hoping for a last-minute miracle
This year, I participated in @fyeahghosttrick's Ghost Swap! I wrote for @laughingmango, and used the following prompt: "Any sort of what-if with the detectives". Technically also sort of falls into the prompt with Cabanela/Jowd h/c, but this is (mostly) gen with hints of subtext.
Rating: T (very light cursing; death/violence)
Word Count: 8504 (whoa!)
Summary:
The evidence is getting filed away tomorrow. After tonight...no more second chances. The force is giving up on Alma, and they'll have to give up too.
(AU: Alma's death has been a cold case for the last five years. Cabanela and Jowd, in charge of the Special Investigations Unit together, have one more night to solve the case before the evidence is filed away and it sinks to the bottom of priorities along with every other cold case...)
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Tonight is the last night they have to get any more information on Alma’s case. Cabanela thumbs open the file again. A locked-room murder. There had been a gun hanging on the wall that had gone off, somehow. There were no fingerprints on the gun. The ballistics matched the gun perfectly.
Jowd said that it wasn’t usually loaded. If Alma needed to use it, she could load it herself.
“Cabanela?” Jowd asks, voice rumbling. “Do you think it’s hopeless?”
“I don’t know,” he answers. “It’s not that simple, baby. These cases…they might not even be connected.”
“When the first case happened with the rocker…I thought…” Jowd sighs. “I thought there might have been hope. That we could find some answers.”
“There’s still something I want to investigate,” Cabanela says. “There’s a meeting going down tonight with a man that we both thought was dead.” He grabs a different file and slides it over to Jowd. “I’ve already dispatched some of the force to keep an eye on it.”
“...the Chicken Kitchen?” Jowd asks, looking over the file. “Who’d you send?”
“Detective Memry was planted undercover. Rindge is supposed to keep an eye on things from the outside. Iiiiiiiii like to think it’ll go well.”
“Lynne said she couldn’t be here tonight.” Jowd frowns. “She took the night off. Said she was meeting someone.”
“And just wheeeeere did that meeting happen to be?”
“She never said.” Jowd looks back up. “I’m worried about her, Cabanela. You know she’s never been the best at controlling her impulses. I could blame that one on you.”
“Oh, come on, baby, you were the one that was gonna turn himself in for a murder he didn’t commit.” Cabanela leans back in his chair. “Youuuuu just might be the impulsive one.”
“Well, I never,” Jowd answers, a smile on his face. Cabanela smiles in return — at least he’s managed to get a smile on his partner’s face. They’ve been few and far between since the events of five years ago — Jowd’s dedicated himself to investigating Alma’s death with the rigor of a swordsman.
“Inspector Cabanela?”
It’s the chief on the radio. What could he want with them?
“Chief, what’s wrong?”
“Case at the junkyard,” he answers. “Want you to supervise them.”
“Who’s on the team?” Jowd asks.
“I’ll go, baby,” Cabanela says. He shuts off the radio. “Keep an eye on things at Point X for me, yeah?”
“I will.” Jowd looks at him in a softly familiar way.
Yomiel. The body is undoubtedly his, just as much as the coroner is undoubtedly a fake. Cabanela can tell just by looking. The way people act portrays just who they are — he mostly applies that to himself, but that applies to other people too.
“Inspector!” Both detectives salute him when he gets downstairs. The coroner just keeps working. Yet another sign that something is amiss.
“Evening, boooys,” he says, shooting them a disarming smile. “Hoooow’s it hangin’?”
The two look at each other, mildly disconcerted.
“Allow me to report, sir!” McCaw’s partner says. “We’ve brought a suspect into custody. She’s being held upstairs in the super’s office!”
“Good, gooooood,” Cabanela responds. “I’ll be right there. And just where is there?”
“Upstairs, sir,” McCaw answers. “Just past where you put your bike.”
“Thaaaaank you,” he answers. “I’ll just be heading on up there for an interview now. See you later, baby!” He prances back up the stairs and over towards the office. He’s been here before. Many a time, actually. Prof’s been a real help over these last few years. But nobody really knows about that.
But the person he sees when he gets up there surprises him.
“Lynne.” He looks at the patrolman keeping an eye on her. “Do me a soliiiiid, would you?”
The patrolman salutes. “Yessir!”
“Inspector Cabanela! I thought…I thought tonight was important.”
“Still got time to see you, baby,” he says. “Jowd’s on it. And you’re more important right now in this crisis.”
Lynne looks down. It pains him to see her distraught. She straightens up. “Wait. You said…crisis? Does that mean…I never even met that guy before tonight! I didn’t kill him!”
Hmm. So it sounds like Lynne doesn’t remember what Yomiel looks like, at least — it happened when she was young, at least, and the memory is probably hazy from how traumatic it must have been for her.
“Never? Then how’d you end up here, baby?”
“Well, uh, before tonight, that is…” Lynne raises a hand to the back of her neck sheepishly. “He reached out to me first, actually. He said that he had some important information about a case I’ve been working on.”
“Hmm…” Cabanela strokes his goatee. “Iiiii don’t believe your precinct assigned you to any big cases. Funny, isn’t it?”
“Huh?!” Lynne asks.
If he had to guess…she’s probably doing the same thing he and Jowd are. Trying to close a case that’s been open for far too long. Trying to heal Kamila’s heart.
Tonight is the last night. It only stands to reason that she’d be desperate.
“Don’t worry, baby. I don’t think you did it. I’m just tryna clear things up a little.” He smiles. It’s not as effective on her, since she knows him better, but it still works. “You’re not the type to shoot like that. And if anything ever happened to you…”
“Yeah,” Lynne says. “Yeah.” She swallows. “Inspector Cabanela…I have one question for you.”
“Go ahead, baby,” he says.
“Tonight is the night, right? That it…”
“I have noooo idea what you— Get down!” He shoves her out of the way as a bullet crashes through the window.
-
“Ngh.” What’s going on? Where is he? What…happened? “Lynne!”
“You’re awake,” a voice he doesn’t recognize says. “Great.”
“What’s…who am I?”
“You’re in the land of the dead,” the voice answers.
Cabanela — so that’s his name — opens his eyes.
“The…land of the dead?” he asks, right before he takes in who the voice belongs to. “You!”
“Huh?” the man who looks like Yomiel asks. Land of the dead…it would make sense. Yomiel is dead, after all. “I’m Sissel. And you’re Inspector Cabanela, I believe.”
“Thaaaaat’s right,” Cabanela answers. Sissel. That’s a name that pings some kind of recognition in him, but…he doesn’t know exactly where he’s heard it before. “So…I take it that I died, then?”
“You’re in the Ghost World,” ‘Sissel’ explains.
“I can’t be dead. Not tonight.”
“Someone told me that something very important was happening tonight,” Sissel continues. “If I had to guess, I’d say you were an important part of it. But…I can bring you back. Learn what happened to you.”
“Iiiiiii’m not sure who you think you are, but I don’t think anyone has that power,” Cabanela says.
“Let me show you, then,” Sissel says.
Cabanela’s death plays out in front of him — from the walk up the stairs to his conversation with Lynne.
“So that’s it, then?” Cabanela asks. “How are you gonna stop it?”
“That’s up to me,” Sissel answers. “I’ll do my best to stop whoever’s shooting you. I’ve already saved other lives before.”
“It’s in your hands now, baby. Nothin’ much I can do to stop it.” Cabanela leans back.
Sissel hums and gets to work. What that work is, Cabanela doesn’t quite understand at first. But then Sissel does…something to the van door and it opens.
A trick. Something that could happen in a locked room. Something that could happen…without a person there to witness it or to explain just what had happened.
Could this have happened to Alma?
Sissel drops some crates on top of the would-be assassin’s head. “And there we go.”
“Thank you,” Cabanela says. “You’ve helped more than you know.”
“Of course,” Sissel says. “Do you…know anything? About me?”
“Whyyyyyy do you ask?”
Sissel sighs. “Figured it was worth a shot, at least. It looks like you don’t have the answers I’m looking for, though. Let’s get back to the present now, shall we?”
Cabanela nods.
-
“It’s the night that her case gets filed away. Forever.” Lynne grips her arm and looks away. “Inspector Cabanela, I know you know what I’m talking about.”
“Well, Iiiiiii’m certainly not at liberty to tell you about it, baby,” Cabanela says. He needs to talk to Jowd as soon as possible — he needs to tell Jowd what he’s just learned. What the key is. “I gotta go now, baby. Get some sleep, would you?”
Lynne rolls her eyes. “You worry too much, Inspector.”
“I thiiiiiink in our line of work, it’s justified.” Cabanela turns towards the door. “I’ll just be going now. I’ll be sending that patrolman riiiiiiight back in, so don’t try to escape now, would you?”
“I won’t!” Lynne says.
-
Back to the precinct.
“Heeeyyyyy, Jowd,” Cabanela says. “Heard anything from Rindge?”
“I checked in with him,” Jowd responds. “He just arrived at the park. He’s keeping a lookout on things now.” His face twists. “At first when I called, someone else responded. He called himself…the guardian of the park?”
“Iiiiiiiinteresting,” Cabanela says. “They’ve got Lynne held up in the super’s office. They think she did it, baby.”
“Lynne?” Jowd asks. “Who…what was going on?”
“I don’t know,” Cabanela answers quietly. “The body…it was Yomiel.”
“Yomiel?” Jowd says suddenly. “No…there’s no way.”
“That’s what I thought,” Cabanela says. “Buuuuuut I have no idea who else it could be. It was…he was wearing the same suit still. Same hair. It’s like the past ten years never happened. Lynne didn’t remember him, though.”
