奥村 燐 | Okumura Rin (
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vatheon2012-12-01 04:56 pm
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There's no place like home for the holidays
Who: VILLA PEOPLE and anyone else
Where: Where else, DA VILLA
When: Starting today, going allllll month!
Style: Any
Status: Open to all, visitors pleasesneak in a window knock
[Even with the curse going on and the myriad of new arrivals and new residents to that well known house in Vatheon, it's actually been more or less calm there. Not exactly quiet, but calm. Which is always nice to start the month of December with.
So what is your Villa person doing today? Cooking, hanging out, putting up Christmas decorations? Whatever the case, feel free to mingle about! There's plenty of new people to say hello to!]
Where: Where else, DA VILLA
When: Starting today, going allllll month!
Style: Any
Status: Open to all, visitors please
[Even with the curse going on and the myriad of new arrivals and new residents to that well known house in Vatheon, it's actually been more or less calm there. Not exactly quiet, but calm. Which is always nice to start the month of December with.
So what is your Villa person doing today? Cooking, hanging out, putting up Christmas decorations? Whatever the case, feel free to mingle about! There's plenty of new people to say hello to!]
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Yeah! Try some, lemmie know what you think. I'm tryin' to get some of this stuff down before Christmas.
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If there's no meat in this--
[Picking a piece up, he considers it with a critical eye; provided Rin confirms the absence of meat, he'll help himself to a bite, chewing for several thoughtful seconds, his expression revealing nothing.]
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That's uhm... [He looks down at the book, sounding out the word as carefully as he can] Spa-na-ko-pi-ta. It's Greek, I guess? Feta and Ricotta cheese with spinach in a butter pastry. I might've over cooked it a little bit, but I can get it right next time!
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[And finally, there's a smile; Kid picks another one up, balancing a triangle with two points against two fingers, the third point up.]
But it's still delicious. I didn't think you had this kind of domestic talent. Furthermore, the shape is also pleasing to look at.
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[Placing another pan in the oven, he bumps it closed with his knee and wipes his flour-covered hands on the bottom of his blue apron.]
I started cookin' when I was seven. I lived with a bunch of priests, my brother and my old man who could make passable curry and not much else. We were kinda lackin' in good food until I started working on it.
First attempts were uhm... bad. [He laughs at the memory, recalling how he couldn't even break eggs without getting shell in everything.] But I'm pretty damn stubborn so I kept at it.
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But given the fact that he's eating a second one already speaks volumes of his approval.
As he finishes chewing, his eyebrows lift at Rin. That he's stubborn enough to eventually improve his cooking to this level doesn't surprise him -- he glimpsed his soul, after all. Instead, it's this:]
You and your brother lived in a church?
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Our adopted dad was a priest - Father Fujimoto. Well... he was an exorcist, too, but I didn't find that out until I was a lot older. He was pretty much retired by the time Yukio and I came along.
But he was friends with our mom so he took us for her since she died when we were born.
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Having that close a relationship with you, your brother, as well as your departed mother. Did he know?
[He doesn't feel it necessary to elaborate.]
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Yeah. They knew before I did.
["They" being Father Fujimoto and Yukio both.]
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Compared with himself, who keeps his own counsel even when he probably could stand to open up now and then. Yeah, right!]
I see, since you were kept in the dark on this, I assume they hoped to give you a "normal life"?
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Yeah... Dad kept my powers sealed, but it started breakin' last year.
[And that's when all hell actually broke loose.]
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[Abandoning the plates and their variety of edible contents, Kid steps closer to the vicinity of the oven, and Rin, his hands again having retreated into his pockets.]
That's when you found out you weren't like them?
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His tail gave a twitch, and he nodded in confirmation to Kid's question]
Yeah. One of the demon kings possessed a kid I knew and tried to get me to go to Gehenna with him. It was pretty terrifyin', seein' that for the first time.
Dad rescued me, but--...
[He still wound up falling to Satan in the end.]
Let's just say it didn't work out the way he'd planned.
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This does not mean Death the Kid assumes such is the case for Rin's world.]
I see. [He recognizes in that the sound of one who is remembering the dearly departed.] My condolences for your loss. Under such circumstances, it must have been hard.
[He leans down, and, after a moment, rests two fingertips on the half-demon's knuckles with a reminder:]
Mind that you don't break the switch.
