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[ Hey, buddy, do you know what time it is? Guessing ADVENTURE TIME™ will only earn an incorrect bzzt, thanks for playing. This time Rin's mood has plummeted to unbearable levels of snark, but at least she's considerate enough to take it to text. ]

✪✪✪ Pop Quiz ✪✪✪

Guess which Chosen Child has taken their leave this time!

If you choose correctly, you'll get a nice giant "Piss off!" to redeem anytime you feel like being told off.

Really, I'm the best at it or so I'm told! (◕‿◕✿)

[ It sounds a lot less brutal when the words are typed up instead of shouted, right? That may have been the end of her message, but then something else comes through. ]

I bet none of you losers ever had the chance to get to know my roommate, so you know what? I'll tell you all about everything you missed out on. This Chosen Child will be sorely missed because unlike a lot of you other idiots, she had personality. At first I thought there was nothing there because she was a blank slate, but then I got to see how courageous she was in conquering her fears. She fought valiantly while many others chickened out and this alone earned her a spot as my only friend in the world.

She never even had a chance to see what it was like to live. This place? This fake world we all got forced into? This was her chance to finally enjoy a life and she was taken away for no apparent reason. She didn't break any stupid rules. If I can run around screaming and beating up others while she did no harm, why was she sent back?

Do you understand? This place sent a good person back to her death for no reason.

Hakuno was too good for this place. I'm glad she won't get hurt anymore, but she did seem happy while she was here. Kind of hard to be angry at this place when it let her live life like a normal person for once.

I'm guessing her Servant Saber is gone too? I haven't heard from that loud mouth in a few days. Figures. They seemed really close, so I guess that's for the best to be completely honest with you.

Guess this is your way of punishing me for me lashing out, isn't it? Typical. Can't threaten to send home the person who needs to be home, no, just send her only friend to the grave once more.

[ But now Rin Tousaka is alone. Unfortunately that means she has no one else to complain at except for those who are willing to brave the tsun in this post. Be brave, young Chosen... ]

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If I wanted pity, I would boohoo and cry all over where everyone can see.

So it'd just be like anyone else when someone they know leaves. Excuse me for adding a little variety.

There's a difference between 'variety' and 'biting my head off'.

I said shoot, not bite.

I'm not sure if you'd taste very good and besides, cannibalism is likely prohibited here.

Are you actively trying to be infuriating?

My only friend left to go back to being dead.

What do you think?

Not everyone copes with that sort of thing by lashing out at people.

Great, so now you're being judgmental over how I handle my grief.

I feel a single tear forming. Are you proud of yourself?

Look, I'm just saying that you don't have to bite my head off when I'm trying to be sympathetic!

If you were really trying to be sympathetic, you'd send me flowers or a gift basket!

I just told you my friend is dead, asshole.

And honestly? If I had anything close to the means to do that, I probably would.

As it is, sympathy's all you're getting.

[rin for god's sake he's written by urobuchi, everyone he cares about is dead]

[ ACKNOWLEDGE HER AU SUFFERING, WAVER. ]

What?

You didn't pick up a job or anything?

That's not really relevant, is it?

That alone confirms it.

We're going to go work a job together because I'll need to make sure you actually show up and then after you've earned a paycheck, you can make it up to me by buying something nice.

I won't even tell you what to buy, but you know I'm short of ammunition.

Edited 2013-08-06 12:13 (UTC)

I have a job, and it'll be a cold day in hell when I voluntarily work a single shift with you!

Is that so?

What sort of stupid place would hire you?

Why should I tell you?!

One: I don't believe you have any useful skills worth hiring for.

Two: Read the above again for good measure.

Three: Management can sense weakness.

One: I'm a bloody genius.

Two: I'm a bloody genius.

Three: I don't see how any of this is your business to start with.

Prove it.

(If I could make that blink, I would.)

And since you clearly think you know everything, how am I supposed to do that?

By saying something smart for once?

[ She's got him there. ]

I could easily make the brilliant observation that you're probably being a jerk to compensate for the fact that you feel helpless knowing there's nothing you realistically could have done to stop your friend from going back.

[Too far? Probably. But shit, he's been there.]

Shut up.

[ It was too far. ]

[And there's a pause as he realizes oh shit, that was really a dick move.]

Sorry. Forget I said anything.

Read up, dweeb, because I'm not going to repeat this message again.

Unlike any of the other losers here, I've spent every waking moment I have on trying to hack this world. If I didn't spend my time on the field helping out, I might have been able to glean more information about this place and therefore keep them from taking her away.

All I need is more time! This place robbed me of that, but more importantly, it robbed a young girl a chance at living.

Not as brilliant as you originally thought?

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