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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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[There's something weird about the way Rin said that, but Hakuno can't really put her finger on it...]

No, we were all split up. Into individual tubs sectioned off. [She says as if it was pretty damn obvious.] The administrators are pretty sadistic, yes, but I don't think they're also bunch of perverts.

[ That's okay, Rin can put her finger on it if Hakuno wants. ]

You're implying that they care about your personal preferences in the first place. So you didn't get to see who else was there?

I talked with a few people before we had to start the summoning ritual. The only familiar face I recognized was White Saber. [She's started calling all the Saber she knew by colors - it made talking about them much easier.] I don't know what happened to her when we were all done, though.

White... Saber?

[ Wasn't that the normal one? It takes Rin a couple seconds longer than usual to confirm it in her mind before she nods. ]

So you summoned them specifically? What sort of ritual was it?

Yeah. She was dressed in a lot of white when I saw her. [Duh!!!] It makes things a little easier, don't you think? Since there's more than one Saber. She's White, the Saber with the gold eyes is Black, and my Saber is Red.

[...It makes sense for her, okay.]

Um, I'm not exactly sure if there's a specific name for the ritual.... we had to chant "daruma-san fell down" until the ghost appeared. Then we had to talk to it.

... we could just ask them for their real names.

[ Maybe this is how she can figure out Saber the Dark's identity. Sending someone as clueless as Hakuno seems to be a good bet. ]

Hm, Daruma-san? Like those dolls, huh?

Well, what did you talk about with the ghost?

Isn't that kind of... invasive? Servants are supposed to hide their identities. I can't imagine most of them would be keen on just giving their names away.

[It's all a bit pointless now that there's no war to fight. But still, some may have a good reason for hiding their names... like hiding foul reputations, for instance.]

We... had to ask her why she fell. [Okay no that just sounds too vague.] We had to keep our eyes closed as we chanted, and as that happened... I got a vision of the girl falling. Dying because of it. [Her stomach turns a bit at the memory.] Looking back on it, asking a ghost why it died sounds like a pretty bad idea...

Yeah, but I'm certain if someone as nice as you asked for their real name...

[ Oh, she's making it kind of obvious there isn't she? Pausing, she listens to the story with boredom. ]

Well, now you know not to do something so foolish again. Asking people why they've died... geez, isn't that tactless?

Don't get me wrong, I think it is too. It's also pretty rude... what if they're really sensitive about that kind of thing?

But it was the only thing we could do that would let us out, so we had to do it.

I advise ignoring the lesson you were taught during that so-called game.

[ TOWER PLEASE. ] It'll do you more harm in the long run if you approach people like that.

What kind of person would just go around asking people how they died? Talk about a fast way to make enemies.

... But I'll definitely keep that in mind. That should be a subject that needs to be avoided unless the person chooses to talk about it.

There are people without tact here.

[ Speaking of: ] I'm still not happy you're here on this floor. I suggest you leave it and never return.

[Well... she can appreciate that Rin's looking out for her. She really can! But... she also likes it here, save for the creepy mermaids. Maybe she can compromise?]

Would it help if I didn't come alone here? I'm sure Saber or Caster wouldn't mind joining me if I wanted to come back.

Do you think they can kill the mermaids easily enough on their own? If so, then sure.

[ Rin's tried and has given up on trying to get them all. They just keep coming back. ]

They're dangerous. [ She seems to be unable to get over this hump of Hakuno placing herself in harm's way. ]

You know... I never asked Caster about her abilities. But I'm sure she's powerful enough to take care of these monsters.

[She pauses, frowning a little.] She's from a parallel world of mine... or maybe I'm from a parallel world of hers. Either way, she said that she helped me win the Holy Grail War. So something like those mermaids shouldn't even be a problem for her.

... You have a Servant willing to fight for you, but you've never inquired as to what they can do?

[ The girl clearly isn't a suitable Master, she thinks. ]

Isn't it strange how that works? Parallel worlds are such a pain.

It's a habit, I guess. Just asking for information wasn't something anyone did in the Moon Cell. We had to find everything out ourselves. Even Saber wouldn't tell me her true name or her Noble Phantasm until it was absolutely necessary.

[But that at least was understandable. It made it harder for the enemies to find out her name, after all.]

I wouldn't call parallel worlds a "pain", exactly... strange? Definitely. There's no doubt about that. But it's... interesting, I think. Like how you seemed so completely different at first, and not just because you're from a completely different world from mine... [A small smile crosses her face.] But, from what I've been able to tell, you're almost exactly like the Rin I know.

That's stupid.

[ It isn't--there's a fair amount of truth in it. Rin doesn't want to admit it though as she huffs up more. ]

I'm nothing like that loser you knew. I'm better, so don't make that mistake again.

[ ... ] Your world is strange. Your Servant couldn't trust you with that information why?

I don't know, I wouldn't call her a loser.... she survived in the Moon Cell even after her Servant was defeated. That's unheard of, apparently, but she managed to do it.

[Hakuno has no doubt that Rin was stronger than her. If Lancer had survived long enough for them to face each other.... no. She didn't even want to think about that.]

Saber said that she hid the information from me because it greatly reduced the chance that an enemy could find out her identity if she kept it a secret even from her Master. [...] But that might have just been an excuse. I think she was afraid of what I'd think if I knew her real name.

[There was a lot of negativity surrounding Saber's identity, after all. She couldn't really blame her.]

Servants are strange like that, especially here where it makes no sense. [ Rin dismisses the talk about herself (surprisingly) in favor of latching onto the latter half of the conversation. ] I've been trying to discover the identities of many Servants here, but they've been seclusive with that information.

It's annoying. Who cares about secret identities anymore?

Force of habit, maybe? [Hakuno shrugs.] They fight a whole war hiding their identities, because they know that other people finding out their name could lead to their opponents reading up on their histories or legends and trying to formulate strategies based on what their Noble Phantasms might be... and then they're forced into a strange tower surrounded by other Servants that they've never met before? You can't really blame them for being secretive.

And, like Saber, some of them might have identities many people associate with... not so nice people or legends. They could be completely different from the way history or stories portray them, but people might still call them out on their identity.

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