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Matou Kariya (AU) ([personal profile] canofworms) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-03-09 04:08 pm

[OPEN] Well, look what the cat dragged in.

Characters: Kariya Matou [AU4] & ALL THE PEOPLE
Setting: Dorms, Various Floors, Choose Your Own Adventure
Format: Any!
Summary: +1 flailing bug magus. Does it count if 'he' is already here?
Warnings: Fate/BUGS


This man, wherever you meet him, may look just the littlest bit familiar. Maybe it's in the hair, or the slightly gloomy look on his face, or even the rumpled turtleneck he's wearing.

Not many will recognize him as the Matou he is, though, unless he has his insect familiars out. His hair and eye (the working one) are a deep purple, and the prana rolling off him in warning waves is no longer a hallmark of the clan.

Now who could this be?



[Dormitory Floor: Room 1-16]

[Hey, folks, you may or may not have an extra body in here. Don't worry, it's wiggling and quite lively.

Click.

If not for the minor commotion of him going through his trunk, you probably wouldn't notice he's here; his clothes and hair are dark enough that he gets lost in the shadows quite easily. The slant of his shoulders is wary. There's a metallic glint in his hands.

Nothing to see here: just a magus loading a handgun.

(Unless that's a nice bulky camera in his hands, but in that case he's just taking a picture of the wall. So productive!)]



[F1: Cafeteria]

[New arrivals season! There are like a million of them here making faces at their oatmeal. You could probably fill an album with the variety. Maybe decorate each floor of the Tower with a different expression of disgust.

This guy would make a pretty boring picture, though, since he's sitting there with absolutely no trace of feeling on his face as he mechanically brings the spoon to his mouth. In fact, his eyes are closed.

Is he sleep-eating or just trying to find a safe space away from the mush??]



[F20: Outside]

[It's fairly chilly out here, but the thin shadow of a man standing about halfway up the ramp, carelessly at the very edge, doesn't seem to notice. He's strangely silhouetted, staring expressionlessly over the edge.

If you come in close enough, you'll realize that those strange irregularities and bumps in his figure are actually countless large, skeletal, demon-eyed insects perched on his shoulders and arms, crawling clumsily in their attempt to keep their foothold in the wind.

Every now and then, he'll raise a hand, and one or two of them will obediently go walking off into the air. They go plummeting downwards until not a trace is left, and leave him looking a little more frustrated each time.

In the meantime, that shadow in the fog behind him may or may not be something sneaking up on him. Or your eyes are just playing tricks on you.]



[F??: Choose Your Own Adventure]

[Any floor, any time, any bug flavor!

There's a rather surly-looking guy pacing up and down the place, muttering angrily to himself and occasionally raising a hand to swat at the two Blade Wing Worms buzzing along behind him whenever they hover in too close.

It's a little hard to tell whether the familiars are actually worried about their master or just trying to get close enough to chomp on his hair.]

If you're not going to make yourselves useful, go chew on each other or something. I don't care.
blackwitch: (at the same time)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-11 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, so you're not dead! [ She giggles. It's maybe not exactly happy though - or rather, it's happy, but not in the usual innocent way giggles are happy. ]

I thought there was a corpse still eating here..!
blackwitch: (let it be; let it be; let it be)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-12 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Who knows? I haven't seen one yet, but if there would be one I'd want to play with it for sure..! Kyahahaha!

[ .. that 'play' doesn't sound like it'd be the innocent kind of playing, yup. ]
blackwitch: (and now you're gotten in my way)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-14 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hey, crushing them with cake is sort of innocent. ... Except not really. ]

... You sound like an old person. [ DESPITE HIM BEING OLDER THAN HER, BUT.. you know, old-old. It's enough for her to make a slightly disgusted face. ]
blackwitch: (i could be dreaming)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-17 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course, this definitely counts! Only old people lecture others like that about how they should have fun or not. I'm the expert on having fun, you know!

[ .. well, her own kind of fun, that is.. ]
blackwitch: (i was killing before killing was cool)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-18 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Might as well be her middle name. ]

No way, you should definitely want to avoid being an old man! Old people are boring, they might as well give up and die!
blackwitch: (i could have ordinary people)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-19 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We-ll, it'd be better if it worked either way! [ She's getting pretty casual on the seat opposite his' now, more as if she's talking to herself about all this rather than lecturing him. ] Like I said, we're better off withouyt them! The whole world would be better if only old people decided to die a little earlier!
blackwitch: (i ain't feeling the love)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-03-25 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Everything older than her is practically old to her, so.. yeah. Most people would be old then, huh. ]

.. And why would that be such a bad thing? [ Yeah, totally unfazed. ]
blackwitch: (at the same time)

[personal profile] blackwitch 2013-04-06 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hey, him being relaxed somehow makes her more relaxed too.. after all, when it comes down to it, Evatrice is still very much a child. As long as there's nobody defying her or telling her what to do, she can be reasonable. In her own way, at least. ]

Su-re there is, but they're usually more interesting! You can't break them too often or they'll stop being entertaining. But old people have already outlived their value, so in that case you can do it as much as you want! [ She's so cheery about the idea. ]