Nope's Peak r2 - Day 1

[flamingprick]

[Rin will go ahead and drag Allen up to the aquarium tunnel on the fourth floor then.]

Here! We'll have plenty of privacy up here. We can hear anyone coming this way, plus nobody really comes up here anyway.

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[lefthandpath]

[poor Rin. this is like Allen Walker 101 with Exorcists what with akuma always yelling about his crime. and sometimes... it's just easier to get it out of the way.

he smiles. because that's just what he knows best how to do to keep an even tone and expression.]

A few years ago, my father died.

And when the Millennium Earl came and told me that I could bring him back... I was selfish enough to call his name.

[flamingprick]

[From that first sentence, Rin can already tell this is going to be a trip. Dead parents are something he can definitely sympathize with.

But then Allen continues and his sympathetic look turns to one of shock.]

You...are you an akuma, then?

[lefthandpath]

[aaaaahhhhahaha cryyyyyyy i mean he's not wrong? he's not wrong but like.

shakes his head, still smiling.]

No. You see, my left arm was always kind of useless, just ugly, heavy weight. [pulls off his glove so he can show the cross embedded in the back of his hand, show how inhuman it actually is, joints like rivets.] But after Mana cut my face, cursed me to see the suffering of the souls trapped within the akuma... he was going to kill me by order of the Earl, but my left arm moved. For the first time.

It destroyed the akuma I had created. I survived, but afterwards, this became my appearance.

[flamingprick]

So that...

[He reaches out for a moment, like he's going to touch Allen's hand, but stops short. He remembers Allen's warning, about how that hand might hurt him. So he pulls his hand back instead.]

That's his gift to you, then. The arm that you can use to protect yourself with.

[Since only Innocence can destroy akuma, right?]

[lefthandpath]

[i hope u r learning to appreciate patented Allen Walker I'm Not Crying You're Crying smiles.

because like.

yeah.

Rin gets it.

and that's so rare for someone to just. get it.]

That's right.

[flamingprick]

[He is definitely appreciating these smiles, because genuine smiles look good on Allen. And it gets a gentle smile from Rin in return.]

Just before he died, my dad gave me this sword.

[The one he put back on his shoulder not too long ago, he means.]

I wasn't able to save him with it, but because of that gift I can save others. So believe me when I say 'I get where you're coming from.'

[lefthandpath]

I know. I can tell.

You have a terrible poker face.

[hi this is what being friends with Allen Walker is like.]

[flamingprick]

[WHOOPS

There's no denying that at least.]

That's not my fault, you know! It's just how I am.

[He's not actually mad or anything, just a touch embarrassed by it. He knows it's true, he's a bad liar.]

[lefthandpath]

[laughs a bit, sounding like he very much needed it.]

It's not really such a bad thing.

[flamingprick]

Well...I guess not, no. But it makes it harder to keep up with people who are good at hiding their feelings.

[lefthandpath]

[ganba, Rin.]

That makes sense--that it'd be frustrating, I mean.

[flamingprick]

[FROWNNNNN but it's not a serious one.]

I'll just have to beanbag-tackle people into submission again, I guess. If they won't be honest with their feelings, there's ways to get 'em to loosen up.