Code 001

[doesnotgetit]

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.]

Comments

[kindofademon]

Don't know, but you have to eat it. Don't bother trying anything else first.

[doesnotgetit]

Better than living off cafeteria food, I guess...

[Not like this stuff is really appetizing. But living off bread, tofu, sandwiches, and various elixirs isn't exactly a better diet.]

Is all food here like this?

[kindofademon]

Nah, some of it's actually pretty good. It's just the oatmeal.

[doesnotgetit]

Seems kind of weird, if you ask me. If this is supposed to be your first meal, shouldn't they make an effort to make it taste good?

[kindofademon]

If this is supposed to be a safe place, shouldn't they make it less really dangerous?

[doesnotgetit]

... Good point.

[Ah, that reminds her...] I passed a bunch of creepy floors on my way down here. Is this place as dangerous as some people say it is?

[kindofademon]

Yep! You could seriously get hurt or killed here.

[doesnotgetit]

Killed?

[For someone who's been in many near-death experiences, and up until her arrival at the tower was resigned to her own death... that was still a pretty scary thing to hear.]

That's... ridiculous. Why would they say they're saving us if they're just bringing us to a place that may or may not be even more dangerous than our worlds?

[kindofademon]

It's not so bad, because they bring you back if you die. But yeah, it's still pretty stupid.

[doesnotgetit]

They can... bring people back from the dead?

[No, no. Don't think about that. That will only give you false hope, Hakuno...]

But that's impossible!

[kindofademon]

It's already happened to me. Got too close to a monster and squish.

[It was so cool.]

[doesnotgetit]

But... what...

[If there was ever a time to use psyduck.jpg....] Um. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring up a bad memory like that....

[kindofademon]

Nah, it's all right. It doesn't mean so much when it's not permanent.

[doesnotgetit]

... But it still hurts, doesn't it? It's painful and frightening... [Her death - if you can even call it that, since she woke up here - had been relatively peaceful. But she had had close calls, had watched Saber suffering and nearly dying... she knows it's not all pretty.]</small. Doesn't that bother you?

[kindofademon]

[Headshake. But it was different for him, since he'd enjoyed his death like any other death. She wouldn't get it.]

[doesnotgetit]

... It didn't bother you even a little? [Wow...] You must be pretty strong, then.

[kindofademon]

Thanks. You're a pretty sweet girl.

[doesnotgetit]

Oh, um... thanks. [It's been a while since someone other than Saber complimented her. At least, complimented her outright; not in the weird way that Rin does a lot.]

Ah, my name is Hakuno. Hakuno Kishinami.

[kindofademon]

Ryuunosuke Uryuu. I hope we can be friends here.

[doesnotgetit]

... You want to be friends? Really?

[The Moon Cell really did not to anything good for this kid's social skills...]

[kindofademon]

Yeah, what's wrong with that?

[doesnotgetit]

Oh, nothing! I just... didn't really have many friends, back where I came from. [She smiles.] Thanks, Ryuunosuke.

[kindofademon]

No problem! A nice girl like you deserves tons of friends.

[doesnotgetit]

I guess this place is better than home for that reason... there's no reason to avoid making friends. [Not that the War stopped her from befriending Rin and Rani... it's just that they were the only two who bothered.]

[kindofademon]

What was home like?