Jowd frowns. “I can see why she doesn’t. It must have been difficult for her. But I could never forget what his face looked like.”
“Me neither.” Cabanela places a hand on his partner’s shoulder. “Iiiiii’m not sure what to do, but we’ll figure this out. I know it.” He smiles. “You and me, baby. Together we’re unstoppable.”
Jowd nods. “Indeed.”
“Iiiiiii’m gonna head down to the chief’s office now,” Cabanela says. “I think heeeee might know something about Lynne’s case.”
“Alright. If it’s really Yomiel, then…”
Cabanela nods. “Lotta things going down in this town tonight, baby. It’s up to us to unravel this.”
“And Alma…” Jowd sighs. “I hope we can put her to rest tonight.”
Cabanela takes a deep breath. “I hope so too.”
“This…with Yomiel…it can’t be a coincidence with what happened ten years ago. There’s just something we’re missing.” Jowd sighs. “I don’t know what the connection could be…or if there even is one. Maybe we’re just chasing ghosts.”
Ghosts. The man that had called himself Sissel.
Would Jowd even believe him?
“Speaking of, actually,” Cabanela says, “there’s juuuuuust one more thing I have to tell you. There’s another player out there tonight. He saved my life. And he looked just like Yomiel.”
“...how?” Jowd asks.
“Took out an assassin. Called himself…Sissel. Strangest thing was, I think he miiiiiight be a ghost.”
“A ghost.” Jowd crosses his arms. “I don’t want to say you’ve lost your touch, but…”
“I’m not quite sure either,” Cabanela admits. “Buuuuuuut I’m keeping it in mind. For when I find out.”
Jowd nods. “Alright.”
Cabanela wonders if Jowd picked up what he was trying to say. That it could have been…that it could have been what happened to Alma.
-
“The super sent us the security footage,” Chief says. Cabanela can hear the almost imperceptible sound of him rubbing his feet together under the desk and fights the urge not to wrinkle his nose in disgust. “I hate to say it, Inspector, but it looks like your protégé is in real trouble.”
“Just show it to me, would you?” Cabanela winks and takes a position to watch as the projector springs downwards. It shows the edge of the junkyard near the fence. He watches Yomiel as he stands in front of Lynne. Yomiel? Maybe it is Sissel. Maybe Yomiel got himself a copycat, ten years later.
The man in the red suit flops back against the fencepost as Lynne takes out her pistol. She fires two shots, looking for all the world like she’s struggling. The first hits the man’s box. The second hits the man. The man flops forwards to the ground as Lynne puts her gun back.
“That’s not where the body was found,” Cabanela points out. He grabs the remote and fast-forwards the footage.
Huh. A black cat in the box knocked down the body. Odd.
“I don’t know what’s going on, Inspector, but…this looks like a case for the Special Investigations Unit.” The chief frowns. “He looks an awful lot like that suspect from all those years ago.”
“You’re right.” Cabanela frowns. “Yomiel…I didn’t think I’d ever see that face again. But to think that maybe…”
“What are you thinking, Inspector?” the chief asks.
“Oh, don’t worry, Chief,” Cabanela says. “I’m sure it’ll be alright, as long as I’m on the case.”
“Still keeping an eye on Point X?”
“Of cooooooourse,” he answers. “I’ve got some officers I trust keeping a lookout on the scene. And Jowd’s got an eye on them, too.” He’d trust Jowd with his life.
“I always wondered…” The chief trails off, and then straightens himself back up a little bit. “I always wondered how you were always so sure that Jowd didn’t do it.”
“I trust him,” Cabanela answers. “If he says he didn’t do it, he didn’t do it. Plain and simple, baby. Just the way he’s always liked it.”
“I suppose that’s true.” The chief sighs. “Still, I have to wonder after all these years…he could’ve been letting the case grow cold for his own sake.”
Well, Cabanela knows that’s…true. At least a little bit true. Jowd’s not doing it for himself, though. He’s got his little girl at home to look after. Kamila…Cabanela hopes she’s safe at home, and not doing anything else besides reading her book and listening to her music.
“Jowd’s not like that. Trust me,” Cabanela says. “I wouldn’t have kept him so long as my partner if I didn’t.”
They have to stop this. It’s simple enough.
“Chief,” he continues, “I’m heading back to the scene of the murder. Lynne should still be there. I’ll take her back to the precinct. Didn’t get the chance earlier.”
The chief nods. “Alright, Inspector.”
Cabanela heads out and bikes back to the junkyard.
But when he gets back to the office, it’s…empty. Or at least the person he’s looking for isn’t here.
“Where’d Lynne go?” Cabanela asks the nearest patrolman.
“I don’t know!” he answers, putting his hands up. “You left, called me back in, and she was already gone!”
Ah.
Cabanela sits down at the super’s desk. “Heeeeeey, chief. I need a favor. Put out an APB on Lynne for me, wouldya?”
“Got a runner on our hands?”
“Indeeeeeed. Now, I don’t like what’s happened, but that doesn’t change that she’s pretty heavily involved in what’s gone down here. And since she ran, it means she has something she wants to hide from me.”
“I’ll do that right away, then,” the chief answers. “Thank you, Inspector.”
“Don’t thank me yet, baby. I’ve stiiiiiiiill got work to do.” Cabanela sets down the phone. And then it starts ringing again.
“Chief told me you were here,” Jowd says, his low timbre vibrating over the line. “I just thought I should inform you that they’ve found Lynne. She’s at Point X.”
“What? Why is she at Point X?” Cabanela demands.
“Dunno. Detective Rindge just informed me.” Jowd sighs. “Do you think that maybe she got in over her head? That she was the one who scheduled the meeting because she was looking for answers?”
“Could be anything,” Cabanela answers. “I’m not sure exactly what she’s been up to tonight. But she told me something iiiiiiiinteresting earlier.”
“What’d she say?”
“She said that tonight was the night that her case was being filed. And she asked me to tell her about Alma.”
“I…” Jowd trails off. “That’s concerning. But I don’t think Lynne has the resources to arrange that sort of meeting.”
“That’s true,” Cabanela admits. “She told me when I asked her that Yomiel had asked her to meet. I’m not sure she was exactly…looking before now. When the opportunity strikes, you’ve got to take it.”
“Like tonight, then?” Jowd asks. “Rindge was heading in, last I heard. He should be talking to Lynne.”
“Thaaaaanks.” Cabanela sighs. “Keep me updated, will you?”
“Of course,” Jowd answers. “I wouldn’t leave my partner in the dark.”
-
Cabanela heads down to the basement.
“Heeeeeey, Prof,” he says as he hops down the stairs. “Get a good look at that body yet?”
“We already knew it was Yomiel,” he answers. Lovey-Dove coos atop his head. “Can’t conduct a proper autopsy, though. Could run some other tests…”
“Why nooooot?”
“Take a look for yourself,” he answers. Cabanela approaches the table. The man attempts to make an incision. The incision instantly heals. “I suspect the healing factor is the Temsik shard lodged in him.”
“Faaaaascinating.” Cabanela looks over the body.
“It’s a corpse, to put it shortly — he’s not truly alive. Somehow or another…he’s inhabiting his own body.” Lovey-Dove coos, as if to punctuate that ominous remark.
“I learned earlier tonight that ghosts are real,” Cabanela says. “That could be it. I just still don’t understand how.”
“Hmm.” He runs a scanner over the body. “Same radiation as the park, though. You’ve got eyes on that?”
“Yeah,” Cabanela answers. “Rindge was put there for the stakeout. We’re fiiiiiiiiine. Everything’s under control.”
That’s when the phone rings.
“Cabanela? Are you there?” Jowd asks, sounding more panicked now.
“What’s wrong?” he demands.
“It’s Kamila.” Cabanela could swear that his heart stops beating for a moment. “They’ve kidnapped her.”
“What?!”
“The demand is my life,” Jowd says. “They want me to surrender myself for her.”
“No,” Cabanela says.
“I have two hours to respond before they kill her,” Jowd says. “I know you can take care of her. You’ve been helping me out for years. I know you can do this, Cabanela.”
“You said two hours, right?” Cabanela says. “I’m going to figure out how she was kidnapped and rescue her before it’s too late.”
“It’d take a miracle to pull that off,” Jowd says.
“And if anyone’s in the business of miracles, it’s me, baby,” he answers. “I’ll find Kamila. Mark my words.”
“Good luck,” Jowd answers.
Cabanela puts down the receiver. “I’m afraid I have other business to attend to, Prof. Catch you later!”
He just nods in response. Lovey-Dove nods alongside him.
Cabanela walks up the stairs and hops on his bike. Time to go. Where could the kidnappers have taken them?
Maybe he’ll start by checking in on Point X. Lynne’s probably left at this point, but Memry and Rindge will still be there.
-
Cabanela sits down at a booth in the Chicken Kitchen and rings the bell three times.
“Memry,” he remarks. “Sit down. Did anyone come in tonight that was suspicious?”
“Besides that other detective?” Memry remarks. “And I’m not supposed to sit.”
Cabanela waves his hand. “Don’t wooooooorry about losin’ your job. It’s not like you’re gonna be here after tonight, baby.”
Memry sighs. “Don’t remind me! I loved the extra pay. Both from here and from the boss. I was making so much moolah it was worth all the crap I get being a waitress.”
Cabanela raises an eyebrow. Then again, she is on the job while she’s here, so she should be getting paid as a detective and as a waitress. Not that waitressing pays well, but depending on the tips she’s getting…he supposes he could understand why she’d want to stay longer in her position.
