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

[unflattering]

...Yeah.

[Ugh. Frustration. He falls back to stare up at the sky, still seeming pensive.]

Whatever happens...I'll try to protect this place. For the people here.

[hellpyre]

[Rin inches over, leaning over to look down at Maka.]

You're not alone in that, y'know.

[unflattering]

...[Don't look at him like that, it's embarrassing.]

I...yeah, I do, don't I? It's been hard not knowing what happened to my friends, but...that doesn't mean I don't have friends I can rely on here.

[hellpyre]

[Nope I do what I want]

Exactly.

[She grins at him, tucking hair behind one of her pointed ears.]

We're all in this together.

[unflattering]

[Well that's so fucking cute he doesn't even know where to begin with that.]

Thanks Rin, thanks for being my friend.

[hellpyre]

[She's so damn kawaii it hurts]

Hey I should be thankin' you! You saved me, after all.

[unflattering]

[That tail does not help matters at all.]

Hmm? I didn't save anyone, I just kept someone from dying while running away.

[hellpyre]

... that's savin' some one, you dummy.

[unflattering]

[Should he just...take the expression of gratitude...

But moooom, how do you save someone if you didn't cut a monster's head offfff?]

I think...we saved each other equally.

[so there.]

[hellpyre]

... okay. Sure. We saved each other.

[And now she grins even more, showing off her sharp teeth.]

That still means you saved me.

[unflattering]

[And he sits up, finally, to grab at her cheek and tug on it a little.]

Okay, Fangs, if you want to see it that way. I'd still think it was a shame that someone as cool and strong as you doesn't want to take credit for doing awesome things.

[hellpyre]

Yaaaah--!

[FLAILING

Rin manages to speak, but her words are slightly mangled by her cheek being pulled on.]

I know I'm 'ool bu' I don' wan' all th' credi'

[unflattering]

[Wow Rin don't flail so much, he lets go, smiling a little.]

You've got a warm and kind soul, things like that need to be nurtured.

[hellpyre]

[But that was uncomfortable. D: ]

-- wait you-- ... I do... ?

[Soul what]

[unflattering]

...Uhhhhh...yeah? Most living things have souls, Rin.

[hellpyre]

Demons don't.

[unflattering]

...Well you do, so you're a weird demon if you are.

[But he's never met a demon so he doesn't have a point of reference.]

[hellpyre]

... I'm... half human, if that makes a difference... ? I just thought--...

N... never mind.

[unflattering]

...[Uhhh...what does he do now? Hugs?

No that'd be weird.]

Even if you didn't have a soul...you're still a noble person, and you're fun to be around.

[hellpyre]

[She's having a Crona moment. She's just not saying "I can't handle this" out loud.]

I'unno about "noble"...

[unflattering]

Hey. It's what I think about you, you're not allowed to contest that.

[#Logic.]

What's the big deal if you are half demon anyway? Crona's not a human either, his mother is a Witch.

[hellpyre]

... okay.

[No really she can't argue with that because she has no idea what 'contest' means.]

Weeeell... it's not just that I'm half, it's cause of who my real dad is.

[unflattering]

Who's that, then?

[If he's really as bad as Rin says, and all...]

[hellpyre]

Satan.

[And more for Maka's benefit than her own, she clarifies-]

Lord of Gehenna and father of the Eight Demon Kings.

[unflattering]

Oh.

That guy?

I thought he was a myth.

[...Oh he said something...blunt and insensitive again.

Maka clears his throat and clarifies himself--]

Look, I...my dad is a womanizer and an alcoholic, but at the same time he's the strongest Demon Weapon in Death City--no, the world, even. All my life, people have expected me to be just as much of a "charmer" as him, and it...made me scared to interact with people.

[Read: Girls.]

I'm not saying this is the same or anything, just that...I dunno, I feel you.