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αveɴɢer (アヴェンジャー) ([personal profile] destructiveprinciple) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-08-13 09:32 am

☠ 006 | you have remembered the apple still lodged in your throat

Characters: Avenger, 'Shirou' and OPEN to all.
Setting: The meadow, the lounge and the cafeteria and the media room, set throughout the week.
Format: Action spam.
Summary: Avenger, still a little annoyed by the package he'd received on Monday, deals with the shadow children following him around. 'Shirou' meanwhile is slowly being convinced he'd being haunted by a severed arm that wouldn't go away no matter how often he throws it out.
Warnings: Typical fare for the Tower of Animus.

[ SCENARIO A || FLOOR 25: THE MEADOW ]
[ At first, there had only been the faint sensation of something's eyes staring at him, no more. It had started in the evening; feeling like he was being watched before a shadowy figure had slipped into view and began harmlessly following him around. It had been rapidly joined by a few more shadowy things, and despite his annoyed attempts to ward them off via a couple dagger to what looked like their heads or limbs, they didn't vanish. They didn't said anything on the first day. Whispers only started drifting out of them on the second day.

They just followed him around the tower, smiling with a slash of white against the blackness of their bodies, and somehow whispered louder and louder and louder. Finally, he'd wandered onto this floor and sat down. Avenger was bemused when he realized he could pick out unexpectedly familiar voices from the chorus. Caren, her voice full of her cold high-and-mighty contempt, commenting on his worthlessness. Another voice, younger and higher, picks up the thread from among the rest of the voices, full of insults.

Bazett, a shadow biting out her scolding words full of scorn and derision.

i never trusted you, not truly. i was right to. look where believing in you as my comrade landed me, Servant
.


It continues on in this length for awhile. Avenger rests his chin on his hand, and wonders why the shadows that clustered near him thinks he cares one damn whom they mimic. ]


[ SCENARIO B || FLOOR 81: LOUGUE ]
[ The number of shadows that trailed his footsteps doubles, then triples in size soon enough. There's an entire horde of them, all yelling and crying and blaming. how could you it's unfair die die die repent hurts unforgivable look at us ruined and dead because of you you've survived monster beast pretender demon fake and we have not it's your fault it's all your fault we hate you. this is your fault how dare you hate you die die die so unfair you're evil you deserve to suffer for this filthy weak pathetic the world would be better off without the likes of you so why don't you just
fucking
die
]

—Yeah, that's right. Think that if ya' want. Shut up already. [ He waves them off dismissively.

The crowd surges, the voices of accusations besetting him.
But by now, this late in the week, Avenger has figured out what's their deal and he's not very affected by the experience. He had little attachment to his world that wasn't misanthropic, so it did not bother him in the slightest. In fact, it bored him.

Walking through the lounge, with a severed arm tucked under his arm, and followed by that shadowy crowd instead of taking the elevator to the dorms at night seemed reasonable to him. Stupid Shirou kept throwing it out into the trash can in the cafeteria and making him dig it out again.
]


[ SCENARIO C || FLOOR 1: THE CAFETERIA ]
[ Now, the person busily cooking his worries about being haunted by an arm that won't go away even after he'd repeatedly tossed it into the trash (where had the arm even come from anyway?) and confusion, in the kitchen is probably a very 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. Determinedly ignoring the one or two shadows that follow him around early in the week. B| Denying they exist at all!
]


[ SCENARIO C || FLOOR 14: THE MEDIA ROOM ]
[ 'Shirou' is not coping well with all these voices. :|a

Curled up in one of the bean bags with his eyes screwed shut, his mouth a tight line, and a good dozen shadow children milling around him, focused on him and only him, he looked frazzled and confused and guilty.
]
puppy_lancer: from <user name=hound-of-ulster> (The pipes are calling)

A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-13 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Lancer steps into the meadow. Like Avenger, his shadows refuse to leave him alone. Unlike the other Servant, he likes it that way.]

...Well, aren't you popular?

[He looks over Avenger and the horde of shadows.]
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (She bid me take love easy)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-14 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

[He looks back at his own shadow children.]

...At least I got ones I liked.]
puppy_lancer: <user name=aicons> (And I shall hear)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-14 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, he prefers more substantial things.

[A pause.]

I guess he finally got the warning and stopped trying to make himself the most hated administrator.
puppy_lancer: (Oh my darling dear)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-14 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Who knows?

['So you would put yourself under the sway of a terrible Master, rather than save me?<']

Hey! I didn't say I liked him!

[He sticks his tongue out at one of the shadow children.]
undefines: (jackalope)

B

[personal profile] undefines 2013-08-14 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What's with the arm?

[A voice he has heard before sounds from one shadowy portion of the lounge. Rather than her normal nighttime hunting, Nue has been wandering aimlessly in the evenings. Rather than making her want to seek out comfort, all the presence of the accusatory shades has done is made her do is avoid other people.]

