Fatal Frame Parthenon Claim, 2/10
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estinoseTitle: Mostly Harmless
Prompt: Invention
Muse: Hinasaki Mafuyu
Fandom: Fatal Frame/Zero
Length: 438
Summary: Mafuyu longs for his camera, because it can end everything.
Disclaimer: Mafuyu, Kirie, and everyone else belong to Tecmo.
Notes: Part 2 of a Fatal Frame AU.
"What are you thinking, Mafuyu?" Kirie asked as they stood by the tree. It was dark, and there was the woman, Yae, hanging from it.
"I was thinking about taking a picture. With my camera." He wondered if cameras existed when Kirie was alive.
"No!" He was surprised by Kirie's reaction. "Mafuyu! That camera is meant to be used against us. It could destroy you, in the wrong hands!"
He stared at her. "You know about the camera?" He'd thought of at least saving Miku through it, saving her from an eternity with him and Kirie. She shouldn't have to suffer.
But at the moment, he mostly thought of Yae, hanging from the tree. From the clues, she had to be his great-grandmother, and he hated the thought of her hanging there for eternity. She was family; he couldn't let her suffer, either.
"You told me about the Camera Obscura, you and Miku. In the wrong hands, I could lose you. I won't let that happen. Anybody who would hurt you would, and they would have to die for that." She sounded like a particularly overprotective mother, instead of a ghost tortured to death and infected by evil.
"I'm used to having it." He thought longingly of it. Even if he couldn't use it, he still wanted it.
"Imagine it in your hands, then," she nodded, having thought of something. "That's what Miku does, unconsciously. I've seen it in her hands when she wanders about. If she could do that, you can, too."
Mafuyu thought about that, imagined the Camera Obscura in his hands. And it showed up, causing him to almost drop it.
It felt as solid as the real one to him, but he knew it wasn't. It didn't feel the same. And yet as he aimed at the hanging woman, he felt comfort in using it.
She didn't disappear, of course. It wasn't the Camera Obscura. It couldn't get rid of ghosts.
But it was a start.
Kirie laid a hand on his arm. "It's strange," she said. "That a device you know could destroy you brings you such... comfort."
"It can't hurt you or me," Mafuyu said, "But it can take pictures." It probably couldn't, but he could pretend, couldn't he? "I invented one that can't hurt." Or imagined it. But did it matter anymore?
She smiled. "Then take a picture of me, Mafuyu."
"Stand by the tree," he said. He should be alive, exorcising her. But he'd lost his chance, and he wouldn't have another one. So all he could do is take a picture, make Kirie not fear it.
And someday, maybe, someone would use the Camera Obscura to end everything, purifie Kirie, let himself, Miku, and everyone else leave the place.
In the meantime, at least Kirie smiled.
Prompt: Invention
Muse: Hinasaki Mafuyu
Fandom: Fatal Frame/Zero
Length: 438
Summary: Mafuyu longs for his camera, because it can end everything.
Disclaimer: Mafuyu, Kirie, and everyone else belong to Tecmo.
Notes: Part 2 of a Fatal Frame AU.
"What are you thinking, Mafuyu?" Kirie asked as they stood by the tree. It was dark, and there was the woman, Yae, hanging from it.
"I was thinking about taking a picture. With my camera." He wondered if cameras existed when Kirie was alive.
"No!" He was surprised by Kirie's reaction. "Mafuyu! That camera is meant to be used against us. It could destroy you, in the wrong hands!"
He stared at her. "You know about the camera?" He'd thought of at least saving Miku through it, saving her from an eternity with him and Kirie. She shouldn't have to suffer.
But at the moment, he mostly thought of Yae, hanging from the tree. From the clues, she had to be his great-grandmother, and he hated the thought of her hanging there for eternity. She was family; he couldn't let her suffer, either.
"You told me about the Camera Obscura, you and Miku. In the wrong hands, I could lose you. I won't let that happen. Anybody who would hurt you would, and they would have to die for that." She sounded like a particularly overprotective mother, instead of a ghost tortured to death and infected by evil.
"I'm used to having it." He thought longingly of it. Even if he couldn't use it, he still wanted it.
"Imagine it in your hands, then," she nodded, having thought of something. "That's what Miku does, unconsciously. I've seen it in her hands when she wanders about. If she could do that, you can, too."
Mafuyu thought about that, imagined the Camera Obscura in his hands. And it showed up, causing him to almost drop it.
It felt as solid as the real one to him, but he knew it wasn't. It didn't feel the same. And yet as he aimed at the hanging woman, he felt comfort in using it.
She didn't disappear, of course. It wasn't the Camera Obscura. It couldn't get rid of ghosts.
But it was a start.
Kirie laid a hand on his arm. "It's strange," she said. "That a device you know could destroy you brings you such... comfort."
"It can't hurt you or me," Mafuyu said, "But it can take pictures." It probably couldn't, but he could pretend, couldn't he? "I invented one that can't hurt." Or imagined it. But did it matter anymore?
She smiled. "Then take a picture of me, Mafuyu."
"Stand by the tree," he said. He should be alive, exorcising her. But he'd lost his chance, and he wouldn't have another one. So all he could do is take a picture, make Kirie not fear it.
And someday, maybe, someone would use the Camera Obscura to end everything, purifie Kirie, let himself, Miku, and everyone else leave the place.
In the meantime, at least Kirie smiled.
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