audio | un: priest

[congratulating]

[ This has been an emotionally draining few weeks for Rin. He notes how tired she just even though she refused to outright display any weakness in front of him. Kirei is fully aware that her title of sixth head of Tohsaka family has forced her to keep contact with him -- and by extension, Jeanne Alter.

As her legal guardian, he is aware he should do something to lower her unease and stress.
Yes, he could buy her some small trinket with the small amount of silver he has acquired. It would help to ease the tension between them a marginal some but still --

Or, he could buy something he knows she is obligated to take that purposely puts stress on her. Yes, he knows what he is going to do, but likes pretend there was another option. ]

Pardon me, everyone. I am attempting to buy a gift for one of my housemates, as it were.

I have only ever bought her gifts for birthdays and holidays and so I have no idea what to get for a 'just because.' Normally, I would think a new cellphone would be a kind gift but... well, I doubt I will find that here. In any case, what would be best?

[ Unless someone knows something he does not. ]

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[congratulating]

In any business?

[ But, phone-buddy...! ]

[unpromising]

Pretty much.

[ A beat. ]

... I could get into the alcohol business, though.

[congratulating]

A fondness for the drink, then?

Anything you would like to confess? I am actually a priest. [ Artificial priest made by the Holy Church, but whatever. ]

[unpromising]

It helps keep me alive.

[ No, it doesn't... ]

Nothing to confess, though. [ Then again, he's not much into religion, to begin with. ] Do you?

[congratulating]

Does it now? Well, we all come from various walks of life so I can't say that isn't a possibility.

[ Hm, hm. ]

I do. But those confessions will be something I save until the moment of death... and even then, I have a few questions that need to be answered first. [ The Big He made Kirei to be a super-evil individual and Kirei tried not to be evil, then decided "eh, fuck it" and let himself become a hollowed-out-dead-inside person that does consistently evil-shit and contemplates his own existence. Kirei has a few questions like, "What the fuck, man?" ]

[unpromising]

Well, you don't have to tell me what they are.

[ A polite way of saying he doesn't want to know. Not yet. Besides, it's not like a complete stranger would suddenly talk about his deepest and darkest sins. ]

You ever know what it's like to almost die?

[congratulating]

As you wish.

[ Qrow will one day come to understand what little fucks Kirei gives. So long as it doesn't affect his long-term goals that he can see, he ain't bothered with sharing much of anything. ]

I do. I also know what it is like to die, but I was not dead long enough to ask any questions. Unfortunate. There was a lot I wanted to say. [ Like again, "What the fuck, man. You fucked up a perfectly good human. Look at me, I'm a sociopath." ]

[unpromising]

[ Qrow is almost curious to ask "Hey, phone buddy. How fucked up are you?" ]

You came back to life?

[congratulating]

I was revived.

[ AIRHORNS. ]