towerofanimus | Code 001

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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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[She's used to that anger. Hell, anger was the very first thing she was met with when Rin woke up after that ordeal. So she doesn't even flinch at Rin's harsh tone here.]

It was either save you, or watch you - and possibly the rest of the Moon Cell - die in what would probably be the same as a nuclear explosion! [Wow that really sounds weird without context, huh...]

Look, I wasn't trying to insult you or anything by helping you... I know you're the better Master. There's no doubt about it. You're smarter than me, and you're way stronger.

I just... couldn't stand by and watch while you're life was in serious danger.

And that is why you did it? Because of my life being in serious danger... because of the rest of their lives in danger too?

[ There's something about this girl that really bothers her. While anyone can see it's the fact that someone is showing Rin care for the first time in her life, Rin herself is unable to catch onto it herself. ]

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You said your name was Hakuno, yes?

[This is good... maybe. Maybe a confused Rin will be easier to deal with than an annoyed one...

... Maybe.

She nods.]

Yes. To... both of those. My name is Hakuno Kishinami.

What kind of name is that? [ Quickly adding after: ] I've never heard of a magi family by the name of 'Kishinami' before.

[ She's trying to evaluate the girl. Wonder why it is she chose to spare Rin's life in a war. In fact, she might even move in closer as though it would aid her further in this. ]

Uh... [Well this is awkward.] To be honest, I don't know what kind of reputation my family has.

[Not that she has a family... that girl though. The one that she had been a copy of.... but no, she didn't want to get into that. She still hasn't decided if that new bit of knowledge is helpful to her or just one last thing she was able to help with.]

I have amnesia. [So she decides to use what she believed for most of the war. It sounds horribly cliche, but it's not terribly inaccurate.] I don't remember anything about my life prior to the Holy Grail War. So I can't really recall anything about what my family was like.

That seems all too convenient of an excuse, but I'll allow it for now. If I discover you're lying to me though, I'll use a geas on you and force you to tell me the truth with a smile.

[ That wasn't a threat or anything, right? Shifting her weight onto another foot, she looks away. ]

I'm going to get going now. You're not going to follow me around, are you?

[No, no, that certainly sounded like a threat! Good thing she was... kind of telling the truth. She was, right...?]

No, I won't. It would be kind of weird to just follow somebody around all the time for no real reason, wouldn't it?

You.. seem like the type that would. [ Looking her over. ]

No, I take that back. You seem like the type that someone else would follow around. Geez, that's annoying to think about.

... Huh? Really? [Well, Saber follows her around without much protest, so that kind of makes sense...]

Why is that a bad thing?

Because it shows you're capable of being a leader. [ And she doesn't like that. ] Which means we're bound to clash against each other in this place.

I don't think I'm a good leader... most of the time during the war, I had people leading me through things instead of the other way around. Like I said before, if it wasn't for you and... one of my other friends... [no no stop the Rani memories from resurfacing, you can't get distracted now.] I wouldn't have been able to make it past my third opponent. I don't think I'd be a very good leader.

And even if I was... I don't think I'd want to clash with anyone else here. There's no point, when we're all stuck in the same situation and trying to reach the same goal, right?

And just what is this goal we're all supposedly aiming towards? You speak of it, but I've never once discussed my intentions in this place.

[ Quick to shut all of that down. ]

Isn't it obvious? A lot of people don't like being trapped here. There has to be a way out of here, and I doubt just one person will be able to find it.

... There may be nothing waiting for me if we're returned to our homes, but I want to help the other people here, at the very least.

What is there to return to? If all of our worlds have been destroyed, what good is it to leave? To go to another world? Do you think utopia can be found outside of this tower in another place parallel to it?

Oh, maybe if we turn the tower upside down, we can find heaven. There's a story about that, isn't there?

[Wow when did things just start getting philosophical? Weird.]

You can't really believe that though, can you? Sure, there's a chance that our worlds really have been ruined. But we don't have any proof, do we? For all we know, the people in charge could be lying.

You claimed that you sealed your own world away and I'm under the impression that some force destroyed mine. Isn't it more suspicious to believe otherwise?

[ She doesn't want to outright say she thinks she's the one who destroyed her world, but it may shown in how uncomfortable she looks. ]

Not the whole world. Just the Moon Cell - the Grail. The rest of the world wasn't closed off by my actions... at least, I don't think so.

[She frowns.] What happened to your world?

I allowed the shadows to consume it.

[ ... ] Everything that happened was my fault.

... What? [Whoa drama bomb. She'd prefer to be much more coherent than this, but really... what can you say to a confession like that.] Why... why would you blame yourself? What happened?

If I wanted to talk about it, I would have provided more details.

[ She's quick to dismiss it with a shake of her head. Maybe later when she's learned to trust Hakuno she could, but for now her hands are digging their way into her pockets. ]

I'm going back to my room.

[Hakuno knows she can't really stop Rin if she wants to leave, especially with how strangely on-edge she's being... so she merely nods.]

Okay... I'm sorry if I offended you, or prodded too much...

[ She doesn't answer, not this time at least. For Rin is disturbed greatly by the fact that someone out there in this world cares enough to remember her by name.

And disappointingly enough?

They're in this wicked tower along with her. ]

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... now we need a new thread with them WHELP