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Shirou Emiya @ Eachdraidh ([personal profile] steelminded) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-11-16 11:44 pm

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Characters: Shirou Emiya and you
Setting: Room 01-12, Dorm Floors, Floor 1, Open
Format: Actionspam
Summary: Waking up and exploring.
Warnings: Dumbness, SHOUNEN etc.


[Room 01-12]
[He had been reading the letter. Well, to be exact, reading and re-reading it. Were it not for the fact that he was attuned to Weird Shits™, he might've had a worse freakout compared to his current silent reaction. Those who were in his room when would notice that the first thing he did after his sleep paralysis disappeared was to check the trunk he was provided with. Or he could've conversed with you, but either ways that was how he got to reading his letter.]

...This, isn't a joke, is it...?

[Unfortunately, you are now saddled with the task of explaining things to him, or don't. It's all up to you.]

[Dorm Floors]
[That mess in his room over and done with, Shirou now takes to exploring the tower, or at least, the area he could reach without getting lost. Which is why he's now around the dorm area, looking apprehensive at everything around him and still having a confused look on his face. If you happen to run into him here, don't be surprised if he starts asking questions at you. Or...]

...Oh, er, sorry, I wasn't looking back there.

[He might've just bumped into you.]

[Floor 1]
[Like any other new residents, Shirou was forced to eat that... thing everyone dreads eating the first time around. Though, he's done with it surprisingly quick as after finishing it, the first thing he does is to hit the kitchen. Those around the area would find him coming out later with whatever meal that could be cooked with this week's ingredients, and him eating it. While he doesn't grumble, you can definitely hear him saying something like-]

At the very least they could've given us something edible to start us off.

[Open]
{Want to meet him somewhere else? Just throw me a floor number and scenario and we're good to go!]

Yep! <3

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-18 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[She keeps going, going up the stairs, knowing he'll follow her. Truthfully, she knows she could get away from him easily, but....

Well, she'll have to tell him. Maybe if Avenger-as-Shirou was told it would annoy him enough to make the disguise stop working? No matter, the staircase was not the place for this discussion. So she exits the stairs on the third floor--the library--and dashes into the stacks in the hopes of finding a more private place to talk to him.

Naturally, she finally stops in the cooking session, her back to him as she steels herself for this conversation.]

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
....Yes. It is.

[She turns to face him, accusations about Avenger dying on her lips when she looks at him and sees his collar is indigo. Naturally, she feels like a heel for running thinking it was Avenger.

This is Shirou. Not the Shirou she had beheaded--never the Shirou she had beheaded--but Shirou all the same.]


You just awoke here, did you not?

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-18 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[A few hours awakened, a different collar. She is still unsure if this actually is a Shirou and yet....

She will not make the same mistake she did with Avenger and hide the truth from him over fear of his reaction.]


I apologize for my reaction, then. Things have been trying as of late. I myself have been here for a year.

[And yet, before she begins to explain herself, she needs to know something else:] What have you learned about this Tower so far?

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-19 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[Him acknowledging that, to her surprise, makes this infinitely easier. As long as he didn't see her as the Saber who was his and she could remind herself he was not hers, maybe things would not get as out of hand as they had with Avenger?]

You do not need to apologize. If anything, I should. It's been.... a very long time since I saw you alive. It was a shock to see you and I half-thought I was being tricked again.

[She turns on her heel and gestures for him to follow. Her stomach is already doing that odd flip she had whenever the subject came up, but Arturia was determined not to repeat her mistakes:]

Come, there is much to discuss. There are chairs up here where we can sit down and discuss things.
Edited 2013-11-19 04:09 (UTC)

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-19 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[And she would have said no anyway. Arturia refuses to accept any kindness from him until she tells him her story, even if it makes her nervous to do so all over again. Once they find some secluded seating, she directs Shirou into a chair and then takes a seat herself.]

....could you tell me the last thing you remember before coming here?

[If she can figure out how their worlds are different, then it can give her a starting off point to work from in explaining herself.]

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-20 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[So he survived the war then. This was another world in which she hadn't killed him. Even now, she had no idea if she should feel relieved by this fact or upset this was yet another world in which she hadn't accepted Kotomine's offer. How close had she been to this being her world? Her Shirou?

Arturia steels herself and looks him dead in the eye.]


That's good. That's very good. In my world....

[Now or never.]

In my world, I killed you.

[Her voice is perfectly neutral as she says it, as if stating a fact, but even now there's a certain nervousness in her expression. No matter how many times she confesses to this, it never gets easier. Every time is just as painful as the last. The only that gets better is pushing through the pain to explain.

And explain her story, she does. Arturia glosses over the fact she and her Shirou had been lovers, but everything else about her Grail War? She tells him. Simply presents the facts to him for him to do with as he wished. By the time she got to Kotomine's deal and beheading Shirou, she looks so very tired. Like all she wished to do was curl up into a ball and go to sleep.]

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-21 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
....If I stop here, I fear I might not have the courage to tell you in the future.

[Even if all that is left is telling him of the killing blow. It's the truth, though. She fears she won't be able to tell him in the future.]

If you do not trust me after telling you this, or do not wish to be around me, I understand.

[Arturia tries to keep the regret out of her voice, but it bleeds through a bit when she mentions she would understand. Who would? She just admitted to killing someone she cared about in cold blood. Even if she suspects Shirou will still want to be around her, it would forever baffle her why he would want to considering she does not trust herself around him in the slightest.]

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-24 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[She openly gawks at him when he says that and yet is somehow unsurprised by it. Of course Shirou would not think anything about her killing him. That's probably the part that hurts most of all.

Arturia will just have to be more on guard to make sure she doesn't hurt the boy.]


All right. [Her expression changes from a gawk to one more serious.]

All right, then. I.... After I.... after I killed you....

[and then she tells him of after. Of accepting the Grail, of Camelot being drowned in its mud and her being forced to kill everyone and how it did not stop there. She did not go into too much detail about her time as a Counter Guardian beyond that, nor did she relate how she felt about it. Just the facts. That's all she intends to give him: the facts. Some part of her thinks she can stop this Shirou from becoming Archer if he has an idea of what his fate might be, but for now....

For now, she just needs to tell him her story, ending it with....]


....and then I woke up here and found I was able to move under my own power.

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-11-30 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Do not apologize. [There's a fierce edge to her voice as her voice demands it. She will not have anyone, even Shirou, apologize for what she and she alone is responsible for.]

You are not at fault. I made my choices and my mistakes. I will not have you apologizing for things you had no part or say in.

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-12-13 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Unlike you, he did not survive the Grail War. [At her hands, but that is the key difference there. For whatever reason, this Shirou either had not wound up in the same situation as hers or hers chose to let him live instead of taking his life.]

I made my choice, Shirou, and I accept the consequences of such a thing. [Even if it hurts.]

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-12-13 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
[And she knows him well enough to know how he must feel. If there was one thing Shirou excelled at, it was in somehow believing himself responsible for every little thing that went wrong.

No doubt he would start trying to play hero here and, unlike Avenger, she had no idea if he would listen to her or not when she told him to keep to himself until she deemed him ready.]


Would you like me to continue your training?

[personal profile] no_longer_a_king 2013-12-13 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I can make the time. [Between mapping the tower, the research into the collars, and her job on floor eighty, she can squeeze in an hour or two to train Shirou.]

I usually finish work on floor eighty at three in the afternoon on Monday through Friday. We can meet up then and I can train you until dinner if you like.

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