ninth flame : video/ various filters - afternoon of 9/13 { an offering

[keepsthefire]

[Rin looks surprisingly distant and thoughtful today. He's lacking his two usual modes - growling and pissed off or cheerful and derpy. He's just sort of... there.

As much as he wanted to believe it wasn't going to bother him, what Maka revealed is getting to him. And it's not even necessarily the relation to the other two that's bothering him. It's more the other questions he has on his mind.

But for the public post, he has a purpose aside from that.

Oh and he totally has a Kuro sleeping on his head]

Hey uh... if anyone wants any free lunches already made and you don't wanna bother with the lines at the restaurants today, I grabbed a buncha leftovers from the ball we had frozen and made some. I got way more than even everyone in the Villa is gonna eat, so I figured I'd just give 'em away.

[He holds one up. It's got a rather interesting assortment, not strictly Japanese since there was a pretty good assortment of cultures represented in the food at the masquerade. But whatever, they still look damn good. And Rin has enough bento boxes behind him on the counter to feed about twenty people. How the hell does he do that?

Aaand here comes the next part.]

video//filter//away from Amaimon and Mephisto

Also uh, if anyone sees this guy?

[Rin holds up a picture Amaimon.]

And he's harassin' you or whatever, just send him my away, okay? I'll deal with him.

[He pauses, then continues with with quite a bit of reluctance in his voice, with a tone of some one who is struggling to accept something but knows that he has to sooner or later.]

Just... just tell 'im "little brother" is lookin' for him.

That's it.

[He goes to turn off the SFC, but stops and frowns, switching the filter one last time.]

video//filter//to: Mephisto

Oi. Clown.

We gotta talk.

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[double_edged]

Ha! Maybe now you'll think twice before sneaking up on a Lombax!

[But ohhh he's just going to sit back and watch the show now.

Because nobody catches General Alister Azimuth off guard.

No-body.]

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[keepsthefire]

AUUGH! YOU ASS!

[You win this round, Alister. He's not stopping until that damn thing shuts off, no matter how much he hates it.

Have you ever seen such an angry dancer?]

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[double_edged]

[You're lucky it's got a time-limit, Rin, because it isn't long before the Groovitron comes back down in an explosion, ending the music. That said, the Lombax sets the glove aside and folds his arms over his chest, watching the boy.]

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[keepsthefire]

[Rin just stands there, snarling and twitching with his tail going full speed behind his back.

He kind of looks like an angry cat, doesn't he?]

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[double_edged]

Perhaps now you'll learn to listen to your elders?

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[keepsthefire]

Che! Baka jiji... I'm still leavin' this goddamn lunch here! Even if you do just waste it!

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[double_edged]

You don't know that for certain, now do you?

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[keepsthefire]

I said "if", didn't I? What you do with it after I'm gone is your own damn business now.

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[double_edged]

...so I suppose you'll be taking your leave, then.

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[keepsthefire]

You made me... do whatever the hell that was-- ...

... what was that. Seriously.

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[double_edged]

The device isn't mine, I'll have you know. That, and if it's any consolation, I've fallen victim to it a few times myself.

No, that's something you'll have to take up with Ratchet. I'm just a curious individual, after all.

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[keepsthefire]

Ratchet's... ?

... fuckin' figures.

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[double_edged]

There's still ammo in it.

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[keepsthefire]

... d-don't you dare!

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[double_edged]

Oh hush, nobody's around to see you. Why don't we talk in the kitchen, if you're so adamant about me eating?

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[keepsthefire]

[Rin eyes the glove nervously, but lets out a grumbling agreement and takes the sword and bento off his back, carrying each in either hand.]

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[double_edged]

[He debates taking the glove with him, but considering all Rin's already been through and the boy's already-nervous gait, he decides against it. So the Lombax waves a hand, directing the other into the kitchen and taking a seat at the opposite side of the table, leaning back.]

Something tells me you didn't come just to cram food down my throat.

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[keepsthefire]

[Rin follows, setting the bento on the table and resting the covered sword against it before dropping in to a chair. He sighs heavily, looking worried and a bit fidgety.]

... I... wanted to talk to you about Yukio, actually...

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[double_edged]

Your brother. Correct? I remember you mentioning something about him in the delirium - something about me not hurting him?

Rin, I... you know how I can be, but I am making an effort to improve. And if you were truly in danger, I would find a way to help you.

After all, you've-- [Idly, the Lombax reaches for his dilapidated ear.] --done the same for me.

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[keepsthefire]

This is... kinda about that...

[He fidgets, tail sweeping low to the ground next to him.]

But if I tell you all this, you gotta promise me it ain't gonna go any further than us.

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[double_edged]

If there's one thing a Lombax is good at, it's keeping a secret. [He smiles wryly at that, even with the knowledge that that 'secret' had eventually been blown anyway.

Circumstances beyond his control.]

Plus, I would like a clearer understanding to all of this. Now, what's going on?

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[keepsthefire]

Okay...

[He takes a deep breath, letting it out slowly before he starts.]

When I said Yukio wasn't himself... I didn't just mean the curse that was goin' on that week. There's... somethin' else. And... he doesn't know that I know about it.

[It feels strange to be saying this, and Rin idly wonders if Yukio felt similar when he finally had to tell everyone the truth of their origins. The same truth that had been hidden from Rin for fifteen years.]

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[double_edged]

...a split-personality, perhaps? Or is this related to the 'demon'-magic on your world? It's... truthfully difficult for me to follow this, Rin.

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[keepsthefire]

No, that ain't it...

He's... yehknow how the coral likes to fuck up things and bring people from different times and shit? It's... that. Yukio is from a few months before I got dragged here... right when somethin' started to happen to him.

[Rin's hands shift on his legs where he had rested them, curling in to fists. If Alister looks close enough, he'll see him shaking.]

He's... changin'. He thought he was unaffected by the fact that we're both sons of Satan, but he was wrong. And it's... doin' somethin' to him that I don't know how to stop. Or help.

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[double_edged]

Insanity.

[Even if he wasn't familiar with most of the going-ons in Rin's universe, that was a trait he was more than a little familiar with. And he can also see how deeply this change is affecting the boy, so the Lombax gives a momentary silence as he thinks things over.]

Sometimes... there's not much you can do, other than allow it to happen. People who slip into that state of mind, it's. Just near-impossible to bring them out of it. Or you need something terrifying enough to knock some sense into them.

I just don't want to think of what that 'terrifying' thing could be.

[Talking from experience there, Azimuth?]