If you feel that there is something you need to do with it, sure... Otherwise, I think it was at a reasonable rest point for now until the next big shake-up happens. The wheels of justice move slowly, after all, and the mid-term elections aren't here yet either.





It came out of me considering different characters for placement on a LL Diplomatic staff. Obviously, the first criteria was whether I thought it would be fun to put whichever character into the role I was considering... but once I had ideas on who I wanted, I needed to think through and determine whether it made sense to give them those roles. What pluses and minuses would they bring?

Chiaki actually fits well as a bodyguard with Akiko, for a variety of reasons. Akiko was always written as someone who liked to flaunt her unconventional ways in front of the other crime figures... hence all of the pink. With her, it's almost a dare/trap... "See the helpless little female: go ahead and make a move". Plus, she has plenty of muscle in her organization to scare away any rash action against her... what she wants in her immediate circle are the absolute best people, and she wants them nondescript. The big-league people she deals with will have gone through enough themselves in making it to the top to know that her survival in organized crime is no accident. In many situations among these people, a show of force is a show of insecurity.

Vizh (and Earth, for that matter) would be new to the specific corridors of power he was about to enter, and he'd be dealing with many who got where they were entirely by accident of birth. There would be plenty in those circles who would need an obvious show of force to keep them from underestimating Earth's representative and starting anything rash.