Preston considered the answers, gave the applicant a good long measuring look, and then frowned slightly as he looked at the bribe. "You have a puppet." It seemed a very strange thing for someone who sounded like law enforcement to be carrying, even here. "Why?"
He thought about that for a moment. "They help me focus," Near said eventually. "It's easier to think about people if I have something to represent them."
Anyone else might have met that remark with a withering glare, but Near merely looked at Ron calmly. Temper tantrums had been Mello's style, not his. "Simply Near."
"Alright, then. I'm Ron." He held out his hand. "Not simply. Weasley. Also, Professor now, I guess, technically. So Professor Ron Weasley." His grin was damn wide at that one. He hadn't really been saying that too often.
It wasn't often Susan ran across anyone with hair even remotely like hers--there was Silas, the albino monk, and until now that had been it. (And, considering Silas was half-insane and was convinced that she was some kind of demon, he almost didn't count.)
Near also took note of Susan's somewhat unusual appearance, although his features registered nothing but polite greeting. "I don't need it anymore. I no longer feel the need for it as a symbol."
Psychology was something of an alien land for Susan--she had a (very) rudimentary understanding, but what purpose a puppet might serve, she didn't know. "Do you mind if I see it a moment?"
Re: SPOILERS FOR NEAR'S REAL NAMEcardarchitectFebruary 17 2008, 05:58:09 UTC
...Interesting. It only took a moment's pondering for Near to recognize the face; Soichiro Yagami, father of Light Yagami. Hadn't he died? Did he know who... what... his son was?
All those thoughts flickered through his mind at high speed. Near merely smiled and bowed politely. "Yagami-san, I presume?"
Konata had not read the latest chapter, as she had come here, so she was mildly surprised to see Near look so...adult. But, then again, maybe it's an adult cosplaying Near when he should have cosplayed L. Or Mello!
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"Near what?"
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"May I ask about your puppet?" she said.
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So this was the other successor to L, so he claimed, the one that knew that Light wasn't L.
It did him no good right now, but Soichiro kept his real name-Nate River-tucked away in the back of his mind.
"You're older than I expected you to be, considering your, ah, counterpart's age."
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All those thoughts flickered through his mind at high speed. Near merely smiled and bowed politely. "Yagami-san, I presume?"
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"If you insist. I feel it fair to warn you, technically, we haven't met yet, this is 2008."
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"Can I have a picture with you?"
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"I'm sorry, but no. I don't like cameras."
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"I did offer the puppet as a bribe. Would you like it?"
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