i see a lot of detective!kay post-timeskip, but consider.
investigative journalist kay, who follows her stories with an intensity that means she sometimes won’t sleep for days
who risks her life trying to find the truth, whose stories expose corruption and oppression and uplift victims and the marginalized
who’s been bailed out of jail multiple times, first by miles and now by ema, because she crossed the wrong person or jumped the wrong fence
(miles, who paid for kay’s college education and never talks about it, who makes sure to tell kay that he’s proud of her because he never wants her to feel like he used to, who asks her to be in his wedding party and puts her in his will and makes sure that he and phoenix always have a space for her)
(and ema, who supports and encourages her and looks the other way because she of all people knows exactly how flawed the justice system is, exactly who slips through the cracks. ema, who loves kay fiercely and kisses the top of her head and tells her to come home safe)
and kay, who sees her work as an extension of the yatagarasu. kay, who exposes the truth in the name of her father, who will work until the justice system convicts the guilty and frees the innocent and becomes something that works as it should instead of breaking things apart