YAN-PARA au master post

[earthflames]

WHAT IT SAYS ON THE BOX.

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[partyintheback]

I've heard whispers. If it's something "messy", can you be quite sure his lips are sealed?

[plotarmor]

I can. He knows not to mess around with that Blood Rose guy anymore, so he doesn't have a reason to talk.

[partyintheback]

That's an infamous name. If rumor is to be believed, not many men could keep a secret if that one wanted to hear it.

[plotarmor]

Cu could; he's not the type of person who'd give in to anyone. I think doing that would piss him off too much.

[partyintheback]

...Have you ever been tortured, Emiya Shirou?

[plotarmor]

What?! No-- What kind of question is that?!

[partyintheback]

You have no frame of reference. How much can a man take when his bones are snapped and the skin pulled from his body? Do you think a man that slaughters so freely will leave your friend in one piece?

[plotarmor]

No.

But he's not defenseless either. None of us would be alive right now if we didn't defend ourselves. Just because someone doesn't like fighting doesn't mean they can't do it. Sometimes you just don't have a choice.

[partyintheback]

You assume he'd be given a chance to fight. I'm sure many of that man's victims have tried.

[plotarmor]

[The suggestion that someone would do that offends Shirou's sensibilities, and reflexively he brings his fist down onto the table]

You can't just kill someone without giving them a chance to fight back!

[partyintheback]

Oh, you easily can. It wouldn't be honorable, but is a man who kills children "honorable"?

[plotarmor]

[he shakes his head slowly]

But I don't want to believe that someone would stoop to that so easily.

[partyintheback]

Oh, I'm sure the innocents he's killed had a fair chance.

[Finally he sits, opposite Shirou in a comfortable chair. As if the subject isn't gruesome at all, he begins to pour tea.]

[plotarmor]

[frowning, he takes his tea and takes a rather long sip -- he doesn't want to talk about it or think about it.]

[partyintheback]

Hmm. Perhaps we should change to a lighter subject. How is your brother?

[plotarmor]

[A bit of a sigh, mostly to calm himself. Of course there are two, but no one really knows that.]

Pretty busy. He keeps complaining about how much stuff needs to be taken care of when Cu disappears, but I think he's worried, too.

[partyintheback]

Their relationship must be stronger than either admits to. They are both terribly abrasive young men, aren't they?

[plotarmor]

Abrasive...? Sorta, maybe. It's just kind of how they both are, so I never really thought about it.

[partyintheback]

You're quite the optimist, aren't you?

[Handing Shirou his tea IT'S QUITE GOOD.]

[plotarmor]

If you mean I try to think the best of people...then yeah, sure.

[He takes the tea and gives Kirei a little nod as thank you. Gosh, Kirei you're kind of a weird dude but OK I guess!]

[partyintheback]

Even beyond common logic. You have a truly godly heart to have such faith in goodness.

[plotarmor]

But I just gave you a couple kilos of drugs.

[partyintheback]

A diamond in the rough, as it were. The rich will have their vices, and the poor will do what they must.

[whoreofbabylon]

[YEAH SPEAKING OF VICES, THAT THUD IN THE BACK ROOM? SOMEONE'S REALLY HIGH AND ALSO REALLY ON THE FLOOR NOW. <3 <3 <3 <3]

[plotarmor]

[And this genius turns to glance over his shoulder to see where that came from, and in the process knocks his tea into his lap]

Wha--!