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To be understood. This may explain why he hangs out with Gilgamesh so much, as at the time they meet, Kirei has spent years and years trying to deny himself his schadenfreudey happiness and Gilgamesh figures that out in about five lines of dialogue. In fact, it can be said that Gilgamesh is his sparkly salvation. Gilgamesh is the first person to not only understand him, but to accept him for who he is, darkness and all. He does try to resist the clear temptation plot brewing, but it's practically impossible. Kirei's never been as happy in his entire life as when he starts becoming true to himself, and Gilgamesh is the one who encourages and supports and prods this revelation.
The central motivation to be understood doesn't go away, however. Even after being bathed in Evil Grail Juice. This is also why he pins so much hope onto Kiritsugu, because he believes the latter to be exactly like him. He doesn’t understand how someone like him could be allowed to be born, so he seeks out someone that matches him to find out if his entire life wasn’t just a mistake. And when Kiritsugu is shown to be capable of love, something that Kirei wants so desperately to be capable of but isn’t? Yeah. That’s the last straw needed for him to go completely off the deep end.
Kirei is simultaneously a worse person and a better person than he thinks he is. Even when in the middle of a lecture, a trait which only grows as he finds he has more to say, he’ll occasionally make really excellent points. For example, it’s Kiritsugu’s willingness to discard the people he loves in pursuit of his ideals that boggles him the most, as Kirei is very aware of the void inside him. Kirei is a sort of dark reflection of a lot of people, and it’s by contrasting with him that differences and similarities pop up, however unwanted or disliked. For the worsening of the universe, but for the bettering of him, he’ll stop at nothing until he gets the answers he seeks.
Oh, and he likes Mapo Tofu, and he’ll take it extra hot, thank you.
Other: It is impossible to say his full name without a dramatic pause.
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First Person (entry type):
What drives this community?
There must be a reason for its existence, and for the powers it has. Perhaps it’s a side effect from gathering so many here. Indeed, that’s very possible. But even so. There must be purpose behind what it’s doing, if it’s as intelligent as some of you claim. No network like this could sustain itself off mere batteries and cables. I wonder what it could be. Very few things in life are free, after all. Like it or not, we are all paying a price to be here. I’m sure the answer is staring us right in the face, only we refuse to see it. With good reason, I’d imagine. It’d shatter any illusions built up that this place is just harmless entertainment.
Rejoice, all of you. You won’t remain blind forever.
Third Person:
Stained glass. No church is complete without it. He’s known people who come to mass just to look through the colored fragments in the windows. He can tell. It’s in the way they look outside, the way their eyes never meet the altar, the way they sigh. As if they’re escaping through the pieces and into the light. In a way, it makes sense. Churches, after all, are largely built from stone. Imposing. Like being trapped under a weight. Some of them, of course, are the opposite. Freeing. A contradiction, between the heaviness of the stone and the lightness of the air. The thickness of incense and the brightness of candles.
Stained glass mesmerizes people. Enchants them, somehow. Fascinates, at bare minimum. When it’s nothing more than glass in a windowsill, shaped as angels and Mary and the apostles. Red and white, blue and black, the bubbles of oxygen trapped in the glass. The only glimpses of color in a dismal grey world. One well placed rock would shatter it. Sometimes in pieces in the floor. Sometimes just leaving a hole that can’t be filled.
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