A/N: A drabble composed during (re-)watching this scene in the film (Director's Cut). Naturally, it's Rorschach-centric. Enjoy?
He is well aware of what today is.
It's raining, pouring down like a thousand angel's tears, and he idly wonders why the Comedian deserves the sky's weeping, but then again, this isn't the Comedian's funeral, is it? It's Edward Blake's. Not many know that it's the Comedian. And those who know hardly care.
But they're here. What's left of the Watchmen, in a manner of speaking, is here. He sees them; Dr. Manhattan, Nite Owl II, Ozymandias. He sees them as he walks by, sign in hand.
No one recognizes him. He hadn't expected them to. He doesn't want them to.
Blake gets a soldier's burial. Flag, army men, and all during the never-ending rain.
Memories flash in the funeral goers' eyes. He can see them, each memory, as clear as day. They flicker and burn in tearless eyes on deadpan faces. They all think of the good and bad parts of Eddie, the Comedian, the man who harassed everyone and yet could still pull a smile.
He watches the funeral from a distance. He spies a foe among friends visit the grave a bit later, when everyone else has left, but he can still see Moloch on the sidelines, on-looking it like the airship Archie would, hovering and observing quietly.
He'll pay that former enemy a visit himself when the time is right, and ask why. Why he's here, why he bothered or cares at all for a man who certainly beat him up plenty of times.
But for now, he simply shrugs the collar of his coat up further on his neck and plays the self-proclaimed prophetic street man, pacing the sidewalks.
Each member of the Minutemen and Watchmen had an idea of how cruel life can be, how sinister people can behave, and all had a cynical eye toward the events in society. So they know. They can see it.
But no one saw it better than the Comedian, a chosen parody of it all, and Rorschach himself.
Except he's not here, mildly peering at the others and the burial and watching Moloch place a wreath of roses against the tombstone, to think about how he relates to the recently deceased.
Instead, Rorschach is here to be Walter, and keep an eye out for the Mask Killer he's theorizing about, in case they know other secret identities and are on their way here now to gun down all the masks currently assembled.
And if Daniel glances at Rorschach once or twice as he enters and leaves the graveyard, Rorschach pretends that he doesn't notice. It's not as if Daniel suspects anything. And anyhow, there are bigger things going on to worry about that a passing glance.