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[wormed]

[[Here is Kariya.

He is screaming his head off and appears to be in agony, tears rolling down his face, seeping from his remaining functional eye as he tears at his hair.]]

Why.....why would you do this?!

[[It's almost like he's just witnessed something terrible, or remembered something that is causing him great pain. Whatever it is, the screaming isn't stopping.]]

I....I....take it away!!! Don't...make me....



[[OOC: Consider him completely updated to events in the anime and the novels; I can't bring him to this canon point without him becoming unplayable in Route, but I'd love to play around with it, so!]]

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THAT'S ENOUGH KARIYA should be like. his motto or something idek

[wormed]

[[Trembling, Kariya looks up at Tokiomi. He's always looking up at him. Oh, how he'd like to force him to his knees and look down on him for once, just once, so he knew how it felt....]]

Aoi......A-Aoi......

[[Tearing at his jacket, Kariya crumples.]]

If only I had stopped you....if only I had forced her away from you, for her own good, I could have saved her...

inorite

[pretentions]

"Saved her"...?

[It's there that his composure slips. "Saved her"? Really?

Really?]

Do you not understand what you've done to her? In a moment of grief, no less!

tokiomi you know he's a saint, why are you doing this

[wormed]

What I've....done....

[[More tears.]]

She didn't....that wasn't my precious Aoi, my precious Aoi wouldn't have said those things!! I...I blacked out, and then she was there and we were on the ground and I...I....

....she didn't understand! She didn't understand what I endured for her! It was all for her, Tokiomi!!

[[He starts wailing then, and the sound is agonized, pleading...pathetic.]]

I was supposed to save her from you! Save her, Sakura...but I can't...not now, I can't, I've failed I've failed I've failed I've failed I'VE FAILED!!

[[His screams turn to sobs, clumps of his hair coming away as he tears at it, shrieking and pummeling the ground, and he looks at Tokiomi with eyes filled with nothing but the purest of hate.]]

They had to die....and yet you're still here....

[pretentions]

[He's silent for a long moment after that.

And then, seven words.]

Should I feel sympathy for you, Kariya?

[wormed]

[[Eyes wide and staring, Kariya is, at first, completely lost for words at Tokiomi's simple question. Why isn't he angry? Crying? Screaming at him, kicking him punching him attacking him?]]

....I....

[[Sympathy? What....sympathy, he's never...but yes, shouldn't he be sympathised with? He is suffering so badly, all for nothing...nothing...n-nothing....

...and then he realises, he....

...he has nothing any more. Robbed, truly robbed of everything he ever held dear.]]

You....y-you bastard....

[[Look at you, standing there, looking down on him like you're so superior, like you're so fucking superior -]]

I...I don't need...your pity....

[pretentions]

Then stop behaving in such a way. You're practically demanding it at this point.

Get off the ground and compose yourself.

[wormed]

[[Is this the ultimate humiliation? That bastard mage, standing over him and demanding he stands?]]

You can't tell me what to do, Tokiomi....T-Tohsaka!!

[[A quiet irony hits Kariya, then; he would rather crawl here in the dirt like a worm than stand tall in the face of his worst, his worst enemy...

...he laughs, but it doesn't stop more tears from flowing.]]