destructiveprinciple: I took the road (☠ the mirror shows not)
αveɴɢer (アヴェンジャー) ([personal profile] destructiveprinciple) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-05-10 08:13 am

☠ 003 | tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake

Characters: Avenger and OPEN to all.
Setting: Dormitory levels, and then the first floor, the tenth floor, and the hundred and one floor.
Format: Preference for action spam.
Summary: Backdated aftermath from last month's event along with an open log for this month.
Warnings: There... is... Angra Mainyu in this post? Fair warning?

[ SCENARIO A || DORM LEVELS: CLOSED TO SABER OF WHITE (backdated to directly after the event) ]

[ Saber hadn't turned up for breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner.

She hadn't attended their sparring sessions for two days in a row now either. It was troubling to Shirou; while he had not crossed paths with her during the entire mess himself, all of the other residents who had been victimized by the administration's operations and brainwashing been restored to their normal selves. So, surely she had been no exception to this small kindness. Yet, try as he might to be patient and wait it out by reasoning to himself that the Servant had much more pressing matters to attend to than personally visiting a former Masters of hers, he'd cracked after one day and attempted to seek her out.

He'd failed to find her, of course. Miserably. (No surprise, a voice in the back of his head taunted him. You couldn't even save a single person when they were suffering right front of you, and you expect to able to fulfill a simple task like locating Saber when she clearly doesn't want to be found? Don't make me laugh. Shut up. Shut up.) He'd gone and done something stupid like die when Rin had died for him to stay safe from a maddened Archer. Stupid moron. He wasn't going to sit back and just leave Saber to her own devices.

Not that failure had discouraged him. If diligently looking floor by floor on foot would be fruitless, Shirou would resort to more under-handed measures. Like cooking some pastries, putting them in a basket and setting out for Saber's room several days later.
The restaurant on the twenty-first floor had been a pain to bargain with for the high quality ingredients he had wanted, and the tasks that had given to him as a method of payment were just as grueling, but Shirou felt little annoyance in accomplishing them. It was an unimportant detail compared to the results.

If Saber was injured or didn't wish to speak to him, at least he'd be able to feed her before making himself scarce or... Finding somebody to fix her injuries. Unless she wasn't hurt at all. Which would be great, really it would. He didn't want her to be harmed.

Shaking his head to cut off the mental babbling, Shirou raised his fist and knocked politely on the room's door.
]


[ SCENARIO B || FLOOR 1: CAFETERIA ]

[ Now, the person busily cooking his feelings about injustice and being unable to fix all the problems in front of him and confusion regarding emotions, in the kitchen is probably a terribly familiar face to whose who frequent the cafeteria regularly.

As reliable as clockwork, the teenager comes in very early in the morning to place the food inside the oversized oven to be baked and then removes it from the oven to transfer the food to clean plates, before taking the neatly ranged dishes out in the cafeteria for any resident to eat as per the job the administration had assigned to him.

Once that was done, it was back to the kitchens to cook even more, and that is what brings us to our current state of affairs: Emiya Shirou engaging in one of his favorite hobbies—cooking in times of crisis. And rather oblivious to any possible incoming threats of being talked at, and bothered by other people. He was actually much more pleased with the wider range of ingredients available this month, and honestly didn't mind the persistent flower theme that came with it. It had definably won the administrator in charge of this month—Riki—points in his book.
]


[ SCENARIO C || FLOOR 10: AQUARIUM ]


[ Angra has strange ways of amusing himself to pass the time. Such as going down to the futuristic aquarium in the middle of the night, wandering away from the post he normally took beside his Master's dormitory, and playing with the fish.

The glassless tanks of water suspended in place contain a countless, teeming multitude of fish, all darting to and fro or drifting lazily through the blue, and caustic light dappled the ground and the black figure of the Servant in rippling patterns. Schools of the fish swirled and dove in unison, faint light glimmering off their scale. Down further, it was possible to make out the distant blue shapes of larger marine creatures. A shark swam past, its mouth of sharp and jagged teeth visible.

He dipped his arm into the horizontal surface of the water, dozens of bubbles flying upward inside, and after several patient attempts, snagged a small fish. Pulling his dripping wet arm out of the aquarium, he inspected the fish that wiggled and squirmed in his grip, the curved lines of the gills flaring pointlessly for oxygen, and considered gutting it. A few drops of water dripped down onto the floor.

