guy flaunting his knowledge of the truth of the tragedy without actually divulging it would be an annoying guy, but how pretentious could you be to not even flinch when someone practically confronts you with that fact? He clicked his tongue in annoyance. "A grain of truth in the middle of a pile of lies then? That's classy," Fushimi muttered, voice laced with as much sarcasm as he could muster (which wasn't much and he just ended up sounding really bored).
"So, then, at the very least, you admit that Eli Ayase is based on an actual existing person?" Fushimi asked, finally having broken eye contact with Rohan in favor of looking in his general direction but more at the notebook he was holding than at him directly. "Someone who, at that time, existed on the island of Ayashima, whether they were one of the dead, one of the survivors, or some other, unaccounted for person?"
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Post by LadyEvatrice on Mar 10, 2017 14:59:55 GMT
"My methods of revealing the truth may be dickish, but being of a creative mind like Eli-san myself, one can only assume that she wanted such a convoluted truth to make sure that her heart wasn't torn apart and stomped on by assholes who felt like exposing the truth for truth's sake, ala the way my deceased acquaintance intended to do as such." Some may consider it unsavory to speak of the dead the way Rohan just did, but he knew his deceased stalker would have found it to be a compliment. "I've even heard rumors that Eli-san had intended to release tales of her murders before the massacre happened."
He gripped tightly to Ryouko's notebook, catching some sort of notion that Fushimi's eyes were drawn to it. "Eli Ayase-san indeed was a living person, at one point in time or another, that much is true. Because she practiced a type of trickery that could be seen as something inhumane on an ordinary glance, she called herself a witch." He took a step towards Fushimi, holding the book over half his face like a mask. "There exist a few notebooks from the detectives on that island, but the only one unreleased to the public is my own personal memento of a lost acquaintance: Ryouko Otonashi-san's notebook," Rohan said with a particularly unfriendly smile. "Were I to put it in terms within my story, Ryouko-san's notebook-except for anything pertaining to me in it-is such a particularly unbiased account of her time on the island up to the end, that it would be considered Red Truth."
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