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[angramaintsu]

Characters: Dark Rin & YOU!
Setting: Various floors, dormitories. Willing to have her be anywhere so long as there's something "pretty" to take a photo of
Time: Throughout the day
Format: Quick to start, will match
Summary: Rin believes in equivalent exchange and works on repaying a kindness done to her. Later on she finds out what everyone else has found out via terminals because magi and computers GROSS and broods a little
Warnings: Surprisingly a nice post for her, will edit them in if they come up

    ►►► VARIOUS;
[ When Rin wakes up the morning of the first, she's left a gift as per her request. Surprised as she is to see it, she wastes no time in getting the film inside of the camera and visiting various floors. Rin starts at the top of the tower in her search to take pictures for her uncle, taking caution to travel to floors that he might not be able to due to his condition. The more dangerous the floor? The more likely one is to find Rin there. She shows no fear as she moves through with relative ease and should she happen upon a monster? Well, it's rare these days that a monster can stand up to her and should she meet her match, it takes seconds for her to be free of the danger due to the silent guardian that can be called to her side near instantaneously. Not that she's going to bother him when she's having such a great day admittedly. ]

    ►►► DORMITORIES;
[ Sometime in the evening, after she's spoken with Saber to find out what this place truly is and what she is herself, Rin can be found lurking in the hallway as though she's waiting for monsters to come for her. Not that they crawled among the dormitory corridors often, but if they were to come looking for her... well, she might greet them happily. ]

If it isn't mine, then why did they stay within me? [ She mutters out loud to herself bitterly. ] Why is it still there too?

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floor 99, morning

[puppy_lancer]

[Lancer is on the floor, sniffing around like he's looking for someone. When he catches the familiar scent, he turns and gives Rin a greeting.]

Yo, you see anyone else come up here recently? Girl around your age?

[angramaintsu]

... Were you just sniffing the air?

[ Sorry, did Lancer ask her a question? ] Are you hinting that I stink?

[puppy_lancer]

[He makes a face at her.]

Of course not. Well, no more than your usual Grail smell. I'm just trying to get her scent.

meadow I guess

[nonacquiescent]

[After watching that video, Waver spent most of the previous day in his room (shaking and crying), so a little after lunch time he finally leaves to find somewhere more...calming.

Normally finding Rin there might just make him turn right back around, especially after she left entrails in his mailbox. But then...she'd left something else there afterwards, didn't she. He had to ask about that, and possibly thank her if it was genuine. So, hesitantly, he approaches.]

...I didn't know you were into photography.

[angramaintsu]

I'm not, stupid.

[ At least she still greets him in a familiar manner. Take comfort in Rin's lack of manners as she pulls the camera away from her face with a frown. ]

What business is it of yours if I was into this sort of thing, hm?

[nonacquiescent]

[Wow, Rin, he didn't mean anything by it?!]

...I just thought because your uncle likes photography, he might have passed it on to you.

Dorms, Late

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid has been wandering the dorm levels this night. There's really no purpose to his wandering, or if there is it's one not even he knows. His face is blank, eyes distant almost as if they're not really seeing the floors at all, but something else entirely.

Probably because they are.

He almost walks by Rin because he's so detached from everything around him, but something deep inside him pulls him back to the present and this place.

To her. This is something he can deal with before. It will be one less thing to think about then.

Without saying anything, Diarmuid drops to one knee near her.]

He said you were angry with me. I'm sorry. Tell me what I need to do to make it up to you.

[While his eyes are less distant now, they still seem very detached from everything as does his voice. All in all, it's almost an eerie change from his usual overly-emotional state of being.]

[angramaintsu]

Wha-?

[ Her temper flares briefly not because of Lancer, but because of what she was mumbling to herself prior. Then to hear someone else was speaking on her behalf? ]

Who said that? I'll kill them for thinking they can talk on behalf of my wants and desires. [ She's not having a Good Day. Clearly. ]

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid frowns slightly, though there is an emptiness to it. Had the other servant really been lying after all?]

He called himself Archer and claimed to be your servant. I assumed he was the one you meant when we met for the first time. He tracked me down at my room a few days ago and told me that the last letter I wrote you had upset you so much you had written me a response full of anger and threats but fell asleep before it could be delivered.

[He finally raises his head to look at her.]

Are you all right, Lady? What happened? Why couldn't you wake?

Floor 17, Staircase

[hemoeroticism]

[ Someone's just now leaving the floor with all the bloody handprints, screaming, and... white, everywhere. It's still not exactly warm in the tower, but he still looks under-dressed with a jacket, shorts, and ankle-less shoes. He would have walked right passed Rin without even noticing her if it wasn't for the flash of the camera. ]

Hmm? [ He turns around, still licking blood off his fingers. Was... was that what he was doing on that floor? ]

Ahah, do I have a fan? ✩ [ Licking his fingers again, before narrowing his eyes at her. Something odd about her... but he doesn't attack, yet. He hasn't had much reason to fight, but someday, someone will show up with a new Branch of Sin for him. Or he'll have to beg Wretched Egg to just make some more. ]

[angramaintsu]

Oh, it seems I mistook you for a monster.