“Actually, there were a couple people upstairs earlier,” she says. “I tried to plant a bug on them, but Rindge told me that it didn’t work and all he was getting was the chef, for whatever reason. Could’ve sworn I put it on the chicken I was getting to them, but…I guess I’ll never find out what was in that giant suitcase they had. Seemed pretty heavy, too. The guy was having trouble carrying it. I bet that woman he was with could’ve carried it no problem, though. She was pretty strong, if you catch my drift.”
Cabanela rolls his eyes. “And where did they go after that?”
“Not sure,” Memry answers. “But whoever they were waiting for didn’t show up.”
“Iiiiiiiinteresting,” he says. “What’d they look like?”
“The guy was wearing a hat, and he was always a little hunched over. The woman was taller than him, even without her heels. She had a really wild hairstyle, though. Blonde hair, all around her in a spiral. Kinda wish my hair were long enough to do that, but then again, I don’t want to have to deal with it when it gets that long.”
“Detective,” he says, “do you have aaaaaaany idea where they went?”
“Nope! I wish I could tell ya. They left on a motorcycle, I think. Rindge might have the plate number. I heard he was lonely in that park…”
“They might come back,” Cabanela says. “Stay here until the restaurant closes, yeah? After that, you can hang out with him aaaaaaaall you want.”
“Fine, fine.” She rolls her eyes. “Wouldn’t want to get written up tonight.”
Cabanela leaves the restaurant and rides over to the park.
“Stop the park from being turned into a housing site!” a young man says, waving around leaflets. “Protect Temsik, rock of the gods!”
Cabanela grabs a leaflet just to placate him, and then jaunts on towards where Rindge is looking out over the edge, in the direction of the Chicken Kitchen.
“Inspector Cabanela!” Rindge says, straightening up suddenly. “Sir!”
“Relaaaaaaax,” Cabanela says, leaning up against the railing. “I’m just here to ask you something, baby. Did you spot a couple carrying a large suitcase? Memry in there seems to think youuuuuu might have a plate number for me.”
“I saw them leaving on a motorcycle,” Rindge answers, as impassive as ever. “I couldn’t see the plate number, though. Too small. They were heading east, though.”
“Thaaaaaank you,” Cabanela responds. “East it is, then!”
East. What was in that direction? Where would make for a good hideout for a couple criminals?
Oh.
Jowd and Kamila had moved out of their old house a few months after Alma’s death due to the fact that Jowd hadn’t wanted Kamila to stick around there so long afterwards. The house had become derelict since, and known as something that only teenagers occasionally looked through for kicks, to see if the house was haunted. It’d make the perfect place for something like this.
Cabanela gets on his bike and rides over there. There are some candles lit in the front room. He sneaks his way in instead of announcing his presence just to find that there’s a man sleeping hunched over that matches Memry’s vague descriptions…and Amelie, the Justice Minister’s daughter. What is she doing here?
(At least it’s not Kamila.)
“Hello, Inspector.”
He nearly jumps out of his skin at the sound of that somewhat familiar voice.
“Sissel,” he manages to respond, “whaaaaaat are you doing here?”
“I was listening in on their conversation,” Sissel answers, raising one arm to shrug. “Couldn’t let the little lady stay kidnapped. Though I didn’t realize she was…”
“That’s not Kamila,” Cabanela says.
“I know that,” Sissel answers. “They got the wrong girl. She’s sick, though. I feel bad for her. Managed to get her free, but…not sure how to get her out. Get her out of here before the lady comes back, okay? I should go.”
Cabanela nods. “Alright. I’ll get her back to her family. I’m sure they’re worried about her. Sissel…”
“Do you need a favor from me?” he asks. “I’m already helping Lynne, so my plate is pretty full, but…”
“Make sure she gets through this night,” Cabanela says. “But I think you’re already doin’ that. So just keep on keeping on, yeah?”
Sissel smiles, the genuine happiness looking strange with the face he wears. “That won’t be a problem, Inspector.”
Cabanela snaps back into the real world and picks Amelie up.
The man straightens up. Cabanela freezes.
“Just my imagination…” He falls back asleep.
Amelie sniffles. Cabanela takes them both outside before setting her down.
“Heeeeeey,” he says, kneeling down to meet her at her own level. “How are you doin’?”
She sniffles again, and then sneezes. “I wanna go home. You’re a police officer, right? Can you take me home?”
“Yeah, baby, yeah,” he says. “I can get you home.”
“Okay,” Amelie answers. She wipes her nose on her sleeve. “Mommy and Daddy both said that I shouldn’t go out, since I’m sick like this, but I had to get something for Daddy.” There’s a lighter hidden up the sleeve of her nightgown. “Tonight is his birthday, but Mommy forgot, since she’s trying to finish her book tonight.”
“I’ll make sure it gets to him,” Cabanela says. He grabs his bike and places her on the seat, and then grabs the handlebars, letting her grab onto him. He wheels the bike towards her house. “And you, too.”
“Stop right there.”
Cabanela reaches into his jacket for his gun. The woman has long blonde hair, falling around her in rings. Just like Memry described. She has a riding crop, too.
He grabs his badge first. “Inspector Cabanela, Special Investigations Unit. You’re under arrest for kidnapping.” He then reaches for his handcuffs.
“Hmph.” She strikes him. He flinches, puts down the kickstand so Amelie doesn’t fall, and advances on her, cuffing her to a nearby pole.
He flips the kickstand back up and keeps walking Amelie towards the street corner.
“Heyyy, Jowd, I got some gooooood news, baby.”
“Really?” Jowd asks, voice sounding rushed. “What is it?”
“Iiiiiii found her!” Cabanela answers. “Wasn’t Kamila that was kidnapped, though.”
“It wasn’t?”
“As far as Iiiiii know, Kamila’s still at Lynne’s place,” he says. “Say hi, Amelie.” He offers the receiver over to her.
“Um. Hi?” She coughs a couple times.
“Thaaaaanks.”
“Is that the justice minister’s daughter?” Jowd asks.
“That it is,” Cabanela answers. “I’ll be getting her home now, and then I’m headin’ over to Lynne’s apartment to check on Kamila.”
“Thank you,” Jowd answers, voice rumbling. “I’m…I’m not happy that someone else was kidnapped, but I’m glad Kamila’s safe.”
“That’s juuuuuuust fine,” Cabanela answers. “Understandable, even.”
He still remembers the pang of relief that he had felt when it hadn’t been Kamila in there. When he had seen Amelie, sniffling and sneezing instead.
“Then I suppose I’ve got to focus on the case,” Jowd says.
“We can focus on the case when I get back, baby,” Cabanela answers. “I’ll see you soon.”
Jowd hangs up. He’s always been a concise man — that’s one of the things that had made them fit so well together.
“Who was that? And who’s Kamila?” Amelie asks.
“Thaaaaat was my partner in the force,” Cabanela answers. “He’s Kamila’s father. And Kamila’s who we thought got kidnapped, not you.”
“Oh! So you two are her dads?” she asks.
Cabanela very nearly stops in his tracks. “Who, me? I’m noooooot her dad. Nosiree.”
“But you said that you were partners?”
“Detective partners, not like that,” Cabanela answers. “Which way was your house?”
“Ummmmmmm.” She deliberates on that for a little bit. “I think it’s that way?” She points to the west. Fair enough.
-
“We’re here!” Amelie lets go and hops off the bike. “Thanks, Inspector!” She waves as she walks into the house, sneezing one more time for good measure.
He hopes she’ll be okay. Can’t be easy to get kidnapped while sick.
He hops on his bike and rides back to the precinct. Time for him to touch base with Jowd.
That’s when the car hits him.
-
“Seems like you and Lynne are competing to see who can die the most tonight,” Yo—Sissel says. He doesn’t sound like Yomiel, at least — but the face being the same still throws Cabanela off when he’s not anticipating it.
“Is Lynne okay?” Cabanela asks.
“She’s fine,” Sissel answers. “But you’re not.”
“Iiiiiii got hit by a car,” Cabanela says. “What can you do to prevent that?”
“You’d be surprised,” Sissel answers. “Four minutes is a long time to change things.”
Cabanela just lets Sissel do his thing. As they watch…
Ah. Yomiel was driving the car that hit him. So it was probably intentional. Dammit.
“Who…is that?” Sissel asks. “And why does he have my face?”
Cabanela just sighs. “Iiiiiii’m not sure,” he answers.
“Let’s see what I can do,” Sissel says. “We might have to…get creative.”
“Well, a little creativity never hurt anything,” Cabanela answers, flashing a smile at Sissel. “You’ve gooooot this!”
“Thanks,” Sissel says, a little sheepish.
They start on the road, in front of where he died. Sissel takes him over on a leaf that drifts over, and eventually they manage to come down on top of the car. Yomiel has been…outside Jowd and Kamila’s house. What’s he waiting for?
And then the phone rings.
“Hello?” Yomiel snaps.
“Beauty’s gone! And the kid!” the man says on the other end of the line. That’s the man Cabanela had seen inside — the one that had been napping when he took Amelie back home. “Beauty was supposed to be back a while ago, ya see…”
Yomiel sighs, clearly annoyed. “I’m keeping an eye on the kid’s house. I haven’t seen her or her father all night. I don’t have time for your wild goose chases. You can live without your partner, can’t you?”
The man visibly shrinks. “Beauty’s my everything!”
“I’ll be coming to you,” Yomiel says. “I’m on my way now. You better not screw this up.”
Sissel jumps over to the car and triggers the lock.
