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SHINJI MATOU 【Fate/EXTRA】 ([personal profile] looselips) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-07-03 02:57 pm

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Characters: [OU] Shinji, [AU3] Archer, & OPEN
Setting: Cafeteria (CLOSED), Floor 14, Various
Format: Starting in action, will follow tagger's lead!
Summary: ~Master and Servant bonding~
Warnings: None come to mind...?


I. Floor 1 - Cafeteria [CLOSED]
[It isn't exactly out of the ordinary to run into any given person in the cafeteria over the course of the day, all things considered. Shinji just isn't used to the idea of Servants actually eating, and especially not something as mundane as a hamburger. But... Archer sure is there, and he sure is sampling this month's menu.]

[It's a little strange, having to greet his own Servant over lunch. It's certainly different than how things worked in the Moon Cell, at least, and he isn't quite sure how to go about it. After some deliberation, he decides that the Servant should be the one to greet the Master, so he flops down across from Archer without saying anything, chewing his hot dog as imperiously as such a thing can be done.]


II. Floor 14 - Media Room
[Archer grumbles almost crossly to himself and drops his head as his player character screams in defeat on the TV screen. He doesn't even have to think about how many times he's lost at this fighting game because his Master was ... well, Shinji.]

[For his part, Shinji puffs up, as boastful as ever. Like Archer's repeated losses, this is not exactly a surprising turn of events.]
Hah, well, you tried. Don't feel bad, though! I doubt there's anyone here who could manage to beat Asia's reigning game champion.

[With just about anyone else, Archer may have given an unimpressed look, or at least thought of it. But his little Game Master is amusing and entertaining when he's in a such a good mood, which in turn helps with lifting his own. With an overdramatic sigh, he sets down the controller and turns on the couch to look at the boy.] I know exactly how to improve my mood. [There isn't any time to process what that means before he acts, flopping ungracefully on top of Shinji.]

Wh— H-hey! [The requisite squawking is accompanied by quite a bit of flailing, Shinji's little fists thumping against his Servant ineffectually.] Get off of me, you flashy buffoon...!

III. Various
[This is the second time Shinji has been carted around on Archer's shoulders like this. He is handling it somewhat better than he did the first, perhaps because of course his Servant should carry him this way. From his perch, he surveys their surroundings as best he can, trying to catch sight of the rarely seen daytime monsters they're hunting for.]

[(Riding on his shoulders this way is actually kind of fun, if he lets himself stop and enjoy it. Archer can move so much more quickly than a human, after all.)]

[Into the evening, the two of them can be found all around the Tower, sometimes with Shinji seated on Archer's shoulders and sometimes with the child trailing behind, scrambling to keep up as they hunt by foot on one floor or another.]
bowandblade: (Even with my back turned)

[personal profile] bowandblade 2013-07-07 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[He motions with one hand at the boy's frank talk of his strategy and research, amused to hear such words from a boy of that age. It gave some credence with the idea that this boy had some sort of skill to his name.]

Clearly the monsters are not the same as us. They are fewer in the day, and their numbers are impressive at night. Where do they go? How can they hide if others trapped here cannot?

[He wasn't just a pretty face, after all.]
pinnaculum: (when the blackbird flew out of sight)

[personal profile] pinnaculum 2013-07-07 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, that is correct. [He nods.]

They are the same, yet not. They are similar, as they are likely real and possibly from other worlds, like we are, yet they are subject to entirely different rules. They maintained their powers and form when the glamour failed.

Your questions and others I would like to answer, yet hunting and killing the monsters and attempting to determine where they go has had no results.

[Unfortunately. He seems slightly frustrated.]

I will continue my research.
bowandblade: (To the point of boredom)

[personal profile] bowandblade 2013-07-18 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
It could be. [He agrees after a moment, thinking back on the time when the glamour had failed throughout the tower. More so than the lack of taking in his surroundings, there was the fact that he had not actually seen much of the tower because of the loss of his abilities.]

In such a case, only the most basic of tools will be available. [Tools. Nothing even barely resembling the great weapons within his treasury. The very idea of something like that happening again was displeasing; even if the tower was largely fake, going without even the illusion of his gates irritated him.]