video 💎 un: Tohsaka Rin

[defenceless]

[the video opens to display the... somewhat incriminating desk of one rin tohsaka. are those vials and knives? yes, those are vials and knives. a few of the vials contain weird-colored liquids but don’t think about it too much.

apparently this is no reason for a tiny cygnet not to be hopping all over everywhere, chirping happily and nibbling away at a slice of apple rin holds between chopsticks. the gray downy baby swan wears a black collar inlaid with beautiful amethysts and diamonds. lazily leaning her cheek onto her hand, she speaks.]

I’ve developed a means of repelling that godawful holiday plant and withering any sprigs of mistletoe in your immediate vicinity. Simply state clearly,

"Verkümmern, Mistel."

And they’ll die. The catalyst for the enchantment has been sprinkled all across Chantes, so the spell should work wherever you are. Just don’t say the words wrong; I can’t be held responsible for what might happen, in that case.

[r.i.p. thirst. anyway, rin reveals a strange object that those more modern-familiar in alastair will recognize as a bedazzler gun.]

Now, then.

[rin sets down the apple (much to baby swan's dismay!) and calls to the servant carrying a tea tray behind her.]

Archer.

[a tall man in black armor and a pink apron glances over his shoulder. only his back is visible.

she spins her finger, gesturing for him to turn around. he does so with a rather impressive line face. there's a sword bedazzled out of shiny silver rhinestones stuck right to the front of his apron, just at chest level. rin faces the network again.]

Can anyone tell me what this [she lifts up the bedazzler gun and frowns in disgust/confusion.] is? The designs it creates are awfully tacky.

((OOC: The mistletoe-deactivating spell words will actually work, per discussion with the mods! Feel free to do whatever you want with it. Archer may reply to some tags/threads in this post.))

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[defenceless]

[SHE DOESN'T TRUST YOU ALL OF A SUDDEN, SIEGLINDE.

which is terrible to have to experience with a young girl like her, but...]

... Ah, it was pretty terrible. That's why I decided to invent the enchantment.

[grunehexe]

You were... much accosted, then?

[defenceless]

I was.

[. . .]

Although with that pompous golden jerk, simply being in his presence is being accosted by him.

[grunehexe]

But you mean to say you were... More than simply in his presence?

[defenceless]

Of course! That bastard stole a kiss from me in the roughest, most brutish way possible! He pushed me up against a wall!

Do me a favor and promise me you'll never speak to a man named Gilgamesh, Sieglinde.

[she doesn't switch to a private feed. this is mainly because she doesn't give a f if anyone hears, they can all know how horrible gilgamesh is.]

[grunehexe]

[............... What is this bizarre feeling? Jealousy? Anxiety? Fear? Titillation? It's quite the curious mix, enough to turn her cheeks redder and her smile to twitch slightly in the corners.]

That will be somewhat difficult for me to abide... I beg your understanding of this weakness...

1/3

[defenceless]

Sieglinde! [rin is loud, that's for sure. she may come off as too much of a protective "big sister" figure.] Why is that? What reason could you possibly have—

2/3

[defenceless]

Don't tell me you've already met him...!

3/3 i'm so sorry

[defenceless]

[she whispers to herself in a low tone, but it's still rather easy to listen.]

No, don't tell me. That guy likes to hang out with...

[dun dun duuuuun

lolis]

[grunehexe]

We have indeed already become quite well acquainted...

[which okay, no one warned her beforehand really, and she's being careful still, no contracts, no exchange of ahem, certain bodily fluids, so she's not in the wrong...]

I believe he enjoys women of considerable charm and ability such as myself- yourself, as well.

[WOMEN. She'll just... Size up Rin, good once over... That may or may not make the older girl feel like a prized mare for a moment there.]

I can understand the appeal, of course...

[defenceless]

[she feels confused and blown away by what's happening right now.]

S-Sieglinde...! It doesn't matter if he thinks you or I have... charm and ability, the point is that he shouldn't get everything he wants!

[no!!! that wasn't the correct way of phrasing it!]

He's a dangerous man! Bad dangerous!

1/2

[grunehexe]

Well, of course no man should receive everything he desires- it is not as if have yet succumbed...