Yomiel jiggles the door. “I don’t remember locking this…” He pulls out the keys.
“Looks like we didn’t buy ourselves that much time,” Cabanela says.
“No, but it’s still a little more time for you to get across that road safely,” Sissel says.
Yomiel finally gets the key and unlocks the car.
“Now what can we do?” Sissel asks.
“Do you…not know how a car works?” Cabanela asks.
“I barely remember what a car is!” Sissel responds.
“What?!”
“I’ve been trying to find my identity,” Sissel says. He looks over at Yomiel. “He probably has the key to all that. I don’t know why he’s just like me, but…that’s what I’ve been trying to do tonight.”
“A noble quest indeed!” Cabanela says.
“Do…you know anything?”
“I don’t think now’s the best time to talk about this,” he answers.
“After I save you,” Sissel says. “How do I operate this?” The gear shift.
“Not while the car is moving!” Cabanela says. “Are you crazy? You’re going to get him killed!”
Sissel attempts to move it. “It’s not moving anyway.” He looks around a little more, and swivels the mirror.
The world turns blue in front of them.
“Now then,” Yomiel says, focusing directly on Sissel, “I knew there was another ghost around town tonight, but…I didn’t think it’d be me of all people that was going around and stopping things from happening the way they’re supposed to. Not sure why you’ve got my face, but…things will still go down the way they’re meant to. However you’re trying to stop me…it won’t work. I will wipe out the last traces of Temsik before this night is over — and that will include you.”
Sissel sucks in a sharp breath.
The car speeds up. Cabanela, still alive, stops just before crossing the road instead of going.
The world turns red again.
“I don’t think that was how we were supposed to pull that off,” Sissel admits.
“Hey, I’m alive, aren’t I?” Cabanela asks. “I guess he’ll make it to his destination this time, baby. What’d you say last time? Go back to the new present?”
“Yes,” Sissel answers. “But…before I return you, I have to ask: did you know that man?”
“I did,” Cabanela answers. “He was shot earlier tonight. And I suspect his involvement in some other incidents. Especially after what I witnessed just now…”
“But me?”
“His name wasn’t Sissel,” Cabanela says. “Good luck figuring it out.”
Sissel looks down, but when Cabanela’s next aware, he’s back on his bike. He looks both ways before crossing this time, and makes it across without getting hit by any surprise cars.
-
“Kamila?” he asks. Missile barks when he walks in and runs around his feet.
She sets down her book. “Hey!” she answers. “Missile, could you please quiet down?”
Cabanela squats down and pets Missile.
“The neighbor said she’d try to knock the wall down if she heard Missile barking too much again,” Kamila says, sounding apologetic.
“You’re okay, right?”
“Of course I am!” she answers. “Tonight’s been…good, though I am a little sad that Lynne can’t hang out with me. She said that she’d be busy tonight.”
“And why’d she say that, baby?” Cabanela knows that if Lynne had really intended to stay out the entire night she would have probably told Kamila to stay home.
“I…don’t know, actually.” Kamila frowns. “Why are you here?”
“Your dad was worried about you. Iiiiiiii told him you were fine, but he wanted me to check up on you, juuuuuuust in case something bad happened.”
“Phone’s broken,” Kamila says casually. “I accidentally dropped the receiver earlier.”
“Huh.” Cabanela looks down at the phone. “Well then, Iiiiiii suppose we’ll have to find some other way to talk to your dad. I’ll go ask next door, yeah?”
“Okay,” Kamila says.
Cabanela hops over towards the apartment next door. “Hellooooooo,” he says when the door opens to him.
“And just what brings…a police officer to interrupt me on the holiest of nights?”
Great. It’s the Justice Minister’s wife. What was her name again…?
“My sinceeeeerest apologies, madame,” he says, bowing. “Iiiiiiii just need to borrow your phone for a moment. Could I?” He flashes his most charming smile at her.
“Well,” she says, “who am I to say no to a man like you?” She arches an eyebrow. “Phone’s over by the bed.”
“I’ll be quick, I promise,” he says. He saunters over the phone.
“Cabanela?” Jowd asks. “You were right about the ghosts.”
“That’s one hell of an opener, baby,” Cabanela says. “Buuuuuut I was going to tell you something first. Kamila’s just fine. I just checked up on her.”
“That’s good,” Jowd says. “But…you said a ghost might have caused Alma’s death. I just spoke to one earlier.”
“Greaaaaat,” Cabanela says. “You can tell me all about it later, baby. But I am currently borrowing this phone, so Iiiiiiiiii should probably be getting off.”
“That you should,” Jowd says, a tinge of warmth in his voice. “I’ll see you back at the station, Cabanela.”
He hangs up the phone.
“Thanks again,” he says, firing off a salute towards her. She’s too engrossed in her work to look up, pecking away at the keys one at a time. It strikes him as an awfully inefficient way to type, but then again, what does he know?
-
“You met Sissel?” Cabanela asks when he gets back to the station.
“Yes,” Jowd answers. “The only issue is…how can we prove it? How can we prove that it was a ghost?”
“I don’t know,” Cabanela answers. “I don’t have all the answers, baby. But whatever’s out there tonight is trying to get rid of everything Temsik.”
“Temsik, huh?” Jowd asks. “It’s always going to come back to that day.”
Cabanela puts a hand on his partner’s shoulder. “You’re not a bad person. I know it.”
Jowd frowns. “I could’ve killed him. I might have, even. I’m not like you.” He plucks a speck of dirt off Cabanela’s shoulder. “My coat’s not exactly clean.”
Cabanela rakes a judgemental gaze over Jowd’s coat. “Clean enough, I’d say. You’re standing beside me now, aren’t you?”
“Just because you kept insisting that I had to be here,” Jowd responds. “I’m just along for the ride.”
“I disagree,” Cabanela says. “I don’t want to be here without you.”
Jowd nods.
“Have you heard anything about Lynne?” Cabanela asks, shifting the subject away after a moment of awkward silence.
“No,” Jowd answers. “She hasn’t been seen since the Chicken Kitchen. We’re still looking, though.”
“Alright,” Cabanela says. “I think we need to prioritize Yomiel.”
“I agree,” Jowd says. “It has to be connected. Alma’s death, the meteor strike, Temsik….everything that happened tonight goes back to Temsik Park. The night’s wearing thin. Where would he go?”
“Maaaaaybe he’s trying to escape,” Cabanela says. “He’s working with the people that kidnapped Kamila.”
“And McCaw and his partner found someone crushed by the junkyard wrecking ball.” Jowd frowns. “It looks like he’s part of the same group that was at Point X earlier. Did we get any intel about them?”
“No,” Cabanela says. “I talked to Memry about them, and she said that they were the ones who kidnapped Kamila, buuuuuuuuut when she tried to plant a bug on them all she ended up with was the chef.”
“The…chef?” Jowd asks, confused. “What?”
“That’s what Rindge told me, at least,” Cabanela answers. “Iiiiiii’m not quite sure what went down.”
“I think I might have the answer to that.”
“Sissel,” Jowd says, offering him a warm smile. “It’s good to see you under better circumstances. Is someone dead?”
“Not right now,” Sissel answers. “It had to be the chef. The lady managed to figure out the bug. It caused that detective in green and Lynne to die.”
That…does not make sense at all.
“Could you please explain further?” Jowd asks.
“In the timeline where that undercover detective plants a bug on the chicken, one of them manages to figure out they’re being listened to, and when the bug got destroyed, the detective in green died,” Sissel explains, slower now. “I couldn’t save Lynne without saving him. But if it helps, I’m pretty sure they were waiting for the other man in red.”
“You saw him?” Jowd asks.
“I did,” Sissel says. “I’m…not sure what’s going on, but I have to talk to him again.”
“We’re trying to find him too,” Cabanela says. “He has answers for us relating to an incident we’re investigating.”
“Lynne told me a little about it,” Sissel admits, “but I didn’t get very much from her. A murder that happened five years ago, right?”
“Yes.” Jowd frowns.
“She said…it was something she wanted to do for you,” Sissel says, speaking directly to Jowd. “To repay you for what you did ten years ago.”
Jowd looks down. “Whatever she told you…I’m not as much of a hero as she thinks I am.”
“Sounded pretty heroic to me,” Sissel answers. “Lynne said you saved her life.”
“And I nearly killed someone else in the process.”
Cabanela frowns at that comment.
“Doesn’t matter if it didn’t happen,” Sissel says with a shrug. Cabanela flinches.
“That’s not how I see it.” Jowd’s face is impassive. He’s shut down. Cabanela’s seen that face enough to know it’s high time they shifted the subject of conversation to something else.
“Anything else you have to tell us, Sissel?” Cabanela asks.
Sissel hums. “I learned my name from some people on a submarine. They said they were looking for a man that looked like me, going by the name Sissel. And that I was supposed to give them information.”
Jowd looks over at Cabanela. “The docks?”
Cabanela nods. He could go and make his escape down there to that submarine…
“I’ll see if I can find my way down there too,” Sissel says.
“I’ll call the office there for you,” Jowd says. “That’ll make it easier.”
“Thanks.”
“It’s the least I can do for you after you saved our lives tonight.”
“Don’t thank me.” Sissel seems to relax, despite the words. “I’m just looking for answers, and you all seem to have them. As long as I still don’t know the mystery of me…I’ll keep going.” He snaps them back into the real world.
“I will neeeeever be used to that,” Cabanela admits.
“It’s easier if you can sense him,” Jowd admits. “He’s waiting in the pen holder.”
Cabanela raises an eyebrow. “And how do you know that, baby?”