Sometimes he would only let them rapidly suffocate from their removal out of the water, doing nothing until they perished. Another option was he'd pull them apart and rip them into two and three and four before tossing the bloody bits back into the aquarium so the carnivorous fish could have an easy meal.

Or there were times when Angra just held the fish for a few seconds before sticking his arm back into the aquarium and releasing it unharmed into its proper environment.
]


[ SCENARIO D || FLOOR 101: GARDENS ]


[ —The surroundings around him were a verdant paradise; hundreds of pots of plants, thriving green gardens, trees coated in vines, and thousands of kinds of vegetation that broke over the edges of the floor and spilled onto the others below and above it. The hanging gardens were a floor rarely visited and he had assumed he would achieve a small measure of solitude here for awhile to be alone and be lazy.

And Angra is seated crosslegged in one of the more obscure spots, engaging in an activity that would likely surprise anybody who knew of him.

Reading.

He was reading a strange packet of papers bound tightly by a worn cover; if somebody got close enough to look, it becomes even stranger given that text is constantly appearing on the yellowed pages and scrolling across the paper of its own volition like an automatic typewrite that was operating itself without the hands of a person to type in a message. The words are in an old dialect and untranslated.

We suppose you can try to start up a conversation. Or something.
]


[ SCENARIO E || ANYWHERE IN THE TOWER: YOUR PICK]


[ Generally, Angra wanders through an assortment of floors at night and shows little concern for which ones he ends up on as long as they are neither overly threatening or extreme. It's possible to find him sitting on tombstones in the cemetery staring at the fabrication of the skies on one floor, slinking through the sandy caverns on another floor, or walking over the farmland on one of the lower floors. And elsewhere.

'Shirou' is much more easy to run into during the day, tinkering with dented toasters in the workshop, hanging out in the media room, or obsessively patrolling the hallways and floors of the Towers as normal.
]
sawthelockdown: (↔)

Media Room, "Shirou", sup 8)

[personal profile] sawthelockdown 2013-05-10 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Asako has been in the media room more often lately. Mostly, of course, it's to distract herself from the utter bullshit over the last few months. What better way is there to recover from a meltdown and from seeing the end of everything than to beat up zombies in a video game?

There isn't a better way.

So, when "Shirou" walks in, the tiny girl in an oversized cape and cat-eared headphones will pause the game and nod at him.] H'lo.
madokacries: (Default)

cafeteria.

[personal profile] madokacries 2013-05-10 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Food!

Food reminds her of Papa's cooking, and she doesn't know her way around enough to wander the tower. So naturally, she gravitates towards the cafe. Sadly, though, she's only able to eat Oatmeal because she doesn't want to throw up. She'll be watching Avenger from some tables away, picking at her bowl of Oatmeal despite not being very hungry. ]

pinnaculum: (the shadow of the blackbird)

D

[personal profile] pinnaculum 2013-05-10 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[No floor is safe from Sephiroth, who patrols all of them. When he spies Angra (his friend? associate? acquaintance?), he quickly draws nearer.]

Hello. [He provides his usual simple greeting.] What are you reading?

[It's a natural question for Sephiroth to ask. He enjoys reading himself, and he's endlessly curious, in general as well as about Angra in particular. Also, he's never seen a book quite like that one before. He can't make out the text itself, but his keen vision spots the movement.]
lightofhumanity: For when chaos is sorry. (apologetic)

C

[personal profile] lightofhumanity 2013-05-10 08:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Occasionally, chaos came into the aquarium to watch the fish, but when he saw and sensed a person pulling out one of the fish, he felt he had to warn them, even if they were capable of taking on some fish.]

I should warn you that the fish might attack you if you keep bothering them.

Scenario C maybe? If we don't want them to "meet", I can gladly do another

[personal profile] angramaintsu 2013-05-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Wandering at night is something Rin does often. Now that she's more human than grail (the deteriorating process "reset" every time she dies), her curious manner about the tower draws her to floors she's rarely visited before.

Something's off.

