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SHINJI MATOU 【Fate/EXTRA】 ([personal profile] looselips) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-04-20 12:48 pm

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Who: Shinji Matou and OPEN
Setting: Room 2-06, Floor 96, Floor 14
Format: Action preferred
Summary: Shinji has emotions and passive-aggressively plays video games
Warnings: Shinji having no idea how to cope with feelings, will add anything else that comes up

[Room 2-06]
[The video game Shinji receives is a good one. He's fond of it. Maybe not his favorite, but it would certainly rank within his top ten, if someone forced him to sit down and make a list. Under any other circumstance, he would be all but overjoyed to receive it.]

[Now, though, all he can think is, That's it?]

[In his anger, and with his usual childish level of restraint, he raises an arm and chucks the game, still in its case, down at the floor. He isn't particularly strong, but the force combined with the angle as it hits the floor is enough to make the case crack at the top corner and along its spine.]

[...But that's it. He doesn't throw a full-blown tantrum, like the time that Rider left. Instead, he merely stares in silence at the video game where it has settled on the floor, a second or two passing before he moves to pick it up again, checking to be sure that it is otherwise undamaged and sitting properly in its case.]


[Floor 96]
[Shinji hasn't actually set foot onto the floor proper yet, lingering on the stairs. The video game he received earlier is tucked under one arm. Evidently having drifted off into his own little world of thought, he isn't paying particular attention to his surroundings, his expression blank as he mulls things over.]

[He's heard what will happen if he steps onto this floor, and where the thought of losing his memories normally unsettles him, it almost appeals to him in this moment. He can remember being restrained, and having people standing over him, and the horror of being conscious but unable to control his own body. He'd rather not be able to, so here he stands, weighing the pros and cons.]


[Floor 14]
[And, because this is a Shinji post, he can at some point be found irritably and passive-aggressively playing his "new" video game in the media room. It isn't actually making him feel much better.]
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[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-04-22 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Kariya does worry about his subdued tone. That can't be good. Still, he takes what Shinji's said at face value, not wanting to contradict him. That probably won't help.]

I'm glad.

Yes. Something fun. Do you have a favorite floor here?
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[personal profile] pinnaculum 2013-04-22 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe. Maybe they would like us to be more content and they believe a gift will make us calmer.

[Sephiroth doesn't seem to mind Shinji's scoffing.]

Before, all my magic was defensive, and I prefer offensive spells. It is never good to rely on magic, but I like to use it.

[He nods.]

No, it is not sufficient.

[Even if Fire Materia is cool.]
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[personal profile] pinnaculum 2013-04-22 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. We should do something.

[Sephiroth wishes there were some way he could fight back. If he could attack the administrators, then he would.]

Materia are objects that allow humans to manipulate the natural world.

[He lists off his Materia easily:]

Time, Exit, Revive, Restore, Heal, Seal, Barrier.
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[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-04-22 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
There isn't one that you most like to go to?

I like the meadow floor. And the crystal floor. And the one that looks like home, when I go there. The ocean floor is nice, too. And the hanging garden. The art gallery is interesting, too, and the aquarium. There are a lot of beautiful floors.

[He raises his camera, briefly. Kariya doesn't think he's too mature for pretty things.]

I take pictures of them, sometimes.
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[personal profile] bowandblade 2013-04-22 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
No? It is a blank room.

[He stands with his arms akimbo next to the boy, then over to the few pieces of furniture that sit in the room. Something so simple and innocuous must have its own secrets... Like the grass plain that had eyes peering down from the mountains and the sky, perhaps?]

Ah. So you are here expecting something to happen.
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[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-04-22 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
All right. We could go somewhere else, if you want. Anywhere you want.

[He wishes he could take Shinji out for ice cream, but there's no ice cream here. Not now.

He nods.
]

Yes. I was developing some of the photographs a couple floors down. If you'd like to see them, you can.

[Kariya has his photographs in an envelope, and he hands it over. There are photos of various floors in there, not only his favorite floors, but interesting things on some of the other floors he's visited. He's not self-conscious about his photography. It's something he enjoys doing, even here. He's confident in his abilities as a photographer. He doesn't think he's the best, but he's good enough.]
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[personal profile] bowandblade 2013-04-22 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
A meeting, then. [He has no qualms with throwing more guesses (are they even guesses?) out, reaching down to give Shinji a pat on the back.]

If I have come across a potential rendezvous, you may say so.
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[personal profile] pinnaculum 2013-04-22 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
I do not know. [Sephiroth considers it as well.] There must be something we can do, or they would not need to get information from us. They are worried.

[Which means they aren't invulnerable.]

Revive and Restore are similar. Both heal injuries, but Restore is for fatal wounds. Heal cures poisoning. Seal casts Sleep or Silence. Time casts Haste, Slow, or Stop. Barrier creates barriers to protect against physical and magical attacks. Exit allows you to escape from any battle.

They would not be my first choices. I was not allowed offensive Materia in my world. [Maybe this is because he tried to destroy the world a couple times, just a guess. Not that he knows that.]
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[personal profile] bowandblade 2013-04-22 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He smiles at the reaction, laughing lightly. He's not in a hurry to leave, but he will follow once Shinji starts moving himself.]

It is only idiocy to ignore a boy standing in an empty room. You are no child, certainly, but there is no stimulation here for that mind of yours.
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[personal profile] vermicompost 2013-04-22 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
It does.

[Kariya admits this at once, without argument. He hates it here. He cares about the people, feels very strongly for some of them, but he loathes the place itself.]

I try to find something good about it. Since we're stuck here. I have to find something. To see things that are beautiful, in spite of everything. To defy them, maybe, even if they never notice.
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[personal profile] pinnaculum 2013-04-22 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Yes. Yes, he is. He's the final boss and everything.]

What is an RPG?
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[personal profile] bowandblade 2013-04-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[The height difference is great between the two of them, but Shinji's waving of the video game earns him a glance and nod from Gilgamesh as they walk.]

So I see. Now, the question is whether it is decent game or not.

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