“I can…sense him, in a manner of speaking,” Jowd admits. “Call it detective’s instinct.”
“Like you’d know much about instinct,” Cabanela responds, mostly on impulse.
“You were right,” Jowd says. “It never sat right with me to just trust that I was right about what happened five years ago. But you said…”
“‘...if you can’t trust your instincts, trust me,’” Cabanela fills in. “I remember.”
-
It had been five years ago when the payphone on the street corner of Cabanela’s usual route home rang.
He was curious enough to pick up.
“Cabanela?” Jowd had asked, sounding like he was about to cry. Cabanela hadn’t heard him sound like that since his wedding, and this hadn’t sounded like a happy occasion. “Please. I need you here.”
“Are you at home?” he had asked, swinging onto his bike.
“Yes,” Jowd had answered, and Cabanela rode off as fast as his bike could go. When he got to the house, the sight in front of him had been astonishing, to say the least.
Alma was dead. Shot in the chest. Clean. Hit the heart. Cabanela remembers thinking that at the very least she had died a quick death.
And above her, Kamila had been crying, with Jowd soothing her.
“It wasn’t supposed to do that!” Cabanela had heard.
“Report,” Cabanela had snapped, using the same tone as the chief, just to get them to snap out of it.
Jowd looked up. “Thank you.”
“What’s going on?” Cabanela grabbed a pair of gloves from his jacket. They weren’t crime scene forensic style, but they were good enough. The gun on the wall…
“It’s not loaded, but the ammo’s not hard to find if Alma ever needed it,” Jowd admitted softly. “I taught her to shoot.”
“Every gun needs someone to pull the trigger,” Cabanela had answered, and Jowd had flinched. “So who could’ve pulled this from up here?”
“It was me,” Jowd says. “I shot her. With my gun.”
His tone is too flat.
“I don’t believe that for a second, baby.” The barrel of the gun on the wall was still warm when Cabanela pressed a hand to it.
Jowd had pulled Kamila in closer. Cabanela watched as her tears soaked into his coat.
“It was her birthday, wasn’t it?” Cabanela had asked, softer now. “Hell of a way to celebrate.”
Jowd flinched. “Watch your language.”
“It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” Kamila had said again.
Cabanela knelt. “What do you mean, baby?”
“It was supposed to set off the party poppers,” she sobbed. “There was no string there. I’m not supposed to touch the gun.”
“I don’t know who did it,” Jowd said, “but my little girl’s not responsible for this.”
Cabanela looked at the gun in his hand. At the wall in front of him. At the decorations on the table, preparing for a party.
“She told me about it,” Jowd continued. “The machine. The cupid here…it’s supposed to face the table.”
“Then…something must have happened,” Cabanela said.
“I…don’t know what to think,” Jowd admitted. “Kamila, go up to your room. We’ll talk more later.”
Kamila nodded eagerly and scampered away.
“I know…I don’t want to think she could have done it,” Jowd continued. “But…the only person in the house was her. What else could it be? I want to say that she didn’t do it. I want more than anything to say that. But…”
“If you can’t trust your instincts, trust me,” Cabanela had told him. “I’m your partner. If I say she didn’t do it, she didn’t do it.”
They messed with the window, made the lock look like it was tampered with. There was an outside possibility now.
Cabanela had filed the reports, and tried not to think too hard about how he made himself accomplice to a crime.
-
“Sounds like you learned something from me after all,” Cabanela quips half-heartedly.
“It’s been years,” Jowd answers.
The lines start to blur after that long together. Cabanela knows Jowd as well as he knows himself. Maybe better, even.
Jowd picks up the phone and calls the docks.
“Sorry, I meant to dial someone else,” he says, and then puts down the phone. “Sissel should be on his way now. He’s not here.”
“Let’s go, then,” Cabanela says. “See if we can catch him.”
-
They find Yomiel uncovering a motorboat.
“So you’re not dead,” Yomiel says, directing the words to Jowd, bitterness seeping into his voice. “That just means I can do it myself.”
Cabanela reaches for the handcuffs in his coat’s inside pocket, and then he feels nothing at all.
-
The feel of a gun in his hand…the bang…what’s happening? Why can’t he do anything? He can’t see. He can’t feel. What’s around him? What’s happening?
-
When he comes to, he’s flat on the ground. Someone’s on top of his back.
“What’s going on?” Cabanela barks.
“Looks like you’re yourself again,” Lynne says from behind him. The weight gets off his back. He rolls over to see her and Jowd standing above him. “I managed to find my own way here, thanks to some intel Sissel gave me.” She offers him a hand. Cabanela takes it and pulls himself up. “Will someone just tell me what’s going on? I’ve been involved in this the whole time. Are you telling me that he’s the one who took me hostage?!”
“We need Sissel for this conversation,” Jowd just says, and they all pop back into the Ghost World.
“You two have been managing to dodge explaining this whole time,” Sissel says, blankly, without accusation despite the words. “There is no hiding here. Your thoughts are projected into speech. And yet…”
“His name is Yomiel,” Jowd says. “The man who took Lynne hostage. The man we’ve been chasing all night.”
Sissel’s form flickers and glitches before ultimately settling on a blue flame — one with sunglasses, but incorporeal nonetheless.
No more incorporeal than any other ghost, Cabanela supposes.
“I guess I know who he is, at least,” Sissel says. “But I’m not him.”
“No, you’re not,” Cabanela says. “That much has been clear from the start. The real Yomiel…”
Lynne gasps. “He killed Alma?!”
“That’s what we’ve been thinking, baby,” Cabanela says.
Sissel gestures over to Jowd. “He told me that you couldn’t solve the mystery until you found out about ghost tricks.”
Lynne looks down. “I’m sorry I’ve been getting in your way. Both of your ways. I didn’t realize it was all connected. I thought…I thought you had given up on it.”
“So you conducted your own investigation,” Cabanela says, “and you would’ve presented the findings to us if you had figured it out.”
“Well,” Lynne says, “I’m still not really sure. I’ve been hiding out here because it’s one of the shadier parts of town. It’s easy to stay away from the other officers.”
“Yomiel doesn’t just possess objects like Sissel does,” Jowd says. “He can also possess people.”
“So that’s what happened to me,” Cabanela says. “Did I…”
“Everyone but me’s currently alive,” Sissel says. “Missile helped.”
“Though I suspect one of my ribs is broken,” Jowd says dryly.
“Did Yomiel get away?” Cabanela asks.
“I think it’s more important that you’re alive,” Sissel says. “I have one more method of finding him. There’s a phone line to that submarine. And then…I guess from there it’ll be up to me. But what I do know is that whoever he’s working with has something planned for Yomiel and whatever Temsik is.”
“The park?” Lynne asks. “It’s always been named that…”
“He was hit by the meteor,” Jowd says. “That could be it.”
“I don’t have much longer here,” Sissel says. “Supposedly, I’m going to be gone once the morning comes. Not sure that’s true anymore, but…I have to find out the truth, and I think he’s the only one who knows.”
“Good luck,” Lynne says. “I’m rooting for you!”
“Thanks,” Sissel says.
“I know what happened to me now,” Lynne says. “He possessed me, didn’t he? I remember not being in control of myself. I can’t remember what actually happened, though…”
“There’s video footage from the surveillance footage of you shooting him,” Jowd says. “It’s irrefutable evidence. However, we also have evidence that he survived, unharmed. It’s likely that we could get the chief to drop your case.”
She perks up. “Really? You’d do that for me?”
“If anything, it’d fall under our purview, due to the…strangeness,” Jowd says.
“And weeeeeeee know for a fact that you didn’t kill him,” Cabanela says. “He’s still alive, after all.”
“More like he’s been dead the whole time,” Jowd says, frowning. “He said that to me while you were retrieving Amelie. He blames me for killing him. Was…”
“No,” Cabanela says. “You’re not right to blame yourself for it. It wasn’t you. It was never you.”
“He was going to make you shoot me,” Jowd says. “That’s what he did when he possessed you. You had your gun pointed at me. That was when Lynne came in.”
“Well, it’s not like anyone else was going to do anything.” She seems distinctly uncomfortable in a way that Cabanela doesn’t see often. “I mean, it sucks that I shot someone I barely knew, even if he did turn out to be totally alive and also evil. It would suck even harder to have shot someone I actually care about.”
“Thaaaaanks,” Cabanela says. “I appreciate it.”
“No problem!” she responds. “So, are you guys going to take me back to the station, then? I had a good run evading the law…”
“I don’t thiiiiiiink you’ll want to say that to the chief,” Cabanela says. The three of them walk back to the police car together.
“Then I just won’t,” she answers.
-
“It’s been a long night,” Jowd says.
The sun’s starting to rise. Cabanela hadn’t even noticed it was nearly dawn.
“We got a lot done,” Cabanela answers. “You think we need the SIU anymore now that we’ve solved the case?”
“We still need to find Yomiel,” Jowd says. “It’s not the end. We might know what happened, but…this isn’t over yet. Not until he can’t cause any more chaos.”
“I agree,” Cabanela says. “A new adventure awaits, baby!” He yawns. “But for now…I’m headin’ back home.”
“Have a good one,” Jowd says. “And I’ll see you then, too.”
Cabanela leaves and gets on his bike, taking one last look at the sunrise before riding off.