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It's the comment about the switch that finally breaks him out of his memories, eyes blinking a couple of times before he finally pulled his hand away.]
Sorry. Didn't realize I was doin' that.
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Kid straightens up, posture a great deal better than that expected of pretty much any of his peers, here or at Shibusen.]
Your brother knew. [And with the loss of a father they might very well have both adored--]
Hmm.
[Was that, perhaps, why Yukio seemed so strained when he spoke of his brother?]
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Rin finally straightened as well, stuffing hands in his pockets and shuffling a foot along the tiled floor. If he couldn't fidget with his hands he would find some other way to do it.]
He could see demons ever since he was little, so Dad started trainin' him as an exorcist. He's... the youngest student to ever get his full certification, and the youngest instructor at True Cross.
[Even though he smiles faintly as he says it, there's an underlying tone of sadness to his pride. He'll always admire Yukio, and there's no shortness of amazement at his talents, but it still hurts to know there was so much of his own brother's life that Rin didn't know for years. So much kept hidden, so many secrets...]
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I can see that you're proud of your accomplished brother, but that's not all there is to it.
[Feel free to tell him to back off anytime, Rin, but Kid isn't going to let up until his curiosity has been fully satisfied.]
Am I wrong?
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But for some odd reason that no one will ever be able to explain, he actually didn't mind spilling all of this to Kid.]
Nah. ... kinda wish you were, though.
[He huffs, shifts on his feet, but eventually decides that nope, it's not enough. He needs to busy his hands or he really is going to break something.
He starts pulling out ingredients for another... something. Really he's made more than enough food, but he just wants to have that focus, and knows it won't go to waste in that house.]
I'm dangerous. I'm the Vatican's wild card. I could become a weapon against Satan or fall and become his right hand. They don't know. I don't either, really. They don't trust me, and "they" includes my brother.
[Rin actually has no idea that Yukio struggles between loving and hating his older brother. All he knows is that Yukio uses any opportunity to remind Rin that he 'relies on Satan's power too much'.]
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He tries to place himself in some relevant position to the one Rin surely experiences, and finds he can't.
At Shibusen and throughout Death City, he stood out in a crowd, drawing hushed whispers of reverence because of his relation to the god of their world. And although that would have been a lonely experience were it not for a few unique (and headstrong) individuals with the gall to be friends with a reaper (and in one case, engage in a heated rivalry), he never experienced widespread suspicion.
The only forms of comfort he knows intuitively concern the soul specifically. A mere physical pat to a shoulder seemed off-handed to the point of condescension. Actually contacting his soul, too intimate.]
Humans tend to fear what they don't understand. It's that same fear that spurs the brave to overcome it, to grow and evolve. I've heard it said that "fear" is, therefore, humankind's greatest treasure, but I believe that to be the soul.
[Even if they could see Rin's soul the way Maka could, the way he could, he doubts his situation would change much.]
Being their "wild card" against Satan, is that what you want? What do you suppose will come of you, once the Vatican has achieved its goals?
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It's like I told Mephisto when he confronted me - I'm not human anymore but I'm not a demon either. The only choice I have is to move forward and become an exorcist.
Anything else... I'unno. I don't really see what else I can do.
Here at least I've got other choices but only because it doesn't work the same way Assiah does.
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To decide to move on, march forward in pursuit of a brighter outcome is certainly a sentiment with which Kid can definitely relate; he is, after all, rather keen on shaping a perfect world with his own hands one day, but not as an exorcist.
As god of his world, basically.]
Who is this Mephisto to you? Or rather, why should he matter? [Assiah, he assumes, might just be the name of the world he comes from. He never studied the Kabbalah.]
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But in all seriousness, he basically doesn't see himself as having any other options, even if the work is dangerous and thankless and unforgiving.]
... my guardian and the headmaster of the school.
[But he added after a hesitant pause, a look of distaste pulling on his features.]
He's also one of my brothers.
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Yukio?
[He's too young to be his twin's guardian, and more than that, the headmaster of a school. Besides, a name like Mephisto?]
No. I didn't realize you had other siblings.
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[He's not trying to be sarcastic or anything. He really means it. He knows Yukio picked it up some time, and it might give Kid some insight on just who these other siblings of Rin's are.]
I didn't really know he was related to me until a coupla months ago...
[Hints were dropped of course, but that didn't really do much when Rin's focus was almost constantly on something else.
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