Light years away from home, just my demons and I alone

[hellpyre]

Who: Rin Okumura and anyone else in the Bastion
When: After Groups A and B return and the Core is installed
Where: Near the apartment building
Style: [these fun things]
Status: OOOOPEN

[So hey. There's this girl. She's been in this place for a while, helped out with a lot of things, and today she got to help do something awesome! Cores are important to the Bastion after all, so that's a good thing.

Except she kind of... lit herself on fire and a lot of people saw it.

Anyone want to talk to her about that?

In all seriousness, Rin can be found after all that hubbub taking a break near the apartments, outside because she really doesn't want to be in her room right now. She's nursing a bit of a wound on her thigh from sliding on her legs under the bird earlier, but whatever road rash she got from doing so is starting to fade finally. Her sword is lying next to her in the grass, and she's just on her back, watching the odd sky above the Bastion quietly.

Mostly because her ears are still kind of ringing from what Crona did.

Ringing ears won't stop her from holding a conversation, though, if anyone cares to bother her, and she's in a decent mood given their accomplishments.]

Comments

[hellpyre]

Nnn-!

[Rin stomps her foot on the ground, letting out an annoyed snarl at the whole thing.]

I'd kick you but I think you'd like it. Jerk.

[kyotoprincess]

[He kinda sorta forgot what they were arguing about, but he still feels like he won this argument. Fuck yes.

And he'll go ahead and settle back down on the ground, now that the yelling is done. But that brings him another thought.]

...You know, there's not really that much here yet.

[hellpyre]

[Whump.

Rin drops back down with a huff, crossing her legs as her tail twitches, still mildly annoyed but very much on the 'whatever...' end of it now.]

It's gonna take a while before we get more... Cores really don't come up as much as we'd like.

[kyotoprincess]

Yeah I noticed. This is the first one in what, two weeks?

[hellpyre]

Somethin' like that... but a farm is still better than how we have been.

[kyotoprincess]

I was getting tired of the same food all the time.

[Potatoes are good to grow since they can survive a lot, but you can only eat them so may times before you're tired of them.]

[hellpyre]

Hey I tried to change it up sometimes.

[kyotoprincess]

There's only so many ways to cook potatoes.

[hellpyre]

You should be grateful I cook for you at all. At least we had food.

[kyotoprincess]

If you're going to be pissy about it, I can cook for myself.

[He's nowhere near as talented as Rin but he can at least keep himself from starving.]

[hellpyre]

You're the only one complianin', Bon.

[kyotoprincess]

[Swats at 8| ]

It doesn't matter anyway, it sounds like we'll be getting more than we'll ever need now.

[hellpyre]

Eep--!

[Rin attempts to dodge the swat by leaning back, but in the end all it does is make her lose her balance and cause her to flop on to her back again.]

Erf...

Yeah. Well. Good.

[kyotoprincess]

[Wat.

Rin you are seriously uncoordinated. Bon is kind of just staring now.]

What, did becoming a girl make you fall over more?

[hellpyre]

[See that middle finger, Bon? It's allll for you, buddy.]

Screw you. My ears are still messed up.

[kyotoprincess]

[He is frowning, and not just because of that middle finger.]

Your ears still hurt?

[hellpyre]

[Her her hand falls, and with it a sigh escapes.]

Yeah... a little.

[kyotoprincess]

[He hadn't taken Rin's extra-sensitive hearing into account. He takes a moment to consider this, wondering if there is anything that can be done about it besides waiting for it to get better on it's own.]

...it shouldn't last too long. It's a shame we don't have any doctors here, though.

[hellpyre]

[Unfortunately that's probably all they can do. Though putting something warm on her ears might help.

For now she's just... going to stay where she landed. It's easier on her and it helps the fact that her face for just a second shows a little pain at thinking of a certain doctor.]

I'll be okay...

... and I didn't become a girl, stop sayin' that.

[kyotoprincess]

[Since Bon arrived so recently (not even a week before now), he barely knows any of the NPCs people here, and wasn't as affected by the sudden death of two of them.]

It's like you suddenly became one, you were a guy for as long as I knew you.

[hellpyre]

[It doesn't help that Rin is also missing her sister on top of that.]

So I have tits now, so what.

[kyotoprincess]

It's not just how you look.

[Whoops he's getting a little flustered here. He'll just look away.]

[hellpyre]

...

[Okay, sitting up now, complete with confused expression.]

Then what is it?

[kyotoprincess]

[SIGHHH explaining things with words is hard okay? He runs a hand through his hair as he tries to explain it.]

It's like...you're Okumura. There's no denying it, you act just like he would. And it feels just like at home, kinda.

But then you go and do something that's not like him at all, and I dunno if it's because you're a girl and he's a guy or if being here has changed you, but it reminds me that you're Okumura, but you're not my Okumura.

[He hopes that makes sense, because sometimes those moments are really jarring and awkward. Almost as awkward as saying all of this, even.]

[hellpyre]

[Oh. ... damn. That was... a lot heavier than she was expecting to hear, and it makes her both sad and self conscious at the same time. She tugs on her messy ponytail a little, her own gaze shifting away and the slightest bit of pink coming to her cheeks.]

I... I'unno, maybe I do things that he doesn't-- it's not like I can know, right? But...

[She pulls in a breath, with with the exhale admits something she's been keeping to herself since she arrived.]

I think it's this place. I don't always feel like myself here, y'know? Even back home after I learned what I was I was still me and home was still home there was just a lotta extra baggage on it, but this place isn't home. I'm workin' so damn hard here because I don't want to think about the fact that home isn't there anymore... because if I think about it I won't stop thinkin' about it and--...

[And she just wants to break down so damn bad but she can't. She refuses to let herself and she refuses to let anyone see her like that.]