caughtinanetwork | thirtieth flame: accidental video; | memory and balance are tricky things

[Some one's SFC got bumped when their hand was moving around looking for something on a desk in a bedroom. It turns on, and when the hand moves away it looks like it's Rin, focusing on something in front of him. Pen in one hand, some sort of snack in the other, he's mumbling to himself in between jotting things down.

He's trying to remember things he's forgotten thanks to what happened back home. Shiro has been giving him medicine to help with that, but it's still slow going. And awkward, given that there are still people that know him that he can't remember himself.

A few minutes in to the broadcast he doesn't know he's sending, he grumbles, drops the pen and scratches at his head with a groan.]

Damn it. C'mon, Okumura...

[This is frustrating as hell to him. He's recalling things, bit by bit, but he has no control over what comes back, when, and how much.

Sighing, he leans back in the chair, tilting two feet of it off the ground as he cranes his head back to stare at the ceiling, arms hanging loose at his sides.

And then, suddenly--]

... hey! Uwaah!

[He jerks his head up sharply, but as soon as he does the precarious balance of the chair he was in is compromised. His arms pinwheel, attempting to keep his chair from going backwards, but it doesn't work and he goes crashing to the ground noisily. The SFC rattles and goes flying off the desk, landing on the floor next to Rin who is left groaning, holding his already aching head with both hands.]

Owwwww...

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[Whoa, what? By the sound of it, this... Vanitas managed to make every misstep possible for someone opposite Rin. It's like he was asking to be killed. There's an angry edge to his expression again, but this time it's not aimed at Rin. Not that he's happy about this news, but if he's really honest about it...

Yukio's silent once again, but this time the quiet doesn't last. After a few long seconds the exorcist sighs, troubled.]

Minus the flames... I can't say I would have fared much better in a similar situation.

[Yeah, more or less. Rin still doesn't know what Vanitas' full intent was, but the end result was still the same.]

... glad I'm not the only one then.

[He lets out a breath through his nose, because there is more to this than just the reveal that he's murdered some one in a dangerous, demonic induced rage.]

Since people can't... y'know, stay dead here, he's still around. And I'm not really sure why but he harasses me constantly. I put up with it 'cause I don't wanna go through that again, and he hasn't really attacked anyone since then, but if he's here just... leave him alone. And don't... tell him I told you all this.

I won't tell him anything. I think I'd rather avoid a person like that if at all possible.

[Assuming he's not actively causing problems.]

Ah... Niisan. What happens to people who are killed here?

You might run in to him anyway... but yeah, avoid him, if you can.

[He was scratching at his head (still... sitting on the ground for some reason) when Yukio asks that question, letting out a quiet 'eh?' at first.]

... oh. Uhm. They're usually picked up by the nurses, taken to the clinic, and about five days later they're revived. Used to be, that was that and nothin' more, but lately anyone who's been dyin', and anyone who was responsible for their death have been gettin' uhm... "punished".

[He's been wondering more about how people are revived, to be honest, but he hasn't been able to find any real information concerning that in the archives, so there's no way Rin will know any better.]

Punished how?

There was a guy here a while back who was killin' people. Just straight up murder for the sake of murder. When they finally caught him he had his sight taken away for like... a month. That's what I heard, anyway.

[Well that's... awful. The murdering part, not the being punished for murder part.]

That seems a small price for such a terrible crime.

Yeah, it is. But it started a whole thing of people bein' punished for death. The crappy thing, though? If you die you still get it. You and the person who killed you.

But that doesn't make any sense.

[Rin shakes his head]

It doesn't, but that's how they're playin' it.

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