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GHOST TRICK: THE BIG FINALE
so I finished the game yesterday all on my lonesome without internet
why yes I am perfectly fine and not emotionally compromised in the slightest
enjoy my screaming
IT'S GHOST TRICKING TIME
which is to say it's ghost tricking time without internet so I'm doing this in wordpad
tumblr really needs an 'import rtf' function >_>
SO from what I remember, when last we left off I was about to try to figure out how the fuck a knitted cap and a helmet are going to help me stop a bullet
LET'S DIVE RIGHT BACK INTO THIS FOLKS
I still love how Sissel just ignores the dog's little 'WHATS A HOSTAGE O NO' instead of digging into explaining it
oh thank god the game DOES remember ive read this text before
...oh, I forgot how I did this the last time
O WELL
all right, so I remember swiveling the lamp and dropping the hard hat, then when the knitted cap is over here I can swap it with the book and get it on the hook
but how did I get the knitted cap over here
aha, he looked away for a moment, the helmet part is done
what the fuck do i do now
AHA
okay, so now i very quickly cart the ladder back and forth, I think I remember this
fuck, he noticed me, okay
don't swivel the lamp while he's watching, swivel it while he's still looking away
I gotta note the 'I don't know why you're wearing my face' part
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
fuck, nope, I can't swivel the lamp back at that moment because he notices it clattering and turns right around
FUCK OKAY LET'S TRY TO DO IT WITH THE LAMP THERE
ugh, if only I could do shit during the cutscene while he rolls away >_>
OK I SHOULD HAVE HAD MORE TRUST IN MISSILE
HE IS GREAT AND A VERY GOOD DOG
AND CAN AIM FOR SPLIT SECOND TIMING OF A BULLET BEING IN THE AIR OKAY
haha, and the knitted hat still hit Cabanela with enough velocity to knock him over
I love this
and I particularly love his dramatic leg up in the air
he doesn't evne know what's happening he just aims to be the most dramatic possible at all times and it's really helping us out <3
'i love knitted hats... so warm, and most of all, so SOFT' <3 <3 <3
god Missile is so good
this is pain
IS THE DAWN DEADLINE A LIE MAYBE
DID RAY JUST SAY THAT TO GET SISSEL'S BUTT MOVING
I DON'T KNOW
oh yeah Cabanela's still got broken bones all over I kind of forgot about that
oh ok, looks less like broken and more like just really fucking bruised, becuase in that movement he's put pressure on all limb bones and nothing bent out of shape, so that's good
lmao and Cabanela's just like 'BUT IF I WAS KILLED IN THAT EXPLOSION THE SITUATION WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER'
I
I don't think it would necessarily work out that way, considering how much difficulty our protagonist was having saving just the professor :x
oh hey we've got our next source of information! should be quite a wellspring if Sissel remembers everything he should ask
yeeep Cabanela you FUCKED UP
oh, the gun :x
HON IM PRETTY SURE THE FIRST PART IS MORE IMPORTANT
THE PART WHERE YOU TRIED TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF HIM
CORNERED RATS BITE
THIS IS COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY YOUR FAULT, ALL OF IT
aha, those cases, okay
and Cabanela was doing the thing because of Jowd
that makes sense -_- kind of
yep, that one little snag kind of puts a question mark on the whole thing
alright, that almost makes sense? kind of? makes Cabanela kind of a selfish butt doing this for his own obsession rather than for personally Jowd but makes sense
ok, the bringing him to justice minister to buy time thing actually does make a lot of sense
it wasn't A LOT of time that he bought but it was just enough and that's what counts
oh hey, this guy used to have the job that the blue fake stole?
(and yeah sounds like blue guys are just foreigners -_- bc they couldnt find spies that didnt stand out visually or anything)
hum
not a scratch, huh
regenerating dead body, okay
oh come ON Sissel don't be surprised now that part was obvious from the moment he said the corpse disappeared
the meteorite's radiation, okay, quite interesting :D
"it was like a meteorite had struck me on the head" so, has that been a cause of death today yet, because if it hasn't, this looks like foreshadowing -_-
hum, so the gun would have been loaded because he controlled Kamila, which she then wouldn't have a clear memory of
makes sense
HI LYNNE
JUST IN TIME
arrest her to keep her safe, that actually makes perfect sense
IF ONLY IT HAD WORKED LMAO
no wonder pigeon guy roasted him for that in the deleted timeline XD
"while he was at it" <3 <3 <3
awwww pigeon guy was friends with him too <3
hee
right on top of his striped jumpsuit
honestly he looked less escaped-from-prison-ish in the paint-splattered robe thing XD
a present, huh?
awww
see Sissel you don't feel lonely and that's what counts
ALRIGHT THEN :D
LET'S FUCKING GO :D
AND, UH, DO SOMETHING, I GUESS
I love how out of proportion Sissel's powers are
rewind time, talk to dead people... and move small objects a little
so, uh, Sissel, are you sure there's answers for YOU over there or did you just get into habit of telling this to yourself to feel better
okay well how the fuck did Jowd infiltrate a fucking SUBMARINE
like, I just want to know the physics of how this happened?
omfg the bullet had a radio transmitter
well, I have a newfound respect for Cabanela, I gotta admit
like I already respected him but I just figured he shot the guy out of a desperate 'can't do anything else might as well try this' urge to do SOMETHING
but nope he had a plan (which would have worked even with him dead)
wow, and he actually gave the thing to Jowd beforehand
n i c e
wow, okay, that's stealthy
aha, and he can totally leave his body and wander around freely
I think that was already confirmed but it's nice to know for even surer
wow, okay, what the fuck re: that thing reaching up from below
that definitely looked like... something else for a moment there 0.0
aand okay the meteorite is possible to extract from his body
I wonder if evil!Sissel actually knew that... or if that actually did anything to him :D
okay, what the FUCK and how many more people are dead now
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
MISSILE IS HERE TOOOOOOOO
the phone is ringing, how convenient :D
ooohkay this is tricky
so, why the fuck were there baseball and basketball balls hanging in nets under the ceiling on a submarine
...
...
you know what I don't want to know
wait, Kamila can't hear him?
oh, right, over the phone
ghosts communicate by close range telepathy
aaand this makes the FIFTH time Lynne's dead tonight!
or is it sixth? did i lose track somewhere?
AWWWW
THIS SCENE IS LIKE AN OVERDOSE OF CUTE
'i wonder what happened THIS TIME' yep lmao
no actually 'i dont remember what happened after that' sounds like evil!Sissel to me, personally
but do you know what this wheel does Sissel
are you sure turning it is a good idea
"I just sort of blacked out, the next thing I knew, I was dead"
<3 <3 <3
"now it's all making even less sense than before" AND THAT'S SAYING *SOMETHING*
but actually okay yea this does kind of sound like an explosion that killed Lynne and knocked Kamila out
aaand nope
I was absolutely correct )=
can this guy only puppet one body at a time? couldn't he have just possessed Lynne and had her slit her own throat or shoot herself or hang herself or something? that sounds a lot more productive than having a little girl fight her
I mean, even if he only can puppet one body at a time, puppetting Lynne would have been a lot more productive overall, is there a reason he can't?...
or does he just love to do things in the most convoluted and roundabout manner typical to villains everywhere -_-
"nobody ever calls the dead" ARGUABLE
a number of phone calls has been made this night specifically for the purpose of putting our!Sissel on the line
aand okay :D
looks like the blue assholes saved Lynne just in time, sort of
...for a certain definition of 'saved'
so anyway this guy said something like 'you cannot possibly comprehend my suffering'
so it would be funny if he was just a random dumbass that a bad thing hapened to one (1) time, which granted also killed him, but all the misery since then has been of his own making and he's put every single person involved in the events through worse just over the course of tonight, and simply has no sense of scale, perspective or proportion
I think that would be great if the story went there XD
EDITOR'S NOTE IN RETROSPECT: the story didn't go there and that was not fucking okay (it's dead women in the fridge again!)
and Sissel can't understand revenge as a concept SOUL TWINSIES WITH ME OR WHAT
lmao Lynne is starting to get touchy about how many times she's needed rescue lately XD
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE WHY CAN'T I REACH FOR ANYTHING YET
also, interesting to note that in the 4 minutes ago past, neither Lynne nor Kamila have a core
looks like Sissel's interaction with this realm is limited after all, and not only by phones
there's v interesting existential fuckery going on here, of the exact sort I ABSOLUTELY LOVE
oh THERE we go
'nobody ever calls the dead' ARGUABLE again
and I love Lynne's signature instant-snap-into-hands-over-head animation + pose
Good Reflexes
ALRIGHT, FIDDLING WITH RANDOM SHIT WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT IT MIGHT DO TIME
...and that sure worked fast
hum, a random mechanic, alright
oh hon that's a, um, what's the opposite of exaggeration
I know this word in Russian >_>
over...littlification?
that
'restless ghosts onboard' THAT'S ONE WAY TO PUT THAT
lmao that was one odd fate change
alright, found the temsik fragment capsule, I see
yay unexpectedly strong wastebucket lids (seriously, that's a whole freaking basketball, there's a reason the nets worked like that lmao)
alright, just watching the cutscene for now, that's fair
this guy sure looks like he's going to abandon his entire crew and blow up the sub or something
"farewell, sir" WELL THAT DID NOT SOUND QUITE RIGHT
alright, and we're left in the capsule rather than the fragment which apparently did not have a core of its own for some reason
OMFG THERE'S A LITTLE RAT IN THE TORPEDO
ARE WE GOING TO HAVE A RUBE GOLDBERG MACHINE INVOLVING A SMALL RODENT AGAIN BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE BEST KIND
BUT ALSO THIS IS NOT HOW TORPEDOS WORK
BUT ALSO HI RAT!!!
