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seasonsrpg2023-08-01 11:50 pm
mayoninofukucho) wrote in seasonsrpg2023-08-01 11:50 pm
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Fate/Hate Boner, Part... I Lost Track
WHO: Hijikata and OPEN
WHAT: Hijikata tries to deal with his spectacular fuck-up!
WHEN: August 1st (a couple of days after Medusa first turned into Gorgon)
WHERE: Sunwaning and/or Solarpeak
WARNINGS:Unwarranted Manpain (OK no, he'll try to take responsibility!!)
[OOC: This is yet another little chapter of the ongoing drama between Hijikata, Medusa, and Ozymandias (and their friends and affiliates, and innocent bystanders too)!
Associated posts (for anyone who would like to follow along at home):
OOC Plotting
Hijikata starting the whole shitshow by siccing Medusa on Ozymandias
Ozymandias live-shaming a consequently petrified Hijikata
Quest: Going Gorgon
This installment is mostly for people who want their characters to give him a talking-to in person, but rest assured that he's got the pet-shaming sign on him, and further additions are being retroactively added!]
[When Hijikata regained consciousness he was at home, not at the Secret Getaway, and in front of him was his mentee Shoto, caught between concern and relief... not his suddenly tall-as-a-house, winged and snake-bodied Servant Medusa.
Naturally the most important items ("Why am I here", "What date is it", "How did you get me unpetrified") were addressed first, and all the answers - that Shoto took him home from Solarpeak after Ozymandias brought him there, that a couple of days elapsed between now and when he last saw Medusa, that Shoto sacrificed White Amaryllis, the sword forged out of his admiration for his mentor - drove it home more and more deeply that he made a colossal, terrible mistake.
Hijikata wanted to stay with Shoto, somehow make up for his sacrifice, reassure him, answer his many questions... but he simply couldn't leave Medusa alone out there in that state. So he made up a convincing lie (another thing to feel bad about later, because damn it, why does this boy put so much trust in him), promising to be back very soon, and set out - not to where he said he'd go, but towards the Summer Guild's headquarters.
Shoto-kun said she's in the Jungle of Judgement. I just need to teleport to the Temple of Life, and then--!
And then what?, a voice in his head asks. Medusa - no, Gorgon - is draining his mana. All of it. He felt her suck it all up like a giant maelstrom when she first transformed out there, and he can still feel it now, despite the distance between them. The remaining two Command Seals on the back of his hand - the third smudged and blackened, as if it was burned up - are testament to their bond still existing. Shit. Rider...
He stops, trying to form some kind of plan, but it comes back down to just: I'm her Master, I need to help her. But how can he do that now when he can't even summon enough of a fireball to light a cigarette anymore? Maybe he can undo this with another Command Spell..? He stares at the red triple tomoe (now just a double tomoe, really). Won't this only make it worse..? But this is my duty, isn't it?
(If anybody notices his weird behaviour... please stop this man. He's done enough!)]
WHAT: Hijikata tries to deal with his spectacular fuck-up!
WHEN: August 1st (a couple of days after Medusa first turned into Gorgon)
WHERE: Sunwaning and/or Solarpeak
WARNINGS:
[OOC: This is yet another little chapter of the ongoing drama between Hijikata, Medusa, and Ozymandias (and their friends and affiliates, and innocent bystanders too)!
Associated posts (for anyone who would like to follow along at home):
OOC Plotting
Hijikata starting the whole shitshow by siccing Medusa on Ozymandias
Ozymandias live-shaming a consequently petrified Hijikata
Quest: Going Gorgon
This installment is mostly for people who want their characters to give him a talking-to in person, but rest assured that he's got the pet-shaming sign on him, and further additions are being retroactively added!]
[When Hijikata regained consciousness he was at home, not at the Secret Getaway, and in front of him was his mentee Shoto, caught between concern and relief... not his suddenly tall-as-a-house, winged and snake-bodied Servant Medusa.
Naturally the most important items ("Why am I here", "What date is it", "How did you get me unpetrified") were addressed first, and all the answers - that Shoto took him home from Solarpeak after Ozymandias brought him there, that a couple of days elapsed between now and when he last saw Medusa, that Shoto sacrificed White Amaryllis, the sword forged out of his admiration for his mentor - drove it home more and more deeply that he made a colossal, terrible mistake.