[But she can smell the arm before she sees it clearly, and she's curious. She remains where she is, her accompaniment of grinning shadows clustered around her, much less numerous than his.]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ heads must fall)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The shadows chattered and keened, heaping the blame on the one they'd attached themselves to.

Avenger, not even paying an ion of attention to the background noise, scoffed.
]

Oooh, what's that one got to say?

[ It didn't even matter whether or not they could be the real deal to him. They were mere illusions and only that, shadows rattling off empty accusations and guilt-trips, exaggerating the lot. It was awfully dumb. ]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ my mouth is dry and claims blood)

Re: B

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-14 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He slowed, coming to a stop. The throngs of shadowy children, with wide white smiles and vague outlines, converged around him, cursing him for surviving when they had perished and suffered and fallen to this. Some were the voices of whose he was familiar with, many more were not.

Angra glanced down at the limb tucked under his arm, then at her. It indeed, does smell.
]

Oh, you know, one of those. Souvenirs?
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (But I was young and foolish)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-14 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, just something about how I like Jason more than her.

[He shrugs.]

She's always been a vindictive bitch.

[And here he winces, almost expecting the shadow to hit him. Instead, he just gets more harsh words.

'Is that really what you thought about me?']
destructiveprinciples: (☠ if humans don't repent)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-14 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He laughs, noticing that wince from Lancer after he said that insult. ]

Bitch had you fucking well trained too, from the looks of it. Habit?

[ you're as foul-mouthed as ever, demon.

Sister, i'm quite frankly not surprised. he has to make up for his uselessness in some area, after all.
]
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (I pray you'll find the place)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-14 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...She's a violent vindictive bitch.

['Like you're any better.']
destructiveprinciples: (☠ my mouth is dry and claims blood)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-15 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's rich, coming from you.

[ Came Avenger's comment seconds later. :> idiot lapdog ]
puppy_lancer: <user name=curtainfire> (One faithful harp shall praise thee)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-15 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks from the shadow to Avenger.]

...Are you guys working together or something?
destructiveprinciples: (☠ heads must fall)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-15 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ No, it's more like they're aware Cu Chulainn had very little room to complain about violence against his person. ]

I have no clue what your personal nuisances are saying, sorry.
puppy_lancer: <user name=cu-chulainn> (But I was young and foolish)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-15 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
...She told me I was no better when it came to violence.

[Which was wrong since he wasn't needlessly violent!]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ isolating me from my urge to kill)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-15 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Your history begs to differ, pal and you do love a good fight, which involves plenty of violence. He holds up his hands. ]

Oh hoh, think she's wrong? [ Whichever of his shadows... is... speaking as this her.

Avenger, don't be so confident when you yourself are troublesomely careless about involving and killing innocents so pointlessly. i have not forgotten that incident... it does seem, you actually did indeed turn out to be the kind of person i hate the most. that's disappointing. traitor. The shadows hissed.

murderer monster suffer you're laughable weak be quiet revolting untrustworthy die die
]
puppy_lancer: <user name=fateslaying> (In the ranks of death ye will find him)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-15 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
Of course. I'm not both violent and vindictive.

[Unless, of course, your name is Cu Roi or something.]

['You killed an innocent boy just to preserve your pride. Wouldn't you call that vindictive?']
undefines: (wendigo)

[personal profile] undefines 2013-08-15 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
What, did you kill somebody? It's not a very good trophy if you're just going to let it rot.

[Her own gift wasn't quite so gory, and it was about herself rather than someone close to her, so she doesn't make the connection.]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ angels looking up at the statues)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-15 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, sure. Of course that's right.

He's obviously taking this very seriously. Avenger regards him with little concern, dark eyes bemused.
]

Uh-huh. So this isn't a case of like Master, like Servant then?
Edited 2013-08-15 19:05 (UTC)
puppy_lancer: (They're rolling out the guns again)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-15 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
You can say that. But she's less of a hound than a she-leopard.
destructiveprinciples: (☠ if humans don't repent)

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-15 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
No, why the hell would I do that? [ Take trophies from his kills, he means. Compulsive hoarder he was or not, pieces of dead bodies were useless to him. ] That's a pointless thing to do unless they were carrying something of value with 'em to loot.

[ He flaps the end of the severed arm at her, its limp pale hand flopping about.

stop fooling around with that.
]
destructiveprinciples: (☠ heads must fall)

Re: A

[personal profile] destructiveprinciples 2013-08-15 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A-ha. So he was right, it was Lancer's Master. ] Female magi are like that, I guess. So what, a giant spotted cat kept you on a short leash?
puppy_lancer: from <user name=hound-of-ulster> (The pipes are calling)

Re: A

[personal profile] puppy_lancer 2013-08-15 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Nah, she was a human. A very beautiful human.

[He looks warily over at the shadow, again preparing to get slapped.]

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