yeah exactly thanks Sissel! how the FUCK did it get here
also I love that the characters DO pay attention to the wellbeing of innocent rats in this game <3
well, you COULD just try to get it to blow up earlier, in the water
you'd be stuck but you'd be heroes, or something
well, Lynne would go back to her body, Sissel would be stuck :D
oh, and the rat would die, that's the bad news
YEAH LET'S SAVE THE RATTIE FIRST
if this time the rat is going to be in the way rather than helping, well, I REALLY DO RESPECT THAT
LET'S SAVE THE RAT
alright, after some trial and error I DID manage to get both weights in the same position (mostly by luck) and throw off the rat
NOW TO SAFETY
alright, this looks promising
OKAY IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE KAMILA AND LYNNE MIGHT BE SAFE FROM EVIL!SISSEL NOW THAT'S GOOD NEWS
yusss
caring about rats ftw <3
that's what missiles do, huh
they're unstoppable
i dont know who it is i hear there but Missile is great yes
well, whatever this is, our!Sissel just turned it on
maybe it's pumps to remove water!... not that they'll do much against an unplugged breach but
aha, okay, won't move for long
this movement through a machine's gears feels like the purest expression of the game's premise since the junkyard tricks at the very beginning <3
the way Kamila's speech kinda fades in from white? that worries me
...eeeyup
god but I love this game's animation. this little one of Lynne hoisting Kamila up on her back? it feels, like, PERFECTLY balanced with their weights and Lynne's strength and everything <3 <3 <3
oh my god Lynne why couldn't you just... be able to swim
not that it would help much with Kamila unconscious but
oh my god Lynne is literally right here why do I still have trouble moving around freely???
oh, found it!
wow, she's climbing one-handed while carrying Kamila, that's some serious upper body strength <3
W E L P
YEP THAT'S SOME SERIOUS STRENGTH THAT SHE DIDNT JUST FUCKING FALL
NOR DROP KAMILA
yeeep okay WOW
ARE YOU BOTH GOING TO DIE NOW OR WHAT
okay, no, just fall, and not even in the water
that's good news
LYNNE
THIS IS NOT A POSE YOU WANT TO BE IN RIGHT NOW
unless you're actually holding yourself against that shit in the background with your left hand and I just can't see it I guess
...nope, she was holding her chin
LYNNE
NO
MISSILE
HURRAY
okay, the fan thing makes sense
now to swap around a bunch of broken pipes so they don't get in lynne's way, got it
FOR FUCK'S SAKE
I REALLY DON'T SEE A WINNING COMBO HERE
aand I fucking lost
but at least I got Sissel in position -_-
alright, now with one pipe turned off it actually works out easily
it just... took me really long to realize I'd need Sissel for this one -_-
Lynne honey but have you considered: you have no fucking clue what's behind that door
although presumably submarine has only been breached in one place and it's this room?
holy shit with the hook Sissel managed to hoist the combined weight of Lynne and Kamila
now THAT's a nifty trick
SISSEL FOR FUCK'S SAKE
SHE CAN'T MUSTER LEVERAGE FOR THIS BECAUSE SHE HAS TO HOLD HERSELF AND KAMILA UP
AND SHE'S TIRED
SHE CAN ASK FOR HELP EXCLUSIVELY IN SWAHILI SWEARS AND IT'D STILL BE A WAY THAT YOU HAVE TO PUT UP WITH
aww, someone's saving us!!!
someone who commented on unstoppable missiles earlier, perhaps?
right, the truth... that's still relevant. while on a sinking submarine. yep
haha sinking submaries i have just been playing oxenfree haha
oh wow
that's an improvised mechanism made out of garbage sticking in a close range telekinetic field
nifty shit
oh
oh okay
that
explains absolutely nothing
evil!Sissel is not evil now, or what?
lmao
this is getting more confusing, but like... in a very satisfying way <3
evil!Sissel still seems to have SOME amount of powers, at least, though possibly not the manipulating humans ones? but this amount of telekinesis is still incredible
so okay our Sissel's name possibly IS Sissel, but this dude's isn't
I'm more confused than ever before
I doubt there are three of them, so...
ahh, Lynne making Kamila more comfortable <3 <3 <3
and again, animation is fucking excellent. just, the timing of everything? it's better than 90% of all 3D animation I've ever seen in games
power and time, okay, got it
so the dawn deadline IS real, just not for him
wait, possibly not for Sissel and Missile, either?
I see he still fell in his signature ridiculous pose
it's less funny now, overall
ah, okay, so the time effect is different too
it seems to have been the same for Sissel and Missile though? is this a personality powers deal?
I love that Missile is perfectly comfortable with weird shit because as a dog, that's about the amount of understanding he has of his everyday surroundings, too <3
oh, hum
so the moment this guy actually 'died' is the moment that blue guy took out the fragment?
wipe out everybody, huh
okay, so the shooting is as we knew, kind of
the first shot missed the mark, huh? quite curious, quite curious
stray bullets are known to be deadly :D
alright, so that's a conversation that mostly confirmed what we already knew
we have a new ally though, sort of
aand Lynne's empathy saves the day -_-
like I said earlier, this guy's feelings aren't like... unique or anything, he just sucks at theory of mind
Kamila!!!
so hey kiddo this guy in front of you is the guy who killed your mom
anyway, I'm still pretty sure Sissel hadn't yet introduced himself to you when you started calling him "Sissy" so there's that lead
and Kamila makes herself comfortable <3 I love this Little Lady so much <3
AWWWW
THE RADIO THING <3 <3 <3
'and what about a torpedo' WHAT ABOUT A TORPEDO LYNNE
THIS SOUNDS EXTREMELY UNSAFE
KAMILA ARE YOU KIDDING ME YOU'RE TOUGH AS FUCK
OMG IT'S A GRAPE SERVING MACHINE
I LOVE THE LUXURIOUS FUCK THIS WAS MADE FOR
alright, torpedo room, that works
swap the switches to get them unstuck!!!
so I'm going to guess everyone there died, too, and Sissel's going to have to prevent that, too
that makes perfect sense
that 'understand exactly how he feels' thing
our!Sissel and evil!Sissel are really fucking different in this particular respect :D
awww and the girls convince the doggo <3 <3 <3
so, does Kamila know about the dawn deadline for all ghosts, or
oh thank god I didn't need to control that hop
this game really has a policy of not having a permaloss option <3
Yomiel, huh
so that's his name
alright, and 'Sissel' is an alias
...I'm just going to keep using it for the protag, just to make things slightly less confusing
ah, so this guy had access to national secrets, and that's how he did the singer thing
and he was proven innocent offscreen <3 <3 <3
stylish
stylish animation, nice
didn't help anybody? did you ever try? because our!Sissel sure figured that shit out quickly
welp, the blue guys are assholes
but then, they were also kind of dealing with an asshole
I can imagine why they didn't think he was reliable to deal with :x
awww, I like the leaflet guy so much <3 <3 <3
I love how Jowd's like 'well, I'm dead, are you happy now'
and Sissel's like 'so anyway about that'
FUCK death
not tonight, not when Sissel's here
<3 <3 <3
alright, and this guy's a robot
that still doesn't quite
he's pretty human-like
>_>
I am not a fan of the blue guy in charge is all I'm saying
also lmao I nicknamed this one 'iron man dracula'
i didn't mean it that way but
ah, remote-controlled, alright
that 'farewell' was odd then
'your country's use of technology is just plain off'
I LOVE THIS
could there have been two pieces of meteorite in this guy's body?
okay, nope
still!
OH WOW
FOUR MINUTES BEFORE HIS DEATH
THAT'S
THAT'S ACTUALLY EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING EVEN THOUGH I THOUGHT THIS BODY BELONGED TO THE WRONG 'WHOM'
THIS IS SOMEWHAT MORE AMBITIOUS THAN PLANNED BUT
...okay, no, his 'death' would actually be before the control room was launched, not all those years ago
STILL
THIS IS THE -EXACT- THING
alright anyway
this is plenty of buildup
WHO THE FUCK IS OUR PROTAGONIST
it's funny how so far absolutely 0 of what we've seen has pointed to that
I have plenty of odd thoughts in my mind ofc
'that guy from another point of time' being the prime one
as a homestuck, the possibility of there being multiple ghosts of the same person doesn't faze me in the slightest
in fact it seems like an intuitive conclusion
BUT THEIR PERSONALITY SURE IS DIFFERENT
anyway, :D :D :D
Final Chapter
...aha! so it counted ten years ago after all!
dang :D
aha, I see that mascot thing
I see baby Lynne!!!
I note how for someone threatening to shoot the kid, Yomiel's gun sure is pointing in the wrong direction
AND he's holding out the kid to the side, not between himself and Jowd
SOMEONE sucks at hostage taking lmao
a kitty, huh
and then a meteorite, okay
I note the lamp
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Yomiel is thinking 'so maybe I'll die in another way and all this will have not happened, that's a better outcome anyway' isn't he
god
his faces are Sissel faces and look this game knows EXACTLY what it's doing with its visuals
exactly one facial exression of Yomiel's has not matched Sissel's
I doubt it's because of lazy artists
alright, so a good plan would be swapping the mascot and the lamp
but seriously, WOW Yomiel sucks at taking hostages
this game's animation is always stellar and brilliant, there's NO fucking coincidence there
he was absolutely not willing in any way to put baby Lynne in actual danger, even if he pretended he did and it worked on Jowd
anyway how the fuck do we get to the lamp
'we can talk about all this later' ARGUABLE TBH
the entire, like, THING is going to change
oh man is everyone going to go back to their bodies 10 years ago with their new memories because that's fucking hardcore
was Kamila even BORN yet
augh
I DONT KNOW
I CANT REACH I THINK
I CANT REACH ANYTHING WHAT DO I DO
MISSILE IS IN THE SWEET POTATO ON THE FOUNTAIN
SISSEL IS IN THE NOZZLE BUT NOT THE CENTRAL ONE AND CANT REACH THE CENTRAL ONE
WHAT DO I DO
okay sounds like I missed my chance
let's try that again
ghhhh
okay I think I have figured this sequence out even though I have to rewind again
1) rock the basket
2) jump into nozzle to launch the potato
3) Sissel jumps into the potato and then from the potato to the central nozzle
4) Missile jumps into the potato
5) launch the potato x2
okay, Mino fell into the fountain, not that I know how this can help
because AGAIN, Missile can't reach Mino from the lantern :x
and Sissel can't do absolutely fucking anything
annd the finale is a cutscene
alas
alright, let's try that again...
hum
we didn't get a FATE CHANGE registered after dropping Mino
might this mean we have to do something right in the process?