[Wait, okay- that part is assuredly most all in her head maybe, but WHY DID SHE SAY "YET"?]

[grunehexe]

... but I have been made aware of the dangers. From his own lips, as well as others'.

[But... she's also measured the risk, and deemed it worth taking.]

[defenceless]

["yet succumbed"... could it be that sieglinde is into older men, as well? this is an unexpected side of the little witch. rin doesn't know how to process it.]

He's going to lie about himself to make him sound good. Gilgamesh is a Servant from my world like Archer is. The man is heartless and sinister—he cut down a young woman about your size, killing her with a hand shoved through her chest.

[does that wreck your romance novel fantasies, sieg?]

[grunehexe]

["hella into" is the correct term, probably. But she lets that side of it fall away, leaving only... Resignation? Conflict.]

I do not interact with him because I view him as "a good person".

[She never had from the start- she knew the stories. Not all "heroes" were "good", and the epic poems of Gilgamesh did not scrimp on the man's flaws- ego, selfishness, viciousness, anger. It isn't pleasing to hear of a particular death on his hands... But those same hands granted her gifts she couldn't ignore, no matter the source.]

Charm aside- he possesses knowledge that is most beneficial to me... Potentially that which I need for the ultimate magic. I cannot ignore that.

[Could you?]

[defenceless]

[such thirst for someone so young

she... could not, but the fact that gilgamesh would have knowledge of any "ultimate magic" is news to her. all servants knew the purpose of the holy grail and the bounty it afforded. gilgamesh cannot reach the world's center on his own, however.]

What ultimate magic?

[grunehexe]

[She balks to discuss it with another magic user- with anyone potentially intelligent enough to figure out the formula, but... If she spoke about it in the vague terms she'd learned of it first herself, the same she'd been willing to give her visitors... That would be fine. (Right?)]

Is is a spell capable of creating the miasma werewolves and other creatures require to survive in a world encroached upon by humans. The ultimate magic my ancestors all strived to perfect.

[And Gilgamesh, well. There were untold magical times accessible through that Gate.]

[defenceless]

[right. rin has no real information about sieglinde's world save for what she's gleaned from sebastian himself.

besides, it's doubtful she could do much of anything disruptive with the description.]

I see. [it boggles the mind why sieglinde would want to support creatures like that, but maybe it's a case of saving them, or making the world safer for beings similar to her butler.

and rin is most certainly aware of the duty of working to succeed ancestors.]

Perhaps Gilgamesh does know a little about that. He's the world's oldest hero. I wouldn't doubt he has his share of ancient and mystical knowledge.

But he is no mage. What we seek won't interest him—because it's beneath him.

[grunehexe]

[The "why" was indeed a complicated story- one she'd be more willing to share than the ultimate magic itself, but one still cast in shame. That she believed it in the first place at all. The truth that once she believed yet now sounded like a perverse fairytale.

One she now had a duty to fix rather than fulfill,]

I do not believe one such as he would be too interested in the trifles of a witch- not for long.

But in that time... What I could learn may be more than I ever do from a mortal in my own world.

[Anything to give her the spark, the way to connect the dots that lead to the cure she seeks.]

[defenceless]

Just be careful. Our way is to search for long-hidden mysteries our entire lives and carve out our own path. There is always more to discover.

[it sounds like a pep talk for magi specific to her home world more than something relevant to sieglinde. heck, this is the encouragement that rin could one day spout to her own children—or child.

she folds her arms, and she's assertive and determined, but what she means to imply is sieglinde doesn't need gilgamesh—or any great figure—to become great.]

The mistletoe spell is probably better understood in person. Stop by sometime, Sieglinde. I can show you how I do a few spells.

[grunehexe]

[There was always more- that was the problem, wasn't it? She was too easily led along by the promise of it. More knowledge. More things to explore.

She'd always imagined she'd spend her life in pursuit of it- but the ultimate magic... that was time sensitive.

She can only nod, then try to smile- recognizing, or so she thought, the offer of showing her the spell for what it truly was.

- Which was appreciated.]

Mm. I shall as soon as convenient.