towerofanimus | Code 001

Characters: Hakuno Kishinami & YOU!
Setting: Room 3-05, 4th Floor lounge, Cafeteria
Format: Brackets, but will switch to match
Summary: This isn't really the first time Hakuno has woken up in a strange area she has never seen before.
Warnings: Spoilers for Fate/Extra endgame. Nothin' other than that!

[Room 3-05]

[As far as last moments go... Hakuno's really wasn't that bad. It was like drifting off to sleep... she had made her wish, and put an end to the Holy Grail War. She had helped Rin escape, and even managed to get a message out to her. Saber was even by her side the whole time. There was that dull throb in her chest, the pain of knowing that she was never going to see her friend or her beloved Servant ever again... but still. She was content.

So, of course, she was completely confused when consciousness slowly returned to her. She was... waking up? But she shouldn't be waking up now...]

Eh...?

[She doesn't really notice the sleep paralysis. Her mind is too busy whirling about a mile a minute - how is she here, what happened back home, is this the real world, what why how what why how - and it's only until it begins giving her a headache that she moves, sitting up in bed and just... staying there. She looks around, confusion clearly written on her face. Just what is going on...?]

[Floor Four]

[After passing many floors in various states of ruin (seriously, what in the world went on here?), Hakuno stopped to pause in one of the lounges. Her face is practically pressed to the glass of the windows, trying to peer out into the nothingness beyond.]

It's so different... there's no way this could be the Moon Cell...

[Cafeteria]

[Hakuno is, more or less, miserable by this point. It's really sinking in that this isn't some fading dream she's stuck in while being deleted. She should be celebrating... that she's out of the Moon Cell, that she's real and alive, but...

She's all alone now. No Rin. No Saber. She had met some people before, so technically she wasn't alone... but the precious friends she bonded so closely with were gone. For someone whose existence was more or less nothing without those two people... it hurt.

It hurt so badly that her appetite wasn't there at all. She's currently sitting at an empty table, head pillowed on her crossed arms, with an untouched bowl of oatmeal in front of her.]

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The sky.

[She finally breaks her gaze away from the outside, looking down at the small girl.]

Is it always this cloudy?

The sky is right there. [ apparently she thinks she's being helpful here, since she's even pointing out of the window.. ]

And.. it mostly is. Sometimes you can see other things out of the windows though. ... Like whales.

[ somehow she manages to say everything in the same tone. ]

Yeah, I know, but it's too clou--

[Wait.

Wait.]

... I'm sorry, I don't think I heard that right. I thought you said that there are whales out there.

Uh-huh. There's whales out there. [ still the blank tone, as if it's an obvious thing. ]

.. Well, I don't think there are whales anymore out there right now, but.. there was one before. A really big whale.

But how can there be whales out there? It doesn't look like we're under water.

It was a flying whale. Flying through the air.. [ she moves her arms up, almost as if she's imitating some sort of bird. ] .. That kind of whale.

There's whales in the air, just like there's tapirs underwater.

[ a nod. this makes total sense. ]

... What?

[GOOD LORD WHAT KIND OF PLACE HAS SHE BEEN BROUGHT TO???]

But how can whales fly?

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[ if it helps, the whole tapir thing is only from her dreams back home, but.. the whales thing sure is true, yup. ]

In the same way that birds fly? Maybe he was just flapping his fins really, really fast.

But it's still so big... would that even work?

[It certainly is one hell of a mental image, at least...]

I'm not sure if it'd work. But.. this whale was flying for sure, flying through the sky, so he must have found a way to fly.

.. Don't you think that's amazing..? Even whales are able to fly, so that means anything is possible as long as you try. [ somehow urotsuki seems a little.. content, almost. ]

[... Huh.]

... It's pretty strange, but... when you put it that way, I think I have to agree with you. It is kind of amazing.

I think there's a lot of amazing things here. Things you wouldn't see anywhere else..

[ not that she doesn't realise the tower is a bad place - she does realise that, and she's been sad over it before.. but right now it doesn't seem too bad. ]

It's like a dream.

... Just because there are a lot of things you can't find anywhere else doesn't make a place as nice as a dream.

[The strange beauty of the Moon Cell's digital sky, the beauty of the many floors of the arena, and the battlefield itself...]

I come from a place like that, and it's not something anyone would want to call a dream. It's more like a nightmare.

Dreams aren't always 'nice' though, right..? There's a lot of different kinds of dreams, and I know there's a lot of dreams people don't like as well. [ even if she practically likes any kind. ] Some dreams scare people. Others make them cry.

That's what a nightmare is, isn't it? Dreams are supposed to be happy things. Things that you can enjoy. Nightmares are always the opposite.

A nightmare is just one kind of dream.

.. At least.. I think so. [ a small nod, as if she doesn't necessarily want to disagree. ] You always have a little bit of both the happy and the sad things..

... I guess I'm weird, then. I only seem to get the bad things when I dream.

Huh? [ now that's a little curious to her, so she frowns every so slightly in the blank expression. ] You only get bad things? But.. that's weird, isn't it? Everyone should get a little bit of both, you too. Else it's no fair.

Yeah, I agree, it's weird. I guess it's a side-effect of me not being a real person, or something like that...

[ wow, wait, what did you just say, hakuno.. it's a good thing urotsuki is forever blank and never surprised by anything. ]

You're not a real person? [ don't mind the girl poking you here, okay. ] You seem real to me..

[Hakuno doesn't mind the poke, really! Considering a certain twintailed tsundere practically molested her on her first day in the Moon Cell...]

Maybe the people in this tower did something weird. But... I found out not too long ago that I'm just... a copy, I guess. It's a little difficult to explain.

... No, I think I understand.

[ In a way, she's encountered the same thing-- the people in her dreams were just copies of the real people she used to know, after all, so she briefly nods to herself, thoughtfully. ]

But even if you're a copy.. you're still you, right?

Yeah... you're right. [She sounds a little reassured... but still pretty sad.] Still, even if I'm my own person, it doesn't change the fact that I wasn't supposed to exist. I should have died because of that, back home...

[ For a brief moment she frowns very faintly, as if she's trying to think about it but can't quite wrap her head around it, or as if she's trying to figure out a solution.. ]

.. It's still okay. If you weren't supposed to exist back home.. then you can exist here now. [ this seems to make sense to her in some way. ] Maybe this was your place to exist all along.

[She... actually laughs at that.] Wow, what a place to call home. But... if I can truly live here, then I can't really hate this tower.

[That gets a smile out of her.] Thanks. You really helped me out.

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