@scncffrey asked for a starter!
Dirk spent a fair amount of time in Cotes Ward. Its aesthetic appealed to him in a very specific manner, and also they had top notch entertainment offerings here, given its apparent design similarity to Japan, a place he had long admired but never managed to visit. Not that he had ever tried. It's extremely difficult to visit a place that was thousands of miles away and had been under who knows how much water for centuries prior to one's birth, given that it started life as a small chain of islands.
Regardless, a guy could pretend, and he could enjoy himself while doing so. He is doing just that, enjoying a casual stroll through the district when he suddenly stops, struck by something he had just passed. Or rather, some*one.* It could just be a coincidence. Plenty of people were similar enough in appearance that could be all it was, but something told him to go back and double check, just to be absolutely certain.
Turning around, he stalks the figure through the crowd, getting around to the other side of him so they were approaching one another again. This time his gaze never wavers from the guy's face. He hadn't been wrong, and now he intends to make a nuisance of himself in order to attempt to get some questions answered.
He stops right in the guy's way. "Hey. Thought it was you," he says by way of starting his interrogation conversation.