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compnetwork2013-01-01 06:38 pm
maybe_a_king) wrote in compnetwork2013-01-01 06:38 pm
ITP: Questions
[Four months. January would mark her fourth month in this place and Arturia is very, very confused. This is a place where special abilities are not only accepted, but commonplace, and there's little chance of the Grail War coming here. She always hated keeping secrets back home, but had understood the why of it. It bothered her, but she had accepted this as a fact of life.
Even more than that, Shinji weighs on her mind. Shinji had been a jerk, there was no question about that. The girls who followed him around were the type of teenage girl who seemed to think that sort of person was a real man. Arturia knew better than that just from spending so much time with Sakura. The only reason Arturia had not tried beating him to a pulp for what he did to his sister had been due to Sakura asking her to leave him be and stay out of it. It angered her to just stand by and yet....
...yet when she gets back home, she has every intention of going to the Matou home and telling Sakura in person that her brother is dead. Arturia has no idea how to tell her and the thought of lying to Sakura and creating a cover story leaves her slightly ill whenever she thinks of it since, in the end, Arturia feels like she is the one responsible. Archer may have put the bullet through Shinji's brain, but he had been Arturia's Servant.
There had to have been an alternative. There had to be.
Once she figures out how to post anonymously on the Network, she does so.]
[Text; Anonymous]
When is it acceptable to kill someone?
For that matter, when would you say it is acceptable to keep secrets.?
(ooc: Threadjacking is a-okay and encouraged)
Even more than that, Shinji weighs on her mind. Shinji had been a jerk, there was no question about that. The girls who followed him around were the type of teenage girl who seemed to think that sort of person was a real man. Arturia knew better than that just from spending so much time with Sakura. The only reason Arturia had not tried beating him to a pulp for what he did to his sister had been due to Sakura asking her to leave him be and stay out of it. It angered her to just stand by and yet....
...yet when she gets back home, she has every intention of going to the Matou home and telling Sakura in person that her brother is dead. Arturia has no idea how to tell her and the thought of lying to Sakura and creating a cover story leaves her slightly ill whenever she thinks of it since, in the end, Arturia feels like she is the one responsible. Archer may have put the bullet through Shinji's brain, but he had been Arturia's Servant.
There had to have been an alternative. There had to be.
Once she figures out how to post anonymously on the Network, she does so.]
[Text; Anonymous]
When is it acceptable to kill someone?
For that matter, when would you say it is acceptable to keep secrets.?
(ooc: Threadjacking is a-okay and encouraged)
[text | private]
Yeah.
[And because it's him...]
When I chose not to go back.
[text | private]
[Yeah... that seems like something he would say.
He is pretty sure he knows the answer to the question that follows already, but even so he wants to hear it from her.]
When the moment came, did you take responsibility for your choices?
[text | private]
We still are.
[Now, and every day until Sora finally wakes up. Probably longer.]
[text | private]
[Even though Sora might still be asleep, even though he is sure many other things he doesn't know about have happened to her and her friends...
He switches to voice for this; it's something that should be said rather than texted.]
I'm sure, your Riku is very glad about the way things happened. Despite the consequences of it.
[He knows the regret he feels over Roxas. That may be in part over Xion too.
And he knows that he is glad that somewhere things went differently.]
[voice sort of? But really not here]
Suddenly it feels like there's a very big lump lodged in her throat, and a sharp pressure behind her eyes. She activates the voice on her own device, but after a few moments, no sound has come out of her mouth except a soft hiccuping sound.
Instead she swallows, and buries her head in her knees and turns the feed off again.
She could never say it aloud, would probably have trouble even admitting it to herself, but hearing that from Riku, a Riku who knew some of the differences between their universes... it meant so much more than words could say.]
[Not here-ish?]
He keeps an eye on this conversation though, just in case she does find herself wanting to talk about this.]