It feels familiar? A calling she shouldn't have reaches her ears, but when she looks around, there's only a strange boy tormenting a fish. ]


Hey... [ A scowl crosses her features as a hand rests on her hip. ] Put that down.
heroicprinciple: and come heaven (told you dear look out your window)

cafeteria.

[personal profile] heroicprinciple 2013-05-11 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
[In the midst of setting the trays of food, Shirou looks up and notices an unfamiliar resident seated at one of the tables he is yet to get around, picking with an unenthused expression at her oatmeal. It's only after he's doled out the trays to each table on the way with several trips back and forth from the kitchens, he stops at hers, a tray in hand.]

Hey. You're one of the new arrivals? [Shirou spoke kindly. '-' Do you need a sympathetic ear? Any help? Some decent food?

He wants to feed you because the oatmeal here in the cafeteria is crap.
]
heroicprinciple: sink down to the beginning to what lies (hold onto this lullaby)

Media Room, |D fate/drama

[personal profile] heroicprinciple 2013-05-11 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[ The media room is a popular place in the Tower, so seeing other people using the consoles isn't surprising... Oh, that's a cape wrapped around her shoulders. It's a little big on this girl, he can't help but notice and wonders she had absent-minded tailors to be so careless as to give her the incorrect size.

'Shirou' responds to her greeting in a relaxed manner.
]

Hi. Uh, good morning. [ He waves a bit before walking over in her direction. Not gonna lie, he is intrigued by the beaten up zombies on the television screen since it seems like a decent outlet. ]
sawthelockdown: (↔ feel her pull you in)

fate/drama indeed

[personal profile] sawthelockdown 2013-05-11 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Careless, trolls, demons, any and all of the above! Speaking of which, this kid ain't human. Obviously. She might've been at some point, but right now...

Right now she's a demon playing a video game. Go figure. When she notices Shirou looking at the game, that grin of hers widens.] They're fun, aren't they? The games here, I mean. I'm pretty sure this one's co-op, so you can hop in if you like!
madokacries: (Whatever will it mean?)

[personal profile] madokacries 2013-05-11 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Madoka nods, albeit a bit nervously. She's not exactly comfortable with being completely alone and talking to a stranger, but he's probably the cause of the nice aroma and good food that she smells. She doesn't say much though, only glancing up at him with curiosity but mostly fear in her eyes. ]

Y-yes, I woke up in my dorm room this morning...
heroicprinciple: bride of quiet bride of hell (don't leave me here alone)

|DDD yep

[personal profile] heroicprinciple 2013-05-11 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Her state of inhumanity will be something that goes unnoticed by him since yeah, there are no reliable supernatural radar to be found in him, unless you're a Servant or variation thereof, beyond a vague sense of this girl is strange that lingers in the back of his mind.

He isn't opposed to her invitation since huh, what's the harm in it? She seems like she wouldn't mind some company, and the video game did look fun. Sitting down and grabbing a control for himself!
] I can't argue with that. They have a nice variety of them for a supposed post-apocalypic world... Hm, thanks. You don't mind?

[ Guess we're hopping onto her game to beat the gory crap out of the evil zombies. He briefly fiddles with the buttons to set up his part. ]
sawthelockdown: (↔)

dis gon b good

[personal profile] sawthelockdown 2013-05-11 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, I don't mind at all! It's been a while since I've played a good co-op game. [Bit of a pause.] Though...admittedly, it was under better circumstances.

[Le sigh.]

Oh well!

[YES BEATING THE STUFFING AND ITEMS OUT OF ZOMBIES WOOT WOOT.]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ surrounded or protected?)

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-05-11 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Angra looks over his shoulder at the newcomer, the small fish still flopping about in weak distress in his drenched hand. The watery patterns of light reflected from the aquarium cover the floor.]

I know that.
destructiveprinciples: (☠ in disgrace or in despair)

Scenario C well. I'm good with this, so it's alright.

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-05-11 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[The approach of the girl doesn't go unnoticed. After all, it would be difficult to not the taint deeply rooted into her body, vile tendrils entangling her self. It's his own taint. Unlike Sakura, the connection between all the vice in the world and Rin is not severed. A bit of a puzzle.

Angra would wonder what Rin was doing up so late in the dead of night, but he doesn't exactly need to.

