thelxinoes:

Munakata *would* use knives. His signature is the clean, orderly nature of his kill. He drains the blood after he slits the throat. Much like Dexter, he’s got a clean room set up somewhere. He kills by knocking his victims out first, and then bringing them to his clean room before slicing their jugular and draining the body of blood. He then dumps it in vat of acid or something, leaving almost nothing behind in the way of debris. 

Suoh thinks Reisi’s methods are too easy, honestly. Where’s the challenge if you’re going to knock your victim out? I mean, really. Suoh prefers to shoot, point blank, execution style. He’s an exhibitionist of sorts – always taking his prey in public, semi-public spaces. He likes the thrill of having to make an escape. 

Reisi thinks Mikoto is in-fucking-sane. Why would you cut short a brilliant career in serial killing by getting yourself caught?

But they decide, on a whim, to give the other’s MO a shot. Mikoto is good at the abduction bit. He manages to secure his victim to the table and everything. But he finds that he cannot slice through sinew and skin and gristle in one clean cut the way Reisi does. He has to make several and his masterpiece is ruined. Reisi is a strategist, so he can get away with as much skill as Mikoto, but he’s not as good a marksman. Instead of one shot, he had to take three. It doesn’t have the same finesse as Mikoto’s kills, he realizes.

And these two murderous sociopaths fall in love with one another all over again. Until Awashima and Kusanagi track them down and throw them the fuck in jail where they belong.