AW YEAH
THAT DEFINITELY JUST HAPPENED LMAO
are we going to kill everyone by dropping Mino on them instead XD
trick time, huh
Sissel still can't reach anywhere
Missile can swap two identical lanterns, not that this does anything
he can talk to Sissel, for what THAT's worth
aha, the lantern dropped, Missile can move around now, that's good
Sissel still can't do shit though
well, that's the detective's LEG, not... anything else or anything
oh man, yeah... YOUNG JOWD IS A DUMBASS
man, even Yomiel isn't aiming at him anymore, he's like 'hey dude are you okay'
so the theory that Sissel is alternate!Yomiel is really gaining steam in my head
not that it wasn't the primary one all along but
AW FUCK YEAH
MISSILE THE BULLET CATCHING BADASS DOGGO!!!
anyway sweet potato?
BOO YAH
um
or not
OR YES ACTUALLY THAT WORKS
OH MY FUCKING GOD
YEP
THE LAMPPOST
FUCKING MINO
awwwwww
and finally the trauma of remembering your death is brought up!!!! Sissel cares <3 <3 <3 (and Yomiel doesn't at the moment NOT THAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND THAT IN CONTEXT) (then again I'd understand it if Sissel didn't either but he's the purest being in existence so)
awwww
Yomiel is finally going to contribute!!!
omfg lmao
"Make it spray as if your life depended on it!"
"Uh, I'm dead though"
Yomiel is winning ALL the sensitivity awards tonight <3 <3 <3
I
I think that Yomiel hasn't done anything yet
oh, okay, we're still winning time
holy FUCK Yomiel
that was
definitely a thing you just did
dear Young Jowd,
Yomiel is the one who saved her. Not gods
awwww
and he gave baby Lynne a detective's badge <3 <3 <3
he's so good with children <3
so, can Yomiel be alive please :x
ALRIGHT, HE IS
THAT WORKS
THE KITTY
DID THE METEORITE KILL THE KITTY
wait wait wait
is
is Sissel the kitty
is that why he has no idea how guns work or anything else like that
that
that is truly fucking incredible f y'all's i
AND I GUESS IT FITS WITH HIM AND MISSILE JUST GOING AROUND SAVING PEOPLE TOGETHER LIKE A BADASS DUO
AND IT FITS WITH HIM GETTING KILLED BY LYNNE'S FIRST SHOT ON ACCIDENT
I HONESTLY CONSIDERED A RAT OPTION FOR LIKE A SPLIT SECOND THERE
OMG
OMG OMG OMG
YE
S
AND HIS NAME REALLY IS SISSEL
god
jesus fucking christ
this
this fucking game
i just
im howling
this
this definitely
is a thing that just happened
it owned me so hard
im so fucking owned right now
yep
hes the cat
he's Yomiel's cat
aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwww
there's a good reason he had identity confusion in all this
they WERE confusable as one being for a while
'her' huh?
oh man
wow THIS particular part of the story sucks
so Sissel was a girl's name all along? okay
but also, FUCK
no wonder he went bonkers specifically about being unable to die
'his powers couldnt help anybody' more like they couldn't help ONE SPECIFIC PERSON
so that bag is a kitty carrier huh
and Lynne's miss accidentally killed the kitty
LMAO THE PART WHERE WE ALL THOUGHT LYNNE HAD KILLED THE PROTAG WASN'T WRONG
I DAMN FUCKING REMEMBER THAT CAT
JUST FOR YALLS I
I ABSOLUTELY REMEMBERED THERE WAS A CAT THERE
I JUST NEVER LINKED IT TO ANYTHING I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY PRETTY RANDOM STRAY
anyway Yomiel that's what you get for playing with guns
they're deadly weapons and result in death
you're fucking welcome
so anyway who the fuck is Ray
but anyway kitty Sissel saved everyone...
okay but hold on hold on hold on
I didn't quite get the implications about the fiancee the first time around
WHAT THE FUCK CAPCOM
i was just recently thinking how fucked up it was that I remembered the last name of Polly Jenkins, just because of how much her brief story shook me
and uh
I think
is that also the implication here
because that's not fucking okay
anyway so did Yomiel die as the result of that or nay
bc that looked fucking deadly if not instantaneously so
god but
this ffucking game
this fucking... game
oh Missile I'm pretty sure YOU are going to see HIM alright lmao
wasn't Jowd taking him home
but also damn
the original events of these ten years, as remembered by
- a dog and a cat
- Detective Jowd and Kamila (but not Alma, who never was brought back to life directly)
- Lynne
- Cabanela
- the medical examiner
- the minister of justice
AND NO-ONE ELSE
...wait, no
ALSO
THE GUY FROM THE FUCKING PARK
...yep
that's a thing we're doing
so another important thing is that the rock star kid is going to be okay
and the curry guy, too
nothing bad happened to them in this timeline, right?
ALRIGHT
HI RAY
WHAT/WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU
(right now my bet's on 'a rat')
oh, Sissel also killed two people tonight, that happened
lmao and in this version of evens Missile died in the presence of Temsik
omfg and Ray is alternate!Missile
this is fucking amazing <3
lmao his ghost aged and lost its powers?
also the dawn deadline was a lie he just wanted to get Sissel's butt moving I FUCKING KNEW IT
I love how Sissel's just "I DID WHAT" even though he's been doing that all evening this time around too
yup doggie's a fucking liar
the only real time limit is the lifetime they would have had if they were alive huh
damn
but seriously I called that before I started this section of the liveblog even if I think I never actually made that post
'what are the odds Ray is a fucking liar' I don't think I ever wrote that
I kept getting distracted
but yep I fucking called this
THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART
GOD
I AM ;U;
THIS DOGGO
anyway one participant of the events who definitely wasn't born yet 10 years ago is indeed Missile 0.0
how's that... gonna work...
but I do love that just... the justice minister, of all people, is also going to be in possession of those 10 years
OH MY FUCKING GOD
LYNNE IS ABOUT TO HAVE A FUCKING HEART ATTACK
I KNOW THERE'S NO GUN BUT
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
KAMILA WHAT THE FUCK DON'T FUCKING DO THAT
THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING
aawwwwwww
IT WORKED THIS TIME AROUND
'nice to meet you' OH BOY
OH BOY I GET HOW IT WORKS NOW I THINK
...uh, I'm not sure how Lynne knew to flee from the junkyard then, but either way
it looks like they're only getting back their memories at the PRESENT
and that's why Kamila didn't fUCKING KNOW AND REMEMBER WHAT THE FUCK WAS WRONG WITH DOING THAT JUST NOW
LMAO SOMETHING'S GOING TO EXPLODE TONIGHT
oh, nevermind, it's not that yet :D
but it really does sound like it's going to :D
right... about... dawn? :D
aww Jowd actually carries toy badges with him everywhere <3 <3 <3
'child handling tools'
still a kitten, huh
yeah, that whole Temsik thing :D
aww, and here's her, all alive and everything
SO
BIG MEMORYSPLOSION
PLEASE
(at dawn)
(it's fucking coming that's my headcanon and you can't beat it)
(a bunch of people are going to become really fucking traumatized tonight)
hey!!! Missile!!!
Cabanela brought him, huh
so, what's up with Yomiel, anyway
COME ON SISSEL MAKE NICE WITH MISSILE
HE CAN'T CLIMB UP THERE
that guy's imitating Cabanela lmao
Memry <3 <3 <3
very best customer, huh
AWWW
ITS THIS GUY
HI GUY
YOU'RE OKAY NOW
WITHOUT YOMIEL TO RUIN EVERYTHING YOU'RE JUST FINE
hah, and these two
.............................................yup. they died
'the indescretions of a minister perhaps?' I LOVE THIS FUCKING LADY I LOVE HER I LOVE HER
ah, these two
what deal is it this time
the little rock sinter guy!!! yeah!!!!
hi medical examiner guy <3 guess you're not doing medicine after all huh
HI LEAFLET PARK GUY
YOU ARE STILL CUTE
HI BAILEY
oh man
oh man
Yomiel :D
hey are talking about Yomiel :D
SHOW ME HIS FIANCEE YOU COWARDS
lmao he's the painter this time
even the robe sits the same
SO
SHOW ME
OH YEAH
OH YEAH HE REMEMBERS
THATS THE PICTURE OF THE FUCKING CAT AND NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT
YUP
YUP
THIS IS IT
lmao that crane
i sure do remember it well
it murdered two people tonight
<3 <3 <3
kitty <3 <3 <3
aw yeah! in that picture with Missile!!!
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