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Okay.

[Rin is irritated again. What else is new.

But this time it seems to be the fault of the current curse, so it's an irritation he can share in.

His thought bubble is floating next to him, innocent looking but displaying very... crude, childish drawings , the current one looking a bit like a stick-figure of Rin strangling what... may or may not be the thought bubble itself.]

There's a lotta weird shit here, but could some one please explain what the hell THIS is?

[He points at the bubble, which causes it to move away from him as if avoiding whatever rage he might just unleash on it. He twitches noticeably, tail swaying like an angry cat's behind him.]

This thing is annoying.

[he tries to point at it again. It moves. Again.]

... really annoying.

[he turns to stare at his bubble. The drawing changes. This time the little stick figure him is stabbing the bubble. His tail twitches, and he reaches out to try and poke it. It dodges away. Apparently only his bubble is actually afraid of him. With good reason, though. It can't be destroyed, but you'd be scared of Rin, too, if you were in that poor bubble's position.]

Why the hell won't you sit still?!

[he yells at it and turns as it darts behind his head. Forgetting the video is even on, he stands, his back and swishing tail all that can be seen for a moment before he lunges at it much like a cat chasing a moving light. This game of demon and mouse-bubble continues for quiet a while before Rin knocks his SFC down and the feed shuts off for a few seconds.

When it comes back on he's holding the thought bubble triumphantly, squeezing it like one might squeeze a bag of marshmallows. The image this time seems to have Rin as a knight or some other sort of hero, having "slain" the thought bubble. Really, the damn thing just gave up and went with getting caught instead of trying to avoid him forever.]

... yeah so. What is this thing?

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Yeah. Half. Y'know. Human mother, demon father.

[He's... going to conveniently leave out WHO his father is. For now. She seems freaked out enough as it is.]

Err...actually, I don't. Non-humans are usually too busy causing chaos or killing people in my world to...crossbreed.

[The very idea, in fact, seems completely bizarre and impossible.]

But...okay, so that explains the tail. That's okay! My roommate's an obsessive-compulsive god and my best friend can turn into a scythe, it's not a big deal!

[Slight eyebrow raise]

You still look kinda freaked.

[Going to just.....lean on the book pile so the bubble doesn't pop back up.]

I'm fine, honestly! I just have a lot on my mind right now!

Uhuh.

[Yeah, that wasn't convincing at all, Maka.]

... would it help if I explained things?

[No srsly he does not need to see how frantically her bubble is reminding her that her friend of a bizarre origin that's gone event horizon exists.]

If you want to! I mean--if you really want to share that. But I'm being serious, just because I was surprised doesn't mean I think you're a bad person.

... well, I'm not. So. Good. You'd better not think that.

[He really isn't a bad person! He's just a bit... dense and has a bad temper, that's all.]

Whatever. I don't mind.

[It's not like anyone here really cares that he's a demon, after all. And hey, he can make use of his stupid thought bubble for this! He yanks the blanket off it, letting it float back up.]

So I kinda got this story from my brother. ... that's... a long story, too, but this is how it happened.

[There's a new person in the thought bubble now. It's a woman, or at least it appears to be a woman with long wavy brown hair and blue eyes and what is probably a very long black jacket.]

So our mom, [he points at the woman in the bubble] That's her. Yuri Egin. She was an exorcist. And she went out with a buncha other exorcists to look in to people like... randomly catching on fire...

[and yes, his thought bubble feels the need to illustrate this point with a random person catching on fire. Cartoony fire. It's harmless, really!]

Turns out it was Satan. Y'know, lord of all demons and all that crap? Basically he was lookin' for some one to take over because there's Gehenna which is the demon world and apparently it sucks balls down there, and there's Assiah which is our world and he really just wanted to see what it was like. Seriously. That's it. He was bored.

[This is clearly where Rin gets his attention span from.

And now there's a little blue flame going from person to person, with Yuri standing near by. Each person the blue flame goes near keeps bursting in to flames and falling over all crispy and black, though.]

But no one could handle him. Except Mom. So she was all "Here, I'll take you and show you what Assiah is like!"

[The flame bounces over Yuri, but she doesn't burn, and her little arms go up in a 'yay!' pose]

'cept her Dad was kinda part of the Vatican so he was pissed off about it and sent the guy who became our adopted dad to go bring her back home.

[Here we have some rather hilariously drawn people in probably not very accurate robes ~~because Rin has no idea what people in the Vatican actually look like~~ pointing for some other guy with glasses and white hair and a black jacket to go after Yuri.]

But she was all "No, I'm pregnant, I'm having Satan's babies." because apparently she wanted to show him how humans made life or... something...

[Yukio was kind of vague on the details here for some reason.]

'course that just made her dad MORE mad so... he tried to have her executed. Nice guy, huh?

[It's probably good this is fairly innocent-looking due to the child-like nature of the thought bubble drawings, because otherwise a woman being tied to a stake she's obviously going to be burned on would be rather graphic and disturbing otherwise.

But that's what's there, in all it's cartoony glory, poor Yuri tied up with the men in robes around her.]

But then Dad went and tried to save her by possessing people all over trying to find a body that would hold him long enough to do that. Pissed a lot of people off, though, since, yehknow... a lot of people kinda died. So... no one back home really likes my Dad but he's kind of an asshole anyway and--

[oh, right, he was telling a story wasn't he? Even the little figures in his thought bubble look annoyed.]

Uh. ANYWAY. So yeah he was able to save her but it was kinda too late and she wound up dying anyway, but she still managed to have me and Yukio before that happened.

[Aw, look, little babies! And one of them has flames! Guess which one that is.]

So Father Fujimoto... that's the guy Grandpa sent after Mom... [yup, there he is in the bubble again, glasses and all] he adopted us and raised us like normal humans. Until last year, anyway.

[he doesn't elaborate, but there's him with a sword and flames and a tail in the bubble. Doesn't take much to figure that one out.]

... and that's it.

[Thank you for watching Rin Okumura Theater.]

[.............She'll just kindly ignore the making babies with Satan thing and smile.]

Thank you for sharing that with me. Do you think you could tell me more about the exorcist thing? It sounds a little like my job.

[But it's part of the story, Maka!]

Exorcists? Oh, uh. Yeah, I'm trainin' to be one, actually.

[Yes. A demon is training to be an exorcist. It's just as strange as it sounds.]

What do you wanna know?

[She's heard stranger, believe it or not.]

Well, what do they do? Back at home we stop corrupted souls and witches from spreading chaos, what about exorcists?

Uh, mostly take care of demons that cross over in to Assiah...

Used to be we were pretty violent 'bout it, but after a lot of crap that happened with my dad we've started tryin' other ways, like listenin' to why the demons are there and stopping them in other ways.

So you're like peacekeepers for your world...that sounds really great!

Hey, what's your name? I haven't even introduced myself yet and we've been talking the whole time...that was pretty rude of me, sorry. My name is Maka!

Well... yeah, kinda...

[Rin rubs the back of his neck thoughtfully. Why hadn't he thought of it like that before?

... he blames Mephisto. Damn troll.]

Oh uh, Okumura Rin. Nice t'meet ya, Maka.

You don't have to be modest, it's a pretty big feat! Not everyone can take on that much responsibility so willingly. [Especially considering the pedigree, but she won't say that part, even if she does know someone that had to deal with the same.] And it's nice to meet you, too, Rin.

Well... I had a goal and I was gonna go for it, yehknow? Probably the first time I ever really had uh... purpose or whatever...

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