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          “I hate cats.” Yosuke flopping dramatically, draping himself over Souji, is pretty much as dramatic as a cat seeking attention, although he’s not going to say so out loud at the moment. At least he made sure not to wrinkle any precious court documents. He’s being vaguely thoughtful in his desire for Souji to serve as a fainting couch.
          “You do not hate cats,” he replies mildly, nonetheless responding to the desire for comfort and running his fingers through his partner’s hair. Yosuke sighs and goes boneless.
          And then yawns. He’s not going to be able to keep his grudge going, which is good because Souji likes not being single with Yosuke. Then again, it’s easy not to take Yosuke’s hyperbolic statements of vendetta seriously; he’s usually bad at keeping them even when he desperately wants to, which is part of why Souji hadn’t taken his pursuit of the Mole so seriously. “I do when they make me run all over town and then fall off a building. At least the owner was appreciative in the form of thanks and extra cash,” he mutters.
          Souji instantly starts checking him for wounds (seriously, despite being a detective you’d think he wouldn’t fall off a building again, Souji really really hated seeing him in the hospital the first time) and Yosuke chuckles into Souji’s thigh. “I’m fine, honest,” he mutters, already on the verge of drifting off right here and now, and Souji clucks his tongue, unimpressed.
          “I’m concerned about your definition of fine, detective,” he responds. He can feel the smile.

Death Mark II-I’m really getting Lost Judgment vibes here, and not just because protag was given a job to continue the investigation at the school. I’m thinking the Departed acts like The Professor and you call on them to have a hit put out by a ghost, essentially.

(also an aside I got the 'pay me for most likely stolen or AI fanwork of your story' spam comment on Ao3.  reported them of course, but hey, be aware if you're stalking me here too Ao3 sends copies of the comments to your email unless you turn the setting off so deleting the comments will not protect you or your account.  I would just ignore and delete if you sent me a message here, but I am not about to let you break Ao3 ToS; it's non-commercial for a good reason)

On that note I actually have softened on my stance on Lost Judgment? Like, at least ‘beating up kids’ and ‘suspicions against Yagami’ are taken seriously? It’s treated lightly, but it’s pretty clear they’re not clueless. Unlike that one side quest to unlock the street singer love interest in the first game. (I think they’re trying; I just don’t think they get how even close calls like that linger. Though maybe there’s more in the actual romance storyline that I just haven’t seen. That beginning just squicked me and I did the mature, responsible thing and nopetopus’d out of there.)

The idea here for the title is that Yosuke in this universe is a law nerd and has done a decent number of civil cases—so he’d know debt terms. The debt remains the same; i.e. he doesn’t think he’s paid it off or that the terms of the contract should change and no amount of ‘you’re not at fault’ judgments from others will make him believe it. I also considered some ‘representing yourself’ terms, since he’s essentially the one putting himself on trial, but.
I don’t know what it is about this specific song that makes me go ‘this is the Verdict reasoning/putting together the pieces/thinking song’, but. It is what it is.
he's not kidding about Kanji's fashion, btw, man's one of the most well-dressed yakuza around.  Unlike his counterpart he doesn't have a full gold suit and switches it up, but if you see one of the most eye-catching shirts particularly if it's got some sort of metallic pattern on it it's probably Kanji.  (Honestly, he might be making one-of-a-kind shirts himself because he's awesome.)  Not over the top, not gaudy, but he absolutely would fit right in at a nightclub.

so the ninja sidequest is kinda cringe, but--I find it absolutely fascinating that Yagami just looks at sex appeal and goes 'huh?'    so while i'm not sure he's fully ace, he very definitely might be on the ace spectrum

kaito and yagami in phasmo thooougggh

Edit: Oh yeah, also this is a call for advice.  I hadn't bothered naming the Xander/Leon series because I didn't expect it to go this long but I've got posts scheduled for a while, so.  Clearly there's a lot to this one.  I've never had this much trouble naming a series before.  Any readers want to chip in with suggestions?

this is gonna be the yakuza 4 which is all the sadder because this might be the last judgment game we get, huh?