[rin's stunned, fairly clueless reaction should prove just how much she understands about "the root" for her.]
Wh-What? The Root...?
[it's not a concept beyond her knowing, certainly, but she also wasn't as fully educated on her father's true motives as gilgamesh might expect from the heir to his former master. her neck whips around and her blue eyes land on him like she doesn't notice; it was and is an unconscious gesture, she's so confused.
and yet he'll note she does not mourn her father's replacement of love for her with some other, perhaps less warm and familial goal. they were a family of magi. they weren't warm or human from the beginning. to the contrary, gilgamesh's answer lines everything up perfectly. gilgamesh must have needed to die to access the root—or that would be the case, if anyone wasn't aware the grail waiting for them was entirely corrupted.]
I don't know... anything about that... [suddenly on her guard—but not necessarily against him—rin stiffens, dropping her eyebrows in sadness and biting her bottom lip. barely, her head is shaking, her long hair shifting over her shoulders and across her chest.]
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Wh-What? The Root...?
[it's not a concept beyond her knowing, certainly, but she also wasn't as fully educated on her father's true motives as gilgamesh might expect from the heir to his former master. her neck whips around and her blue eyes land on him like she doesn't notice; it was and is an unconscious gesture, she's so confused.
and yet he'll note she does not mourn her father's replacement of love for her with some other, perhaps less warm and familial goal. they were a family of magi. they weren't warm or human from the beginning. to the contrary, gilgamesh's answer lines everything up perfectly. gilgamesh must have needed to die to access the root—or that would be the case, if anyone wasn't aware the grail waiting for them was entirely corrupted.]
I don't know... anything about that... [suddenly on her guard—but not necessarily against him—rin stiffens, dropping her eyebrows in sadness and biting her bottom lip. barely, her head is shaking, her long hair shifting over her shoulders and across her chest.]