Application for Mia Fey, Phoenix Wright / Gyakuten Saiban game series

[defense_rests]

((Mia is taken from after Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, so beware of moderate spoilers. I'll label major spoilers in the comments if at all possible. Also: important clues are indicated by colored text in the game. I will keep this to a minimum.

Permission has been obtained from the other active PW muns. Can you say "workninja?" I knew

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[apex_raptor]

Being a raptor, he had exceedingly little use for free legal advice and coffee, nevermind that he could neither read nor speak English and didn't actually know what the woman was offering. What he did know was that he was hungry, vastly outnumbered, tended to be ignored by most occupants of the castle when not causing a ruckus, and that new arrivals occasionally had (or were, themselves) edible snacks of deliciousness.

With a sort of hopeful look to his reptilian face (which in truth was almost indistinguishable from his normal expression), he made his way toward the applicant, claws tapping against the floor as he walked. He stopped a short distance away, stretched his neck forward, and chirruped at Mia expectantly.

(( OOC ))

[c_macaulay]

(( *diiiies* This seriously made my morning. You win. ))

Re: (( OOC ))

[apex_raptor]

((Why thank you. :D))

[defense_rests]

((OMG. I nearly snorted coffee out my nose at this one. So much win. Repost to fix reaction.))Well. This was new. What kind of school let a dinosaur - no, a velociraptor if she was guessing right - wander around unchecked? Especially with Pearl here - her cousin would be maybe one bite for the creature

[apex_raptor]

((Aww, sorry? XD I love your Mia, btw.))

Outward appearances could only do so much in fooling animals with acute senses of smell. So far as the raptor's nose was concerned, feeling fear and panic was almost on level with doing the old running and screaming routine; either reaction could potentially trigger the primordial, exclusively predator part of his brain, depending on circumstances.

Fortunately the applicant was handling the situation better than most might, without making herself out to be obvious prey. And so the raptor simply returned her unwavering stare, attentive to her every action.

His attention soon shifted to what Mia held, the diaphanous material, made interesting only by the fact she seemed concerned with it. He took a step forward, long tail swaying then twitching, betraying his curiosity. He could only decipher the human noises by their tone, which was perfectly calm and slightly at odds with what he was smelling, and his survival instincts helpfully reminded him of being vastly outnumbered by humans, so don't

[defense_rests]

((Don't be, it woke me up better than the coffee ever could. And thank you - I'm still not sure I have her down right, so that's good to hear! Being intentionally vague here to avoid meta; I figure she's referring to the PW universe's equivalent of Jurassic Park, and hence wouldn't recognize any of the JP-muns.))Mia couldn't help the instinctive reaction. Even she had some sense of self-preservation, and it was natural to be unnerved by an honest-to-God velociraptor only a few feet away. Her outward reaction was controllable, at least. But as the raptor stepped forward, it still made no move to attack, and Mia frowned, perplexed. She wasn't about to pat it on the snout or anything, but it didn't seem immediately hostile. The scent of fear and panic that it was picking up probably lessened a bit. "I don't suppose you can understand me?" It was a magic school, she was no longer dead, so who knew at this rate

[apex_raptor]

((I think your Mia's spot-on, for what it's worth. The little touches from the games (like red clue text) are fun too! Wasn't sure if you meant for the house-elf to return in my post or your next one, so I'll just go ahead and have it return in mine to save Mia's poor scarf. XD))When Mia again made those human noises, the raptor's eyes moved from the scarf to her face, and as though he understood her words (he didn't), he gave a short growl. Then the dangling, twirling material pulled his attention back to it. Contrary to what the applicant thought, the scarf was proving to be more than adequately entertaining for the beast-so much so that he barely paid any mind to the cowering house-elf, which he normally would have chased a bit, or at the very least snapped at

[defense_rests]

((I've been a little remiss with the red clue text in the app so far - I know it's supposed to be orange, but switched to red so it would be readable. Hee, that's fine; I figured that her scarf would be replaceable. The magatama and badge? Not so much.))"Oh!" Startled - by both the house elf's reappearance and the raptor's fumble - Mia let go of the scarf and stepped back hastily as the raptor lurched past her and rounded on the befuddled house elf in the next moment. This was not good. She had no desire to let one of these creatures get eaten either

Vote: Ravenclaw

[apex_raptor]

((...don't ask how the raptor knows how to vote. He just does. XD))As the hamburgers steadily disappeared, the raptor made a content sort of growling sound. The meat tasted funny, and wasn't nearly as warm and bloody as he'd have liked, but it was the first half-decent meal he'd had since wandering out of that strange room reeking of butter. All things considered, life was pretty good

Re: Vote: Ravenclaw

[defense_rests]

((Yeah, well, it's Hogwarts. "Don't ask how..." applies to most of the crack here. This was fantastic. ♥ ))

Mia sensibly kept her arms crossed and her hands to herself as the raptor sniffed her and then her scarf. She watched it depart with a bemused expression - and when it disappeared out the door, she let out a sigh of relief. Picking up her scarf, she took a moment to inspect it for stains and found none - the house elves kept the floors clean enough to eat off of literally in this case. A small group was already converging on the spot where the hamburgers had met their untimely end. In a few minutes, there would no longer be any physical evidence that a dozen hamburgers had met an untimely death-by-raptor