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towerofanimus2013-09-07 04:40 pm
god_damned) wrote in towerofanimus2013-09-07 04:40 pm
To see a world in a grain of sand
Characters: Kirei Kotomine and OPEN
Setting: The Dormitories (1-04). Floor forty-eight (the graveyard). Aaaand wildcard meanderings which you can happily place at your leisure!
Format: Brackets.
Summary: Kirei wakes in the Tower and explores his new surroundings.
Warnings: General disclaimer that Kirei is an awful person, discussions of suicide in his thread with Claudia, and specifics will be added as necessary.
Dormitories
[ He reads the letter, and he feels nothing.
What should he feel? Sorrow? Perhaps another person would label his utter lack of response as a state of shock or disbelief, as if he were denying the gravity of the message. However, while Kirei is reserved about taking those words as full truth, it is not a fool's hope which motivates him to such skepticism. What was lost in that world that he could mourn? Very little, in the end.
However, there is the War he left behind – and with it, he left behind the Grail, and his one chance to have his questions answered.
Perhaps it isn't nothing after all, but the feeling in his chest is not that of an honest man. But does it matter? Now, there is no remaining trace of his life save for a trunk of impersonal, unimportant things.
Regardless, he opens it, changes into his vestments, and exits into the hall. ]
Floor Forty-Eight
[ It is only natural that he finds himself in a place like this.
The graveyard stretches before him: like an echo of the world which he has been told is gone. He steps toward and kneels before a stone, trying to read its worn lettering with no success. It is difficult for him to determine why he makes the effort; perhaps he expects to see a name he recognizes.
Perhaps he expects to see his own. ]
Wandering
[ It is similar to the day he woke with the Command Spells, in a way, when he finds himself in this place. He was thrust into a world of unknown to him, of magi and their Holy Grail War. At the beginning, he had not understood his involvement in such a battle. Then, he spoke to Archer...
Perhaps this Tower is the same: he does not understand it now, but he can explore. He can discover more of it, and of himself.
But will what he finds favor him, or destroy him? ]
Setting: The Dormitories (1-04). Floor forty-eight (the graveyard). Aaaand wildcard meanderings which you can happily place at your leisure!
Format: Brackets.
Summary: Kirei wakes in the Tower and explores his new surroundings.
Warnings: General disclaimer that Kirei is an awful person, discussions of suicide in his thread with Claudia, and specifics will be added as necessary.
Dormitories
[ He reads the letter, and he feels nothing.
What should he feel? Sorrow? Perhaps another person would label his utter lack of response as a state of shock or disbelief, as if he were denying the gravity of the message. However, while Kirei is reserved about taking those words as full truth, it is not a fool's hope which motivates him to such skepticism. What was lost in that world that he could mourn? Very little, in the end.
However, there is the War he left behind – and with it, he left behind the Grail, and his one chance to have his questions answered.
Perhaps it isn't nothing after all, but the feeling in his chest is not that of an honest man. But does it matter? Now, there is no remaining trace of his life save for a trunk of impersonal, unimportant things.
Regardless, he opens it, changes into his vestments, and exits into the hall. ]
Floor Forty-Eight
[ It is only natural that he finds himself in a place like this.
The graveyard stretches before him: like an echo of the world which he has been told is gone. He steps toward and kneels before a stone, trying to read its worn lettering with no success. It is difficult for him to determine why he makes the effort; perhaps he expects to see a name he recognizes.
Perhaps he expects to see his own. ]
Wandering
[ It is similar to the day he woke with the Command Spells, in a way, when he finds himself in this place. He was thrust into a world of unknown to him, of magi and their Holy Grail War. At the beginning, he had not understood his involvement in such a battle. Then, he spoke to Archer...
Perhaps this Tower is the same: he does not understand it now, but he can explore. He can discover more of it, and of himself.
But will what he finds favor him, or destroy him? ]
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... I guess not. But I knew someone like you, back home.
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[He looks like Kotomine and answered to his name, so it makes sense that he'd know what it is. Right?]
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[ The entirety of the War was new and strange to him from the start; this is not much stranger. ]
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[It was something that never seemed strange to her, but she knew that's what the others got hung up on the most. Might as well hold off on the "held inside of a giant supercomputer" thing for now.]
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And how did you know me? [ She is much too calm for him to be a warring Master against her. ]
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[And more... blank-looking, but she's not going to say that out loud.]
He might just be the you of a different world. That happens a lot here.
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Is that so common? [ She says it so easily, as if it isn't so difficult to imagine... and perhaps it isn't. ] Have you met other Masters, in similar circumstance?
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[That had hurt. God, had that hurt. After everything she had been through, helping Rin and being helped in return, the fact that she didn't know her...]
I've also had a Servant say that I was her Master, even though I'd never seen her before in my life.
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[ He does not elaborate more than that. ]
Did you see your War through to the end?
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I did. I won.
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What wish did you have granted?
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[If he didn't know about her war, then it's likely that he didn't know the details that had confused others that she had talked to. So, for now, she won't go into too much detail]
Too many people died fighting for something that nobody else had been able to obtain. Someone had to break the cycle.
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I see.
[ His tone does not betray the rush of thoughts which flood his mind: the Grail destroyed... not that it matters; all the worlds which could contain it have been destroyed regardless. There is no reason for upset; he has already acted on the idea of the Grail being lost, along with his world. Still. To hear that this girl would wish for such a thing with deliberate intent... ]
And are you content with that?
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I am. I have no regrets at all over what I did.
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Although I suppose it is meaningless now; now that you are here.
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Yeah, it's great to know that all the horrible things I was put through and was forced to do was all for nothing. That's pretty comforting.
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[ It is a very slight sound, one which accompanies his next exhale. It would be easy to miss, really, if proper attention wasn't paid, as the grin at the corner of his lips vanishes as quickly as it came. ]
That is indeed unfortunate.
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... What's so amusing?
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What is your name, as you know mine already?
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[She adds that last bit on as a formality, mostly.]