[ Lazily dismissing him with the tone of her voice, she looks off to the side. ] You were in the way. Are you planning to move or do I have to make you?

[hemoeroticism]

Ahah, monster, huh... [ He seems more amused than anything. Maybe even oddly flattered. ] A lot of people would agree, there. ✩

[ He hops up on the side of the railing, playfully swinging his legs like a child. ] Hmmm... well, that depends. Ever since a holiday, I've had a really, really strong craving for a certain kind of blood.

[ And suddenly, he seemingly vanishes into thin air. She'd then feel a cold, coarse, almost corpselike finger on the side of her cheek. Sure enough, there he is, grinning crazily. ]

You wouldn't happen to have it, would you? ✩

Dormitories

[vermicompost]

[Kariya isn't having the best day himself. He should probably go to see one of his healers. His limp is more pronounced than usual, but his smile is genuine when he sees Rin. He greets her with a little wave.]

Rin, hello. It's good to see you.

[angramaintsu]

[ Having already disposed of the camera by this point, she has nothing to hide from him when he makes his way slowly towards her. ]

Hello Uncle Kariya. [ There's no real emotion behind her voice tonight. ] Do you need help in getting somewhere?

[vermicompost]

Oh no. I don't need help.

[He smiles. He seems to be a little pleased by his own answer. He doesn't need help anymore.]

I can get anywhere I like.

[But in spite of his brief good mood, he notices that something's off, and he hasn't been blind to recent events.] Is something wrong? I know a lot has happened...

[Floor 90, afternoon]

[doesnotgetit]

[After all the big reveals, some people need to take the time to mentally recharge. Hakuno is one of those people. She's sitting at the edge of the lagoon, careful to pick a spot far away from where the mermaids may be lurking, dangling her feet in the water. She looks lost in thought - and boy, did that information Feferi gave all of them give her something to think about - that she didn't notice Rin was nearby until she heard the click of her camera.

Glancing up, a look of curiosity crosses her face.]

... Rin? What are you doing?

[angramaintsu]

... Considering something.

[ Mermaids and Rin aren't on the best of terms. After what they did to her Uncle, she discovered it was pointless to torture them as there was some power around them that kept her own at bay. Since her death though she has been considering how to deal with them.

She didn't even realize she was on this floor until Hakuno pulls her from her trance. Looking over towards her slowly, her breathing grows erratic. ]

Why are you on this floor?

floor 10 (aquarium)

[chainsawn]

[ Somehow Urotsuki finds herself on this floor pretty often. Maybe since it reminds her of that one area in her dreams. But staring at the fish is something she never gets tired of, either way, so she's just standing there as oblivious as ever..

.. But for once she does notice something from the slight flash. She slowly turns her head only to find the girl there. Slowly Urotsuki blinks, recognition kicking in. ]

You.. were in my dream. [ Well, not that it was just her dream, but Urotsuki can hardly tell the difference. ]

[angramaintsu]

Your dream?

[ Rin lazily rolls her head to the side to acknowledge her and oh. ] The one with that rotten old granny in it, huh?

Floor 13; The Cathedral

[whiteblackknight]

[There's no organ playing today. Young Mr. Walker is merely contemplating the statue of the unknown deity, his hand on the one of the legs, not exactly praying but certainly close to it.]

...Mana...

[And that was when the eye went off. A scarred, cursed left eye. There was no Akuma here, no demons invisible that needed to be found and destroyed, but it turned from its usual color to black sclera and red irises, regardless. Something was making it act up and...]

[Well, there's this girl here...]

What the heck....?

[angramaintsu]

That isn't how a prayer should go.

[ Rin's not sure what world he's from, but "What the heck" is usually offensive universally. ]

Mana though? A person? A life force?

Meadow

[doublechecks]

Aspiring to be a journalist now, are we?

[Says the guy who is just watching her with a raised right eyebrow.]

[angramaintsu]

No.

[ Embarrassed that of all the people to find her, it's him, she tucks the camera back behind her. ]

I was just taking a few photos for someone. It's a favor for them, you see.

dormitories;

[swordedpast]

[ She didn't bother him today. Nothing about her bothered him today. It was good to see Rin seem so happy, even if he knew all along that the darkness still lay beneath it. No, the only thing that bothered him was the certainty that he could contribute nothing to this happiness. All he would do was try to protect it while it lasted.

So when he returns to her side later at night, Archer is dismayed to see that it's gone. ]

Isn't everything here yours, Master?

[ He reappears across the hall from her without fanfare. ]

[angramaintsu]

Huh?

[ It was rare that he can sneak up on her. After all, she's his Master and so she must know every time he's around. Instead, it comes as a complete surprise as she snaps from her thoughts to look up towards the sound of his voice. ]

Is it..?