He turns sideways on the spot where he is standing, not frowning but not smiling either.
]

Huh? [Dark eyes gaze in her direction.] No.
Edited 2013-05-11 05:07 (UTC)
destructiveprinciples: (☠ heads must fall)

Re: D

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-05-11 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[સ્̌́ઇઇઅઓથઅના। The language it's written is old, more suited to be scratched onto stone relics than paper. More words appear on the open pages of the book, accurately describing events as they take place and one of those events is Sephiroth approaching him, curiosity chewing its way inside him. Angra temporarily takes his attention away from his book, laying one hand down onto the paper and looks up at him.]

Mm. Hey. [That's the normal response Sephiroth's greeting receives from him.] This? Oh, it's an old scripture.

[And his third-rate Noble Phantasm, but he doesn't mention that.]
Edited 2013-05-22 15:14 (UTC)
lightofhumanity: For when chaos is asking something. (asking)

[personal profile] lightofhumanity 2013-05-11 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I see..

[The boy must have liked tormenting them then. While it was not something that chaos agreed with, it wasn't something he was going to judge either.]

Might I know why you are pulling them out then?
lightofhumanity: (This isn't good..)

[personal profile] lightofhumanity 2013-05-11 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[chaos didn't move or do anything when the person ripped the fish in half, but any trace of a smile that was still on his face fell.]

I see. Why injure others on a small whim then?
heroicprinciple: I'll still reach my hand out far (even when the music's gone)

yes excellent

[personal profile] heroicprinciple 2013-05-12 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't disappoint as a fellow player here then. [ A grin then a beat of silence while he begins his campaign to kick the undead shit out of zombies. ] Better circumstances? That's not much of a surprise, huh... It's easy to think up a better situation than being stuck in this place.

[ =Ta

YES TO DEFEATING DEAD APOSTLES though Asako probably gets first dibs on all the rare items because Shirou just keeps going for all the objects to beat them over the head with, instead of waiting for the dropped loot...
]
heroicprinciple: for a world where people will no longer cry (the war outside our door keeps raging on)

[personal profile] heroicprinciple 2013-05-12 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ He notices that nervous fear filtering through her posture and gaze, and Shirou tries to think of a way to relieve it a little. Her reaction to this Tower and to his approach, were understandable, but he doesn't want to see people looking like that. He doesn't set the tray down, keeping it balanced in his hands. ]

I see. It takes some getting used to. Uh, have you found anybody you know yet? [ If he acts positive, it should help, right? He glances at her bowl of oatmeal, barely touched and adds as an afterthought;]

The oatmeal here's not very appetizing, is it?
lightofhumanity: For when chaos is serious. (serious)

[personal profile] lightofhumanity 2013-05-12 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[While chaos didn't comment on it, he didn't really like the fact that this person had just killed a fish on a whim. Even though he knew the boy had enjoyed it, it wasn't like chaos had to enjoy the fact that he did.]

Struggling is one thing. Dying is quite another.
lightofhumanity: For when chaos is feeling melancholy. (pondering)

[personal profile] lightofhumanity 2013-05-12 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
[He didn't ask, which was why chaos wasn't voicing his personal opinion on the subject.]

Perhaps. However, if you enjoy watching the struggle, why force them to end something you enjoy watching?
madokacries: (I hear in my head)

[personal profile] madokacries 2013-05-12 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ She shakes her head lightly, pigtails swinging with her ribbons. He's not overbearing, which is nice, and he seems pretty pleasant and considerate about things! She likes that, but Madoka can't help get the feeling that he's accomodating for her out of her mind. The guilt tugs at little at the back of her mind. ]

But I have to eat it, right? It's only one meal s-so it can't be all bad.

She eyes the tray in his hands and maybe gets a little more flustered. ]

I'm sorry if I'm wasting your t-time.
destructiveprinciples: (☠ heads must fall)

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-05-12 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Good for you, chaos. This is a fish we're using as a discussion device here. It's not a human so it takes a lot of the fun out of it for him.]

Why ask why? Sometimes it's even fun. [He's kinda bemused. A job was a job. And plays had a beginning, a build-up and the climax, followed by the descent and the ending, curtains falling down across the stage.] Extinguishing one struggle doesn't mean there aren't more. Life always has its fill of them.

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