Hijikata wanted to stay with Shoto, somehow make up for his sacrifice, reassure him, answer his many questions... but he simply couldn't leave Medusa alone out there in that state. So he made up a convincing lie (another thing to feel bad about later, because damn it, why does this boy put so much trust in him), promising to be back very soon, and set out - not to where he said he'd go, but towards the Summer Guild's headquarters.
Shoto-kun said she's in the Jungle of Judgement. I just need to teleport to the Temple of Life, and then--!
And then what?, a voice in his head asks. Medusa - no, Gorgon - is draining his mana. All of it. He felt her suck it all up like a giant maelstrom when she first transformed out there, and he can still feel it now, despite the distance between them. The remaining two Command Seals on the back of his hand - the third smudged and blackened, as if it was burned up - are testament to their bond still existing. Shit. Rider...
He stops, trying to form some kind of plan, but it comes back down to just: I'm her Master, I need to help her. But how can he do that now when he can't even summon enough of a fireball to light a cigarette anymore? Maybe he can undo this with another Command Spell..? He stares at the red triple tomoe (now just a double tomoe, really). Won't this only make it worse..? But this is my duty, isn't it?
(If anybody notices his weird behaviour... please stop this man. He's done enough!)]
... hello!!
The girl lands near him on her feet agilely like a cat from the way how Archer's carrying her and she has never seen this man before but she sure isn't even trying to look all prim and proper this time.
Congratulations, Hijikata, it's rare for Tohsaka to meet someone for the first time and instantly glare at them as much as she's glaring at him right now.]
What the hell do you think you're doing?
[. . . That's one way to say hello, very nice to meet you too from a girl, who still has all of her three Command Seals on the back of her right hand.]
No, let me guess, you're on your way there to "help" by thinking of using one of those for trying to force her to calm down and then if or when that doesn't work, you'd use the other for trying to force her to stop whatever she's doing, right?
[She better be wrong and she's mostly being sarcastic with all of that even if she wouldn't even be surprised by any of that.]
What a great first meeting!! 🔥
He doesn't get a word in at first as she confronts him, but once he does he blurts out his answer.]
I-- well, maybe the first half! But if the first Command Spell doesn't work, then why should the second!
LOL I'm glad you think so, I think so too!
[And forget her even thinking, that he's smart despite how she mentioned that word there too. So, really, thinking back to what she first said to him, she should have said "what the hell are you doing" but whatever! All that world jumping later, though Rin doesn't even remember Avalon, and this is how they meet...]
Who the hell even freed you from being a statue? You should have stayed that way for at least until she's back to normal again too!
♡
My mentee unpetrified me. He was worried about me. Please don't hold it against him.
[Wow, look at this humility... Rin is getting as much of an unusual first impression of him as vice versa. Normally he'd be insulting her intelligence back in the pettiest ways, but this time he simply takes that hit! He does feel like a colossal moron, one who caused his Servant and a bunch of other people a lot of grief with his brash and snap-judging decisions.]
w o w i blinked and suddenly it has been forever... i'm so sorry for how late this adjklscjxzshhj
[Who's that? She's mostly talking to herself when she says that. Considering op- No, Rin doesn't have time for that. Oh cute, asking her to please not to hold it against him (narrowing some options right there). Too bad, it doesn't work, Rin still looks really fucking mad.]
Whatever, you can beg all you want but I don't take orders from anyone.
[But she also won't hold it against his mentee, probably. But speaking of Rin and orders...]
But you - you'll go back to wherever the hell you came from and stay the hell away from Medusa! I'm not going to let you go anywhere near her!
Time flies... no worries!! ♡
I wasn't ordering you, I was asking you!
[Can't a man request lenience for his mentee from an angry teenage girl? Come to think, she's probably around Shoto's age... not that it matters in this situation. The bottom line is that they can't afford to get stalled here, so he actually relents, for his Servant's sake. He feels another nausea-inducing surge on his already depleted mana reserves and broadens his stance to not slump to the ground. Medusa... what's happening to you out there?]
If you want me to stay behind here, then help my Rider in my stead!
[What do you think she's on the way to do, Hijikata?]